AWS Cloud Engineer (Networking)

Immediate, Full Time Employment opportunity available! We are seeking a skilled and motivated Cloud Engineer with expertise in Amazon Web Services (AWS) to join our clients dynamic team! As a Cloud Engineer, you will play a critical role in designing, implementing, and maintaining our cloud infrastructure on AWS. Your primary focus will be on ensuring high availability, scalability, and security of our cloud-based applications and services. You will play a crucial role in building and maintaining the infrastructure, tools, and processes necessary for our organization's software development and deployment pipelines. Your primary responsibility will be to bridge the gap between development and operations, ensuring smooth and efficient collaboration and delivery of high-quality software solutions. You will be working as our clients internal lead for their migration to AWS Cloud to their team of consultants currently on this project.
This position is a full-time/permanent opportunity with our client offering a generous salary/benefits and bonus pay structure. This position is a hybrid opportunity (onsite 2-3 days per week in Portsmouth NH). This position also requires on-call shift support.

Required Skills

- 7+ years of proven experience as a Cloud Engineer, with a focus on AWS services and technologies
- Solid understanding of networking concepts, security principles, and best practices - R&S, Firewall (Palo Alto is preferred but will accept other firewall exp), Netscaler, Cisco, etc...
- Highly preferred: Cloud migration experience from on-prem to AWS
- Strong knowledge of AWS core services such as EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, and CloudTrail (one ore more)
- Proficiency in infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible.
- Experience with containerization technologies like Docker and container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes.
- Solid understanding of CI/CD concepts and experience with CI/CD tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, or AWS native tools.
- Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
- Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools like Prometheus, ELK stack, or Splunk.