Senior AWS Cloud Engineer - Terraform & Secure Networking

Kforce Inc

San Mateo (CA)

On-site

USD 150,000 - 190,000

Full time

4 days ago
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Job summary

Kforce is seeking a Cloud Engineer in Foster City, CA to operate and support an AWS environment, partnering with the Cloud Engineering team and across IT & Applications, Infrastructure, Product Software, Data Platform, and Manufacturing Operations.

This role performs day-to-day provisioning, automation, and support work to keep the AWS platform secure and reliable, including IAM, networking, and guardrails while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of hands-on AWS production experience.
  • Infrastructure as Code experience, ideally Terraform, including modules.
  • Knowledge of AWS networking (VPCs, subnets, routing) and IAM security fundamentals.
  • Good written and verbal communication; able to work with engineers and stakeholders.
  • Ability to work independently on well-scoped tasks and escalate when needed.

Responsibilities

  • Provision and manage AWS accounts and IAM.
  • Write and maintain Terraform modules for account setup and networking.
  • Build and configure AWS networking resources (VPCs, subnets, routing).
  • Support secrets management workflows (Secrets Manager, Vault).
  • Apply least-privilege IAM and encryption guardrails.
  • Troubleshoot AWS tickets across compute, storage, networking.
  • Follow runbooks and escalate architectural issues when needed.

Skills

AWS
Terraform
IAM
Networking
Security
Communication

Tools

Kubernetes/EKS
Grafana
CloudWatch

Job description

Kforce is seeking a Cloud Engineer in Foster City, CA to operate and support an AWS environment, partnering with the Cloud Engineering team and across IT & Applications, Infrastructure, Product Software, Data Platform, and Manufacturing Operations.

This role performs day-to-day provisioning, automation, and support work to keep the AWS platform secure and reliable, including IAM, networking, and guardrails while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

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