AWS Cloud Engineer

Position Summary

We are looking for a highly skilled AWS Cloud Engineer to lead the design, deployment, and governance of enterprise-grade cloud platforms on AWS. This role demands deep expertise in cloud architecture, automation, DevOps pipelines, and observability frameworks to ensure performance, scalability, and operational excellence across mission-critical workloads.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect, implement, and maintain robust, scalable, and secure AWS cloud environments supporting enterprise applications.
• Design and manage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, AWS CDK, and CloudFormation to ensure consistency, reliability, and repeatability across deployments.
• Build, optimize, and operate CI/CD pipelines leveraging Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and GitLab to enable seamless and automated software delivery.
• Engineer and deploy container-based platforms using Docker, Kubernetes, Amazon ECS, and EKS to support microservices and cloud-native workloads.
• Establish and manage end-to-end observability frameworks using AWS CloudWatch, Datadog, and Dynatrace to enable proactive monitoring and system health visibility.
• Design and maintain dashboards, alerts, and Service Level Objectives (SLOs) in Datadog to deliver actionable operational intelligence.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning, monitoring, and compliance through CloudFormation and other Infrastructure-as-Code solutions.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering, SRE, and operations teams to enhance system reliability, incident management, and performance optimization.
• Integrate Datadog APM, logs, metrics, and distributed tracing with AWS services and application ecosystems to support full-stack observability.
• Enforce cloud security, governance, and cost-optimization frameworks aligned with AWS best practices and enterprise compliance standards.

Preferred / Desirable Skills

• Hands-on experience working with container orchestration platforms such as ECS, EKS, and Kubernetes.
• Strong understanding of application performance monitoring (APM), distributed tracing, and log management architectures.
• Exposure to additional observability and monitoring tools including CloudWatch, Splunk, and similar platforms.

Job Type: Contract

Pay: $60.00 - $65.00 per hour

Benefits:

• Paid time off

Work Location: In person