Senior Cloud Engineer – AWS Modernization & Automation

ActioNet; Suitland (MD); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Vision Insurance

401(k) Savings Plan

Education and Professional Training

Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)

Paid Holidays

PTO

Disability Insurance

Job summary

ActioNet is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer SME to lead secure, scalable AWS cloud implementations and modernization of complex systems. The role emphasizes Python development, IaC, and migration planning.

The candidate will collaborate with architects, PMs, application teams, and data engineers to translate modernization strategies into deployable cloud solutions, while ensuring governance and security alignment.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in cloud engineering, infrastructure engineering, or related fields.
• 5+ years hands-on AWS design/implementation experience.
• Strong hands-on AWS networking, compute, storage, security, database, container, and serverless skills.
• Advanced Python development with production-ready coding, testing, logging, and secure practices.
• Experience assessing legacy apps for cloud migration and modernization.
• Understanding of the 7 Rs migration framework and phased modernization.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and deployment of secure, scalable AWS cloud environments.
• Develop and maintain IaC using Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Create repeatable cloud patterns for dev/test/stage/prod.
• Implement AWS services (Lambda, ECS/EKS, Fargate, Glue, Aurora, S3, Batch).
• Design CI/CD pipelines with automated builds, tests, security scanning, and deployments.
• Automate cloud provisioning and version-controlled deployments.
• Establish monitoring, logging, observability, and disaster recovery processes.
• Collaborate with architecture, security, data, and application teams.

Skills

AWS engineering

Python development

Cloud migration

CI/CD pipelines

Infrastructure as Code

Security & governance

Architectural design

Technical documentation

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional

AWS DevOps Engineer Professional

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

ECS/EKS

Lambda

S3

Glue

Aurora PostgreSQL

AWS Batch

Docker

Job description

ActioNet is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer SME to lead secure, scalable AWS cloud implementations and modernization of complex systems. The role emphasizes Python development, IaC, and migration planning.

The candidate will collaborate with architects, PMs, application teams, and data engineers to translate modernization strategies into deployable cloud solutions, while ensuring governance and security alignment.