AWS Cloud Engineer

Strategic Staffing Solutions; North Dakota; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Strategic Staffing Solutions seeks an experienced AWS Cloud Engineer to support a critical third-party app hosted in AWS. You will maintain production systems, drive reliability, and work on enterprise security and compliance initiatives with a strong DevOps mindset.

The role requires hands-on AWS operations, IaC, and automation, including Chef, Python, and GitHub workflows. Hybrid work is available, with onsite preference in McLean or Richmond, VA.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience supporting production AWS environments.
• Background in enterprise Cloud Operations or DevOps.
• Experience with regulated enterprise environments.
• Ability to support existing applications rather than development.
• Strong troubleshooting and operational support background.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and support production AWS infrastructure and applications.
• Ensure high availability, stability, and performance of existing cloud environments.
• Execute enterprise security and compliance initiatives.
• Identify, prioritize, and remediate infrastructure, application, container, and OS vulnerabilities.
• Manage AWS Secrets Manager, automated credential rotation, and certificate management.
• Maintain and update Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Chef cookbooks.
• Troubleshoot production issues using CloudWatch and New Relic.
• Monitor system health, logs, and infrastructure performance.
• Support infrastructure upgrades, configuration management, and patching activities.
• Read, troubleshoot, and modify PowerShell and/or Python automation scripts.
• Maintain configuration code using GitHub and enterprise pull request workflows.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, security, and application teams to ensure operational excellence.

Skills

DevOps

Cloud Operations

Troubleshooting

Automation

Security Compliance

Team Collaboration

Tools

AWS

IaC

Chef

GitHub

PowerShell

Python

Docker

CloudWatch

New Relic

KMS

IAM

Job description

Job Description

This is a Contract Opportunity with our company that MUST be worked on a W2 Only. No C2C eligibility for this position. Visa Sponsorship is Available! The details are below.

Job Title: AWS Cloud Engineer

Location: Must be able to work onsite in McLean, VA (preferred) or Richmond, VA

Contract Length: 16 Months

Hybrid Work

We are seeking an experienced AWS Cloud Engineer with a strong operational and DevOps background to support a critical third‑party application hosted in AWS. This role is focused on maintaining production stability, ensuring infrastructure reliability, remediating vulnerabilities, and driving enterprise security and compliance initiatives.

The ideal candidate has hands‑on experience supporting production AWS environments, maintaining Infrastructure as Code (IaC), troubleshooting live systems, and working within highly regulated enterprise environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain and support production AWS infrastructure and applications.
• Ensure high availability, stability, and performance of existing cloud environments.
• Execute enterprise security and compliance initiatives.
• Identify, prioritize, and remediate infrastructure, application, container, and OS vulnerabilities.
• Manage AWS Secrets Manager, automated credential rotation, and certificate management.
• Maintain and update Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Chef cookbooks.
• Troubleshoot production issues using CloudWatch and New Relic.
• Monitor system health, logs, and infrastructure performance.
• Support infrastructure upgrades, configuration management, and patching activities.
• Read, troubleshoot, and modify PowerShell and/or Python automation scripts.
• Maintain configuration code using GitHub and enterprise pull request workflows.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, security, and application teams to ensure operational excellence.

Required Qualifications

• Strong experience supporting production AWS environments.
• Experience with enterprise Cloud Operations or DevOps.
• Hands‑on AWS infrastructure administration.
• Experience supporting highly available production systems.
• Strong troubleshooting and operational support background.
• Experience working within regulated enterprise environments.
• Ability to support existing applications rather than greenfield development.

Required Technical Skills

AWS Services

• AWS Secrets Manager (including automated rotation)
• AWS KMS
• IAM
• ELB
• EC2
• Lambda
• S3
• RDS
• AWS DMS
• CloudWatch

Infrastructure & Automation

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Chef
• GitHub
• PowerShell
• Python
• Docker container vulnerability remediation

Monitoring

• CloudWatch
• New Relic

Security

• Vulnerability management
• Patch management
• Secrets management
• Certificate management
• Enterprise security compliance

Preferred Qualifications

• Recent experience supporting large enterprise financial environments.
• Experience supporting third‑party vendor applications.
• Experience with:
  • Actimize
  • Tomcat
  • Oracle
• Active AWS Certifications such as:
  • AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
  • AWS Certified Security -- Specialty

Ideal Candidate

• Strong operational mindset.
• Experience supporting production infrastructure.
• Excellent troubleshooting skills.
• Security‑first approach.
• Enterprise compliance experience.
• Infrastructure maintenance expertise.
• Strong collaboration skills.
• Ability to work in hybrid Agile/operations environments.