Lead / Principal Cloud Engineer

Motion Recruitment; EUA; Teletrabalho; USD 103 000 - 117 000; Tempo integral

Resumo da oferta

Motion Recruitment is seeking a hands-on Lead/Principal Cloud Engineer for a fully remote, ET-hours role. You will own AWS infrastructure, automate provisioning with CloudFormation, enhance observability with Dynatrace, and lead an enterprise cloud team. The contract is long-term and remote-friendly across time zones.

You will design and implement IAM policies, manage backups and disaster recovery, and drive cost optimization while delivering reliable cloud services.

Qualificações

• Lead- or Principal-level AWS cloud engineering experience with hands-on design and operations.
• Proficiency in Python, PowerShell, or Bash.
• Experience with IAM permissions, SCPs, and trust relationships.
• Linux and Windows server administration and troubleshooting.
• Experience with AWS Systems Manager (SSM) for automation.
• IaC with AWS CloudFormation templates.
• Observability tooling such as Dynatrace.
• Experience with backups, disaster recovery, and cost management.
• Ability to support Eastern Time business hours.

Responsabilidades

• Provide hands-on technical leadership within an enterprise cloud engineering team.
• Design, develop, maintain, and troubleshoot AWS infrastructure and CloudFormation templates.
• Provision cloud accounts and manage access controls, permissions, and trust relationships.
• Automate infrastructure administration and patching via AWS SSM.
• Maintain and update scripts (Python, PowerShell, Bash) for runtime changes.
• Administer Windows and Linux servers and cloud networking.
• Support centralized backups and disaster recovery readiness.
• Improve monitoring and observability (Dynatrace).
• Monitor cloud spending and implement cost optimizations.
• Perform SRE-style work to improve reliability.

Conhecimentos

AWS cloud engineering

Scripting (Python/PowerShell/Bash)

IAM & SCPs

Windows & Linux administration

AWS Systems Manager (SSM)

Cloud backups

Cloud networking

IaC with CloudFormation

Observability (Dynatrace)

AI technologies familiarity

Cost management & optimization

Disaster recovery planning

Ferramentas

CloudFormation

AWS Systems Manager (SSM)

Dynatrace

GitLab CI/CD

Descrição da oferta de emprego

Location: Fully Remote — Must support Eastern Time hours

Duration: Contract

Rate: 75 - 85 per hour w2

We’re seeking a hands-on Lead / Principal Cloud Engineer with deep AWS expertise to support an enterprise cloud team. This fully remote opportunity requires Eastern Time availability and combines cloud engineering, automation, infrastructure development, and SRE-style operational support.

Take ownership of the infrastructure that keeps enterprise cloud environments secure, reliable, and efficient. You’ll develop CloudFormation templates, automate account provisioning and patching, improve observability, and strengthen disaster recovery while providing technical leadership through hands-on engineering.

Contract Duration: Long term contract

Required Skills & Experience

• Lead- or Principal-level AWS cloud engineering experience with strong hands-on design, development, implementation, and operational support capabilities.
• Proficiency with scripting languages such as Python, PowerShell, or Bash/shell.
• Experience managing AWS IAM permission sets, policies, trust relationships, and service control policies (SCPs).
• Strong Windows and Linux server administration and troubleshooting skills.
• Experience using AWS Systems Manager (SSM) for automation, server management, and patch management.
• Experience implementing and supporting centralized AWS backups.
• Strong cloud networking knowledge and troubleshooting capabilities.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) experience developing and maintaining AWS CloudFormation templates.
• Experience with observability technologies, preferably Dynatrace.
• Familiarity with AI technologies.
• Experience with cloud cost management and optimization.
• Experience implementing and supporting disaster recovery.
• Ability to support Eastern Time business hours.

Desired Skills & Experience

• Experience with GCP or Azure.
• Development experience with .NET or Java.
• API management experience with Gravitee, Apigee, Kong, MuleSoft, or similar platforms.
• Experience with GitLab CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience supporting Microsoft SQL Server or PostgreSQL.
• AWS certifications preferred.

What You Will Be Doing

• Primary platform: AWS.
• Infrastructure and automation: CloudFormation, AWS SSM, Python, PowerShell, and Bash/shell.
• Operations: IAM, cloud networking, centralized backups, observability, cost management, and disaster recovery.

Daily Responsibilities

• Provide hands-on technical leadership within an enterprise cloud engineering team.
• Design, develop, maintain, and troubleshoot AWS infrastructure and CloudFormation templates.
• Provision cloud accounts and manage access controls, permission sets, policies, and trust relationships.
• Automate infrastructure administration, server management, and patching through AWS SSM.
• Maintain and update scripts to address runtime changes, including Python deprecation cycles.
• Administer and troubleshoot Windows and Linux servers and cloud networking.
• Support centralized backups, disaster recovery implementation, and recovery readiness.
• Improve monitoring and observability, preferably using Dynatrace.
• Monitor cloud spending and implement cost optimization improvements.
• Perform SRE-style work alongside cloud engineering to improve reliability and operational efficiency.