AWS Cloud Engineer, on-site

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Ztek Consulting
Jersey, NJ, United States
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Role: AWS Cloud Engineer, on-site in Jersey City, NJ – Full-time

Job description: 374597/KV

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills

Experience Required 5 to 16 Years

Cloud Infrastructure:

  • AWS services: EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, Lambda, RDS, Route 53, ELB, CloudFront, Auto Scaling
  • Serverless architecture design using Lambda, API Gateway, and DynamoDB
  • Containerization: Docker and orchestration with ECS or EKS (Kubernetes).

Infrastructure as Code (IaC):

  • Terraform (preferred), AWS CloudFormation
  • Hands-on experience creating reusable modules and managing cloud resources via code

Automation & CI/CD:

  • Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, AWS CodePipeline
  • Automating deployments and configuration management

Scripting & Programming:

  • Proficiency in Python, Bash, or PowerShell for automation and tooling

Monitoring & Logging:

  • CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack

Networking:

  • VPC design, Subnets, NAT Gateway, VPN, Direct Connect, Load Balancing
  • Security Groups, NACLs, and route tables

Security & Compliance:

  • IAM policies and roles, KMS, Secrets Manager, Config, GuardDuty
  • Implementing encryption, access controls, and least privilege policies

Must-Have Functional Skills:

Problem Solving:Ability to troubleshoot complex infrastructure and networking issues under pressure.

Collaboration:Experience working cross-functionally with developers, DevOps, and security teams

Documentation:Creating runbooks, architectural diagrams, and configuration documentation

Project Ownership:Taking initiative and full ownership of AWS environments from design to operations.

Cost Awareness:Understanding of AWS billing, cost optimization techniques, and budgeting.

Adaptability & Learning Agility:Willingness to learn new AWS services and emerging technologies quickly.

Agile Practices:Comfortable working in Agile/Scrum environments, using tools like Jira and Confluence

Roles & Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, and maintain AWS cloud infrastructure following best practices.
  • Build and manage highly available, secure, and scalable environments.
  • Develop Infrastructure as Code templates to automate resource provisioning.
  • Set up and maintain CI/CD pipelines for fast and reliable deployments.
  • Monitor and troubleshoot production systems and performance issues.
  • Ensure cloud security by managing IAM, encryption, and compliance configurations.
  • Optimize cloud usage and manage costs through analysis and recommendations.
  • Stay updated with AWS announcements, new services, and community best practices.
  • Participate in architecture reviews and contribute to technical design decisions.
  • Support disaster recovery planning, backup strategies, and incident response
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