Job: Senior AWS Cloud Engineers
Location: Dallas, TX - Onsite
Job Type: W2 / 1099
Job Description:
- 15+ years total engineering experience; 8–10+ years deep AWS hands‑on.
- Expert in AWS core services: IAM, KMS, VPC, EC2, S3, CloudTrail, GuardDuty, Lambda, ECS/EKS, SQS/SNS.
- Strong experience with AWS CDK; or at minimum, strong Terraform + readiness to transition to CDK.
- Proven ability to operate in heavily regulated environments where auditability, identity control, and encryption are mandatory.
- Experience deploying large-scale platforms used by multiple teams.
- Proficient in at least one coding/scripting language (Python, TypeScript, Go).
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes (EKS), container orchestration, and microservices platforms.
- Strong ability to work onsite and collaborate in fast-paced engineering environments.
- Must Have CDK Pipelines, cross-account deployment patterns
Advanced knowledge of:
- IAM permission boundaries, SCPs, key policies
- Private networking, VPC endpoints, SG design
- Logging/detection systems
- Multi-region HA/DR architectures
Nice-to-Haves
- AI/ML pipeline or SageMaker experience
- Financial services experience
- Monitoring/observability (Datadog, Grafana, CloudWatch)
- Experience writing security automation or compliance-as-code
