AWS Middleware Engineer

Job Title : Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer (Contract) - Job#5834

Location : Remote

About The Role

We're looking for a highly skilled Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to design, build, and support enterprise-grade infrastructure on Amazon Web Services (AWS). You'll be part of a collaborative, Agile team that focuses on automation, scalability, and reliability across our middleware and application environments.

This role is ideal for someone who thrives in complex environments, enjoys solving challenging problems, and is passionate about modern DevOps practices such as Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), container orchestration, and continuous integration / continuous deployment (CI / CD).

Key Responsibilities

• Design & Implementation : Develop conceptual, logical, and physical infrastructure designs that align with business requirements.
• Cloud & Containerization : Build and manage scalable environments leveraging AWS services - especially EKS and other container-based technologies.
• Infrastructure as Code : Use Terraform, Ansible, and Packer to automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and image creation.
• Automation & Deployment : Implement CI / CD pipelines using GitLab (or similar tools) to support streamlined code integration and delivery.
• System Reliability : Resolve complex hardware and software issues affecting application systems; proactively recommend solutions to minimize downtime.
• Change & Risk Management : Follow established change management and audit policies; ensure compliance with security and operational standards.
• Collaboration & Leadership : Contribute to moderately complex projects, mentor peers, and help define and uphold technical standards and best practices.
• Testing & Transition : Prepare testing strategies and oversee smooth implementation and transition into production environments.

Qualifications

About Delphi-US

Delphi-US is a national recruiting firm based in Newport, Rhode Island. We specialize in IT, Engineering and Professional Staffing services for organizations across the United States of America.? Our mission is simple : We are Peacemakers in the Talent War. Delphi attracts our nation's best and brightest Technical & Professional Talent and position our nation's finest employers to further their competitive advantages.? We accomplish this with a proprietary skill-based and cultural matching process that results in higher qualified submissions, hiring with purpose, and employer / employee mutual success. You'll find our team is supremely experienced, friendly, professional and ready to advocate on your behalf.? Armed with best in class talent, Delphi has an indelible understanding of employer expectations and we deliver lasting results.