Senior AWS Cloud Engineer

AWS Senior Cloud Engineer (Hands-On)
Location: Columbus, OH (Onsite)
Employment Type: Contract (W2 / C2C)
Required Terraform Certification 

Job Overview

We are seeking an experienced AWS Senior Cloud Engineer to design, implement, and support enterprise cloud infrastructure on AWS. The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on expertise with container orchestration, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD automation, and cloud observability while supporting large-scale production workloads.

Key Responsibilities

• Build, configure, and operate Amazon ECS and Amazon EKS clusters using EC2 and Fargate.
• Design and manage task definitions, services, autoscaling, IAM roles, ALB/NLB integrations, and networking components.
• Develop reusable Terraform modules and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) standards for AWS environments.
• Implement secure, scalable, and highly available cloud infrastructure.
• Design and maintain CI pipelines using Jenkins and CD pipelines using Spinnaker.
• Implement blue/green deployments, canary releases, rollback strategies, and deployment automation.
• Build enterprise observability solutions using Dynatrace and Splunk.
• Configure monitoring, logging, distributed tracing, dashboards, alerting, and operational readiness metrics.
• Collaborate with development, infrastructure, and operations teams to automate deployments and improve platform reliability.
• Troubleshoot production issues and continuously optimize cloud infrastructure.

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of IT experience with strong AWS Cloud engineering expertise.
• Hands-on experience with Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS, EC2, and AWS Fargate.
• Strong Terraform and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) experience.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Strong knowledge of Jenkins and Spinnaker CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with IAM, ALB, NLB, Auto Scaling, and AWS networking.
• Experience implementing enterprise monitoring using Dynatrace and Splunk.
• Strong understanding of observability, logging, tracing, and performance monitoring.
• Experience with production support, troubleshooting, and cloud operations.
• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Blue/Green Deployment Strategies.
• Canary Deployments.
• Cloud Security Best Practices.
• Enterprise DevOps Platform Experience.
• Financial Services or Banking domain experience.

Interested candidates can share their updated resume for immediate consideration.