Senior AWS Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Senior AWS Cloud Infrastructure Engineer-Peoria, IL or Irving, TX. (local only) with 8+ years of experience in the highlighted skill set. Thank you!

Please prioritize local candidates only; candidates must have a LinkedIn profile, as per the resume.

Job Title:- Senior AWS Cloud Infrastructure Engineer (EKS | Serverless | AWS Platform)

Location: Peoria, IL, or Irving, TX office

Duration: 12 months

Required Education/Experience:

•             Bachelor's degree in computer science or information technology

Required Licenses/Certifications:

•             AWS Certification ( AWS Certified Solutions Architect)

Required Qualifications:

•             The DASH (Data & Serverless) team is part of CLIENT AWS Platform organization

•             8 years' experience in this capacity

•             We design, provision, and operate the AWS infrastructure that business units use for data, serverless, and container workloads, so application teams can build on secure, standard foundations

•             As a customer-facing platform team, we work directly with business units to understand their needs and turn them into reliable AWS environments.

Position’s Contributions to Work Group:

•             We design, provision, and operate the AWS infrastructure that business units use for data, serverless, and container workloads, so application teams can build on secure, standard foundations

•             As a customer-facing platform team, we work directly with business units to understand their needs and turn them into reliable AWS environments.

Required Technical Skills:

•             Hands-on experience building and operating AWS infrastructure in a multi-account environment.

•             Experience provisioning and supporting EKS, ECS/Fargate, Lambda, S3, and Glue.

•             Strong AWS networking and IAM skills: VPC, ALB/NLB, SCPs, and permission boundaries.

•             Infrastructure as code with CloudFormation (preferred), plus CI/CD with GitHub Actions.

•             Scripting in Python and/or Bash for automation.

•             Strong customer focus and communication skills, including explaining technical options to non-AWS teams

Responsibilities:

•             Provision and operate the infrastructure for data and serverless services: S3, Glue, Lambda, API Gateway, Step Functions, EventBridge, and DynamoDB.

•             Build, upgrade, and maintain EKS clusters and ECS/Fargate environments.

•             Automate infrastructure delivery with reusable CloudFormation templates and GitHub Actions pipelines.

•             Design and troubleshoot VPC networking, load balancers, IAM, KMS, and cross-account access.

•             Onboard new business unit environments, estimate costs, and provide production infrastructure support.

•             Act as a technical point of contact for business unit customers by guiding requirements, setting clear expectations, and resolving issues quickly.