Jobs · Information Technology · California

Cloud Engineer

Horizontal Talent · Foster City, CA · 2 mo ago
HybridInformation TechnologyContract

Responsibilities

  • Provision and manage AWS accounts, tenant structures, IAM roles and users, cross-account access, and SSO group setup using established processes
  • Create, update, and maintain Terraform modules for account setup, networking, identity access, and resource provisioning
  • Support secrets management workflows using tools such as AWS Secrets Manager and Vault for third-party integrations
  • Apply security and governance standards to cloud resources, including least-privilege access, encryption, and compliance checks
  • Troubleshoot and resolve day-to-day AWS support requests across compute, storage, and networking
  • Follow runbooks and playbooks for repeatable operational and provisioning tasks
  • Escalate complex or unclear issues appropriately while independently owning well-defined work

Requirements

  • 5+ years of professional experience in cloud or infrastructure engineering
  • Hands-on experience with AWS in a production environment
  • Strong working knowledge of compute, storage, networking, and IAM concepts in AWS
  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code, ideally Terraform, including editing or creating modules
  • Solid understanding of AWS networking fundamentals such as VPCs, subnets, routing, and security groups
  • Knowledge of cloud security principles, including least privilege, encryption, and secrets management
  • Comfortable working from tickets, playbooks, and documented procedures
  • Clear written and verbal communication skills with the ability to collaborate across teams
  • Ability to work independently on well-scoped tasks and know when to ask for guidance

Skills

  • Experience with Terraform Cloud, Spacelift, or similar centralized IaC platforms (preferred)
  • Exposure to multi-account AWS environments such as Landing Zones or Control Tower (preferred)
  • Familiarity with containerized workloads, including Kubernetes or EKS (preferred)
  • Experience with monitoring and alerting tools such as Grafana or CloudWatch (preferred)
  • Exposure to AI/ML or HPC cloud workloads (preferred)

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