Job Title: AWS Cloud Engineer
Location: Irvine, CA
Duration: Long Term Contract
Exp: 12-15+ Years
On C2C
Responsibilities Design, implement, and operate AWS foundation services (VPC, IAM, KMS, S3, CloudWatch, Config, GuardDuty, Security Hub).
Build landing zones, guardrails, and governance frameworks.
Develop Python-based automation (Lambda, Step Functions, IAM policy enforcement).
Use CloudFormation and Terraform for Infrastructure as Code.
Implement CI/CD pipelines with AWS CodePipeline and related services.
Integrate AWS services with Kubernetes (EKS).
Implement networking and security controls (VPC peering, Transit Gateway, PrivateLink, WAF).
Manage multi-account environments with AWS Organizations and Control Tower.
Automate provisioning, patching, and lifecycle management.
Monitor reliability, availability, and security posture using CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana.
Troubleshoot AWS, networking, and Kubernetes issues. Required Skill Set
AWS Expertise VPC, IAM, KMS, S3, CloudTrail, Config, GuardDuty, Control Tower, Organizations.
Python Development Strong experience with Lambda, Step Functions, IAM automation.
Infrastructure as Code CloudFormation and Terraform.
CI/CD AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy.
Networking & Security VPC design, Transit Gateway, PrivateLink, WAF, Security Groups, NACLs.
Identity & Governance IAM, SSO, federation, RBAC, IdP integration.
Monitoring & Observability CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK, Dynatrace.