AWS Cloud Engineer - onsite Dallas, TX

Welltower™ Inc. (NYSE:WELL) • University Park, TX

24d • Onsite

About The Position

The AWS Cloud Engineer designs, builds, and operates secure, scalable, and
cost-optimized AWS cloud infrastructure. This role partners with Security,
Infrastructure, and Application Development teams to deliver reliable cloud
services using infrastructure-as-code, automation, and strong operational
practices. The Cloud Engineer is accountable for day-to-day cloud engineering
execution across provisioning, standards, monitoring, incident response support,
and continuous improvement.

Requirements

• 5+ years in cloud engineering (AWS preferred) within a production enterprise environment.
• Hands-on experience with core AWS services (VPC, IAM, EC2, S3, KMS, CloudWatch, CloudTrail).
• Strong experience with IaC (Terraform and/or CloudFormation) and Git-based workflows.
• Familiarity with networking concepts (routing, DNS, VPN, security controls, load balancing).
• Experience supporting operational excellence: monitoring, alerting, incident response, and root cause analysis.
• Ability to write and maintain scripts for automation (Python/PowerShell/Bash).
• Strong documentation skills (architecture diagrams, runbooks, standards).
• Security-first mindset, strong judgment, and attention to detail
• Clear communicator who works well across teams
• Comfortable in ambiguity; prioritizes work based on risk and impact
• Bias for automation and repeatable patterns
• Ownership mentality for production systems

Nice To Haves

• AWS certifications (Solutions Architect Associate/Pro, SysOps, Security Specialty).
• Experience in multi-account AWS organizations, landing zones, SCPs, and centralized logging.
• Experience with EKS/Kubernetes, container registries, and runtime security basics.
• Experience integrating privileged access tooling (e.g., Teleport, Okta, Entra ID, SSO, MFA).
• Exposure to compliance frameworks (HIPAA, NIST, SOC2) and audit support.
• Experience with CI/CD and policy-as-code (Sentinel, SCP guardrails).

Responsibilities

• Build & operate AWS foundations including VPCs, subnets, routing, security groups/NACLs, ALB/NLB, EC2, EKS/ECS, RDS, S3, IAM, KMS, CloudWatch, and CloudTrail.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): develop and maintain reusable modules/templates (Terraform and/or CloudFormation), enforce standards, and support CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure deployments.
• Identity & access: implement least-privilege IAM roles/policies, permission boundaries, and secure cross-account access patterns; support federation and privileged access workflows.
• Security & compliance: partner with Cybersecurity on guardrails, logging, encryption, vulnerability remediation, and control validation (e.g., AWS Config, CloudTrail, Security Hub, IAM Access Analyzer).
• Observability & reliability: implement monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and SLO/SLA reporting via Datadog; support incident troubleshooting and post-incident corrective actions.
• Cost optimization: monitor spend, investigate anomalies, implement tagging/chargeback standards, and drive cost controls (rightsizing, lifecycle policies, savings plans/reservations support).
• Platform standards: document and maintain reference architectures, golden patterns, runbooks, and operational procedures.
• Automation: develop scripting and automation for repetitive tasks (Python, PowerShell, Bash) and integrate with service management workflows.
• Vendor & tool integration: configure and operate cloud tooling (e.g., Datadog, PagerDuty, Terraform Cloud, CI/CD platforms) and coordinate with third parties as needed.

Benefits

• Competitive Base Salary + Annual Bonus
• Generous Paid Time Off and Holidays
• Employee Stock Purchase Program – purchase shares at a 15% discount
• Employer-matching 401(k) Program + Profit Sharing Program
• Student Debt Program – we’ll contribute up to $10,000 towards your student loans!
• Tuition Assistance Program
• Comprehensive and progressive Medical/Dental/Vision options
• Professional Growth

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed