Senior AWS Cloud Engineer - Terraform & Secure Networking

Kforce Inc; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

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.