Role: AWS Infrastructure Engineer
Location: Des Moines, IA - onsite role
Duration: 12 Months
Need consultant local to IOWA or from WI/MN/SD/ND/NE/IL States
- Designing and administering AWS environments (EC2, VPC, IAM, S3) to support enterprise workloads.
- Creating hybrid workload patterns where identity, authentication, and application services function seamlessly across cloud and on premises systems.
- Migrating legacy systems to AWS, including developing modernization roadmaps and workload readiness assessments. Required
- Documenting system architectures and producing AWS architecture diagrams showing network topology, dependencies, and service interactions.
- Diagnosing complex AWS identity, network, or compute issues affecting dependent applications. Required
- Guiding teams through hybrid dependency failures such as directory sync disruptions, routing conflicts, or misconfigured IAM policies.
- Documenting troubleshooting workflows, root causes, and long term mitigation strategies.
- Eliminate single points of failure in designs patterns
- Provide backup, recovery, and DR to meet all RTO/RPO requirements.
- Implementing performance dashboards covering compute utilization, storage I/O, and network throughput across AWS and on prem.
- Conducting root cause analysis for performance issues and documenting remediation steps.
- Identifying cost optimization opportunities through instance rightsizing, storage tier adjustments, and lifecycle automation.
- Maintaining architecture diagrams, standards, IaC manifests, and operational procedures in version-controlled environments.
- Preparing change impact statements for major infrastructure modifications. Required
- Creating release documentation for platform updates promoted through CI/CD pipelines.
- Defining IaC patterns and collaborating on Terraform module designs.
- Documenting provisioning workflows, configuration standards, and parameter usage for automated deployments.
- Supporting CI/CD infrastructure pipelines that promote test, staging, and production environments through automated checks.
- Collaborate with engineering and application teams to optimize workloads for hybrid cloud environments.
- Provide guidance on migration strategies, performance tuning, and cost optimization for hybrid-cloud deployments.
- Enforcing AWS guardrails such as encryption, MFA, IAM role boundaries, and network segmentation.
- Producing audit evidence packages (configuration exports, pipeline logs, screenshots).
- Documenting platform hardening guidelines for compute, identity, and storage systems.
- Creating policy interpretation guides to clarify required platform configurations for other technical teams.
- Writing operational guides, onboarding materials, and how to documentation for AWS and hybrid operations.
- Delivering platform standards, architecture reference materials, and annotated diagrams explaining system interactions.
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