AWS Cloud Engineer: IaC, Automation & CI/CD

Yoh, A Day & Zimmermann Company; Irving (TX); Hybrid; USD 84,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

HSA

401K Retirement Savings Plan

Life & Disability Insurance

Employee Assistance Program

Direct Deposit & weekly pay

Certification and training

Referral programs

Job summary

Yoh, a Day & Zimmermann Company, is hiring an Associate Cloud Engineer (AWS) in Irving, TX. This hybrid role focuses on deploying and supporting AWS infrastructure, writing IaC with CloudFormation or Terraform, and enhancing automation and CI/CD pipelines.

The ideal candidate has 2+ years of hands-on AWS experience, strong scripting skills (Python/Bash/PowerShell), and solid knowledge of AWS core services. AWS SysOps/SAA certifications are required, plus exposure to multi-account environments.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of hands-on experience supporting AWS infrastructure in production.
• IaC templates using CloudFormation or Terraform.
• Working knowledge of AWS core services: compute, storage, databases, networking, and security.
• Scripting ability in Python, Bash, or PowerShell to automate tasks.
• Experience with monitoring and alerting (CloudWatch, PagerDuty or equivalent).
• Experience contributing to CI/CD pipelines and Git-based workflows.
• Exposure to multi-account AWS environments using AWS Organizations and Cloud Tower (Control Tower).
• Experience with cloud governance, cost optimization, and security controls.
• Foundational awareness of AWS Generative AI services (Bedrock) and cost implications.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes (EKS).
• Configuration management tools such as Ansible, Chef, or Puppet.
• Knowledge of disaster recovery, backup, and business continuity in AWS.
• Microsoft certifications or experience supporting Windows workloads in cloud.
• Bachelor's degree requirement met or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Deploy, administer, and support AWS infrastructure across environments.
• Write and maintain Infrastructure as Code using CloudFormation and/or Terraform.
• Build and improve automation scripts to reduce manual work.
• Troubleshoot infrastructure, networking, and application issues; perform root cause analysis.
• Support and improve CI/CD pipelines for deployments.
• Monitor environments using CloudWatch; respond to performance, availability, and security issues.
• Help implement and maintain AWS security controls and IAM.
• Participate in infrastructure projects, upgrades, DR procedures, and runbooks.
• Create and maintain technical documentation and procedures.
• Collaborate with software development, security, and infrastructure teams.

Skills

AWS knowledge

Infrastructure as Code

Python

Bash

PowerShell

CI/CD

Git workflows

Docker

Kubernetes

CloudWatch

IAM

AWS Organizations

Disaster recovery

Windows workloads

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, or related technical discipline

Tools

CloudFormation

Terraform

Job description

Yoh, a Day & Zimmermann Company, is hiring an Associate Cloud Engineer (AWS) in Irving, TX. This hybrid role focuses on deploying and supporting AWS infrastructure, writing IaC with CloudFormation or Terraform, and enhancing automation and CI/CD pipelines.

The ideal candidate has 2+ years of hands-on AWS experience, strong scripting skills (Python/Bash/PowerShell), and solid knowledge of AWS core services. AWS SysOps/SAA certifications are required, plus exposure to multi-account environments.