Job#: 3058908 Job Description: Cloud Engineer (AWS, Terraform)
Location: Jersey City, New Jersey (On-site)
Alternate Location: Charlotte, North Carolina
Role Overview
This employer is seeking a hands-on Cloud Engineer with deep AWS expertise and strong Terraform skills to build and operate a secure, regulated platform supporting healthcare payment systems. The successful candidate will own Infrastructure as Code (IaC) design, CI/CD pipeline development with security gating, and platform reliability across multiple environments. This role involves collaboration with engineering teams, platform services, and leadership to deliver scalable, compliant, and highly available cloud solutions.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain AWS infrastructure using Terraform.
- Develop and support secure CI/CD pipelines with validation, scanning, and approval gates.
- Implement cloud architecture patterns including high availability, failover, and multi-region designs.
- Support platform standardization and governance, ensuring auditability and repeatable deployments.
- Collaborate with application teams to onboard and migrate workloads to cloud infrastructure.
- Monitor and optimize cloud resources for performance, cost, and reliability.
- Implement and support security controls, including vulnerability remediation and compliance requirements.
- Troubleshoot platform and deployment issues across development, testing, and production environments.
- Maintain documentation, runbooks, and deployment standards to support consistent execution.
- Participate in release activities and ensure safe, controlled deployments.
Required Qualifications
Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
Experience: Seven to ten years of relevant experience in cloud, infrastructure, or DevOps engineering, with experience working in regulated environments such as financial services or healthcare.
Technical Skills: Strong hands-on experience with AWS services (VPC, EC2, ECS/EKS, IAM, Route 53, S3, RDS, CloudWatch) and Terraform module development, state management, and debugging. Proficiency in CI/CD pipeline workflows, infrastructure security practices, vulnerability remediation, and configuration management tools is required. Candidates must demonstrate an understanding of networking, load balancing, and application connectivity in cloud environments.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with containerized platforms and image management utilizing Docker and ECS/EKS.
- Experience with security scanning tools and vulnerability management processes.
- Exposure to blue/green deployments, progressive routing, or traffic shifting strategies.
- Familiarity with Java, Ruby, or .NET application environments and middleware integration.
- Experience with automation and scripting using Python and Bash.
- Knowledge of multi-region and disaster recovery architectures.
Everforth Apex is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Everforth Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRateds Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico.
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