Senior AWS & Terraform Cloud Engineer — Hybrid

Korn Ferry Group; Jersey City (NJ); Hybrid; USD 103,000 - 131,000; Full time

Job summary

Korn Ferry seeks a Senior AWS / Terraform Cloud Engineer to design, develop, and deploy reusable Terraform modules for AWS infrastructure. The role blends hands-on engineering with cloud architecture, collaborating with internal teams to translate requirements into scalable solutions.

Hybrid work in Jersey City, NJ, 5-7+ years of experience, and a pay rate of 75-95 USD per hour. This is a senior engineering position focused on scalable infrastructure and automation.

Qualifications

• 5-7+ years of relevant cloud, infrastructure, platform, or software engineering experience.
• Strong hands-on AWS infrastructure experience.
• Strong understanding of AWS networking, compute, storage, monitoring, and related infrastructure services.
• Experience with Terraform and infrastructure-as-code.
• Experience developing reusable Terraform modules or comparable infrastructure components.
• Strong understanding of cloud architecture and solution design.
• Ability to translate stakeholder requirements into technical infrastructure solutions.
• Ability to independently evaluate a requirement and determine the appropriate AWS architecture.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with source control, pull requests, and code reviews.
• Strong communication and stakeholder-facing skills.
• Ability to operate effectively within a senior engineering environment.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and enhance reusable Terraform modules for AWS infrastructure.
• Build Terraform modules and infrastructure capabilities from the ground up.
• Develop solutions that can be consumed by multiple application and engineering teams.
• Engineer AWS solutions across networking, compute, storage, CloudWatch, and cloud connectivity.
• Partner directly with internal stakeholders to understand and clarify infrastructure requirements.
• Translate application and business requirements into scalable AWS architecture.
• Design new infrastructure capabilities and connectivity patterns.
• Take ownership of solutions from requirements gathering and architecture through engineering implementation.
• Develop and push infrastructure code through established CI/CD pipelines.
• Participate in pull requests, peer reviews, and code-review processes.
• Work within a two-week Agile sprint model.
• Participate in sprint planning, daily standups, and code reviews.
• Collaborate with adjacent cloud and engineering teams.
• Contribute to future Terraform development within GCP.
• Participate in AI-enabled automation initiatives related to Terraform engineering and development.

Skills

Hands-on AWS infrastructure

Cloud engineering

CI/CD pipelines

Stakeholder communication

Software engineering

Tools

Terraform

Bitbucket

GitHub

Python

CloudFormation

Ansible

GCP

Golang

Java

Job description

Korn Ferry seeks a Senior AWS / Terraform Cloud Engineer to design, develop, and deploy reusable Terraform modules for AWS infrastructure. The role blends hands-on engineering with cloud architecture, collaborating with internal teams to translate requirements into scalable solutions.

Hybrid work in Jersey City, NJ, 5-7+ years of experience, and a pay rate of 75-95 USD per hour. This is a senior engineering position focused on scalable infrastructure and automation.