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.