AWS Infrastructure Engineer

Job Title: AWS Infrastructure Engineer

Location: New York, NY 10005 (Hybrid)
Hire Type: Full-Time (FTE)

Position Overview

We are seeking a highly motivated AWS Infrastructure Engineer to design, build, and manage scalable, secure, and highly available AWS cloud environments. The ideal candidate is a self-starter with strong hands-on experience across AWS core services, networking, security, automation, and infrastructure-as-code.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and manage scalable AWS infrastructure using best practices

• Automate cloud operations using CloudFormation, Terraform, and scripting

• Build and maintain secure networking architectures (VPC, Transit Gateway, VPN, Route 53)

• Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize AWS environments for performance, cost, and security

• Implement IAM, KMS, Security Hub, GuardDuty, and compliance controls

• Manage AWS organizations, accounts, guardrails, and landing zones

• Support application and platform teams through collaboration and infrastructure enablement

• Maintain documentation and ensure adherence to organizational standards and policies

Required Skills – MUST HAVE

AWS, EC2, S3, RDS, Auto Scaling, Elastic Load Balancers, IAM, VPC, Route 53, Transit Gateway, Site-to-Site VPN, AWS CLI, CloudFormation, Terraform, Linux, Bash, Python, Lambda, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, AWS Config, Security Hub, KMS, SNS, EventBridge, Git

Required Skills – Advanced AWS Services

• EFS, FSx

• AWS Transfer Family (SFTP Server, SFTP Connector)

• AWS Network Firewall

• Control Tower (Landing Zone, Account Factory, Guardrails, CfCT)

• AWS Organizations (Accounts, OUs, SCPs, Tag Policies, Declarative EC2 Policies)

• Service Catalog

• Centralized logging and monitoring using CloudWatch + Firehose

• AWS Health Dashboard

Required Skills – Core Infrastructure & Tools

• Terraform (IaC)

• Linux Administration

• Git

• Bash & Python Scripting

• boto3

• SSH, SFTP, SMB, LDAP, NFS

• Active Directory

• AWS SSM

• CodePipeline

Nice to Have

• Amazon EKS

• Amazon ECR

• AWS Directory Service

• AWS Resource Access Manager

• Amazon Glacier

• Ansible

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, or related field (preferred)

• AWS certifications (Associate or Professional) are a plus

• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills

• Excellent communication and collaboration abilities

• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, hybrid environment