We are seeking an experienced AWS Cloud Engineer to maintain production stability and support critical third-party applications in AWS. The role requires hands-on infrastructure administration, security compliance, and vulnerability remediation in a hybrid work environment. Candidates must have strong operational and DevOps background with enterprise security experience.
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Key Responsibilities
Technical Skills Required
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Job Title: AWS Cloud Engineer
Location: Must be able to work onsite in McLean, VA (preferred) or Richmond, VA
Contract Length: 16+ Months
Hybrid Work
Pay: 80-82 per hr on W2
We are seeking an experienced AWS Cloud Engineer with a strong operational and DevOps background to support a critical third-party application hosted in AWS. This role is focused on maintaining production stability, ensuring infrastructure reliability, remediating vulnerabilities, and driving enterprise security and compliance initiatives.
The ideal candidate has hands-on experience supporting production AWS environments, maintaining Infrastructure as Code (IaC), troubleshooting live systems, and working within highly regulated enterprise environments.
Key Responsibilities
- Maintain and support production AWS infrastructure and applications.
- Ensure high availability, stability, and performance of existing cloud environments.
- Execute enterprise security and compliance initiatives.
- Identify, prioritize, and remediate infrastructure, application, container, and OS vulnerabilities.
- Manage AWS Secrets Manager, automated credential rotation, and certificate management.
- Maintain and update Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Chef cookbooks.
- Troubleshoot production issues using CloudWatch and New Relic.
- Monitor system health, logs, and infrastructure performance.
- Support infrastructure upgrades, configuration management, and patching activities.
- Read, troubleshoot, and modify PowerShell and/or Python automation scripts.
- Maintain configuration code using GitHub and enterprise pull request workflows.
- Collaborate with infrastructure, security, and application teams to ensure operational excellence.
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Required Qualifications
- Strong experience supporting production AWS environments.
- Experience with enterprise Cloud Operations or DevOps.
- Hands-on AWS infrastructure administration.
- Experience supporting highly available production systems.
- Strong troubleshooting and operational support background.
- Experience working within regulated enterprise environments.
- Ability to support existing applications rather than greenfield development.
Required Technical Skills
AWS Services
- AWS Secrets Manager (including automated rotation)
- AWS KMS
- IAM
- ELB
- EC2
- Lambda
- S3
- RDS
- AWS DMS
- CloudWatch
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Infrastructure & Automation
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
- Chef
- GitHub
- PowerShell
- Python
- Docker container vulnerability remediation
Monitoring
- CloudWatch
- New Relic
Security
- Vulnerability management
- Patch management
- Secrets management
- Certificate management
- Enterprise security compliance
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Preferred Qualifications
- Recent experience supporting large enterprise financial environments.
- Experience supporting third-party vendor applications.
- Experience with:
- Actimize
- Tomcat
- Oracle
- Active AWS Certifications such as:
- AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
- AWS Certified Security – Specialty
Ideal Candidate
Candidates should demonstrate:
- Strong operational mindset.
- Experience supporting production infrastructure.
- Excellent troubleshooting skills.
- Security-first approach.
- Enterprise compliance experience.
- Infrastructure maintenance expertise.
- Strong collaboration skills.
- Ability to work in hybrid Agile/operations environments.
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