What are the responsibilities and job description for the AWS Cloud Engineer position at Slalom?
Candidates can live within commutable distance to any Slalom office in the US. We have a hybrid and flexible environment.
Who You’ll Work With
As a modern technology company, our Slalom Technologists are disrupting the market and bringing to life the art of the possible for our clients. We have a passion for building strategies, solutions, and creative products to help our clients solve their most complex and interesting business problems. We surround our technologists with interesting challenges, innovative minds, and emerging technologies.
We are looking for a skilled AWS Cloud Engineer with expertise in workload migrations and operational experience to join our team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for designing, deploying, and managing scalable cloud infrastructure, ensuring high availability, security, and efficiency. You will play a key role in automating cloud deployments, optimizing performance, and troubleshooting infrastructure-related issues.
At Slalom, we invest heavily in our partnership with AWS—and in 2024, we were honored with three AWS Partner Awards at re:Invent, including GenAI Global Consulting Partner of the Year (for the second year in a row), and Industry Partner of the Year for both Travel & Hospitality and Retail in North America.
What You’ll Do
Slalom is a fiercely human business and technology consulting company that leads with outcomes to bring more value, in all ways, always. From strategy through delivery, our agile teams across 52 offices in 12 countries collaborate with clients to bring powerful customer experiences, innovative ways of working, and new products and services to life. We are trusted by leaders across the Global 1000, many successful enterprise and mid-market companies, and 500 public sector organizations to improve operations, drive growth, and create value. At Slalom, we believe that together, we can move faster, dream bigger, and build better tomorrows for all.
Compensation And Benefits
Slalom prides itself on helping team members thrive in their work and life. As a result, Slalom is proud to invest in benefits that include meaningful time off and paid holidays, parental leave, 401(k) with a match, a range of choices for highly subsidized health, dental, & vision coverage, adoption and fertility assistance, and short/long-term disability. We also offer yearly $350 reimbursement account for any well-being-related expenses, as well as discounted home, auto, and pet insurance.
Slalom is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. For this position, the base salary pay range is $109,000 to $148,000 for Consultant level and $125,000 to $170,000 for Senior Consultant level. In addition, individuals may be eligible for an annual discretionary bonus. Actual compensation will depend upon an individual’s skills, experience, qualifications, location, and other relevant factors. The salary pay range is subject to change and may be modified at any time.
EEO and Accommodations
Slalom is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to attracting, developing and retaining highly qualified talent who empower our innovative teams through unique perspectives and experiences. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veterans’ status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. Slalom will also consider qualified applications with criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Slalom welcomes and encourages applications from individuals with disabilities. Reasonable accommodations are available for candidates during all aspects of the selection process. Please advise the talent acquisition team if you require accommodations during the interview process.
Who You’ll Work With
As a modern technology company, our Slalom Technologists are disrupting the market and bringing to life the art of the possible for our clients. We have a passion for building strategies, solutions, and creative products to help our clients solve their most complex and interesting business problems. We surround our technologists with interesting challenges, innovative minds, and emerging technologies.
We are looking for a skilled AWS Cloud Engineer with expertise in workload migrations and operational experience to join our team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for designing, deploying, and managing scalable cloud infrastructure, ensuring high availability, security, and efficiency. You will play a key role in automating cloud deployments, optimizing performance, and troubleshooting infrastructure-related issues.
At Slalom, we invest heavily in our partnership with AWS—and in 2024, we were honored with three AWS Partner Awards at re:Invent, including GenAI Global Consulting Partner of the Year (for the second year in a row), and Industry Partner of the Year for both Travel & Hospitality and Retail in North America.
What You’ll Do
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Design, implement, and maintain AWS infrastructure using Terraform.
- Cloud Operations: Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize cloud environments for performance, security, and cost efficiency.
- Automation & CI/CD: Develop automation scripts and pipelines using tools like Terraform, Ansible, AWS CDK, or GitHub Actions.
- Security & Compliance: Capable of implementing best practices for security, identity management, and compliance (IAM, VPC, encryption, logging).
- Observability & Monitoring: Set up and maintain monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions (CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana).
- Incident Management: Respond to and resolve production incidents, ensuring minimal downtime and fast recovery.
- Collaboration: Work closely with developers, DevOps teams, and security teams to support cloud-based applications.
- Documentation: Maintain clear and up-to-date documentation for cloud infrastructure and automation processes.
- 5 years of hands-on experience with AWS services (EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, VPC, CloudWatch, SSM, SSO, etc.).
- Strong experience with Terraform for infrastructure automation.
- Experience with cloud operations, monitoring, and incident response.
- Familiarity with Linux systems administration and scripting (Bash, Python, or PowerShell).
- Strong knowledge of networking concepts (VPC, VPN, DNS, Load Balancing, Security Groups).
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automation tools.
- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
- Good communication skills and ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams.
- Experience with one of the following: Python, PowerShell, Bash, Go, Rust.
- Experience with AWS MGN, DRS, Migration Factory.
- AWS certifications (AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, etc.).
- Experience with Kubernetes (EKS), Docker, or other container orchestration tools.
- Experience with RDS, Managed MSSQL, PostgreSQL.
Slalom is a fiercely human business and technology consulting company that leads with outcomes to bring more value, in all ways, always. From strategy through delivery, our agile teams across 52 offices in 12 countries collaborate with clients to bring powerful customer experiences, innovative ways of working, and new products and services to life. We are trusted by leaders across the Global 1000, many successful enterprise and mid-market companies, and 500 public sector organizations to improve operations, drive growth, and create value. At Slalom, we believe that together, we can move faster, dream bigger, and build better tomorrows for all.
Compensation And Benefits
Slalom prides itself on helping team members thrive in their work and life. As a result, Slalom is proud to invest in benefits that include meaningful time off and paid holidays, parental leave, 401(k) with a match, a range of choices for highly subsidized health, dental, & vision coverage, adoption and fertility assistance, and short/long-term disability. We also offer yearly $350 reimbursement account for any well-being-related expenses, as well as discounted home, auto, and pet insurance.
Slalom is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. For this position, the base salary pay range is $109,000 to $148,000 for Consultant level and $125,000 to $170,000 for Senior Consultant level. In addition, individuals may be eligible for an annual discretionary bonus. Actual compensation will depend upon an individual’s skills, experience, qualifications, location, and other relevant factors. The salary pay range is subject to change and may be modified at any time.
EEO and Accommodations
Slalom is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to attracting, developing and retaining highly qualified talent who empower our innovative teams through unique perspectives and experiences. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veterans’ status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. Slalom will also consider qualified applications with criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Slalom welcomes and encourages applications from individuals with disabilities. Reasonable accommodations are available for candidates during all aspects of the selection process. Please advise the talent acquisition team if you require accommodations during the interview process.
Salary : $109,000 - $148,000