Senior Terraform Engineer

Washington, AR - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: Yesterday

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Position Title: Senior Terraform Engineer
Location: Washington DC Onsite 4 days in a week

Lets create our future together at The AES Group!

About The AES Group

The AES Group is a premier technology staffing and services company that has been bringing businesses and talent together for over 20 years to deliver innovative technology solutions that create meaningful impact. AES helps enterprises including Fortune 500 organizations engage customers empower employees and transform operations through cloud data AI and emerging technologies.

About the Role

We are seeking a senior-level Terraform Engineer to architect lead and deliver scalable secure Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) platforms across multi-cloud environments. This role focuses on Terraform-based cloud provisioning reusable infrastructure modules policy-driven automation and platform reliability across Azure and AWS.

The ideal candidate combines deep hands-on Terraform expertise with platform architecture leadership ensuring infrastructure is secure compliant observable and cost-efficient. This role also includes mentoring engineers and elevating overall DevOps and platform engineering capability.

Key Responsibilities

Infrastructure Architecture & IaC Delivery

Architect and deliver enterprise Infrastructure-as-Code solutions using Terraform across cloud platforms.
Design reusable Terraform modules and composable infrastructure patterns.
Align infrastructure design with security compliance scalability and cost objectives.

Cloud Provisioning & Platform Automation

Automate provisioning of compute network storage identity and platform services across Azure and AWS.
Implement environment provisioning frameworks for dev test staging and production.
Integrate Terraform with CI/CD pipelines for automated infrastructure deployment.

Terraform Module Engineering & Governance

Build version and maintain reusable Terraform module libraries.
Enforce module standards naming conventions tagging and policy controls.
Implement policy-as-code and guardrails using Sentinel OPA or equivalent tooling.

Infrastructure Operations Security & Reliability

Implement secure-by-design infrastructure patterns including RBAC secrets and network controls.
Enable infrastructure observability drift detection and state management best practices.
Apply compliance auditability and change control across IaC workflows.

Technical Leadership & Mentorship

Lead infrastructure engineering execution and cross-team platform collaboration.
Mentor engineers on Terraform best practices code quality and IaC design patterns.
Build reusable standards reference architectures and platform engineering playbooks.

Qualifications

Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or related field required; Masters preferred.
8 years of infrastructure cloud or DevOps engineering experience.
4 years hands-on experience with Terraform and Infrastructure-as-Code at enterprise scale.
Proven experience delivering production cloud platforms in regulated or enterprise environments with the following technology stack:

Terraform & IaC: Terraform Terraform Cloud/Enterprise Terraform modules remote state backends workspace strategy
Azure: Azure Resource Manager Azure Landing Zones VNet AKS Storage Key Vault Azure Policy Azure Monitor
AWS: VPC IAM EC2 EKS RDS S3 CloudWatch Control Tower Organizations
CI/CD & Automation: GitHub Actions Azure DevOps Jenkins GitLab CI pipeline automation for IaC
Languages & Scripting: HCL Python Bash PowerShell
Containers & Orchestration: Docker Kubernetes Helm
Policy & Security: Sentinel Open Policy Agent (OPA) policy-as-code secrets management
State & Governance: Remote state drift detection environment promotion workflows
Platforms & Orchestration: Kubernetes platforms multi-account / multi-subscription cloud environments hybrid/multi-cloud deployments

Certifications

HashiCorp Terraform Associate
AWS Solutions Architect Associate or Professional
Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104)
Kubernetes CKA or CKAD
DevOps or Cloud Security certification

What We Offer

Competitive pay aligned to performance and outcomes
Opportunities to lead large-scale cloud platform initiatives
Professional growth with industry-leading clients and technologies
Open collaborative culture where your impact is visible and valued

Join The AES Group and help build the next generation of enterprise cloud platforms. Apply now.

Position Title: Senior Terraform Engineer Location: Washington DC Onsite 4 days in a week Lets create our future together at The AES Group! About The AES Group The AES Group is a premier technology staffing and services company that has been bringing businesses and talent together for over 20 ye...