What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr AWS Cloud Engineer position at E-IT?
Role : Sr AWS Cloud Engineer
Location : SFO CA (onsite)
Must have : AWS certifications
We are seeking a driven Sr AWS Cloud Engineer with a strong foundation in cloud platform engineering, security, and operations. This role is ideal for a self‑starter and go‑getter who takes pride in designing systems that are secure by design, verifiable by default, and continuously ready for internal and external scrutiny.
What You’ll Do
- Design and operate AWS cloud environments that are secure, scalable, and operationally mature
- Own reliability, security, and operational health of cloud environments
- Lead initiatives independently from concept through delivery
- Partner with application teams to enable secure self‑service cloud capabilities
- Proactively identify risks, gaps, and process weaknesses and drive improvements
- Develop automation and tooling using modern scripting and programming languages
What You Bring (Required)
- Strong hands-on experience with AWS cloud services
- Deep understanding of cloud security and compliance fundamentals, including:
- Organizational‑level identity and access governance
- Identity and access management (IAM), Least privilege principles
- Logging, monitoring, and traceability
- Encryption and data protection
- Configuration standardization and drift prevention
- Experience with preventive and detective guardrails to ensure systems remain within defined security and operational boundaries
- Proven ability to lead initiatives independently
- Self‑starter mentality — proactive, decisive, and execution‑focused
- Hands‑on experience with Infrastructure as Code (CloudFormation or Terraform)
- Automation & scripting experience with Python, JavaScript, or Shell
- Strong hands-on CI/CD pipelines that enforce security by default, including policy checks and approval gates
Nice to Have
- Experience with AWS networking (VPCs, subnets, routing, dns)
- AWS Multi-Account Control Tower / Account Factory experience
- Familiarity with compliance frameworks (SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI, HIPAA)
- AWS certifications (Security, Solutions Architect, SysOps)
- Containers (ECS/EKS) or serverless architectures (Lambda)