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AllCloud

AWS Cloud Engineer

AllCloud

. Architect, design, deploy, and maintain scalable, highly available, and secure AWS infrastructure for project needs .

Posted 11/10/2026full-timeRemote • United States, CanadaMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in architecting, deploying, and maintaining scalable AWS infrastructure, with a strong focus on Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD implementation, and cloud security best practices. Proficient in containerization and orchestration, ensuring high availability and performance optimization in cloud environments.

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AWS Infrastructure ArchitectureInfrastructure as Code (IaC) with TerraformCI/CD Pipeline ImplementationContainerization with Docker and KubernetesCloud Security Best Practices

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Hard Skills
AWS Services (EC2, S3, VPC, RDS, Lambda)TerraformAWS CloudFormationAWS CDKDockerAmazon EKSAWS ECSCI/CD Tools (Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD)Scripting (Python, Bash, NodeJS)Monitoring Tools (CloudWatch, ELK stack)
Soft Skills
Analytical Problem-SolvingCommunication SkillsCritical ThinkingAttention to DetailClient-Facing Communication
Certifications & Qualifications
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or Information Technology
Industry Keywords
Cloud MigrationServerless SolutionsEvent-Driven ArchitectureDisaster RecoveryAgile Methodologies

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
AWSCloudDockerEC2GrafanaJenkinsKubernetesLinuxMicroservicesNode.jsPrometheusPythonRayTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Architect, design, deploy, and maintain scalable, highly available, and secure AWS infrastructure for project needs
  • Lead or participate in cloud migrations, including lifting and shifting on-premises workloads and re-architecting to cloud-native services
  • Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or AWS CDK
  • Implement CI/CD pipelines to automate deployment workflows
  • Implement serverless solutions using AWS Lambda and Step Functions, including event-driven architectures
  • Containerize applications with Docker and orchestrate microservices using Amazon EKS, ECS, and Fargate
  • Ensure monitoring, logging, alerting, and tracing of AWS resources and applications
  • Apply AWS security best practices, including IAM, encryption, network segmentation, WAF, GuardDuty, and AWS Shield
  • Implement backup, disaster recovery, high availability, data redundancy, snapshots, and multi-AZ/multi-region architectures
  • Optimize cloud cost and performance through resource right-sizing and waste reduction
  • Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve cloud infrastructure and service issues; conduct root cause analyses
  • Maintain architecture, configuration, standard operating procedure, and runbook documentation
  • Engage with developers, QA, operations, security/compliance, and project managers for successful delivery
  • Communicate with clients to understand technical needs, provide progress updates, and explain complex solutions
  • Evaluate trade-offs, identify root causes, and design robust cloud architectures
  • Stay current with AWS services, features, and industry best practices; evaluate technologies and recommend improvements
  • Perform OS-level troubleshooting and system administration across Linux and Windows cloud environments

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology or relevant field (or equivalent work experience)
  • 3-5+ years of hands-on experience working with AWS in an engineering or infrastructure role (seniority adjustable)
  • Strong knowledge of core AWS services: EC2, S3, VPC, RDS / Aurora, Lambda, API Gateway, IAM, CloudWatch, etc.
  • Proven experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools: Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or AWS CDK
  • Hands-on experience with containerization and orchestration using Docker, Kubernetes / Amazon EKS, ECS, and Fargate
  • Proven ability to debug and troubleshoot complex container workload issues in Kubernetes, Amazon EKS, and AWS ECS environments
  • Experience building CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, AWS CodePipeline, GitHub Actions
  • Solid scripting skills (Python, Bash, NodeJS, PowerShell, or similar) for automating tasks
  • Working familiarity with monitoring, logging, tracing tools (e.g. CloudWatch, X-Ray, ELK stack, Prometheus, Grafana)
  • Strong understanding of cloud networking, security, and compliance (VPCs, subnets, security groups, network ACLs, encryption, identity management)
  • Experience in project delivery: working in agile or scrum environments, estimating work, delivering against milestones
  • Excellent analytical, problem-solving skills and attention to detail
  • Good communication skills—able to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • Deep technical knowledge and hands-on experience with OS-level administration, configuration, and advanced troubleshooting for both Linux and Windows Server platforms
  • Strong client-facing communication skills with a proven track record of building trust and managing technical discussions with stakeholders
  • Exceptional critical thinking, analytical reasoning, and decisive problem-solving capabilities under complex or ambiguous scenario conditions

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Learning and personal development opportunities
  • Work with leaders who promote learning and personal development