Cloud and Datacenter Engineer

Job Title: Cloud and Datacenter Engineer

Location: Hybrid (2-3 days in Office) at Walnut Creek, CA

Experience: 8-10 Years
Duration: Long Term Contract

Education and Experience:

• A bachelor's or master's degree (preferred) in computer science, information systems, or other discipline.
• 8+ years of experience with both Data center and AWS cloud environments.
• Hands on experience with VMware vSphere/vSAN, ESXi, vCenter, Windows Server administration, Linux systems administration (RHEL/Ubuntu preferred), enterprise compute/storage, and backup solutions,
• Cloud Architecture, Engineering & Operations (AWS)
• Design and integrate one prem datacenter with AWS cloud services to deliver a unified, secure hybrid environment.
• Architect, build, and operate AWS environments across multiple accounts and regions.
• Engineer solutions using EC2, VPC, S3, IAM, RDS, ECS/EKS, and Lambda.
• Design and operate containerized workloads using Amazon ECS/EKS, including cluster configuration, image lifecycle, scaling, and workload integration.
• Deep AWS expertise: EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, RDS, ECS/EKS, Lambda.
• Strong Infrastructure as a Code experience (Terraform, CloudFormation) and CI/CD automation.
• Strong networking fundamentals (DNS, DHCP, VLANs, routing, firewalls) and hybrid security controls.

• Experience with monitoring and observability tools for VDI/EUC environments.
• Strong communication skills and ability to work cross functionally.
• Ability to independently manage cloud or datacenter domain end to end.
• Proven ability to document, present, and communicate complex infrastructure designs.
• Strong troubleshooting skills in hybrid environments.