Senior Cloud Engineer, AWS

Responsibilities

• Cloud Infrastructure Engineering Design, build, and maintain end-to-end AWS infrastructure including:
• Networking (VPCs, subnets, routing, security groups)
• Compute (EC2, Elastic Beanstalk, container platforms)
• Storage (S3, EBS, RDS, and related services)
• Build scalable, resilient, and cost-efficient cloud environments aligned with enterprise standards
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred, CloudFormation, or similar)
• Implement CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation for infrastructure and applications
• Translate business and application requirements into AWS-based solutions and technical designs
• Collaborate with centralized AWS architects to align implementation with enterprise architecture standards
• Contribute to design reviews, architecture decisions, and continuous improvement of cloud patterns
• Ensure solutions meet security, compliance, and performance standards
• Collaborate across departments with Application Development leadership to align on and design infrastructure solutions
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize AWS environments for performance, availability, and cost efficiency
• Implement best practices for logging, monitoring, and alerting (e.g., CloudWatch)
• Support disaster recovery and business continuity planning
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior engineers
• Lead implementation efforts and drive engineering best practices
• Collaborate with DevOps Platform team, security, and application teams to deliver integrated solutions
• Act as a senior engineering voice in technical discussions and decision-making

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on AWS engineering experience (mid-to-senior level)
• Proven experience designing and implementing AWS infrastructure across:
• Networking, compute, and storage layers
• Strong expertise with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) (Terraform)
• Deep knowledge of AWS core services (e.g., EC2, S3, VPC, IAM) and platform services
• Experience with Elastic Beanstalk and application deployment patterns
• Solid understanding of cloud architecture, security, and scalability
• Preferred qualifications: AWS certifications (e.g., Solutions Architect, SysOps Administrator), experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes/EKS), experience with CI/CD tooling and DevOps practices, familiarity with cost optimization (FinOps) practices, background in hybrid cloud or migration initiatives, PCI, SOC and SOX experience, experience with on prem Windows infrastructure