Senior AWS Cloud Engineer

Forterra • Clarksburg, MD

21h

About The Position

Forterra is seeking a Sr. AWS Cloud Engineer to design, manage, and secure cloud infrastructure
supporting autonomous vehicle platforms and enterprise operations. This role will own critical
workstreams including infrastructure inventory, change management, and security compliance
across a multi-account AWS environment.
The ideal candidate has hands-on AWS experience in a multi-account organization, strong
Terraform skills, and a security-conscious mindset. Experience in GovCloud or FedRAMP
environments is strongly preferred.

Requirements

• 3+ years of professional experience managing AWS infrastructure.
• Strong Terraform experience (modules, state management, multi-account patterns).
• Experience with AWS IAM, VPC networking, S3, EC2, EKS, and CloudWatch.
• Understanding of networking concepts: VPN, Transit Gateway, DNS, security groups.
• Incident response experience; ability to troubleshoot across application, infrastructure, and network layers.
• Strong documentation and communication skills.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with AWS GovCloud or FedRAMP compliance environments.
• Experience with EKS cluster management (managed node groups, add-ons).
• Experience with CI/CD pipeline infrastructure (GitLab CI, runners, container registries).
• Experience with infrastructure monitoring and alerting (Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, or equivalent).
• Linux systems administration proficiency.
• Experience with SIEM platforms (Panther, Splunk, or equivalent).
• Experience with SSO/SAML integration (AWS IAM Identity Center, Entra ID).
• Familiarity with cost management tools (AWS Cost Explorer, budgets, FinOps practices).
• Security certifications (AWS Security Specialty, CompTIA Security+, or equivalent).

Responsibilities

• Manage and secure AWS infrastructure across multiple accounts (commercial and GovCloud).
• Design and implement infrastructure-as-code using Terraform, including modules for IAM, networking, compute, and storage.
• Build and maintain an infrastructure inventory for all critical services and accounts.
• Implement change management processes for production infrastructure (source control, review, monitoring).
• Respond to and remediate infrastructure incidents; participate in postmortem reviews.
• Configure and maintain monitoring, alerting, and observability for cloud services.
• Support security compliance initiatives (GuardDuty, CloudTrail, Panther SIEM, CrowdStrike integration).
• Collaborate with Cybersecurity on vulnerability management, patching, and asset tagging.
• Manage cost optimization across AWS accounts, including reserved instances, savings plans, and storage tiering.
• Document infrastructure architecture, runbooks, and operational procedures.

Benefits

• Premium Healthcare Benefits: Three plan options, including an HSA-eligible plan, with Forterra covering 80% of the plan premium for you and your dependents.
• Basic Life/AD&D, short and long-term disability insurance plans 100% covered by Forterra, plus the option to purchase additional life insurance for you and your dependents.
• Extremely generous company holiday calendar including a winter break in December.
• Competitive paid time off (PTO) offering 20 days accrued per year.
• A minimum of 7 weeks fully paid parental leave for birth/adoption.
• A $9k annual tuition reimbursement or professional development stipend.
• Fully stocked beverage refrigerators with all the Celsius your little heart desires.
• 401(k) retirement savings plan, including traditional, Roth 401(k), and after-tax deferral with company match up to 4%.

What This Job Offers

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