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AWS Cloud Engineer

Custom Staffing
York, NY Full Time
POSTED ON 12/11/2025 CLOSED ON 1/12/2026

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Job Details

Cloud AWS Engineer

New York, NY 100% On-Site - Candidates should be local to area
1 Year Contract (Possible Extension)
$65 $75/hr W2
No C2C / No 3rd Parties

Top Skills Needed

  • Terraform IaC (advanced)

  • AWS cloud engineering & infrastructure

  • Programming (Python, Java, Scala)

  • GitLab / GitHub CI/CD pipelines

  • Containerization (Docker, NGINX, JBoss, Tomcat)

Role Overview

You ll join the Enterprise Support Infrastructure Engineering team, responsible for delivering secure, resilient, enterprise-class cloud hosting for internal business applications. This role focuses on designing, building, and maintaining AWS cloud environments while enabling automation, infrastructure-as-code, and containerized deployments. This is a net-new addition to the team.

Key Responsibilities

  • Plan, build, run, monitor, and manage cloud infrastructure

  • Write Terraform IaC to install custom applications, AWS services, and COTS tools and deploy with Github

  • Set up, deploy, and maintain AWS environments

  • Containerize code and commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) tools

  • Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines in GitLab for automated installs and rehydration

  • Deploy "black box" software packages into AWS environments

  • Support vulnerability management and cloud governance processes

Required Qualifications

  • Strong hands-on expertise with Terraform IaC (writing, maintaining, troubleshooting)

  • Advanced experience building/troubleshooting GitLab CI/CD pipelines

  • Strong AWS infrastructure knowledge, including:

    • Lambda, S3, SNS, EC2, RDS (Postgres), SQL-RDS, ECS/Fargate

    • VPC, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect, ALB/ELB

    • CloudWatch, Grafana, Route53, DNS, EFS

  • Solid understanding of AWS IAM, Okta, encryption, certificates, and key management

  • Experience with containerized middleware (NGINX, JBoss, Tomcat, Corretto)

  • Familiarity with DevSecOps, Agile/Scrum, JIRA

Nice to Have: Databricks, Starburst, Glue, EKS, AWS Multi-AZ / Multi-Region

Education: Bachelor s Degree preferred; AWS certifications strongly preferred

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Salary : $60 - $75

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