Job Title: Sr. AWS Cloud Engineer
Location: San Francisco, CA
Job Mode: Contract / Fulltime
Job Description:
- Bachelors or Equivalent degree with 10+ years in software engineering or any related field
- AWS Certifications Must
- Strong hands-on experience with AWS cloud services
- Deep understanding of cloud security and compliance fundamentals, including:
- Organizational level identity and access governance
- Identity and access management (IAM), Least privilege principles
- Logging, monitoring, and traceability
- Encryption and data protection
- Configuration standardization and drift prevention
- Experience with preventive and detective guardrails to ensure systems remain within defined security and operational boundaries
- Proven ability to lead initiatives independently
- Self-starter mentality — proactive, decisive, and execution focused
- Hands on experience with Infrastructure as Code (CloudFormation or Terraform)
- Automation & scripting experience with Python, JavaScript, or Shell
- Strong hands-on CI/CD pipelines that enforce security by default, including policy checks and approval gates
