AWS Cloud Engineer - Production DevOps (Hybrid, 16mo)

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

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.