AWS Engineer

Role: AWS Engineer with expertise in AWS Cloud, Infrastructure as Code, DevOps, Automation, Security, and Containerization, responsible for designing, implementing, and optimizing scalable, secure, and highly available cloud environments.

Experience: - Minimum 8+ Years

Location: - Chicago, IL (3 days/Week)

Responsibilities: -

• Design, deploy, and maintain scalable, secure, and highly available AWS cloud environments.
• Build and manage cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, or AWS CodePipeline.
• Monitor system performance, availability, and reliability using AWS CloudWatch and other monitoring solutions.
• Configure and manage AWS networking components including VPCs, Route Tables, Security Groups, Load Balancers, and VPNs.
• Implement cloud security best practices including IAM, encryption, secrets management, and compliance controls.
• Support containerized workloads using Docker and Kubernetes (EKS preferred).
• Perform troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and performance tuning across cloud environments.
• Collaborate with development, architecture, and operations teams to deliver cloud-native solutions.
• Ensure backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity requirements are met.
• Create and maintain technical documentation, runbooks, and architecture diagrams.

Educational Qualifications: -

• Engineering Degree BE/ME/BTech/MTech/BSc/MSc.
• Technical certification in multiple technologies is desirable.

Mandatory skills

AWS Services

EC2

S3

RDS (MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server)

Lambda

ECS/EKS

API Gateway

CloudFront

Route 53

CloudWatch

SNS/SQS

IAM

AWS Systems Manager (SSM)

AWS Secrets Manager

VPC and Networking Services

Infrastructure & Automation

Terraform (Preferred)

AWS CloudFormation

DevOps & CI/CD

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

AWS CodePipeline

Git/GitHub

Containers

Docker

Kubernetes

Amazon EKS

Scripting

Python

Shell Scripting (Bash)

Qualifications & Experience

Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field.

Minimum 8 +years of overall IT experience with at least 7+ years of hands-on AWS experience.

Strong understanding of cloud architecture principles and AWS Well-Architected Framework.

Experience implementing secure and compliant cloud solutions.

Hands-on experience with CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code.

Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.

Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.

Good to Have Skills

Infrastructure & Automation

Ansible

Certifications

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate/Professional
• AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer

Domain & Platform Experience

• Experience with Healthcare IT applications and data platforms.
• Healthcare industry experience / knowledge (Provider, Payer, Life Sciences, or HealthTech).
• Experience with data migration and integration projects.
• Exposure to Snowflake, Redshift, Databricks, or healthcare data lakes.
• Knowledge of AI/ML services on AWS.
• Experience with FinOps and cloud cost optimization.