AWS Cloud Engineer VA
A senior AWS Cloud Engineer designs, builds and operates your AWS environment, using well-architected practices to keep workloads secure, cost-efficient and highly available while your developers ship faster.
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Hourly rates · No lock-in contracts
Entry Level
$12 / hr
Intermediate ★
$16 / hr
Senior
$22 / hr
Responsibilities
- Design and build AWS environments using EC2, ECS or EKS, Lambda, S3, RDS, VPC and IAM following the AWS Well-Architected Framework.
- Define infrastructure as code with Terraform or AWS CloudFormation and manage changes through code review and CI/CD.
- Configure networking including VPCs, subnets, security groups, Transit Gateway, VPN and Direct Connect.
- Implement security controls with IAM policies, AWS Organizations, GuardDuty, Security Hub, KMS and CloudTrail.
- Monitor and optimise cost with Cost Explorer, budgets, rightsizing, reserved instances and savings plans.
- Set up monitoring and alerting with CloudWatch, X-Ray and third-party tools, and respond to incidents.
- Migrate on-premises servers, databases and applications to AWS using tools such as AWS MGN and DMS.
- Automate operational tasks with Python, Bash and the AWS CLI or SDKs.
- Manage backups, disaster recovery and multi-region resilience with AWS Backup and cross-region replication.
- Document architecture, standards and runbooks, and advise developers on AWS best practice.
Software & Tools
AWS
Terraform
CloudFormation
Docker
Kubernetes
Python
Requirements
- 5+ years in cloud engineering with at least 3 years hands-on with AWS in production.
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate is required, with Professional, DevOps Engineer or Security Specialty preferred.
- Strong Terraform or CloudFormation skills and experience with CI/CD pipelines.
- Solid Linux administration, networking and security fundamentals.
- Experience with containers on ECS or EKS and with serverless services such as Lambda and API Gateway.
- Scripting in Python or Bash for automation.
- Clear written and spoken English for architecture discussions and documentation.
- Dependable high-bandwidth internet with backup power, and availability during the client's business hours.
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