- 5+ years of experience
- Hands-on experience with AWS in a production environment — compute, storage, networking, and IAM
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code, ideally Terraform, including writing and modifying modules
- Working knowledge of AWS networking fundamentals (VPCs, subnets, routing, security groups)
- Understanding of IAM and cloud security fundamentals (least privilege, encryption, secrets management)
- Comfortable working from tickets, playbooks, and runbooks, and following documented processes accurately
- Good written and verbal communication skills; able to work with engineers and business stakeholders to clarify requirements
- Ability to work independently on well-scoped tasks while knowing when to escalate
Additional Qualifications
(Nice to Haves)
- Experience with Terraform Cloud, Spacelift, or similar centralized IaC platforms
- Exposure to multi-account AWS environments (Landing Zones, Control Tower)
- Experience with containerized workloads (Kubernetes/EKS)
- Familiarity with monitoring/alerting tools (e.g., Grafana, CloudWatch)
- Exposure to AI/ML or HPC cloud workloads
