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AWS Cloud Engineer

JConnect Infotech

AWS Cloud Engineer

Location: Hybrid in Boston, MA

Job Type: Contract (W2/1099/C2C)

Key Responsibilities
  • Design, implement, and optimize multi-region AWS architectures ensuring scalability, high availability, and resilience.
  • Build and manage advanced VPC networking including VPC peering, Transit Gateway (TGW), routing policies, and cross-region connectivity.
  • Configure and maintain networking components: Security Groups, Network ACLs (NACLs), Route Tables, Internet Gateways (IGW) & NAT Gateways.
  • Ensure High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) strategies across regions.
  • Set up and manage hybrid connectivity (VPN, Direct Connect).
  • Perform UNIX/Linux system administration, including: Server provisioning, patching, performance tuning, shell scripting, and system-level troubleshooting.
  • Support and administer database environments in cloud and hybrid setups.
  • Handle database administration tasks including installation, configuration, upgrades, and patching, backup & recovery, performance tuning, and monitoring.
  • Collaborate with DevOps and application teams for secure deployments.
  • Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting for infrastructure.
  • Optimize environments for cost, performance, and governance.
Required Skills & Experience

Core Experience

  • 10+ years of experience as a Cloud Engineer / DevOps Engineer / AWS Infrastructure Engineer.
  • Strong experience working in enterprise-scale cloud environments.

Technical Skills

AWS & Networking

  • Strong expertise in: VPC, Transit Gateway (TGW), Route 53, VPN, Direct Connect, Security Groups & NACLs.
  • Experience designing multi-region HA/DR architectures.

Compute, Containers & Data

  • Hands-on experience with: EC2, ECS (Fargate & EC2 launch types), Amazon Redshift.

UNIX / Linux

  • Strong hands-on experience in: Linux/UNIX administration (RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu, etc.), shell scripting (Bash) and system automation, performance tuning, and system troubleshooting.

Database & DBA Skills

  • Solid experience with database administration (DBA) in cloud/on-prem environments: RDBMS such as Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, or SQL Server, database installation, configuration, and upgrades, backup & recovery strategies, performance tuning, and query optimization.
  • Familiarity with AWS database services (RDS, Aurora, Redshift) and migrations.

Infrastructure as Code & Automation

  • Strong experience with: Terraform / CloudFormation, scripting using Python or Bash.

DevOps & CI/CD

  • Experience setting up and managing CI/CD pipelines.

Monitoring & Observability

  • Experience with: CloudWatch, OpenSearch, Grafana / Prometheus, Datadog.

Additional Skills

  • Knowledge of cloud cost optimization and tagging strategies.
  • Strong troubleshooting and root cause analysis skills.

Nice to Have

  • AWS certifications (Solutions Architect / Advanced Networking).
  • Experience with containerized and microservices architectures.
  • Knowledge of cloud security and compliance frameworks.
Vacancy posted 2 days ago
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