INFRASTRUCTURE CLOUD ENGINEER
MCLEAN, VA
CONTRACT TO HIRE (INTENT TO HIRE)
$60HR -$70HR (SOME FLEXIBILITY)
Our client is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Infrastructure Cloud Engineer to join our team. You will play a critical role in designing, implementing, and maintaining the reliability, scalability, and performance of our client's cloud-based systems hosted in AWS. You will collaborate closely with software engineers, operations teams, and other stakeholders to enhance system reliability and developer productivity through automation, monitoring, and incident response.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement scalable, reliable, and secure cloud infrastructure in AWS.
- Develop and maintain monitoring, alerting, and dashboarding solutions to ensure system health and uptime.
- Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration management using tools like Terraform (Terragrunt), CDK and CloudFormation
- Implement CI/CD pipelines to streamline deployments and improve development workflows.
- Respond to incidents, perform root cause analysis, and implement permanent fixes to prevent recurring issues.
- Optimize system performance, reliability, and cost-effectiveness in collaboration with engineering teams.
- Drive infrastructure improvements and advocate for best practices in system design and operations.
- Establish and manage disaster recovery plans, ensuring system availability during unexpected events.
COMPANY INFO
- The product is commodity-based, with the company differentiating itself through cost efficiency, simplicity, and speed to market.
Technology & Operations
- The IT organization currently has about 10 FTEs and 15–20 contractors.
- All FTE leaders are senior architects—strong technical backgrounds
- Focus is on on helping engineering improve velocity and scalability
- Stack is AWS-based, with emphasis on modern cloud engineering and secure scalable development.
- There’s an increasing interest in AI enablement—both generative and agentic AI—to enhance workflows and underwriting models.
