AWS Engineer — Kafka, ECS & Terraform (Fort Lauderdale)

Energy Innovation Corp; Fort Lauderdale (FL); On-site; USD 85,000 - 122,000; Full time

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Job summary

StartupForge in Fort Lauderdale, FL is seeking an AWS Engineer to keep data pipelines fast and reliable. You will tune PostgreSQL, manage ECS workloads, and automate CI/CD pipelines to support rapid deployments in a growing cloud-first environment.

You\'ll implement secure authentication/authorization with Terraform and contribute to observability, helping the team spot issues before customers notice them. A strong FL market awareness is a plus.

Qualifications

• Leadership experience guiding mid-level initiatives.
• Fluency with Vault and communication; strong opinions on both.
• 5+ years in relevant roles; Florida market familiarity.

Responsibilities

• Tune PostgreSQL queries to prevent timeouts under load.
• Carry the Amazon ECS platform work for Florida expansion.
• Automate build, test, and deployment pipelines for faster releases.
• Stand up observability to detect failures before customers in FL.
• Implement secure authentication and authorization flows using Terraform Associate.

Skills

PostgreSQL

Amazon ECS

Terraform

Observability

CI/CD pipelines

Tools

Vault

Job description

StartupForge in Fort Lauderdale, FL is seeking an AWS Engineer to keep data pipelines fast and reliable. You will tune PostgreSQL, manage ECS workloads, and automate CI/CD pipelines to support rapid deployments in a growing cloud-first environment.

You\'ll implement secure authentication/authorization with Terraform and contribute to observability, helping the team spot issues before customers notice them. A strong FL market awareness is a plus.