AWS Cloud Engineer – High-Impact, Security-Focused

Modus21, LLC.; South Carolina; On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Modus21, LLC. in Charleston, SC, seeks an experienced AWS Cloud Engineer to design, deploy, and secure scalable cloud infrastructure. The role emphasizes IaC, automation, and robust security practices across AWS services.

You will implement containerization with Docker/ECS and Kubernetes, build CI/CD pipelines, and optimize performance and costs while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field.
• 3+ years of cloud engineering experience, with hands-on AWS.
• Strong knowledge of AWS services, IaC, and security practices.
• Experience designing and operating scalable cloud architectures.

Responsibilities

• Cloud Architecture & Infrastructure: design, deploy, and manage scalable AWS infrastructure.
• AWS Services Management: administer EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC, ECS, ECR, CloudWatch, and more.
• Infrastructure as Code: use Terraform, CloudFormation, or CDK for modular deployments.
• Containerization & Orchestration: work with Docker, ECS (Fargate/EC2) and Kubernetes.
• Cloud Networking & Security: implement VPCs, subnets, NAT, SGs, NACLs, IAM and SCPs.
• CI/CD & DevSecOps: build pipelines with CodePipeline/CodeBuild/CodeDeploy or GitHub Actions.
• Monitoring & Performance: implement CloudWatch, X-Ray, logging, tracing, and cost optimization.

Skills

Cloud Architecture

AWS Cloud Services

Terraform

CI/CD

Python

Security best practices

Networking

Automation

Docker

Kubernetes

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Terraform

AWS CloudFormation

AWS CDK

Docker

Kubernetes

Git

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Job description

Modus21, LLC. in Charleston, SC, seeks an experienced AWS Cloud Engineer to design, deploy, and secure scalable cloud infrastructure. The role emphasizes IaC, automation, and robust security practices across AWS services.

You will implement containerization with Docker/ECS and Kubernetes, build CI/CD pipelines, and optimize performance and costs while collaborating with cross-functional teams.