AWS Cloud Engineer

New York, NY, US • Posted 60+ days ago • Updated 19 hours ago
Contract W2
On-site
$60 - $75/hr
Fitment

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Job Details

Skills

  • Amazon S3
  • Terraform
  • GitHub
  • Vulnerability Management
  • DevSecOps
  • Amazon Web Services
  • Cloud Computing
  • Python
  • IAC
  • Infrastructure as code
  • Continuous Delivery
  • Software Packaging
  • Encryption
  • GitLab
  • Pyspark

Summary

Cloud AWS Engineer

New York, NY 100% On-Site - Candidates should be local to area
1+ Year Contract (Possible Extension)
$65 $75/hr W2
No C2C / No 3rd Parties


Top Skills Needed

  • Terraform IaC (advanced)

  • AWS cloud engineering & infrastructure

  • Programming (Pyspark, Python, Java, Scala)

  • GitLab / GitHub CI/CD pipelines

  • Databricks

Role Overview

You ll join the Enterprise Support Infrastructure Engineering team, responsible for delivering secure, resilient, enterprise-class cloud hosting for internal business applications. This role focuses on designing, building, and maintaining AWS cloud environments while enabling automation, infrastructure-as-code, and containerized deployments. This is a net-new addition to the team.


Key Responsibilities

  • Plan, build, run, monitor, and manage cloud infrastructure

  • Write Terraform IaC to install custom applications, AWS services, and COTS tools and deploy with Github

  • Set up, deploy, and maintain AWS environments

  • Containerize code and commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) tools

  • Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines in GitLab for automated installs and rehydration

  • Deploy "black box" software packages into AWS environments

  • Support vulnerability management and cloud governance processes


Required Qualifications

  • Strong hands-on expertise with Terraform IaC (writing, maintaining, troubleshooting)

  • Advanced experience building/troubleshooting GitLab CI/CD pipelines

  • Strong AWS infrastructure knowledge, including:

    • Lambda, S3, SNS, EC2, RDS (Postgres), SQL-RDS, ECS/Fargate

    • VPC, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect, ALB/ELB

    • CloudWatch, Grafana, Route53, DNS, EFS

  • Solid understanding of AWS IAM, Okta, encryption, certificates, and key management

  • Experience with containerized middleware (NGINX, JBoss, Tomcat, Corretto)

  • Familiarity with DevSecOps, Agile/Scrum, JIRA

Nice to Have: Databricks, Starburst, Glue, EKS, AWS Multi-AZ / Multi-Region

Education: Bachelor s Degree preferred; AWS certifications strongly preferred

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  • Dice Id: 10301087
  • Position Id: 25-00545
  • Posted 30+ days ago
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