Cloud Engineer

We are looking for an experienced AWS Cloud Infrastructure Engineer / Administrator to support enterprise cloud environments, with a strong focus on AWS resource provisioning, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), system maintenance, production support, and GCC security requirements.

The ideal candidate will be highly hands-on and take end-to-end ownership and accountability for AWS infrastructure, deployments, monitoring, security, and operational stability.

Key Responsibilities

• Provision, configure, maintain, and support AWS cloud infrastructure and resources.
• Manage AWS compute and application services including EC2, Lambda, ECS/EKS and API Gateway.
• Work with AWS data and storage services including S3, DynamoDB, RDS and ElastiCache.
• Configure and support messaging and event-driven services including SQS, SNS and EventBridge.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform and/or CloudFormation.
• Configure and manage IAM roles and policies, Secrets Manager, encryption and access controls.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment processes.
• Monitor applications and infrastructure using CloudWatch, including logging, alerting and performance monitoring.
• Troubleshoot production, infrastructure and application performance issues.
• Perform ongoing system maintenance, patching, upgrades and operational support.
• Ensure environments comply with GCC security, logging and vulnerability-management requirements.
• Take ownership of infrastructure issues through investigation, resolution and documentation.

Required Skills

• 5+ years of experience in Cloud Infrastructure / AWS Administration / Cloud Engineering.
• Strong hands-on AWS experience, particularly:
• EC2, Lambda, ECS/EKS, API Gateway
• S3, DynamoDB, RDS, ElastiCache
• SQS, SNS, EventBridge
• IAM, Secrets Manager, CloudWatch
• Strong experience with AWS resource provisioning and administration.
• Hands-on Infrastructure as Code experience with Terraform and/or CloudFormation.
• Experience creating and supporting CI/CD pipelines and automated deployments.
• Strong understanding of AWS security, IAM, encryption, logging and vulnerability management.
• Experience troubleshooting production and performance issues.
• Strong ownership and accountability for production cloud environments.
• Experience working with Linux environments.

Highly Preferred

• Previous Government Commercial Cloud (GCC) experience.
• Kubernetes / EKS and Docker/container experience.
• AWS certification such as Solutions Architect, SysOps Administrator or DevOps Engineer.