AWS Cloud Engineer

AWS Cloud Engineer

Location: Miami, FL (Onsite Monday-Thursday)

Role Overview

An AWS Cloud Engineer is required to join a newly forming infrastructure team. This position involves the day-to-day administration of cloud services, focusing on EC2 and Terraform deployment. The selected professional will contribute to the rapid development of the cloud environment as the organization transitions operations from a managed service provider to an in-house model.

Key Responsibilities

• Perform day-to-day administration and monitoring of AWS services.

• Manage EC2 instances, VPCs, subnets, routing, and security groups.

• Utilize Terraform and AWS CloudFormation for Infrastructure as Code and pipeline management.

• Design, provision, and operate scalable, secure, and reliable cloud infrastructure.

• Implement AWS security best practices, including Identity and Access Management and centralized logging.

• Collaborate with application, security, and networking teams to enable cloud-native solutions.

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and platform services.

• Support multi-account AWS environments following established cloud architecture patterns.

• Required Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent hands-on experience.

• Experience: 0 to 5 years of hands-on AWS experience in production environments.

• Technical

Skills

• Proficiency with AWS services, including EC2, S3, RDS, IAM, VPC, and CloudWatch. Experience with networking and security configurations, including transit gateway management. Familiarity with basic scripting using Python or Bash.

• Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with other cloud platforms such as Azure, OCI, or GCP.

• Exposure to Amazon EKS administration and Kubernetes cluster operations.

• Familiarity with Helm, Kustomize, or GitOps tools such as Argo CD or Flux.

• AWS certifications, such as Cloud Practitioner, Solutions Architect – Associate, or SysOps Administrator.

Benefits

• Overview: A range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans. A stock purchase program and a 401K program with company match after 12 months of tenure. A Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan, an employee assistance program with counseling, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. Professional development opportunities, certification prep, and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars after 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. A dedicated customer service team for consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach.

• Equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, marital status, disability, veteran status, political affiliation, union membership, or any other characteristic protected by law. Qualified applicants with criminal histories will be considered in a manner consistent with applicable law.