Network / System Engineer

Genesis10 is currently seeking an Infrastructure Engineer Lead (AWS) for a hybrid position (3 days onsite per week required) with a Global Financial Institution located in Charlotte, NC, Plano, TX, or Jersey City, NJ. This is a 12+ month contract opportunity.

Operating within a platform engineering team, this role focuses on building and evolving a self-service AWS platform that enables internal technology teams to deploy and operate services securely, consistently, and efficiently in a regulated financial environment. The individual in this role is a key contributor to the creation of reusable infrastructure services, Terraform modules, and automated delivery pipelines, ensuring integration into a cohesive platform offering.

Responsibilities:

• Assist in translating business and platform requirements into technical definitions, reference architectures, Terraform modules, and reusable platform patterns
• Design, build, and maintain Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) to provision AWS services in a scalable, consistent, and compliant manner
• Contribute to the development of a self-service AWS platform, creating standardized golden paths and templates
• Develop and maintain automation and CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions
• Embed security-by-design principles into platform services, ensuring secure defaults
• Support implementation of governance and guardrails, ensuring infrastructure complies with internal security, risk, and regulatory requirements
• Develop software and automation solutions to eliminate manual processes and improve platform usability, reliability, and operational efficiency
• Assist in the evaluation and adoption of third-party tools and AWS services
• Collaborate with Technical Analysts, Infrastructure Engineers, and application teams
• Contribute to the definition and evaluation of functional and non-functional requirements for platform services
• Leverage AI/ML services to accelerate platform development
• Develop and maintain Python-based automation and tooling (e.g. AWS Lambda-based workflows)
• Contribute to building event-driven and serverless platform components using AWS services
• Support implementation of secure and scalable network architectures
• Act as a subject matter contributor within AWS, Terraform, and platform engineering practices
• Contribute to observability and operational excellence, including monitoring, alerting, and continuous improvement of platform reliability and resilience

Requirements:

• Minimum of a 7-year degree in Computer Science or a related discipline
• Minimum 5+ years of Cloud Automation Engineer working experience
• Significant experience writing Hashicorp Terraform configurations and modules
• Experience with Terraform Enterprise (TFE) tool for resource provisioning
• Experience in DevOps and GitOps models with infra-as-code, config-as-code, policy-as-code, etc
• Proficient in translating designs into fully developed Terraform code
• Strong knowledge of AWS, cloud adoption framework etc
• Solid understanding of cloud networking concepts, subnets, routing, load balancing, firewalls, and cloud security
• Experience in enterprise-scale environments, building highly available IaaS and PaaS solutions
• Understanding of landing zones, cloud-native security, monitoring and logging tools, and Well-Architected Framework principals
• Experience with containers related technologies and CICD tools - Jenkins, pipelines, container repos, etc
• Experience in programming and infra-automation tools - Terraform, Ansible, Java, python, etc
• Experience in Cloud logging, monitoring, and observability tools
• Proficient in at least one scripting language (i.e. Bash, Python)
• Strong analytical, problem solving and organizational skills
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills

Desired skills:

• Experience in financial services industry
• Experience in various public cloud service providers
• Experience on technology and infrastructure teams
• Experience in Linux/UNIX system administration
• Experience with Container technologies (Kubernetes, Openshift, Docker)

Pay range: $60.24 - $68.24 per hour

Only candidates available and ready to work directly as Genesis10 employees will be considered for this position.

If you have the described qualifications and are interested in this exciting opportunity, please apply!

Ranked a Top Staffing Firm in the U.S. by Staffing Industry Analysts for six consecutive years, Genesis10 puts thousands of consultants and employees to work across the United States every year in contract, contract-for-hire, and permanent placement roles. With more than 300 active clients, Genesis10 provides access to many of the Fortune 100 firms and a variety of mid-market organizations across the full spectrum of industry verticals.

For contract roles, Genesis10 offers the benefits listed below. If this is a perm-placement opportunity, our recruiter can talk you through the unique benefits offered for that particular client. Benefits of Working with Genesis10:

• Access to hundreds of clients, most who have been working with Genesis10 for 5-20+ years.
• The opportunity to have a career-home in Genesis10; many of our consultants have been working exclusively with Genesis10 for years.
• Access to an experienced, caring recruiting team (more than 7 years of experience, on average.)
• Behavioral Health Platform
• Medical, Dental, Vision
• Health Savings Account
• Voluntary Hospital Indemnity (Critical Illness & Accident)
• Voluntary Term Life Insurance
• 401K
• Sick Pay (for applicable states/municipalities)
• Commuter Benefits (Dallas, NYC, SF, and Illinois)

For multiple years running, Genesis10 has been recognized as a Top Staffing Firm in the U.S., as a Best Company for Work-Life Balance, as a Best Company for Career Growth, for Diversity, and for Leadership, amongst others. To learn more and to view all our available career opportunities, please visit us at our website.

Genesis10 is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Candidates will receive consideration without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.