Overview
On Site
HybridThis role is onsite hybrid from San Jose CA . Must be onsite atleast thrice a week or more.
$60 - $65
Contract - Independent
Contract - W2
Contract - 6 Month(s)
Skills
Amazon CloudFront
Amazon RDS
Amazon EC2
Amazon Route 53
Amazon S3
Amazon Web Services
GitHub
DevOps
IaaS
Terraform
Jenkins
Cloud Computing
Virtual Private Cloud
Infrastructure as Code
IaC
Scalability
Security Controls
Load Balancing
High Availability
Job Details
Summary:
Lead AWS Cloud Infrastructure Engineer with deep hands-on experience in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and large-scale AWS environment design.
The ideal candidate will have 15+ years of IT experience, including advanced expertise in AWS compute, networking, and automation frameworks.
You ll lead efforts to design, build, and optimize AWS cloud environments, ensuring scalability, high availability, and security while driving best practices in IaC and DevOps automation.
Key Responsibilities
Requirements
Lead AWS Cloud Infrastructure Engineer with deep hands-on experience in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and large-scale AWS environment design.
The ideal candidate will have 15+ years of IT experience, including advanced expertise in AWS compute, networking, and automation frameworks.
You ll lead efforts to design, build, and optimize AWS cloud environments, ensuring scalability, high availability, and security while driving best practices in IaC and DevOps automation.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain AWS cloud infrastructure (EC2, VPC, S3, RDS, Lambda, ECS, CloudFront, Route 53).
- Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or CDK.
- Automate deployments, monitoring, and updates across multiple AWS environments.
- Configure CI/CD pipelines using AWS CodePipeline, Jenkins, or GitHub Actions.
- Manage IAM roles, policies, and least-privilege access models.
- Set up CloudWatch / CloudTrail for logging, monitoring, and cost optimization.
- Lead architecture reviews and mentor engineering teams on cloud best practices.
Requirements
- 15+ years of total IT experience, with 8+ years in AWS Cloud Engineering.
- Proven expertise in Terraform / CloudFormation / IaC automation.
- Strong understanding of VPC networking, load balancing, and security controls.
- Experience with CI/CD, DevOps tooling, and cost optimization.
- Excellent leadership, documentation, and communication skills.
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