Senior AWS Cloud Engineer, W2 Role

EXP Need: 10 to 20 years

Location: 100% Remote

Role: Cloud Engineer

HEAVY AWS EXPERIENCE HANDS-ON NEEDED

We are seeking a hands-on and dependable Cloud Engineer to join the Infrastructure team. In this role, you will be responsible for building and maintaining HealthEdge''s AWS environments, supporting an ongoing lift-and-shift migration for non-priority systems while contributing to active remediation efforts across several immediate priority areas. You will work within a defined scope that includes resolving Azure dependencies, addressing Power BI integration requirements, remediating JSON database field issues, and supporting the migration of regression test suites to AWS — including scoping the additional storage and pipeline capacity required. This is a practitioner role for someone who thrives on structured execution, takes ownership of environment quality, and can navigate ambiguity in a migration context. 

Required Qualifications 

• 2–4 years of experience in cloud engineering, infrastructure engineering, or a related platform/systems role 
• Hands-on experience building and maintaining AWS environments, including EC2, VPC, RDS, S3, IAM, and related services Experience with infrastructure-as-code tooling (Terraform, CloudFormation, or equivalent) 
• Familiarity with lift-and-shift migration patterns and the operational considerations of migrating workloads to AWS 
• Working knowledge of networking fundamentals (DNS, VPNs, load balancing, security groups) 
• Experience with containerization technologies (Docker, ECS, or EKS) 
• Proficiency with version control (Git) and collaborative development workflows 
• Solid troubleshooting skills with a methodical, documentation-first approach to problem resolution 
• Experience working in a HIPAA-regulated or compliance-driven environment 

Preferred Qualifications 

• AWS certifications (Cloud Practitioner, SysOps Administrator, Solutions Architect, or equivalent) 
• Experience migrating workloads from Azure to AWS, including dependency identification and remediation 
• Familiarity with SQL Server or PostgreSQL database environments, including JSON field handling 
• Experience with Power BI or similar BI tooling in a cloud-hosted context 
• Exposure to CI/CD pipelines and build/deploy automation (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar) 

Experience in healthcare IT or payer technology environments