AWS Cloud Engineer - 6M Contract

GCS Recruitment; United States; Remote; USD 96,000 - 152,000; Part time

Job summary

GCS Recruitment is seeking a Cloud Engineer for a fully remote, 6-month contract. The role focuses on building and improving cloud infrastructure through IaC, automation, CI/CD, and DevOps practices to deliver secure, scalable cloud services across the organisation.

You will work closely with cloud and platform engineering teams to enable application and development teams, ensuring standardised cloud services and governance compliance.

Qualifications

• Experience building cloud infrastructure with IaC.
• Proficient in Terraform, CloudFormation, or Bicep.
• Strong CI/CD automation and DevOps practices.
• Security and governance awareness.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain cloud infrastructure using IaC tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation or Bicep.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate infrastructure and application deployments.
• Automate cloud provisioning, configuration and operational processes.
• Implement cloud infrastructure in line with security, governance and compliance requirements.
• Work with platform and cloud teams to deliver scalable and standardised cloud services.
• Support monitoring, observability and troubleshooting of cloud environments.

Skills

IaC

CI/CD

DevOps

Cloud services

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Bicep

Job description

Cloud Engineer - Fully Remote | 6-Month Contract

An exciting opportunity is available for a Cloud Engineer to join a high-performing Platform Engineering team on a 6-month contract basis.

This is a hands-on role focused on building and improving cloud infrastructure through Infrastructure as Code, automation, CI/CD and DevOps practices. You'll work closely with cloud and platform engineering teams to deliver secure, scalable and reusable cloud services that support application and development teams across the organisation.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and maintain cloud infrastructure using IaC tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation or Bicep.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate infrastructure and application deployments.
• Automate cloud provisioning, configuration and operational processes.
• Implement cloud infrastructure in line with security, governance and compliance requirements.
• Work with platform and cloud teams to deliver scalable and standardised cloud services.
• Support monitoring, observability and troubleshooting of cloud environments.

Desirable

• AWS certifications.
• Experience with security automation or policy-as-code.
• Experience working within enterprise cloud environments.