Job Title: Cloud AWS Engineer (Contract) - Job#5981
Location: Hybrid (Preferred Dallas, TX or Richmond, VA)
Job Summary
We are seeking an experienced
Cloud AWS Engineer to serve as a hands-on technical leader supporting large-scale enterprise cloud and infrastructure initiatives. This role will focus on designing, building, and maintaining secure, scalable AWS-based solutions while partnering closely with product owners, developers, infrastructure teams, and business stakeholders.
The Cloud AWS Engineer will play a key role in developing and governing Infrastructure as Code (IaC), supporting proof-of-concept initiatives, and guiding product teams through cloud adoption and platform integration. This position blends deep technical execution with architectural leadership, requiring strong experience in DevOps practices, cloud-native services, containerization, and enterprise infrastructure environments.
You will provide technical direction to scrum teams, ensure alignment with security and engineering standards, lead architectural discussions, and help modernize legacy systems through cloud-first strategies. The role is ideal for someone who thrives in complex, regulated enterprise environments and enjoys shaping cloud platforms that support mission-critical systems.
Responsibilities
- Serve as a hands-on technical Engineer to provide leadership to products focused on development and implementation of strategic technological initiatives.
- Develop Infrastructure as Code to support proof of concepts.
- Review Infrastructure Code developed by peers and product teams to ensure alignment with business objectives and security standards.
- Provide prioritization and technical leadership to product scrum teams in partnership with Product Owners.
- Validate that new features meet business needs, security requirements and engineering patterns.
- Provide technical leadership through design and implementation oversight to ensure alignment with strategic direction and best practices.
- Lead architectural and engineering discussions for technical, business and management audiences.
- Partner with Client Engagement teams to help applications adopt our products and integrate their applications into TSD platform offerings.
- Partner with our customers, National IT, and TSD technical, operational, and business experts to detect critical architectural and infrastructure gaps and deficiencies in the environment and recommend solutions for improvement.
- Analyze and revise existing system and product documentation as necessary.
- Authorize risk level changes and recommend solutions to minimize and/or prevent system interruption.
- Evaluate, recommend, and select new services, software, and hardware
- Follow and ensure adherence to technical standards for programming and design techniques, and train System technical staff on use of software/hardware tools in accordance with required standards and procedures.
- Monitor compliance with internal
Required
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience.
- 3+ (Senior) / 6+ (Advanced) years of experience providing technical delivery of large projects by working with stakeholders from business, development, and infrastructure domains.
- 2+ years of experience with Cloud-based technologies and concepts, including virtualization, containerization, and infrastructure as code.
- Cloud Platform (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc) associate-level certification or equivalent experience Knowledge and hands-on experience developing solutions utilizing DevOps and / or Infrastructure as code.
- Experience with IaC tools (Terraform, Cloudformation, CDK, etc).
- Strategic thinking and demonstrated ability to provide high-level technical analysis and thorough research.
- Experience working with large infrastructure hosting environments including knowledge of Application Hosting, distributed messaging architectures, network technologies (Ex: VPNs, TCP/IP, Firewalls, Routing, etc.), security technologies (Ex: public key cryptography and infrastructure, smart cards, authentication, authorization, etc.).
- Demonstration of thorough understanding of how discrete infrastructure components work together to provide
About Delphi-US
Delphi-US is a national recruiting firm based in Newport, Rhode Island. We specialize in IT, Engineering and Professional Staffing services for organizations across the United States of America. Our mission is simple: We are Peacemakers in the Talent War. Delphi attracts our nation’s best and brightest Technical & Professional Talent and position our nation’s finest employers to further their competitive advantages. We accomplish this with a proprietary skill-based and cultural matching process that results in higher qualified submissions, hiring with purpose, and employer/employee mutual success. You’ll find our team is supremely experienced, friendly, professional and ready to advocate on your behalf. Armed with best in class talent, Delphi has an indelible understanding of employer expectations and we deliver lasting results.
