Senior AWS Cloud Engineer

AWS Senior Cloud Engineer (Hands-On)
Location: Columbus, OH (Onsite)
Employment Type: Contract (W2 / C2C)

Job Overview

We are seeking an experienced AWS Senior Cloud Engineer to design, implement, and support enterprise cloud infrastructure on AWS. The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on expertise with container orchestration, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD automation, and cloud observability while supporting large-scale production workloads.

Key Responsibilities

• Build, configure, and operate Amazon ECS and Amazon EKS clusters using EC2 and Fargate.
• Design and manage task definitions, services, autoscaling, IAM roles, ALB/NLB integrations, and networking components.
• Develop reusable Terraform modules and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) standards for AWS environments.
• Implement secure, scalable, and highly available cloud infrastructure.
• Design and maintain CI pipelines using Jenkins and CD pipelines using Spinnaker.
• Implement blue/green deployments, canary releases, rollback strategies, and deployment automation.
• Build enterprise observability solutions using Dynatrace and Splunk.
• Configure monitoring, logging, distributed tracing, dashboards, alerting, and operational readiness metrics.
• Collaborate with development, infrastructure, and operations teams to automate deployments and improve platform reliability.
• Troubleshoot production issues and continuously optimize cloud infrastructure.

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of IT experience with strong AWS Cloud engineering expertise.
• Hands-on experience with Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS, EC2, and AWS Fargate.
• Strong Terraform and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) experience.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Strong knowledge of Jenkins and Spinnaker CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with IAM, ALB, NLB, Auto Scaling, and AWS networking.
• Experience implementing enterprise monitoring using Dynatrace and Splunk.
• Strong understanding of observability, logging, tracing, and performance monitoring.
• Experience with production support, troubleshooting, and cloud operations.
• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Blue/Green Deployment Strategies.
• Canary Deployments.
• Cloud Security Best Practices.
• Enterprise DevOps Platform Experience.
• Financial Services or Banking domain experience.

Interested candidates can share their updated resume for immediate consideration.