Senior AWS Cloud Engineer

WASH Multifamily Laundry Systems; Tennessee; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

WASH Multifamily Laundry Systems is seeking a Senior AWS Cloud Engineer to design, automate, operate, and secure our AWS cloud environment for customer-facing and internal applications.

The role emphasizes automation, reliable cloud infrastructure, CI/CD improvements, incident response, and security governance to support modernization and platform reliability.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in cloud engineering, DevOps, or site reliability roles.
• 4+ years hands-on AWS in production environments.
• Experience with AWS core services (EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Route53, RDS, Lambda, EKS/ECS).
• Hands-on IaC experience with Terraform and/or CloudFormation.
• Scripting skills in Python, Bash, PowerShell or similar.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, operate, and improve AWS cloud infrastructure supporting customer-facing and internal applications.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, CloudFormation, AWS CDK, or similar technologies.
• Build, enhance, and support CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and application deployments.
• Automate repeatable operational tasks using scripting and AWS-native services.
• Support AWS account structure, IAM, networking, compute, storage, monitoring, backup, and security services.
• Partner with application, infrastructure, security, and business teams to deliver scalable and reliable cloud solutions.
• Implement and support highly available, resilient, scalable, and self-healing cloud environments.
• Monitor cloud environments for performance, availability, security, cost, and operational health.
• Configure and improve logging, metrics, dashboards, alerting, and incident response workflows.
• Troubleshoot production issues across AWS infrastructure, applications, deployments, networking, and integrations.
• Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and problem management activities.
• Improve cloud security posture through least privilege access, secure configuration, encryption, vulnerability remediation, logging, and governance controls.
• Help define and implement AWS standards, patterns, documentation, and operational runbooks.
• Support cloud migrations, modernization initiatives, and ongoing platform improvements.
• Identify opportunities to reduce manual work, improve deployment quality, optimize costs, and increase platform reliability.
• Serve as a senior technical resource for AWS‑related engineering, DevOps, automation, and operational questions.

Skills

Cloud engineering

DevOps

Site reliability engineering

CI/CD mindset

Python scripting

Linux administration

Cloud security

AWS core services

Networking fundamentals

Monitoring and observability

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

AWS CDK

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI/CD

Jenkins

Azure DevOps

AWS CodePipeline/CodeBuild

Job description

Senior AWS Cloud Engineer

WASH is seeking a Senior AWS Cloud Engineer with hands‑on DevOps experience to design, automate, operate, and secure our AWS cloud environment. The role supports customer‑facing and internal applications, building reliable cloud infrastructure, improving CI/CD pipelines, automating operational tasks, strengthening security controls, and modernizing our technology platforms.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, operate, and improve AWS cloud infrastructure supporting customer‑facing and internal applications.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, CloudFormation, AWS CDK, or similar technologies.
• Build, enhance, and support CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and application deployments.
• Automate repeatable operational tasks using scripting and AWS‑native services.
• Support AWS account structure, IAM, networking, compute, storage, monitoring, backup, and security services.
• Partner with application, infrastructure, security, and business teams to deliver scalable and reliable cloud solutions.
• Implement and support highly available, resilient, scalable, and self‑healing cloud environments.
• Monitor cloud environments for performance, availability, security, cost, and operational health.
• Configure and improve logging, metrics, dashboards, alerting, and incident response workflows.
• Troubleshoot production issues across AWS infrastructure, applications, deployments, networking, and integrations.
• Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and problem management activities.
• Improve cloud security posture through least privilege access, secure configuration, encryption, vulnerability remediation, logging, and governance controls.
• Help define and implement AWS standards, patterns, documentation, and operational runbooks.
• Support cloud migrations, modernization initiatives, and ongoing platform improvements.
• Identify opportunities to reduce manual work, improve deployment quality, optimize costs, and increase platform reliability.
• Serve as a senior technical resource for AWS‑related engineering, DevOps, automation, and operational questions.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of Cloud engineering, DevOps, systems engineering, or site reliability engineering experience.
• 4+ years of hands‑on AWS experience in production environments.
• Strong experience with AWS core services such as EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Route53, RDS, Lambda, EKS/ECS, ELB/ALB, SystemsManager, SecretsManager, and AWS Backup.
• Hands‑on experience designing and supporting AWS networking, including VPCs, subnets, route tables, security groups, NACLs, VPNs, NAT gateways, private endpoints, and load balancers.
• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code, preferably Terraform and/or CloudFormation.
• Experience building and supporting CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, AWS CodePipeline, AWS CodeBuild, or similar platforms.
• Strong scripting and automation skills using Python, Bash, PowerShell, or similar languages.
• Experience with Git‑based source control and modern branching/release practices.
• Hands‑on experience with Linux systems administration; Windows/.NET environment experience is a plus.
• Experience with monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability tools such as CloudWatch, Datadog, New Relic, Splunk, ELK/OpenSearch, Prometheus, Grafana, or similar platforms.
• Experience troubleshooting complex infrastructure, application, deployment, performance, and networking issues.
• Working knowledge of security best practices, including IAM, MFA, least privilege, encryption, patching, vulnerability remediation, logging, and audit readiness.
• Strong understanding of high availability, disaster recovery, backup/recovery, RTO/RPO, horizontal scaling, load balancing, and resilient architecture patterns.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to work effectively with technical teams, business stakeholders, vendors, and leadership.

Equal Opportunity Employment

WASH is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or status as a veteran, or because of any other federal, state, or local protected class. We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable federal, state, and local laws.