Principal Aws Site Reliability Engineer

2t Consulting; Leonia (NJ); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

2t Consulting is seeking a seasoned AWS Infrastructure Architect to design scalable, highly available cloud platforms. You will lead cloud engineering and reliability initiatives across AWS environments, and mentor teams.

You will implement IaC with Terraform and CloudFormation (YAML), manage EC2/ECS/Route 53/ELB/Lambda/SQS/S3/EFS/RDS, automate provisioning, and drive best practices for resilience, performance, and disaster recovery.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in AWS architecture and cloud engineering.
• Hands-on with AWS services and enterprise infrastructure.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional preferred/required.
• Strong knowledge of Infrastructure as Code, particularly Terraform and CloudFormation YAML.
• Hands-on experience with: EC2,ECS,Route 53,Elastic Load Balancing,Lambda,SQS,S3,EFS,RDS.
• Strong Python scripting and automation skills.
• Experience designing highly available, scalable cloud architectures.
• Strong troubleshooting and technical leadership capabilities.
• Ability to work across architecture, engineering, development, and operations teams.

Responsibilities

• Design and architect scalable, highly available, and resilient AWS infrastructure.
• Lead cloud infrastructure engineering and reliability initiatives across AWS environments.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform and AWS CloudFormation (YAML).
• Design and manage AWS services including EC2, ECS, Route 53, Elastic Load Balancing, Lambda, SQS, S3, EFS, and RDS.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, deployment, and operational processes.
• Establish best practices for reliability, scalability, availability, performance, and disaster recovery.
• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure and production issues and perform root-cause analysis.
• Develop automation and operational tooling using Python.
• Collaborate with application, security, DevOps, and engineering teams to deliver robust cloud solutions.
• Contribute to cloud architecture standards, engineering practices, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to cloud and infrastructure engineering teams.

Skills

AWS architecture

Cloud engineering

SRE

Terraform

CloudFormation YAML

EC2

ECS

Route 53

Elastic Load Balancing

Lambda

SQS

S3

EFS

RDS

Python scripting

Infrastructure as Code

Automation

Troubleshooting

Technical leadership

Tools

Terraform

AWS CloudFormation YAML

Job description

Roles and Responsibilities

• Design and architect scalable, highly available, and resilient AWS infrastructure.

• Lead cloud infrastructure engineering and reliability initiatives across AWS environments.

• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform and AWS CloudFormation (YAML).

• Design and manage AWS services including EC2, ECS, Route 53, Elastic Load Balancing, Lambda, SQS, S3, EFS, and RDS.

• Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, deployment, and operational processes.

• Establish best practices for reliability, scalability, availability, performance, and disaster recovery.

• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure and production issues and perform root-cause analysis.

• Develop automation and operational tooling using Python.

• Collaborate with application, security, DevOps, and engineering teams to deliver robust cloud solutions.

• Contribute to cloud architecture standards, engineering practices, and continuous improvement initiatives.

• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to cloud and infrastructure engineering teams.

Required Qualifications & Skills

• Significant experience in AWS architecture, cloud engineering, infrastructure engineering, or SRE.

• Strong hands-on experience with AWS cloud services and enterprise infrastructure.

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional certification preferred/required.

• Strong knowledge of Infrastructure as Code, particularly Terraform and CloudFormation YAML.

• Hands-on experience with:EC2,ECS,Route 53,Elastic Load Balancing,Lambda,SQS,S3,EFS,RDS

• Strong Python scripting and automation skills.

• Experience designing highly available, scalable, and resilient cloud architectures.

• Strong troubleshooting, problem-solving, and technical leadership capabilities.

• Ability to work across architecture, engineering, development, and operations teams.