Cloud Engineer

Job Title: Cloud Infrastructure Engineer (AWS)

Location: Austin, TX - must be local and able to be onsite 1-2 days per week

Duration: 6 month contract-to-hire

Compensation: $75-95/HR

Work schedule: Monday-Friday (8 AM-5PM CST) - onsite 1-2x per week

Benefits: This position is eligible for medical, dental, vision and 401(k).

What You’ll Do

• Design, deploy, and manage AWS cloud infrastructure supporting business-critical applications.
• Optimize cloud environments for performance, scalability, cost efficiency, security, and availability.
• Build and maintain infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (CloudFormation, Terraform, Ansible).
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve issues across cloud infrastructure, networking, and application deployments.
• Implement and enforce cloud security best practices, including IAM, encryption, and compliance standards.
• Partner with DevOps, engineering, and business teams to deliver scalable cloud solutions.
• Support cloud-native architectures, including microservices and serverless workloads.
• Mentor junior engineers and provide exceptional service to internal customers.
• Stay current on AWS technologies and recommend improvements to cloud strategy.

What You’ll Bring

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, MIS, or equivalent practical experience.
• 4+ years of hands-on AWS cloud infrastructure experience (Azure/GCP experience is a plus).
• Strong experience with AWS services such as EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, IAM, VPC, ECS/EKS, Fargate, and CloudWatch.
• Experience with IaC tools (CloudFormation, Terraform, Ansible) and CI/CD pipelines.
• Solid understanding of cloud networking, security best practices, and compliance frameworks (SOC 2, NIST, GDPR).
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies and DevOps practices.
• Proficiency in one or more scripting/programming languages (Python, Bash, PowerShell, C#, or Go).
• Proven troubleshooting skills and the ability to work independently across teams.
• AWS and IaC certifications highly preferred.

Who You Are

• Customer‑focused and committed to delivering exceptional internal experiences.
• Highly collaborative with strong communication skills.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguous environments.
• An active learner who continuously improves through experimentation.