Cloud Engineer 3

Cloud Engineer 3 – AWS Platform / Infrastructure Engineer

Location: Peoria, IL or Irving, TX

Work Arrangement: Full-time onsite

Contract Length: 12 months

Schedule: Monday–Friday, 1st Shift

Compensation: $62–$67/hr W2

Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, 401(k) Match

Relocation: Candidates may relocate but must be available to work onsite from Day 1

Position Overview

We are seeking an experienced Cloud Engineer to join an enterprise AWS Platform team supporting infrastructure for data, serverless, and container-based workloads. This role will focus on designing, provisioning, automating, and operating secure AWS environments used by application and business teams across the organization.

The ideal candidate will bring strong hands-on AWS infrastructure experience, particularly with EKS, ECS/Fargate, serverless services, networking, IAM, Infrastructure as Code, and CI/CD automation.

Responsibilities

• Provision and operate AWS infrastructure supporting S3, Glue, Lambda, API Gateway, Step Functions, EventBridge, and DynamoDB.
• Build, upgrade, maintain, and troubleshoot EKS clusters and ECS/Fargate environments.
• Automate infrastructure delivery using reusable CloudFormation templates and GitHub Actions pipelines.
• Design and troubleshoot AWS networking, including VPCs, ALB/NLB, IAM, KMS, SCPs, permission boundaries, and cross-account access.
• Support AWS infrastructure across a multi-account enterprise environment.
• Onboard new business unit environments, gather requirements, estimate costs, and provide production infrastructure support.
• Use Python and/or Bash scripting to automate infrastructure and operational processes.
• Partner directly with internal customers to understand requirements, explain AWS options, set expectations, and quickly resolve infrastructure issues.
  
  

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• 5–7 years of relevant cloud/infrastructure engineering experience.
• AWS certification required, particularly AWS Certified Solutions Architect.
• Multiple AWS certifications are strongly preferred.
• Strong hands-on experience building and operating AWS infrastructure in multi-account environments.
• Experience provisioning and supporting EKS, ECS/Fargate, Lambda, S3, and Glue.
• Strong AWS networking and IAM knowledge, including VPC, ALB/NLB, SCPs, permission boundaries, KMS, and cross-account access.
• Infrastructure as Code experience using CloudFormation.
• CI/CD experience with GitHub Actions.
• Python and/or Bash scripting experience.
• Strong customer-facing communication skills with the ability to explain technical AWS concepts to teams with varying levels of cloud experience.