AWS Infrastructure Engineer

Dallas, IA - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 22 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Job Title: AWS Infrastructure Engineer

Job Location: Dallas Texas Onsite

Role Overview
We are seeking a highly skilled AWS Infrastructure Engineer to design build and manage scalable secure and highly available AWS infrastructure. This role will be responsible for creating AWS infrastructure from the ground up defining policies roles and standards and deploying and managing resources using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform). The engineer will also support data platforms including S3 EMR Kafka and other AWS services ensuring performance reliability versioning scalability and cost efficiency.

Key Responsibilities

AWS Infrastructure & Architecture

Design and implement AWS cloud infrastructure following best practices for security scalability and availability
Architect solutions across multiple availability zones for high availability and fault tolerance
Define and enforce AWS resource naming standards and tagging strategies
Implement IAM policies bucket policies and security controls aligned with organizational governance
Manage core AWS services including VPC EC2 S3 IAM CloudWatch and EMR
Amazon S3 & Data Storage
Design and manage Amazon S3 buckets including:
Bucket policies and access controls
Encryption versioning and logging
Define and implement S3 lifecycle management policies for cost optimization and data retention
Establish data partitioning and versioning strategies for large-scale datasets
Infrastructure as Code & Automation
Develop deploy and maintain AWS infrastructure using Terraform
Create reusable Terraform modules and enforce IaC best practices
Manage infrastructure deployments across multiple environments (dev test prod)
Integrate Terraform deployments with CI/CD pipelines
Perform infrastructure upgrades and changes with minimal downtime
Data & EMR Platform
Design deploy and manage AWS EMR clusters
Cluster sizing node roles (master/core/task) and configurations
Auto-scaling and performance tuning
Manage cluster lifecycle (provisioning scaling patching termination)
Optimize Spark Hive and Hadoop workloads for performance and cost Integrate and manage Kafka for streaming data pipelines
Define Kafka partitioning and scaling strategies
Monitoring Operations & Documentation
Implement monitoring logging and alerting using Amazon CloudWatch and related tools
Troubleshoot infrastructure EMR and data platform issues
Document architecture standards and operational procedures in Confluence
Collaborate with data engineers security teams and application teams

Required Skills & Experience

6 years of experience in AWS infrastructure and cloud engineering
Strong hands-on experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code
Deep knowledge of AWS services: S3 EC2 VPC IAM EMR CloudWatch
Experience designing highly available multi-AZ architectures
Solid understanding of security best practices and policy management
Hands-on experience with Big Data platforms (EMR Spark Hive Hadoop)
Experience with Kafka including partitioning and scaling strategies
Strong scripting skills (Python Bash)
Experience working in Linux-based environments

Preferred Qualifications

AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Associate or Professional)
AWS Certified Data Analytics Specialty
Familiarity with CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions Jenkins GitLab CI)
Experience in large-scale or regulated enterprise environments

What Success Looks Like

AWS infrastructure is fully codified repeatable and secureEMR and Kafka platforms scale reliably with predictable performance
Clear standards policies and documentation are adopted across teams
Infrastructure costs are optimized without sacrificing reliability

Job Title: AWS Infrastructure Engineer Job Location: Dallas Texas Onsite Role Overview We are seeking a highly skilled AWS Infrastructure Engineer to design build and manage scalable secure and highly available AWS infrastructure. This role will be responsible for creating AWS infrastructure from t...