AWS Cloud Engineer (Preffered Local state candidate)

Hybrid in Naperville, IL, US • Posted 8 hours ago • Updated 8 hours ago
Contract W2
Contract Independent
Contract Corp To Corp
12 Months
No Travel Required
Hybrid
Depends on Experience
Fitment

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Job Details

Skills

  • AWS
  • Terraform
  • Kubernetes
  • Python
  • AWS Certifications
  • AWS Cloud infrastructure

Summary

Job Description:

Required Qualifications & Experience

  • Experience: 6+ years of hands-on experience in cloud systems engineering, with at least 4+ years dedicated to enterprise AWS infrastructure.
  • Incident Ownership: 2+ years of demonstrable experience participating in or leading technical incident response bridges for high-severity cloud outages.
  • AWS Core Mastery: Deep hands-on proficiency in VPC design (subnets, route tables, peering, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect), IAM policies, EC2/ALB architectures, and microservices/containers (EKS/ECS).
  • Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Advanced expertise in Terraform (modular architectures, state management) or AWS CloudFormation/CDK.
  • Scripting & Automation: Strong scripting abilities in Python, Bash, or Go for automation, telemetry collection, and incident remediation.
  • Tooling: Strong background using PagerDuty/Opsgenie, Jira/ServiceNow ITSM, and enterprise observability platforms (CloudWatch, Datadog, or Splunk).
  • Communication: Exceptional verbal and written technical communication skills; capable of producing crisp executive-level incident summaries and technical deep-dive RCAs.

Preferred Qualifications

  • AWS Certifications: AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional, or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional.
  • Methodology: Practical experience operating within ITIL frameworks (Incident, Problem, Change Management) and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles (SLOs/SLIs).
  • Security: Prior experience managing regulated environments (SOC 2, PCI-DSS, HIPAA, or ISO 27001).
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  • Dice Id: 10114122
  • Position Id: 9102521
  • Posted 8 hours ago
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