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Job Title: Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer (Contract) - Job#5834
Location: Remote
About The Role
We’re looking for a highly skilled Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to design, build, and support enterprise-grade infrastructure on Amazon Web Services (AWS). You’ll be part of a collaborative, Agile team that focuses on automation, scalability, and reliability across our middleware and application environments.
This role is ideal for someone who thrives in complex environments, enjoys solving challenging problems, and is passionate about modern DevOps practices such as Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), container orchestration, and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD).
Key Responsibilities
Delphi-US is a national recruiting firm based in Newport, Rhode Island. We specialize in IT, Engineering and Professional Staffing services for organizations across the United States of America.? Our mission is simple: We are Peacemakers in the Talent War. Delphi attracts our nation’s best and brightest Technical & Professional Talent and position our nation’s finest employers to further their competitive advantages.? We accomplish this with a proprietary skill-based and cultural matching process that results in higher qualified submissions, hiring with purpose, and employer/employee mutual success. You’ll find our team is supremely experienced, friendly, professional and ready to advocate on your behalf.? Armed with best in class talent, Delphi has an indelible understanding of employer expectations and we deliver lasting results.
Location: Remote
About The Role
We’re looking for a highly skilled Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to design, build, and support enterprise-grade infrastructure on Amazon Web Services (AWS). You’ll be part of a collaborative, Agile team that focuses on automation, scalability, and reliability across our middleware and application environments.
This role is ideal for someone who thrives in complex environments, enjoys solving challenging problems, and is passionate about modern DevOps practices such as Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), container orchestration, and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD).
Key Responsibilities
- Design & Implementation: Develop conceptual, logical, and physical infrastructure designs that align with business requirements.
- Cloud & Containerization: Build and manage scalable environments leveraging AWS services — especially EKS and other container-based technologies.
- Infrastructure as Code: Use Terraform, Ansible, and Packer to automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and image creation.
- Automation & Deployment: Implement CI/CD pipelines using GitLab (or similar tools) to support streamlined code integration and delivery.
- System Reliability: Resolve complex hardware and software issues affecting application systems; proactively recommend solutions to minimize downtime.
- Change & Risk Management: Follow established change management and audit policies; ensure compliance with security and operational standards.
- Collaboration & Leadership: Contribute to moderately complex projects, mentor peers, and help define and uphold technical standards and best practices.
- Testing & Transition: Prepare testing strategies and oversee smooth implementation and transition into production environments.
- 5 years of experience working with AWS (EKS, EC2, S3, Lambda, CloudWatch, etc.)
- Strong proficiency with Agile methodologies, GitLab, and CI/CD tools
- Skilled in Terraform and other Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) technologies
- Experienced with Ansible Automation and general scripting/automation tools
- Hands-on experience using Packer (or similar tools) to build VM images
- Proven ability to troubleshoot and resolve complex infrastructure issues
- Strong analytical and documentation skills for system logic and design
- Excellent communication, problem-solving, and risk management capabilities
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field (or equivalent work experience)
Delphi-US is a national recruiting firm based in Newport, Rhode Island. We specialize in IT, Engineering and Professional Staffing services for organizations across the United States of America.? Our mission is simple: We are Peacemakers in the Talent War. Delphi attracts our nation’s best and brightest Technical & Professional Talent and position our nation’s finest employers to further their competitive advantages.? We accomplish this with a proprietary skill-based and cultural matching process that results in higher qualified submissions, hiring with purpose, and employer/employee mutual success. You’ll find our team is supremely experienced, friendly, professional and ready to advocate on your behalf.? Armed with best in class talent, Delphi has an indelible understanding of employer expectations and we deliver lasting results.