AWS Cloud Engineer

Bright Vision Technologies • Monroe Township, MI

4d • $100,000 - $150,000 • Remote

About The Position

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking an experienced AWS Cloud Engineer to design, build, and operate large-scale, secure, highly available cloud platforms on Amazon Web Services. This is a hands-on engineering role spanning architecture, infrastructure as code, automation, security, observability, and continuous operational improvement for mission-critical production workloads. The engineer will apply broad AWS service knowledge, strong DevOps fundamentals, and cost-aware design practices while partnering with application, security, and SRE teams to deliver resilient cloud-native solutions that scale with the business. The position is 100% remote in the U.S., full-time, and direct W2, with an annual salary range of $100,000–$150,000. Candidates must already have U.S. work authorization; new H-1B visa petitions cannot be sponsored.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Ten or more years of cloud engineering experience, including at least three years focused on AWS in production environments.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, RDS, Lambda, CloudFront, and CloudFormation.
• Production-grade experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, AWS CDK, or CloudFormation.
• Experience designing and operating Amazon EKS or ECS clusters at scale.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and application workloads.
• Strong Python and Bash scripting skills.
• Deep understanding of cloud security, IAM, encryption, key management, and compliance requirements.
• Experience implementing observability, monitoring, and alerting in cloud-native environments.
• Strong troubleshooting, communication, and documentation skills.
• Must be a U.S. citizen, Green Card holder, EAD holder, or eligible H-1B transfer candidate; new H-1B petitions cannot be sponsored.

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with Go or PowerShell.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional or DevOps Engineer – Professional certification.
• Experience with multi-account AWS Organizations and centralized governance.
• Familiarity with service mesh, eBPF-based observability, and zero-trust networking.
• Exposure to FinOps practices and well-architected cost-optimization frameworks.
• Experience operating regulated workloads, such as HIPAA, PCI-DSS, SOC 2, or FedRAMP.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate large-scale, secure, and highly available AWS cloud platforms.
• Engineer and improve architecture, infrastructure as code, automation, security, and observability for mission-critical production workloads.
• Design and operate Amazon EKS or ECS clusters at scale.
• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and application workloads.
• Implement cloud-native monitoring, observability, and alerting.
• Troubleshoot production and cloud platform issues and support continuous operational improvement.
• Partner with application, security, and SRE teams to deliver resilient cloud-native solutions.
• Apply cost-aware design practices and support cloud cost optimization.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior