AWS Cloud Engineer

#### Job Description **STRATEGIC STAFFING SOLUTIONS HAS AN OPENING!** **This is a Contract Opportunity with our company that MUST be worked on a W2 Only. No C2C eligibility for this position. Visa Sponsorship is Available! The details are below.** **“Beware of scams. S3 never asks for money during its onboarding process.”** **Job Title: AWS Cloud Engineer ****Location: Must be able to work onsite in McLean, VA (preferred) or Richmond, VA ****Contract Length: 16+ Months ****Hybrid Work** **Job ref# 247320** We are seeking an experienced AWS Cloud Engineer with a strong operational and DevOps background to support a critical third-party application hosted in AWS. This role is focused on maintaining production stability, ensuring infrastructure reliability, remediating vulnerabilities, and driving enterprise security and compliance initiatives. The ideal candidate has hands-on experience supporting production AWS environments, maintaining Infrastructure as Code (IaC), troubleshooting live systems, and working within highly regulated enterprise environments. **Key Responsibilities** * Maintain and support production AWS infrastructure and applications. * Ensure high availability, stability, and performance of existing cloud environments. * Execute enterprise security and compliance initiatives. * Identify, prioritize, and remediate infrastructure, application, container, and OS vulnerabilities. * Manage AWS Secrets Manager, automated credential rotation, and certificate management. * Maintain and update Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Chef cookbooks. * Troubleshoot production issues using CloudWatch and New Relic. * Monitor system health, logs, and infrastructure performance. * Support infrastructure upgrades, configuration management, and patching activities. * Read, troubleshoot, and modify PowerShell and/or Python automation scripts. * Maintain configuration code using GitHub and enterprise pull request workflows. * Collaborate with infrastructure, security, and application teams to ensure operational excellence. **Required Qualifications** * Strong experience supporting production AWS environments. * Experience with enterprise Cloud Operations or DevOps. * Hands-on AWS infrastructure administration. * Experience supporting highly available production systems. * Strong troubleshooting and operational support background. * Experience working within regulated enterprise environments. * Ability to support existing applications rather than greenfield development. **Required Technical Skills** **AWS Services** * AWS Secrets Manager (including automated rotation) * AWS KMS * IAM * ELB * EC2 * Lambda * S3 * RDS * AWS DMS * CloudWatch **Infrastructure & Automation** * Infrastructure as Code (IaC) * Chef * GitHub * PowerShell * Python * Docker container vulnerability remediation **Monitoring** * CloudWatch * New Relic **Security** * Vulnerability management * Patch management * Secrets management * Certificate management * Enterprise security compliance **Preferred Qualifications** * Recent experience supporting large enterprise financial environments. * Experience supporting third-party vendor applications. * Experience with: * Actimize * Tomcat * Oracle * Active AWS Certifications such as: * AWS Certified DevOps Engineer * AWS Certified Security – Specialty **Ideal Candidate** Candidates should demonstrate: * Strong operational mindset. * Experience supporting production infrastructure. * Excellent troubleshooting skills. * Security-first approach. * Enterprise compliance experience. * Infrastructure maintenance expertise. * Strong collaboration skills. * Ability to work in hybrid Agile/operations environments.