Cloud Engineer

Cloud Engineer
Role Overview
This Cloud Engineer sits within a commercial professional services delivery team and is accountable for shipping client-facing AWS work with a high bar for both quality and customer experience. The role calls for someone who keeps pace with current practices and consistently lands well-designed, durable solutions.
A Day in the Life
You'll plug into a client delivery team and own AWS work end to end - from design through build. Day to day, you'll partner with network engineers, architects, and other delivery staff to make sure the client gets what they need.
Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and continuously tune AWS cloud infrastructure so clients can hit their business goals.
• Stand up Amazon VPC networking - subnets, security groups, and network ACLs.
• Build IAM roles, groups, users, and policies on a least-privilege basis.
• Provision, validate, and document environments across dev, pre-prod, and production.
• Author infrastructure-as-code with Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, and the AWS CDK to keep deployments repeatable and maintainable.
• Produce gold AMIs and set up auto-scaling groups for compute workloads.
• Turn on multi-factor authentication across hardware and virtual devices.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines.
• Advise development teams on AWS architecture decisions and design principles.
• Lead with an automation-first mindset, defaulting to Terraform and other IaC tooling wherever it makes sense.
• Apply consistent resource tagging to support cost allocation and capacity planning.
• Contribute to usage-based cost modeling and tune infrastructure for both performance and budget.
• Help scope and execute workload migrations, including VM moves; relevant tooling spans cloud-native migration services (e.g., AWS MGN), hypervisor migration (e.g., VMware HCX), and third-party backup/recovery platforms (e.g., Veeam, Clumio).
• Confirm that workloads have landed cleanly in AWS, then retire the matching on-premises footprint.
• Join daily progress check-ins and hold the team accountable to agreed technical approaches.
• Log time against assigned projects each day.
• Work transparently, respond quickly to teammates, and surface working preferences to keep the team performing well.
• Pick up additional duties as needed.

Required Qualifications

• 3+ years in a DevOps or SRE capacity within AWS environments and/or supporting engineering teams, to include:
  • 1+ year building AWS cloud infrastructure
  • 1+ year hands-on with Terraform
  • 1+ year building CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub, Azure DevOps, or similar)
  • 1+ year standing up automated alerting and monitoring dashboards
• Solid command of current AWS cloud security practices.
• Skilled in IaC development (Terraform, AWS CloudFormation).
• Comfortable scripting configuration management with tools like Ansible, Chef, or Puppet.
• Working proficiency in one or more programming/scripting languages (Python, Java, Groovy, etc.).
• Familiar with both Agile and Waterfall delivery models.
• Able to run multiple client engagements in parallel.
• Detail-oriented.
• Strong communicator with disciplined time management.

Nice-to-Have Skills and Experience

• Container development and orchestration on platforms such as Kubernetes, Docker, and AWS EKS.
• Experience across the broader HashiCorp stack (Vault, Consul, Boundary).
• Hands-on with Terraform Cloud or Terraform Enterprise.
• Wiring static and dynamic code-analysis tools into CI/CD pipelines.
• Use of observability and code-analysis platforms such as AWS X-Ray, AppDynamics, or Dynatrace.
• Preferred certifications:
  • AWS Certified Developer - Associate
  • AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
  • HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate