AWS Engineer

Chantilly, VA, US • Posted 4 hours ago • Updated 4 hours ago
Contract W2
On-site
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Job Details

Skills

  • Scripting
  • Jenkins
  • Kubernetes
  • Terraform
  • GitHub
  • Subnetting
  • Docker
  • Problem Solving
  • Devops
  • Production support
  • dashboards
  • Load Balancing
  • Amazon Web Services
  • Disaster Recovery
  • Identity and Access Management
  • automation
  • Testing Skills
  • Architecture
  • Networking Skills
  • Virtual Private Networks (VPN)
  • Infrastructure Management
  • Safety Principles
  • System Availability
  • Python (Programming Language)
  • Cloud Computing
  • Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
  • Amazon Relational Database Service
  • Amazon S3
  • Cloudformation
  • Cloudwatch
  • Bash Shell
  • Health Care
  • Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act Compliance
  • Functional Programming
  • Cloud Engineering
  • Backup Devices
  • Data Logging
  • Delivery Pipeline
  • Routing
  • Security Requirements Analysis
  • Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
  • Gitlab-ci
  • Autoscaling
  • Elastic Load Balancing
  • Route53
  • Linux System Administration
  • Direct Connect
  • Amazon Cloudfront

Summary

#W2 Role

Role: Senior AWS Engineer
Location:Remote
Experience: 8+ years

Job Description

Our Client is looking for a hands-on AWS Engineer to build, automate, and support cloud infrastructure used by healthcare applications and enterprise platforms.The engineer will work with application, security, networking, DevOps, and architecture teams to deliver reliable and secure AWS environments. The role includes infrastructure development, automation, monitoring, troubleshooting, deployments, and production support.

Responsibilities
  • Build and maintain AWS infrastructure across development, testing, and production environments.

  • Work with EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, RDS, Lambda, Route 53, CloudFront, ELB, and Auto Scaling.

  • Deploy and support containerized applications using ECS, EKS, Docker, and Kubernetes.

  • Create reusable infrastructure using Terraform or CloudFormation.

  • Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, or AWS CodePipeline.

  • Configure VPCs, subnets, security groups, load balancers, routing, VPNs, and private connectivity.

  • Automate cloud operations using Python, Bash, Lambda, and AWS Systems Manager.

  • Set up monitoring, logging, dashboards, and alerts using CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and related tools.

  • Troubleshoot infrastructure, networking, security, deployment, and application-connectivity issues.

  • Support patching, backups, disaster recovery, high availability, and production-readiness activities.

  • Apply AWS security standards using IAM roles, KMS, Secrets Manager, and least-privilege access.

  • Identify opportunities to improve performance, reliability, automation, and cloud costs.

  • Participate in code reviews, releases, incident resolution, and on-call support.

Required Qualifications
  • 8+ years of infrastructure, cloud engineering, DevOps, or systems-engineering experience.

  • 4+ years of hands-on AWS experience.

  • Strong experience with EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, RDS, Lambda, Route 53, ELB, and Auto Scaling.

  • Experience with ECS, EKS, Docker, and Kubernetes.

  • Strong experience with Terraform or CloudFormation.

  • Experience building and supporting CI/CD pipelines.

  • Strong Linux administration and troubleshooting skills.

  • Experience with Python, Bash, or another scripting language.

  • Understanding of networking, security, monitoring, backup, and disaster-recovery practices.

  • Experience supporting highly available production environments.

Preferred Qualifications
  • Healthcare or health insurance experience.

  • Understanding of HIPAA, PHI, PII, and healthcare-security requirements.

  • Experience with AWS Organizations, Control Tower, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect, or WAF.

  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer certification.

Employers have access to artificial intelligence language tools (“AI”) that help generate and enhance job descriptions and AI may have been used to create this description. The position description has been reviewed for accuracy and Dice believes it to correctly reflect the job opportunity.
  • Dice Id: 91134888
  • Position Id: 2026-3072
  • Posted 4 hours ago
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