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Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Apex Systems · Plano, TX · 3 days ago
Information TechnologyContract

About the role

We are seeking a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to design, build, and maintain our AWS infrastructure. This role involves developing and supporting secure CI/CD pipelines, implementing robust cloud architecture patterns, and ensuring platform standardization. The ideal candidate will collaborate with application teams, monitor cloud resources, and drive security and compliance across multiple environments.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and maintain AWS infrastructure using Terraform (IaC).
  • Develop and support secure CI/CD pipelines with validation, scanning, and approval gates.
  • Implement cloud architecture patterns including high availability, failover, and multi-region designs.
  • Support platform standardization and governance, ensuring auditability and repeatable deployments.
  • Collaborate with application teams to onboard and migrate workloads to cloud infrastructure.
  • Monitor and optimize cloud resources for performance, cost, and reliability.
  • Implement and support security controls, including vulnerability remediation and compliance requirements.
  • Troubleshoot platform and deployment issues across development, SIT, and production environments.
  • Maintain documentation, runbooks, and deployment standards to support consistent execution.
  • Participate in release activities and ensure safe, controlled deployments.

Qualifications

The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, and 7–10 years of relevant experience in cloud, infrastructure, or DevOps engineering.

Skills

  • Strong hands-on experience with AWS services (e.g., VPC, EC2, ECS/EKS, IAM, Route 53, S3, RDS, CloudWatch).
  • Proven experience with Terraform, including module development, state management, and debugging.
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines, cloud security practices, Infrastructure as Code, and configuration management tools.
  • Understanding of networking, load balancing, and application connectivity in AWS.
  • Preferred experience with containerized platforms and image management (Docker, ECS/EKS), security scanning tools and vulnerability management processes, blue/green deployments, progressive routing, or traffic shifting strategies, and automation and scripting (Python, Bash).

Benefits

Everforth Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans, an ESPP (employee stock purchase program), and a 401K program. We also offer a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program, and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Everforth Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA.

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