AWS Infrastructure Engineer, Fort Mill, SC on W2

Job Title: AWS Infrastructure Engineer
Employment Type: W2 Contract Only
Location: Fort Mill, SC
Work Arrangement: Onsite
Experience: 8+ Years Preferred

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced AWS Infrastructure Engineer to design, implement, maintain, and optimize enterprise cloud infrastructure. The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on experience with AWS services, infrastructure automation, networking, security, monitoring, and DevOps practices.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and manage scalable AWS infrastructure across enterprise environments.
• Build, configure, and maintain AWS services including EC2, VPC, S3, IAM, RDS, Route 53, ELB/ALB, CloudWatch, Lambda, and related services.
• Design and implement secure, highly available, and scalable AWS architectures.
• Configure and manage VPCs, subnets, security groups, NACLs, routing tables, NAT gateways, and load balancers.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar IaC tools.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, deployment, and operational processes.
• Monitor infrastructure performance, availability, health, and capacity.
• Troubleshoot networking, compute, storage, security, and application infrastructure issues.
• Implement cloud security controls, IAM policies, encryption, authentication, and access management.
• Support disaster recovery, backup, high availability, and business continuity requirements.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and application deployments.
• Collaborate with DevOps, application development, database, security, and architecture teams.
• Participate in incident response, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis.
• Identify opportunities to improve infrastructure reliability, scalability, security, and cost efficiency.
• Maintain technical documentation, architecture diagrams, operational procedures, and infrastructure standards.

Required Skills

AWS Infrastructure | AWS Cloud | Amazon EC2 | Amazon VPC | Amazon S3 | AWS IAM | Amazon RDS | Amazon Route 53 | Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) | Application Load Balancer (ALB) | Amazon CloudWatch | AWS Lambda | AWS Networking | VPC Configuration | Subnets | Security Groups | Network ACLs (NACLs) | Routing Tables | NAT Gateways | Load Balancers | Terraform | AWS CloudFormation | Infrastructure as Code (IaC) | Infrastructure Automation | Cloud Security | IAM Policies | Encryption | Access Control | Monitoring | Performance Optimization | Capacity Planning | High Availability | Disaster Recovery | Backup | Business Continuity | CI/CD | DevOps | Incident Response | Root Cause Analysis | Technical Documentation

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in infrastructure, cloud engineering, or related roles preferred.
• Strong hands-on experience designing and managing AWS cloud infrastructure.
• Experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, or other Infrastructure as Code tools.
• Strong understanding of AWS networking, security, IAM, compute, storage, and database services.
• Experience with CI/CD, automation, monitoring, troubleshooting, and production support.
• Strong problem-solving and root-cause analysis skills.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.