AWS Cloud Engineer

Title: AWS Cloud Engineer Location: New Jersey(Remote)
Duration: Long Term Contract

NOTE :: Only w2 candidate

Role Description

Our client is seeking two highly skilled AWS Cloud Engineers to support a critical engagement with a leading Fortune 100 healthcare organization. This initiative involves standing up a new AWS cloud environment that will mirror the rules, governance, and standards of the client s existing AWS ecosystem while leveraging modern cloud-native management solutions.

The ideal candidate will be a senior-level AWS domain expert with deep hands-on experience architecting, building, and operationalizing enterprise cloud environments in highly regulated organizations. Candidates must be able to operate independently, move quickly, and support an accelerated project timeline.

Key Responsibilities ::

• Architect and build a new AWS cloud environment aligned with the client s existing enterprise governance and compliance framework.
• Implement AWS Control Tower, AWS Config, and IAM guardrails (SCP, Identity, Permissions).
• Design and configure AWS networking, including VPCs, subnets, routing, security groups, and network connectivity.
• Develop scalable, secure, and automated Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) using Terraform and CloudFormation.
• Implement DevOps workflows for deployment, monitoring, automation, and cloud lifecycle management.
• Support ongoing operations and cloud hygiene for the newly built AWS environment.
• Collaborate with cloud platform, governance, and security teams to ensure enterprise alignment.
• Transition into continued support beyond May 31 through a new contract with Depuy or another J&J team.

Ideal Candidate Profile

The ideal candidate will have:

• 5 10+ years of deep hands-on AWS engineering experience
• Proven expertise in:
• AWS Services Architecture
• Control Tower
• AWS Config
• IAM/SCP/Identity
• CloudFormation
• AWS Networking & VPC Design
• Strong DevOps engineering skills for deploying and operating cloud environments
• Advanced proficiency in Terraform and Infrastructure-as-Code best practices
• Python coding experience for cloud automation
• Experience working in large-scale, complex, regulated enterprises
• Ability to work with minimal oversight on a fast-paced timeline