AWS Cloud Engineer

Job Title: AWS Cloud Engineer
Location: Irvine, CA (Hybrid)
Duration: Long Term Contract
Visa :  (GC,USC,GC-EAD)
Exp: 12+years
On C2C

Note: Must have Banking or Finance Experience

Main skills—"AWS Control Tower, AWS Organizations, Guardrails, Step Functions, and AWS Lambda."

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.