Cloud Engineer

Cloud Engineer

Location: Indianapolis, IN Hybrid Onsite 3 days, fully remote if not local
Employment Type: Contract, 6 months to start ( NO C2C W2 Only)
Schedule: 40 hours/week
Duration: Through January 22, 2027
Pay: $92.00 - $105.00/HR

Position Summary

The Cloud Engineer designs, implements, and maintains secure, scalable, and reliable cloud-based solutions. This role supports business objectives by optimizing cloud infrastructure, automating deployments, and ensuring cloud environments meet security, compliance, and performance standards.

Key Responsibilities

Cloud Architecture & Infrastructure

• Design and deploy AWS cloud architectures that meet performance, security, availability, and cost-efficiency requirements for enterprise and research applications.
• Build and maintain core cloud components, including networking, compute, storage, and identity, with security-by-design (least privilege, segmentation, encryption, defense-in-depth).
• Evaluate and recommend cloud services and architectural patterns; develop evidence-based adoption proposals that balance capability, operational cost, and long-term sustainability.

Automation & Deployment

• Implement and maintain infrastructure-as-code (IaC) using Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, or equivalent to make provisioning repeatable and auditable.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and application deployments with testing, validation, safe releases, and rollback strategies.
• Automate operational tasks such as patching, scaling, monitoring, alerting, and cost optimization to reduce manual effort and improve reliability.

Security & Compliance

• Ensure cloud environments align to security standards and regulatory/data governance requirements, including controls for IAM, secrets management, audit logging, and encryption in transit/at rest.
• Monitor cloud security posture; identify and remediate misconfigurations, drift, and policy violations (including integration of CSPM tools where applicable).
• Partner with cybersecurity teams to align cloud platform security to enterprise threat models and relevant regulated requirements (e.g., GxP, 21 CFR Part 11, HIPAA, SOX as applicable).

Operational Excellence & Optimization

• Monitor performance, availability, and cost; right-size resources and drive FinOps practices to reduce waste and improve ROI.
• Contribute to platform engineering standards, reference architectures, and guardrails that enable development teams to consume cloud services consistently.
• Troubleshoot infrastructure issues and participate in post-incident reviews; implement preventive improvements to reduce recurrence.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field (or equivalent professional experience).
• 3+ years of hands-on cloud engineering experience in a production AWS enterprise environment.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, or equivalent) and version control (Git).
• Scripting experience for automation (Python, Bash, or equivalent).
• Strong understanding of cloud networking, virtualization, containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), and cloud security fundamentals.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices in a cloud-native environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• AWS certifications (Solutions Architect Associate/Professional, DevOps Engineer) and/or Azure Administrator/Architect.
• Experience with enterprise FinOps and cost optimization.
• Familiarity with monitoring/observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, or similar).
• Regulated-industry experience (pharma/healthcare/life sciences), including compliance considerations (GxP, 21 CFR Part 11, HIPAA).
• Production Kubernetes experience (EKS/AKS/self-managed), including cluster operations and workload management.
• Cloud security architecture background (IAM design, secrets management, network security groups, cloud-native security tooling).
• Experience delivering in an Agile methodology.

What You’ll Bring

• Strong hands-on ownership of production cloud infrastructure (reliability, security, and cost).
• IaC-first mindset with an emphasis on consistency and auditability.
• Security-conscious engineering approach (least privilege and defense-in-depth by default).
• Clear communication skills with both engineers and non-technical stakeholders.

System One, and its subsidiaries including Joulé and Mountain Ltd., are leaders in delivering outsourced services and workforce solutions across North America. We help clients get work done more efficiently and economically, without compromising quality. System One not only serves as a valued partner for our clients, but we offer eligible employees health and welfare benefits coverage options including medical, dental, vision, spending accounts, life insurance, voluntary plans, as well as participation in a 401(k) plan.

System One is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, family care or medical leave status, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

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