AWS Reverse Engineering Engineer / Cloud Discovery Engineer

Plano, TX, US • Posted 1 hour ago • Updated 12 minutes ago
Contract W2
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Skills

  • NLB
  • Security Controls
  • Reverse Engineering
  • Network Security
  • As-is Process
  • Optimization
  • DevOps
  • Network
  • Amazon EC2
  • Computer Networking
  • Virtual Private Cloud
  • Amazon Route 53
  • Storage
  • Database
  • Amazon S3
  • EBS
  • Remote Desktop Services
  • Amazon RDS
  • Amazon DynamoDB
  • Terraform
  • Continuous Integration
  • Continuous Delivery
  • GitHub
  • GitLab
  • Jenkins
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Scripting
  • Python
  • Bash
  • Windows PowerShell
  • Git
  • Version Control
  • Amazon Web Services
  • Microsoft SSIS
  • API
  • Amazon SQS
  • Amazon CloudFront
  • Cloud Architecture
  • Documentation
  • Cloud Computing
  • Migration
  • Technical Writing
  • Management
  • Inventory

Summary

Key Responsibilities
Perform detailed discovery and reverse engineering of existing AWS environments across multiple accounts, regions, VPCs, applications, and environments
Analyze AWS resources including EC2, VPC, ALB/NLB, Route 53, S3, EBS, RDS/Aurora, DynamoDB, Lambda, ECS/EKS, IAM, KMS, CloudFront, API Gateway, SQS/SNS, CloudWatch, and CloudTrail
Reconstruct As-Is cloud architecture from deployed AWS resources when design documents are unavailable or outdated
Identify relationships and dependencies between applications, compute, databases, networking, storage, security controls, and external integrations
Reverse-engineer manually provisioned infrastructure and convert it into Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or other IaC frameworks
Analyze existing CI/CD pipelines, scripts, and automation implemented through GitHub Actions, GitLab, Jenkins, AWS CodePipeline, and CodeBuild
Review IAM roles and policies, security groups, NACLs, KMS configurations, secrets, certificates, and network security controls
Analyze application deployment patterns, runtime configurations, environment variables, parameter stores, secrets, and service integrations
Create infrastructure inventories, dependency maps, architecture diagrams, and configuration baselines
Compare deployed infrastructure against available documentation and identify configuration and documentation gaps
Identify technical debt, obsolete resources, configuration drift, security risks, and opportunities for standardization
Develop As-Is and To-Be architecture documentation and provide recommendations for modernization and optimization
Support migration and modernization initiatives involving rehost, replatform, refactor, or cloud-native transformation
Work closely with application, DevOps, SRE, security, network, and cloud architecture teams
Create detailed handover documentation, runbooks, deployment procedures, and operational support documentation

Required Qualifications
6+ years of experience
Bachelor's Degree

Skills
AWS Cloud Architecture and Administration
AWS Compute Services (EC2, Lambda, ECS/EKS)
AWS Networking (VPC, Route 53, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect)
AWS Security (IAM, KMS, Secrets Manager)
AWS Storage and Database Services (S3, EBS, RDS/Aurora, DynamoDB)
AWS Monitoring and Logging (CloudWatch, CloudTrail)
Terraform
AWS CloudFormation
CI/CD Automation (GitHub Actions, GitLab, Jenkins, AWS CodePipeline/CodeBuild)
Docker and Kubernetes/EKS
Scripting (Python, Bash, PowerShell)
Git and Version Control
AWS Integration Services (API Gateway, SQS/SNS, CloudFront)
AWS Systems Manager
Cloud Architecture Documentation
Cloud Migration and Modernization
Dependency Analysis
Configuration Drift Analysis
Technical Documentation
Cross-team Dependency Management
Infrastructure Inventory and Discovery

Schedule
Start date: 2026-09-18
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  • Position Id: BHADC5907221
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