AWS Cloud Engineer

Programmers.io; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Programmers in Los Angeles, CA is seeking an experienced AWS Cloud Engineer to design, implement, and support scalable cloud infrastructure. The role focuses on IaC with Terraform and CloudFormation, building CI/CD pipelines, and managing AWS services with emphasis on security and governance.

The successful candidate will optimize costs, monitor performance, and collaborate across development, security, and operations teams to deliver cloud solutions in a enterprise environment.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and operating scalable AWS infrastructure.
• Proficient in IaC with Terraform and CloudFormation.
• Proven ability to implement CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions).
• Knowledge of configuration management (Ansible).
• Hands-on with container platforms (Docker, Kubernetes/EKS).
• Strong Linux/Windows administration skills.
• Experience in monitoring, security, and cost optimization.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and support scalable, secure, highly available AWS infrastructure.
• Develop Infrastructure as Code solutions using Terraform and CloudFormation.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate deployments and ops.
• Manage AWS services: compute, storage, networking, DBs, security controls.
• Implement monitoring, logging, and performance optimization with CloudWatch and observability tools.
• Drive cloud security, governance, and identity management best practices.
• Support cloud migration and modernization initiatives.
• Optimize cloud spend through rightsizing and savings plans.
• Troubleshoot complex cloud infra and provide production support.
• Collaborate with dev, architecture, security, and ops teams to deliver cloud solutions

Skills

AWS Cloud Services

Terraform

CI/CD

Ansible

Docker & Kubernetes

Linux/Windows Admin

Monitoring & Cost

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Ansible

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Description:

• Design, implement, and support scalable, secure, and highly available AWS cloud infrastructure.
• Develop Infrastructure as Code solutions using Terraform and CloudFormation.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate deployments and operational processes.
• Manage AWS services including compute, storage, networking, databases, and security controls.
• Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, and performance optimization using CloudWatch and enterprise observability tools.
• Drive cloud security, compliance, identity management, and governance best practices.
• Support cloud migration and modernization initiatives, including application and infrastructure transformation.
• Optimize cloud spend through rightsizing, Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, and FinOps practices.
• Troubleshoot complex cloud infrastructure and application issues and provide production support.
• Collaborate with development, architecture, security, and operations teams to deliver cloud solutions"

Skills_Required

" AWS Cloud Services (EC2, VPC, S3, RDS, IAM, CloudWatch, Lambda)

Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation)

CI/CD Tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions)

Configuration Management (Ansible)

Container Platforms (Docker, Kubernetes/EKS)

Linux/Windows Administration

Monitoring, Security, and Cost Optimization"

KEYWORDS

AWS Cloud Engineer, Terraform