Senior Cloud Engineer
Needham MA
2-3 days per week onsite
Contract
The Alexander Technology Group is searching for a talented Senior AWS Cloud Engineer to join the Systems Engineering team for a long-term contract role. Review the job description and if you meet the qualifications, please send an updated resume to cmcmillan@alexandertg.com to be considered.
The Role
- Design, build, and maintain scalable, secure, and highly available AWS cloud infrastructure to support global enterprise environment and applications.
- Work with with application, security, and data teams to deliver cloud solutions.
- Implement and manage infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation) to enable repeatability and speed
- Lead cloud reliability, performance tuning, and incident response efforts.
- Drive cloud security best practices, including identity and access management, network design, encryption, monitoring, and compliance controls
- Document architectures, standards, and operational procedures to support long-term scalability and maintainability
Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
- 5+ years of experience designing and supporting cloud infrastructure, with hands-on AWS expertise (required)
- Strong experience with core AWS services (e.g., EC2, VPC, IAM, RDS, S3, Lambda, EKS/ECS, CloudWatch)
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code and automation tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation, CI/CD pipelines)
- Solid understanding of cloud networking, security architecture, and cost optimization strategies
- Azure experience is a plus
