AWS Cloud Engineer

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.