Cloud Engineer 3 AWS Data & Serverless (DASH) Infrastructure Engineer

About The AES Group
The AES Group is a premier technology and engineering consulting company that has been bringing businesses and talent together for over 20 years to deliver innovative solutions that have the greatest positive impact on society.
AES has helped over 40 business enterprises, including Fortune 500 companies, engage their customers, empower their employees, and transform their business operations with the power of cloud, data, AI, engineering, and other emerging technologies.

Job Description

Seeking an experienced Cloud Engineer 3 – AWS Data & Serverless (DASH) Infrastructure Engineer to join its AWS Platform team. This role will focus on designing, provisioning, operating, and supporting secure, scalable, and reliable AWS infrastructure for data, serverless, and container workloads.

The engineer will work directly with business units to understand infrastructure requirements, onboard new environments, automate deployments, troubleshoot production issues, and deliver standardized AWS platform solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, provision, operate, and maintain AWS infrastructure for data and serverless services, including S3, Glue, Lambda, API Gateway, Step Functions, EventBridge, and DynamoDB.
• Build, upgrade, and maintain Amazon EKS clusters and Amazon ECS/Fargate environments.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and delivery using reusable AWS CloudFormation templates and GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines.
• Design and troubleshoot AWS networking, including VPC, ALB/NLB, IAM, KMS, cross-account access, SCPs, and permission boundaries.
• Develop automation scripts using Python and/or Bash.
• Support business unit onboarding, infrastructure cost estimation, and production infrastructure operations.
• Serve as a technical point of contact for business unit customers, gathering requirements, explaining technical options, setting expectations, and resolving issues.
• Ensure AWS environments follow security, reliability, scalability, and platform standards.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• 5–7 years of relevant cloud infrastructure engineering experience.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect certification is required.
• Hands-on experience building and operating AWS infrastructure in multi-account environments.
• Experience provisioning and supporting EKS, ECS/Fargate, Lambda, S3, and Glue.
• Strong understanding of AWS networking and security, including VPC, ALB/NLB, IAM, SCPs, and permission boundaries.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), preferably CloudFormation.
• Hands-on experience with GitHub Actions and CI/CD automation.
• Scripting experience in Python and/or Bash.
• Strong customer service, communication, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to explain technical concepts and infrastructure options to non-AWS technical teams.

Additional Requirements

• Local candidates only in the Peoria, IL, or Irving, TX, area.
• Must be available to work onsite full-time.
• Candidates should demonstrate consistent employment history and relevant hands-on AWS platform experience.

Preferred Candidate Profile

A customer-focused AWS Infrastructure Engineer with strong hands-on expertise across AWS networking, security, serverless services, containers, multi-account environments, infrastructure automation, and production support.