AWS Cloud Engineer

Job Title: AWS Cloud Engineer

Location: Irvine, CA

Duration: Long Term Contract
 

Responsibilities
 

•             Design, implement, and operate AWS foundation services (VPC, IAM, KMS, S3, CloudWatch, Config,               GuardDuty, Security Hub).
 

•             Build landing zones, guardrails, and governance frameworks.
 

•             Develop Python-based automation (Lambda, Step Functions, IAM policy enforcement).
 

•             Use CloudFormation and Terraform for Infrastructure as Code.
 

•             Implement CI/CD pipelines with AWS CodePipeline and related services.
 

•             Integrate AWS services with Kubernetes (EKS).
 

•             Implement networking and security controls (VPC peering, Transit Gateway, PrivateLink, WAF).
 

•             Manage multi-account environments with AWS Organizations and Control Tower.
 

•             Automate provisioning, patching, and lifecycle management.
 

•             Monitor reliability, availability, and security posture using CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana.
 

•             Troubleshoot AWS, networking, and Kubernetes issues.
 

Required Skill Set
 

•             AWS Expertise – VPC, IAM, KMS, S3, CloudTrail, Config, GuardDuty, Control Tower, Organizations.
 

•             Python Development – Strong experience with Lambda, Step Functions, IAM automation.
 

•             Infrastructure as Code – CloudFormation and Terraform.
 

•             CI/CD – AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy.
 

•             Networking & Security – VPC design, Transit Gateway, PrivateLink, WAF, Security Groups, NACLs.
 

•             Identity & Governance – IAM, SSO, federation, RBAC, IdP integration.
 

•             Monitoring & Observability – CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK, Dynatrace.