Job Description
Senior Cloud Engineer (AWS \& Glue)
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Location:
Washington DC-Baltimore Area
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Work Model:
Hybrid (3 days onsite per week)
Job Description
We are seeking a
Senior Cloud Engineer
with strong
AWS and DevOps expertise
to design, operate, and mature cloud platforms at scale. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with infrastructure automation, cloud security, data services, and CI/CD pipelines, along with the ability to collaborate effectively within Agile delivery teams.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate scalable
AWS cloud infrastructure
- Implement and manage
Infrastructure as Code
using
Terraform
- Manage
AWS IAM
including identity-based and resource-based policies
- Design and support
AWS networking
(VPCs, subnets, route tables, security groups, Transit Gateway, Route 53)
- Monitor and troubleshoot environments using
AWS CloudWatch and CloudTrail
- Support data platforms including
AWS Glue, Redshift, and RDS (MS SQL Server)
- Manage and support
EKS / Kubernetes clusters
- Implement centralized secrets management using
AWS Secrets Manager
- Build and support
CI/CD pipelines
for infrastructure and platform deployments
- Harness preferred; ArgoCD, CircleCI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins accepted
- Integrate logging and monitoring with
Splunk
- Support
SSO via Okta
and enforce
role-based access control (RBAC)
- Follow
Git best practices
and maintain infrastructure documentation
Required Skills \& Experience
- Strong experience as an
AWS Cloud Engineer / DevOps Engineer
- Hands-on expertise with
Terraform
and CI/CD pipelines
- Experience operating
cloud platforms at scale
- Strong understanding of AWS security, networking, and monitoring
- Experience with
Kubernetes (EKS)
and containerized workloads
- Experience working in
Agile environments
(Scrum and Kanban), including sprint planning, backlog grooming, and ticket lifecycle management
- Excellent troubleshooting and collaboration skills
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