Senior AWS Cloud Engineer: Terraform, EKS & AI-Driven Ops

Confidential Company; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Confidential Company is seeking an AWS Cloud Engineer to design, deploy, and operate secure, scalable cloud infrastructure on AWS. The role focuses on Terraform IaC, Kubernetes (EKS), and Helm for containerized deployments, with strong emphasis on security, reliability, and DevOps best practices.

You will build multi-account environments, manage IAM controls, and implement CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows. Exposure to AI-assisted automation and cost optimization is a plus.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of cloud engineering/DevOps with hands-on delivery.
• Hands-on Terraform expertise (mandatory).
• Proven Kubernetes (EKS) deployment/operation experience.
• Experience using Helm for deployment/management.
• Strong IAM and AWS security best practices knowledge.
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitOps, Argo CD).
• Solid understanding of networking (subnets, routing, DNS, load balancers, SGs, NACLs).

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and support AWS-based solutions across dev, staging, production.
• Build, deploy, and manage infrastructure using Terraform (IaC).
• Deploy and operate containerized platforms on Amazon EKS, including Helm deployments.
• Follow and implement cloud standards, governance, and operational best practices.
• Define and manage IAM roles and policies with least-privilege principles.
• Implement multi-account AWS environments using AWS Organizations, SCPs, and account structure.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows (Jenkins, Argo CD, etc.).
• Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting; improve reliability and performance.
• Optimize AWS costs through right-sizing and usage analysis.
• Leverage AI/ML and agentic AI tools to automate infrastructure management, incident response, and ops tasks.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex infrastructure and platform issues.

Skills

Cloud engineering

Terraform

Kubernetes

Helm

IAM security

CI/CD pipelines

Networking basics

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Argo CD

Jenkins

GitOps

Job description

Confidential Company is seeking an AWS Cloud Engineer to design, deploy, and operate secure, scalable cloud infrastructure on AWS. The role focuses on Terraform IaC, Kubernetes (EKS), and Helm for containerized deployments, with strong emphasis on security, reliability, and DevOps best practices.

You will build multi-account environments, manage IAM controls, and implement CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows. Exposure to AI-assisted automation and cost optimization is a plus.