Cloud Engineer (AWS)

Overview

On Site
Depends on Experience
Contract - Independent
Contract - W2
Contract - 12 Month(s)

Skills

AWS

Job Details

We have an opening for Cloud Engineer for location Boston, MA (Hybrid). Kindly apply with your updated resume if you are interested. Please find the job details below:

Position: Cloud Engineer (AWS)

Location: Boston, MA (Hybrid)

Duration: 12+ Months

Responsibilities:

  • Design and implement enterprise cloud solutions within a hybrid architecture (AWS + on-prem).
  • Participate in modernization of legacy systems through lift-and-shift, re-platforming, containerization, and refactoring.
  • Build and manage CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Ansible), and automated workflows via GitHub Actions and similar tooling.
  • Collaborate on hybrid storage strategies leveraging NetApp ONTAP and caching appliances integrated with AWS.
  • Apply expertise across both Windows Server and Linux (RHEL/Amazon Linux) environments.
  • Serve as a key contributor in cross-functional architecture discussions and migration planning.
  • Ensure alignment with governance, tagging, security, and operational policies.
  • Troubleshoot technical issues across the stack: compute, network, storage, identity, and containers.

Preferred Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

  • 8+ years of enterprise IT experience with a blend of architecture and hands-on engineering.
  • Proven experience designing and implementing AWS solutions in enterprise or government settings.
  • Prior direct, hands-on experience supporting cloud migrations at scale.
  • Demonstrated success supporting mission-critical applications with high visibility and uptime expectations.
  • Proficiency in both Windows Server administration and Linux systems (RHEL or Amazon Linux).
  • Strong experience with Terraform, Ansible, and GitHub/GitHub Actions.
  • Familiarity with AWS-native container services such as ECS, Fargate, and EKS, with practical experience deploying or supporting containerized workloads in production.
  • Hybrid storage expertise: experience with NetApp, caching appliances, or FSx for ONTAP.
  • Strong scripting and automation capabilities (PowerShell, Bash, or Python).
  • Baseline familiarity with modern AI technologies, including Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) patterns in cloud-native architectures.
  • Experience with GitHub Enterprise, branching strategies, and DevSecOps practices.
  • Exposure to multi-account AWS organizations and hybrid networking design.
  • Background in state or government agency environments a plus.
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