AI Cloud Engineer (AWS) - Build Scalable Cloud Apps

Allied Consultants, Inc.; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Life insurance

401(K) with company match

Flexible spending

Job summary

Allied Consultants, Inc. is an Austin-based firm with 34+ years of experience delivering top-tier technical and business professionals to Texas state agencies.

We seek an experienced AWS Cloud Engineer (AI Team) to design, build, and deploy AI cloud applications within a high-impact technical services group. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, integrate AI tools into workflows, and help maintain secure, scalable cloud platforms across the stack.

Qualifications

• 4 years of hands-on experience designing, building, and supporting cloud-native applications on AWS.
• Proficiency with core AWS services such as Lambda, API Gateway, ECS/Fargate, EC2, S3, DynamoDB, IAM, VPC, and CloudWatch.
• Experience deploying scalable, highly available, and secure cloud solutions.
• Troubleshoot issues across application, infrastructure, networking, and performance in cloud environments.
• Experience creating and maintaining CI/CD pipelines: AWS Code Pipeline, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, or similar platforms.
• Proficiency with IaC: Terraform, CloudFormation, AWS CDK.
• Strong understanding of cloud networking: VPCs, load balancers, DNS, routing, security groups.
• Experience with Docker and Fargate (ECS preferred).
• Strong scripting: Python, PowerShell, Bash.
• Knowledge of cloud security, monitoring, logging, and ops: IAM, observability, incident response, performance optimization.
• Familiarity with AI/ML frameworks or AI-powered development tools.
• Knowledge of cloud platforms and containerization is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable and secure solutions.
• Integrate AI tools and techniques into application workflows for automation, predictive analytics, and intelligent features.
• Participate in code reviews, ensure adherence to best practices, and mentor junior developers.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues across the stack.

Skills

AWS cloud

Lambda

API Gateway

ECS/Fargate

EC2

S3

DynamoDB

IAM

VPC

CloudWatch

CI/CD

Terraform

CloudFormation

AWS CDK

Networking

Docker

Fargate

Python

PowerShell

Bash

Observability

Incident response

Performance tuning

AI/ML familiarity

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

AWS CDK

GitLab CI/CD

Jenkins

Git

Job description

Allied Consultants, Inc. is an Austin-based firm with 34+ years of experience delivering top-tier technical and business professionals to Texas state agencies.

We seek an experienced AWS Cloud Engineer (AI Team) to design, build, and deploy AI cloud applications within a high-impact technical services group. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, integrate AI tools into workflows, and help maintain secure, scalable cloud platforms across the stack.