Senior Terraform Engineer

The AES Group

Washington (District of Columbia)

On-site

USD 120,000 - 150,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Opportunities for leadership in cloud initiatives

Professional growth with industry clients

Open, collaborative culture

Job summary

A leading technology staffing firm is seeking a Senior Terraform Engineer to architect and deliver scalable Infrastructure-as-Code solutions across multi-cloud environments. This role involves mentoring engineers and ensuring the implementation of secure and compliant infrastructure. The ideal candidate will possess extensive Terraform expertise and experience in cloud platform delivery. This position offers competitive compensation in a collaborative culture where your impact is valued.

Qualifications

8+ years of infrastructure, cloud, or DevOps engineering experience.
4+ years hands-on experience with Terraform and Infrastructure-as-Code.
Proven experience delivering production cloud platforms.

Responsibilities

Architect and deliver Infrastructure-as-Code solutions using Terraform.
Automate provisioning of cloud services across Azure and AWS.
Mentor engineers on Terraform best practices and IaC design patterns.

Skills

Terraform expertise

Cloud platforms (Azure, AWS)

Infrastructure automation

DevOps practices

Mentorship

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Master’s degree

Tools

Terraform

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Kubernetes

Job description

Position Title: Senior Terraform Engineer

Location: Washington DC – Onsite, 4 days per week

Let’s create our future together at The AES Group!

About The AES Group

The AES Group is a premier technology staffing and services company that has been bringing businesses and talent together for over 20 years to deliver innovative technology solutions that create meaningful impact. AES helps enterprises, including Fortune 500 organizations, engage customers, empower employees, and transform operations through cloud, data, AI, and emerging technologies.

About The Role

We are seeking a senior‑level Terraform Engineer to architect, lead, and deliver scalable, secure Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) platforms across multi‑cloud environments. This role focuses on Terraform‑based cloud provisioning, reusable infrastructure modules, policy‑driven automation, and platform reliability across Azure and AWS.

The ideal candidate combines deep hands‑on Terraform expertise with platform architecture leadership, ensuring infrastructure is secure, compliant, observable, and cost‑efficient. This role also includes mentoring engineers and elevating overall DevOps and platform engineering capability.

Key Responsibilities

Infrastructure Architecture & IaC Delivery

Architect and deliver enterprise Infrastructure-as-Code solutions using Terraform across cloud platforms.
Design reusable Terraform modules and composable infrastructure patterns.
Align infrastructure design with security, compliance, scalability, and cost objectives.

Cloud Provisioning & Platform Automation

Automate provisioning of compute, network, storage, identity, and platform services across Azure and AWS.
Implement environment provisioning frameworks for dev, test, staging, and production.
Integrate Terraform with CI/CD pipelines for automated infrastructure deployment.

Terraform Module Engineering & Governance

Build, version, and maintain reusable Terraform module libraries.
Enforce module standards, naming conventions, tagging, and policy controls.
Implement policy‑as‑code and guardrails using Sentinel, OPA, or equivalent tooling.

Infrastructure Operations, Security & Reliability

Implement secure‑by‑design infrastructure patterns including RBAC, secrets, and network controls.
Enable infrastructure observability, drift detection, and state management best practices.
Apply compliance, auditability, and change control across IaC workflows.

Technical Leadership & Mentorship

Lead infrastructure engineering execution and cross‑team platform collaboration.
Mentor engineers on Terraform best practices, code quality, and IaC design patterns.
Build reusable standards, reference architectures, and platform engineering playbooks.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field required; Master’s preferred.
8+ years of infrastructure, cloud, or DevOps engineering experience.
4+ years hands‑on experience with Terraform and Infrastructure-as-Code at enterprise scale.
Proven experience delivering production cloud platforms in regulated or enterprise environments with the following technology stack:
- Terraform & IaC: Terraform, Terraform Cloud/Enterprise, Terraform modules, remote state backends, workspace strategy
- Azure: Azure Resource Manager, Azure Landing Zones, VNet, AKS, Storage, Key Vault, Azure Policy, Azure Monitor
- AWS: VPC, IAM, EC2, EKS, RDS, S3, CloudWatch, Control Tower, Organizations
- CI/CD & Automation: GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitLab CI, pipeline automation for IaC
- Languages & Scripting: HCL, Python, Bash, PowerShell
- Containers & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes, Helm
- Policy & Security: Sentinel, Open Policy Agent (OPA), policy-as-code, secrets management
- State & Governance: Remote state, drift detection, environment promotion workflows
- Platforms & Orchestration: Kubernetes platforms, multi‑account / multi‑subscription cloud environments, hybrid/multi‑cloud deployments