Senior AWS Cloud Engineer: Kubernetes, IaC & Automation

Ampcus, Inc; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Ampcus, Inc is seeking an experienced AWS Cloud Engineer (Mid-to-Senior) to design, implement, and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure on AWS. The role focuses on Kubernetes orchestration, containerization, IaC with Terraform, and CI/CD automation to support modern deployments.

Responsibilities include building complex AWS architectures, managing EKS clusters, Helm charts, and Kubernetes manifests, plus ensuring security, performance, and cost optimization across cloud workloads.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on experience with AWS services and architectures.
• Experience with Kubernetes (EKS preferred) and container lifecycles.
• Proficiency in Terraform for IaC and in CI/CD tooling.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement complex AWS architectures (EC2, ECS/EKS, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC, CloudFront).
• Apply best practices for scalability, security, high availability and cost optimization.
• Lead migration and modernization initiatives for cloud workloads.
• Build and manage Kubernetes clusters (EKS) and Helm charts for deployments and packaging.
• Manage Kubernetes manifests (YAML) for deployments, services, and ingress.
• Implement RBAC, network policies, and autoscaling in Kubernetes.
• Create and maintain IaC using Terraform.
• Design and optimize CI/CD pipelines (GitLab or GitHub Actions).
• Automate operational tasks and deployments for reliability.
• Design and optimize PostgreSQL/DocumentDB databases and data models.

Skills

AWS Expertise

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD

Python

Networking & Security

Tools

Helm

Docker

GitLab

GitHub Actions

Job description

Ampcus, Inc is seeking an experienced AWS Cloud Engineer (Mid-to-Senior) to design, implement, and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure on AWS. The role focuses on Kubernetes orchestration, containerization, IaC with Terraform, and CI/CD automation to support modern deployments.

Responsibilities include building complex AWS architectures, managing EKS clusters, Helm charts, and Kubernetes manifests, plus ensuring security, performance, and cost optimization across cloud workloads.