Hybrid AWS Cloud Infrastructure Engineer | Terraform & EKS

Alliance of Professionals & Consultants, Inc. (APC); Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); Hybrid; USD 83,000 - 124,000; Full time

Job summary

Alliance of Professionals & Consultants, Inc. (APC) is seeking a Cloud Operations Engineer to design, deploy, and manage scalable AWS infrastructure in a hybrid Pittsburgh environment.

The role emphasizes IaC, security, and reliable operations across cloud and on-premises boundaries. You will implement containerized workloads with EKS/ECS, enforce least-privilege IAM, and automate deployments while maintaining cost efficiency and DR readiness.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience deploying and managing infrastructure within AWS environments.
• Advanced proficiency with IaC using Terraform, including multi-environment deployments.
• Experience integrating Terraform workflows with pipelines for automated provisioning and change management.
• Strong knowledge of AWS core services (EC2, S3, RDS, EBS, Lambda, ELB).
• Deep understanding of IAM, AWS Organizations, and RBAC.
• Experience with AWS monitoring, logging, and governance tools (CloudWatch, CloudTrail, AWS Config).
• Familiarity with hybrid cloud integrations AWS/on-premises.
• Experience designing AWS backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity solutions.

Responsibilities

• Provision, configure, and maintain AWS resources (EC2, VPCs, S3, RDS, etc.).
• Monitor performance, availability, and health using CloudWatch and other tools.
• Deploy and manage containerized apps with EKS/ECS, including cluster config and scaling.
• Create and manage IAM users, roles, and policies with least-privilege access.
• Configure security controls including security groups, NACLs, encryption, GuardDuty.
• Automate deployment with Terraform and CloudFormation.
• Configure backups, snapshots, and DR solutions.
• Manage networking components (VPCs, subnets, Route53, load balancers).
• Monitor AWS costs and optimize spend with cost explorer and savings plans.
• Configure patching with Systems Manager; troubleshoot incidents.
• Implement logging and governance with AWS Config and CloudTrail.
• Configure auto scaling and multi-AZ deployments for high availability.
• Maintain cloud architecture documentation.

Skills

AWS deployments

Terraform IaC

EKS & ECS

CloudWatch monitoring

IAM security

VPC networking

Bitbucket

Tools

Terraform

Bitbucket

Job description

Alliance of Professionals & Consultants, Inc. (APC) is seeking a Cloud Operations Engineer to design, deploy, and manage scalable AWS infrastructure in a hybrid Pittsburgh environment.

The role emphasizes IaC, security, and reliable operations across cloud and on-premises boundaries. You will implement containerized workloads with EKS/ECS, enforce least-privilege IAM, and automate deployments while maintaining cost efficiency and DR readiness.