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Senior Cloud & Hybrid Infrastructure Specialist

Ubertal Inc.
Des Moines, IA Full Time
POSTED ON 4/17/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/16/2026
Title: Senior Cloud & Hybrid Infrastructure Specialist | AWS

Location: Onsite - Des Moines, IA

Duration: Contract | Full-Time | Long-Term Contract (extending beyond 7/1/2026)

Job Description: We are seeking an experienced Senior Cloud & Hybrid Infrastructure Specialist - also known as a Cloud Platform Engineer, AWS Infrastructure Architect, or Hybrid Cloud Systems Engineer - to lead enterprise modernization initiatives across hybrid cloud environments. This role drives AWS infrastructure engineering, cloud migration, and platform automation for a large-scale public sector IT organization.

Roles & Responsibilities

  • Design, administer, and optimize AWS hybrid cloud environments (EC2, VPC, IAM, S3) to support enterprise-grade workloads and cloud-centric operations
  • Lead AWS cloud migration efforts, including legacy system assessments, modernization roadmaps, and workload readiness planning
  • Enforce AWS security guardrails - encryption, MFA, IAM role boundaries, RBAC, and network segmentation - across hybrid cloud and on-premises systems
  • Define Infrastructure as Code (IaC) patterns, collaborate on Terraform module design, and maintain IaC manifests in version-controlled environments
  • Build and support CI/CD infrastructure pipelines across test, staging, and production; create release documentation and ensure platform standards consistency
  • Implement FinOps practices: identify cost optimization opportunities through instance rightsizing, storage tier adjustments, and lifecycle automation
  • Diagnose and resolve complex AWS identity, network, and compute issues; produce root-cause analyses, troubleshooting workflows, and long-term mitigation strategies
  • Produce and maintain comprehensive documentation: architecture diagrams, platform hardening guidelines, operational guides, audit evidence packages, and executive briefings

Skills

  • AWS cloud infrastructure: EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, hybrid cloud architecture
  • AWS IAM / RBAC configuration and enforcement
  • Infrastructure as Code: Terraform (required), Ansible (preferred)
  • CI/CD pipeline infrastructure and release management
  • Hybrid cloud workload patterns - identity, authentication, application services across cloud and on-premises
  • AWS cloud migration and legacy system modernization
  • FinOps / cloud cost estimation and optimization
  • Backup, disaster recovery, RTO/RPO planning
  • Performance monitoring dashboards - compute utilization, storage I/O, network throughput
  • Network segmentation, MFA, encryption, AWS guardrails
  • Version-controlled documentation: architecture diagrams, IaC manifests, operational procedures
  • Audit evidence production: configuration exports, pipeline logs, compliance documentation

Qualifications

  • US Citizenship required
  • 7 years designing and administering AWS environments (EC2, VPC, IAM, S3)
  • 5 years hybrid cloud platform engineering across all required skill areas
  • Experience with AWS IAM/RBAC and FinOps cost estimation required
  • Ansible experience a plus

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