Cloud Systems Engineer: AWS, IaC & EKS Focus

Ampcus Inc; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Ampcus Inc. is seeking a skilled Intermediate Cloud Systems Engineer to provision, configure, and maintain AWS infrastructure including VPCs, EC2, S3, IAM, and EKS.

You will develop Infrastructure as Code with Terraform and CloudFormation and support CI/CD pipelines across dev, test, and prod environments. The role requires strong AWS knowledge, IAM, monitoring with CloudWatch/CloudTrail, and problem-solving skills.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of core AWS services (VPC, EC2, S3, IAM, EKS, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Parameter Store).
• Foundational AWS networking concepts (VPCs, subnets, routing, security groups).
• Familiarity with IAM roles, policies, least-privilege access.
• IaC concepts and CloudFormation familiarity.
• Experience with GitLab, GitHub, or Bitbucket; GitLab preferred.
• Familiarity with CI/CD concepts and tooling.
• Cloud monitoring and logging with CloudWatch/CloudTrail.
• Ability to troubleshoot, analyze logs, collaborate with teams.
• Strong written and verbal communication; document configurations.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Provision, configure, and maintain AWS infrastructure components (networking, compute, storage, IAM, logging).
• Develop and maintain IaC using Terraform and other automation tools.
• Support CI/CD pipelines for infra deployments across environments.
• Maintain infrastructure code in Git repositories (GitLab preferred).
• Assist with AWS networking configuration (VPCs, subnets, route tables, security groups).
• Support container workloads on EKS; basic troubleshooting.
• Configure platform monitoring, dashboards, and health checks (CloudWatch/CloudTrail).
• Analyze CloudWatch logs and metrics to identify issues; coordinate with teams.
• Document configurations, procedures, and troubleshooting steps.
• Assist with secure cloud configurations per security standards.
• Collaborate with senior engineers to improve automation, reliability, and security.
• Assist with on-boarding of new apps and teams; provide required infra and access.

Skills

AWS core services

Networking concepts

IAM and access control

IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation)

GitLab/GitHub/Bitbucket

CI/CD pipelines

Monitoring and logging

Troubleshooting

Communication skills

Bachelor's degree

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Tools

GitLab

GitHub

Bitbucket

Terraform

CloudFormation

Kubernetes / EKS

Job description

Ampcus Inc. is seeking a skilled Intermediate Cloud Systems Engineer to provision, configure, and maintain AWS infrastructure including VPCs, EC2, S3, IAM, and EKS.

You will develop Infrastructure as Code with Terraform and CloudFormation and support CI/CD pipelines across dev, test, and prod environments. The role requires strong AWS knowledge, IAM, monitoring with CloudWatch/CloudTrail, and problem-solving skills.