Sr. AWS Cloud Platform Engineer - ONLY W2

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Title: Lead AWS Cloud Platform Engineer
Location: Reston, VA 20191 (Hybrid)

Duration: 6 Months Contract (Potential Extension)

Job Description:

Terms of Employment

• Contract, 6 Months (Likely Extensions)
• This position is hybrid. The selected candidate must work onsite in Reston, VA once per week, with occasional meetings in Washington, D.C. The remaining work can be performed remotely.

Overview

• Work with a leading enterprise organization undertaking a high-priority, multi-system cloud transformation. As a Cloud Platform Engineer, you will play a key role in provisioning AWS infrastructure resources, automating deployments via Terraform, and migrating on-premises workloads into secure, scalable AWS environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Provision, configure, and maintain core AWS cloud resources using Terraform automation.
• Support end-to-end cloud migration initiatives, including lift-and-shift moves, containerization of applications, and refactoring workloads for AWS.
• Collaborate directly with Solution Architects, Development teams, and CI/CD engineers to take applications through to production.
• Conduct root-cause network and infrastructure troubleshooting across VPCs, Security Groups, Transit Gateways, and application logs to resolve connectivity or performance bottlenecks.
• Assist in containerizing applications and managing containerized workloads within Amazon EKS environments.

Required Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years of overall technical experience, with at least 5 years dedicated to AWS cloud platform engineering.
• Minimum 1 year of hands-on experience utilizing Terraform for Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Proven hands-on expertise with core AWS services: EC2, S3, VPC, RDS, EBS, EFS, ALB/NLB, IAM, CloudWatch, and Lambda.
• Strong background in system engineering or administration with demonstrated ability to perform deep infrastructure and network troubleshooting.
• Willingness and ability to attend a mandatory in-person interview in Reston, VA and work standard EST business hours.

Preferred Qualifications

• Active AWS Certification (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect or SysOps Administrator).
• Hands-on experience with Amazon EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service).
• Exposure to AWS AI/ML services such as Amazon Bedrock or Amazon SageMaker.

Sincerely,

Preetam Raj

Team Lead, Talent Acquisition

nTech Workforce Inc.

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