AWS Cloud Engineer W2 Contract

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A Senior Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure Technical Lead position on a contract basis, who will be responsible for designing, building, transitioning, and sustaining the infrastructure components in the AWS cloud platform. The ideal candidate will bring deep hands-on AWS expertise, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices, network & security design, and experience with complex, compute and data-intensive workloads that are typical for the engineering and design software stack.

Responsibilities

• AWS Infrastructure Management
• Engage with stakeholders (engineering, architecture, operations, security) to gather functional, nonfunctional, and scaling requirements.
• Define the end-state AWS architecture : multi-account design, networking (VPCs, subnets, transit, peering, Direct Connect), identity & access (IAM, SSO, roles, least privilege).
• Migrate or onboard existing application components and data to the new AWS infrastructure.
• Design, deploy, and maintain AWS resources (EC2, FSx, S3, Load Balancing, Workspaces, Managed AD).
• Design compute, storage, database, logging, monitoring, backup / DR, and data pipelines / integration layers.
• Ensure high availability, scalability, and security of the cloud infrastructure.
• Infrastructure as Code
• Develop and maintain CloudFormation templates and Terraform scripts for automated provisioning.
• Implement version control and CI / CD pipelines for IaC deployments.
• Manage Windows servers, Active Directory, and related services in AWS.
• Support the configuration and optimization of Windows-based applications for performance and security.
• Security & Compliance
• Apply AWS and Windows security best practices.
• Configure security guardrails : VPC security, network ACLs, security groups, IAM policies, encryption (at rest / in transit), audit & logging (CloudTrail, Config, GuardDuty, etc.).
• Conduct regular audits and ensure compliance with organizational standards.
• Monitoring & Optimization
• Validate and test for resilience, performance, failover, autoscaling, and disaster recovery.
• Monitor system performance and implement cost optimization strategies.
• Troubleshoot issues across AWS and all Windows environments.
• Deliver documentation, runbooks, architecture diagrams, and formal knowledge transfer sessions.
• Mentor and work closely with internal teams to ensure a smooth handoff.
• Post-handover support to address issues, provide trouble shoot support and optimize solution.

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