
Cloud Engineer
Breakthrough T1D Indiana and Kentucky Chapter
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $140,000 - $150,000 per year
About the role
- Lead the design, development, and implementation of the overall enterprise architecture
- Design, deploy, and manage production-grade AWS infrastructure with an emphasis on reliability, performance, and cost efficiency
- Build and maintain solutions using key AWS services such as EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, VPC, S3, RDS/Aurora, DynamoDB, IAM, CloudFront, Route 53, SQS/SNS, CloudWatch, and KMS
- Implement high-availability, multi-AZ, and failover architectures
- Perform deep troubleshooting across compute, networking, storage, IAM, and application layers
- Build, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines using tools such as AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Jenkins
- Implement automated build, test, deploy, and rollback processes to improve deployment velocity and reliability
- Create reusable automation frameworks using Terraform, AWS CDK, or CloudFormation
- Enable engineering teams with self-service tooling and automation
- Design and manage AWS networking architectures including VPCs, subnets, routing tables, NAT gateways, VPNs, Direct Connect, transit gateways, security groups, NACLs, and load balancers
- Implement and maintain secure network segmentation, traffic routing, and connectivity to on-premise or hybrid environments
- Monitor and troubleshoot network performance, latency, DNS, and endpoint configuration issues
- Enforce AWS security best practices: IAM least privilege, MFA, secure access patterns, key management, encryption (at rest/in-transit), and vulnerability remediation
- Implement guardrails using tools such as AWS Config, GuardDuty, Inspector, CloudTrail, and Security Hub
- Ensure adherence to industry compliance frameworks (SOC2, ISO27001, HIPAA, PCI, etc., depending on the organization)
- Respond to security incidents, perform root-cause analysis, and drive long-term remediation
- Deploy and maintain monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions (CloudWatch, OpenSearch, Prometheus/Grafana, Datadog, New Relic, etc.)
- Implement SRE-driven practices including SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, and incident-response processes
- Improve overall resiliency and uptime across cloud environments.
Requirements
- 4–8+ years of cloud engineering experience with a strong focus on AWS
- Deep hands-on expertise across core AWS services, networking, IAM, and security
- Strong experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and automation frameworks
- Proficiency with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, CDK, or CloudFormation)
- Strong scripting skills (Python, Bash, PowerShell)
- Experience managing containers (Docker) and orchestrators (ECS, EKS, or Kubernetes)
- Solid understanding of cloud networking: VPC design, routing, load balancing, firewalls, DNS
- Experience managing production environments with strict uptime, security, and compliance requirements
- Strong communication skills, able to collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams
- Ability to document architectures, procedures, runbooks, and incident reports
- Analytical mindset with strong problem-solving skills
- Comfortable taking ownership of projects and mentoring junior team members.
Benefits
- medical, dental, and vision coverage
- a 403(b) retirement plan
- voluntary benefits
- flexible spending and commuter benefit accounts
- an employee assistance program (EAP)
- life and disability insurance
- performance-based bonuses
- generous paid time off
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
AWSEC2ECSEKSLambdaVPCS3RDSDynamoDBTerraform
Soft skills
communicationproblem-solvingcollaborationownershipmentoringanalytical mindset
Certifications
SOC2ISO27001HIPAAPCI