Senior Cloud Engineer (AWS & Glue)
📍 Location: Washington DC-Baltimore Area
🏢 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
