AWS Cloud Engineer

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Job Title: AWS Cloud Engineer
Location: Must be able to work onsite in McLean, VA (preferred) or Richmond, VA
Contract Length: 16+ Months
Hybrid Work

Job ref# 247320

We are seeking an experienced AWS Cloud Engineer with a strong operational and DevOps background to support a critical third-party application hosted in AWS. This role is focused on maintaining production stability, ensuring infrastructure reliability, remediating vulnerabilities, and driving enterprise security and compliance initiatives.

The ideal candidate has hands-on experience supporting production AWS environments, maintaining Infrastructure as Code (IaC), troubleshooting live systems, and working within highly regulated enterprise environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain and support production AWS infrastructure and applications.
• Ensure high availability, stability, and performance of existing cloud environments.
• Execute enterprise security and compliance initiatives.
• Identify, prioritize, and remediate infrastructure, application, container, and OS vulnerabilities.
• Manage AWS Secrets Manager, automated credential rotation, and certificate management.
• Maintain and update Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Chef cookbooks.
• Troubleshoot production issues using CloudWatch and New Relic.
• Monitor system health, logs, and infrastructure performance.
• Support infrastructure upgrades, configuration management, and patching activities.
• Read, troubleshoot, and modify PowerShell and/or Python automation scripts.
• Maintain configuration code using GitHub and enterprise pull request workflows.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, security, and application teams to ensure operational excellence.

Required Qualifications

• Strong experience supporting production AWS environments.
• Experience with enterprise Cloud Operations or DevOps.
• Hands-on AWS infrastructure administration.
• Experience supporting highly available production systems.
• Strong troubleshooting and operational support background.
• Experience working within regulated enterprise environments.
• Ability to support existing applications rather than greenfield development.

Required Technical Skills

AWS Services

• AWS Secrets Manager (including automated rotation)
• AWS KMS
• IAM
• ELB
• EC2
• Lambda
• S3
• RDS
• AWS DMS
• CloudWatch

Infrastructure & Automation

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Chef
• GitHub
• PowerShell
• Python
• Docker container vulnerability remediation

Monitoring

• CloudWatch
• New Relic

Security

• Vulnerability management
• Patch management
• Secrets management
• Certificate management
• Enterprise security compliance

Preferred Qualifications

• Recent experience supporting large enterprise financial environments.
• Experience supporting third-party vendor applications.
• Experience with:


• Actimize
• Tomcat
• Oracle


• Active AWS Certifications such as:


• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
• AWS Certified Security Specialty

Ideal Candidate

Candidates should demonstrate:

• Strong operational mindset.
• Experience supporting production infrastructure.
• Excellent troubleshooting skills.
• Security-first approach.
• Enterprise compliance experience.
• Infrastructure maintenance expertise.
• Strong collaboration skills.
• Ability to work in hybrid Agile/operations environments.