Cloud AWS Engineer

PSEG•Bethpage, NY

16h•Hybrid

About The Position

The Cloud AWS Engineer supports IT infrastructure platforms and technologies hosted on premises and in AWS Virtual Private Cloud. The role provides cloud engineering expertise for technology projects supporting hosted cloud applications, including building and enhancing tools and cloud operations, developing high-performance service solutions, enabling continuous deployment, and establishing solution parity across platforms. The engineer participates in the full technology lifecycle: designing, configuring, developing, documenting, and testing solutions that meet business and technology requirements, with a focus on application reliability and cybersecurity hardening. The role translates business outcomes and requirements into technical designs, follows architectural standards and organizational policies, and ensures solutions meet product, service-level, security, and quality-assurance requirements. It also creates reference architectures, best practices, and procedures for end-to-end cloud infrastructure solutions.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, plus 4 or more years of IT experience; alternatively, at least 8 years of relevant IT experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
At least 4 years of hands-on experience designing, implementing, and supporting cloud infrastructure solutions, preferably in AWS environments.
Strong expertise in AWS services, including EC2, ECS, S3, Application Load Balancers (ALB), VPCs, VPNs, and networking technologies.
Experience implementing and maintaining secure cloud environments using AWS security best practices, IAM roles and policies, and network security controls.
Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automation using AWS CloudFormation or similar tools.
Experience supporting hybrid cloud environments and troubleshooting complex infrastructure, networking, and performance issues.
Ability to design, recommend, and implement scalable, highly available cloud architectures aligned with business objectives.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills, including the ability to create technical documentation and work effectively with technical and business stakeholders.

Nice To Haves

AWS certification such as Solutions Architect, SysOps Administrator, or equivalent.
Familiarity with monitoring, logging, and performance-optimization tools in AWS environments.

Responsibilities

Design cloud infrastructure, application architecture, and security architecture, ensuring compliance with IT security policies, best practices, and branch standards.
Work with IT staff, management, and cloud technology vendors to plan, design, build, implement, and support cloud hosting services.
Build tools and automation to improve availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency.
Monitor production and development environments and develop preventive measures to support a fail-safe customer experience.
Document and clearly communicate solution designs and implementations.
Collaborate across teams and bridge product managers, architects, and implementation teams to deliver reliable solutions.
Lead the development, implementation, and optimization of technology solutions.
Take ownership of assigned systems and ensure they meet performance and reliability standards.
Partner with business stakeholders and IT teams to design and implement scalable solutions.
Identify technical risks and develop mitigation strategies.
Ensure technology solutions adhere to security, compliance, and governance frameworks.
Work with IT and Cybersecurity groups on infrastructure projects and initiatives, including endpoint-device security policies.
Interface with other IT areas for engineering and infrastructure support.
Follow configuration and change-management policies to ensure changes are understood, approved, and successfully implemented.
Ensure quality-control and assurance procedures align with infrastructure specifications, client requirements, and corporate policies.