AWS Cloud Engineer

Elite Technical•Albuquerque, NM

28d•Hybrid

About The Position

Our Client, a global leader in delivering diverse Technologies is seeking a mid-level Cloud Engineer to design, build, migrate, and operate secure AWS environments for multiple private and public-sector projects. You'll lead environment buildouts, support migrations, implement automation and monitoring, and collaborate closely with security and engineering.

Requirements

5+ years of IT/cloud engineering experience with production AWS workloads.
Hands-on with IaC (CloudFormation or Terraform) and scripting (PowerShell/Bash/Python).
Strong grasp of AWS operations, networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, VPN concepts), and observability.
Foundational DBA skills for Oracle/SQL Server/Postgres (deploy, configure, connectivity, backup/restore).
Clear communicator with solid troubleshooting and documentation habits.
Able to work onsite in Albuquerque 3 days per week.
Ability to provide occasional after-hours work for migrations, maintenance windows, or incidents; primary help desk covered by others with escalation to this role as needed

Nice To Haves

AWS certification (Solutions Architect Associate, SysOps Administrator, or Developer) or willingness to obtain within 6 months.
Exposure to Azure; familiarity with GCP helpful.
Experience with containers (Docker, ECS/EKS basics) and CI/CD (GitHub Actions/Azure DevOps/Jenkins).
Knowledge of HA/DR patterns (multi-AZ, read replicas, snapshots) and cost/performance trade-offs.
Familiarity with ITSM environments (ServiceNow) and ITIL practices.
Collaborative, documentation-first approach; comfortable explaining trade-offs to technical and non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

Architect, build, and operate AWS environments (dev/test/UAT/prod) for web, data, and GIS workloads.
Execute migrations (lift-and-shift/re-platform); plan cutovers, validations, and rollback strategies.
Implement automation using IaC (CloudFormation or Terraform) and scripting (PowerShell/Bash/Python).
Manage core AWS services: EC2, VPC, S3, IAM, ALB/NLB, Auto Scaling, Systems Manager, CloudWatch/CloudTrail.
Configure networking: VPCs, subnets, routing, security groups/NACLs, DNS; support VPN/Direct Connect concepts.
Establish reliability: monitoring/alerting, patching, backup/restore, performance tuning, capacity planning.
Apply security best practices: least-privilege IAM, encryption, key/secret management, logging/guardrails.
Stand up basic databases (Oracle/SQL Server/Postgres on RDS or EC2), manage connectivity, and perform backups/restores.
Optimize cost with tagging, budgets, lifecycle policies, and rightsizing.
Create documentation (diagrams, runbooks, SOPs) and share knowledge with the team.
Engage with PMs and stakeholders to clarify requirements, report status, and mitigate risks.
Provide occasional after-hours work for migrations, maintenance windows, or incidents as well as Tier II/Tier III escalation support during cutovers or incidents as needed