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AWS Cloud Engineer

AWS security experience is a plus

Location: Dallas, TX | Phoenix, AZ | Columbus, OH | On-site, Monday–Friday
Type: Contract-to-Hire (6–12 months)
Industry: Financial Services / Banking

We are seeking an experienced AWS Cloud Engineer to support the design, implementation, and optimization of cloud infrastructure within a highly regulated enterprise environment. This role will work closely with infrastructure, security, and application teams to build scalable, secure, and high-performing cloud solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, configure, and manage AWS infrastructure, including compute, networking, storage, identity, monitoring, and security services
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex AWS infrastructure, security, networking, identity, access, and performance issues
• Build, test, validate, and harden AWS systems to meet enterprise security and operational standards
• Identify cloud infrastructure risks, misconfigurations, vulnerabilities, and security gaps, then support remediation through completion
• Partner with infrastructure, security, application, and operations teams to investigate issues, determine root causes, and drive resolution
• Support cloud security best practices, including identity and access management, threat detection, secure configuration, encryption, and compliance controls
• Configure and manage AWS networking components, including Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs), subnets, security groups, network access control lists, VPNs, AWS Direct Connect, Route 53, firewalls, and load balancers
• Monitor cloud infrastructure performance, availability, reliability, and security posture
• Serve as an escalation point for complex AWS and cloud infrastructure issues and support senior-level troubleshooting efforts
• Work independently with minimal supervision while collaborating across technical and business teams
• Maintain clear and organized technical documentation for systems, configurations, troubleshooting procedures, remediation actions, and operational processes
• Support long-term AWS maturity, cloud adoption, infrastructure improvement, and security-hardening initiatives

Required Qualifications

• 2+ years of hands-on cloud engineering experience with a strong focus on AWS environments
• Practical experience with core AWS services across compute, storage, networking, and identity, such as Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon VPC, and AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
• Strong troubleshooting and remediation experience within complex enterprise environments
• Experience working in a large organization with formal security, risk, compliance, change-management, and operational processes
• Solid understanding of networking fundamentals, including DNS, firewalls, load balancing, VPNs, routing, and network security controls
• Familiarity with identity and access management concepts, preferably including AWS IAM, IAM roles, policies, permission boundaries, and federated access
• Experience supporting secure cloud configurations, system hardening, access controls, encryption, and cloud risk reduction
• Ability to investigate issues, test solutions, validate fixes, and drive technical resolution
• Strong communication skills with the ability to work across infrastructure, security, application, and leadership teams

Preferred Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in infrastructure, systems engineering, cloud engineering, or related enterprise technology roles
• Experience working in financial services, banking, insurance, healthcare, or another highly regulated enterprise environment
• Previous experience serving as a senior escalation point, subject matter expert (SME), or Tier 3 cloud or infrastructure engineer
• Experience leading troubleshooting efforts, driving resolution, and working independently with minimal supervision
• Experience mentoring junior engineers or supporting knowledge transfer across technical teams
• Familiarity with vulnerability remediation, cloud security findings, risk reduction, compliance-driven remediation, or secure configuration reviews
• AWS certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate or Professional, AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate, AWS Certified Security – Specialty, or similar
• Scripting experience with Bash, Python, or PowerShell
• Experience using AWS monitoring, logging, security, and governance services, such as Amazon CloudWatch, AWS CloudTrail, AWS Config, AWS Security Hub, Amazon GuardDuty, and AWS Organizations
• Understanding of cloud security standards, compliance frameworks, and enterprise security controls