AWS Cloud Platform Engineer — IaC, EKS & Security

Alliance of Professionals & Consultants, Inc.; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Alliance of Professionals & Consultants, Inc. seeks a Cloud Operations Engineer to design, implement, and maintain cloud infrastructure. The role covers AWS services, IaC automation, and security governance in a hybrid Pittsburgh setting.

The engineer will optimize costs, ensure high availability, and support DR/backup strategies while collaborating with DevOps teams in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Experience deploying and managing AWS infrastructure at scale.
• IaC proficiency with Terraform and multi-environment deployments.
• Strong knowledge of IAM, security controls, and cost optimization.

Responsibilities

• Provision, configure, and maintain AWS resources (EC2, VPCs, S3, RDS).
• Monitor performance and availability using CloudWatch and other tools.
• Deploy containerized apps with EKS/ECS and manage clusters.
• Enforce least-privilege with IAM roles and policies.
• Automate deployments with Terraform and CloudFormation.

Skills

AWS expertise

Terraform

IAM & security

CloudWatch monitoring

Kubernetes (EKS/ECS)

Cost optimization

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes (EKS/ECS)

CloudWatch

Job description

Alliance of Professionals & Consultants, Inc. seeks a Cloud Operations Engineer to design, implement, and maintain cloud infrastructure. The role covers AWS services, IaC automation, and security governance in a hybrid Pittsburgh setting.

The engineer will optimize costs, ensure high availability, and support DR/backup strategies while collaborating with DevOps teams in a fast-paced environment.