Senior AWS Platform & AI Cloud Engineer

Lighthouse Technology Services

Job Location:

Charlotte, VT - USA

Monthly Salary: $ 70 - 75

Posted on: 8 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Lighthouse Technology Services is partnering with our client to fill theirSenior AWS Platform & AI Cloud Engineerposition! This is a6 monthcontract-to-hire opportunity and will beremote inthe United States. This role will be a W2 employee of Lighthouse Technology C2C or subcontracting arrangements will be considered.

Position Overview:

The right person will have a strong platform engineering background and an AI-first mindset. This role will design build and operationalize scalable AWS infrastructure and enterprise AI solutions while enabling self-service capabilities for application teams.

This position requires deep AWS expertise infrastructure-as-code experience modern CI/CD pipeline engineering and hands-on experience deploying and governing Generative AI solutions at scale.

What Youll Be Doing:

Cloud Architecture & Platform Engineering

Design build and deploy scalable AWS infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (CloudFormation Terraform).
Develop and maintain infrastructure and platform CI/CD pipelines for agile application delivery.
Engineer repeatable automated platform solutions that enable secure self-service capabilities for application teams.
Build and maintain Gold Images and automated provisioning solutions.
Design as-is and to-be architectural diagrams to support infrastructure transformation.

AI & Generative AI Engineering

Lead design and production deployment of AWS GenAI solutions using Amazon Bedrock delivering scalable low-latency AI inference without managing GPU infrastructure.
Establish enterprise AI platform patterns focused on performance cost optimization safety and observability.
Integrate Amazon Q/Kiro into cloud operations to accelerate troubleshooting and architecture analysis.
Partner with security and application teams to operationalize responsible AI practices aligned with enterprise standards.
Promote an AI-first mentality to optimize operations and improve engineering processes.

AWS Infrastructure & Security

Architect and manage AWS services including VPCs Subnets Route53 Load Balancers (ALB/NLB) WAF Security Groups NACLs EC2 S3 EBS IAM Systems Manager (SSM) CloudWatch StackSets and GuardDuty.
Engineer networking solutions leveraging TCP/IP DNS DHCP routing protocols and distributed computing principles.
Implement secure design patterns patching strategies logging (CloudTrail) and monitoring best practices.
Support containerized workloads using ECR EMR and EKS.

Automation & DevOps

Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines using CloudFormation Azure DevOps Jenkins Ansible and configuration management tools.
Develop automation using Python YAML JSON and Terraform.
Support hybrid environments across Windows Server (2019) and Linux (RHEL 8.x9.x SUSE).
Implement monitoring solutions using CloudWatch Cribl and Zabbix.

What Youll Need to Have:

Experience

Minimum 3 years of hands-on AWS experience.
35 years building infrastructure and platform pipelines.
Experience designing and deploying AWS GenAI solutions (Amazon Bedrock).
Proven background in platform engineering and Infrastructure-as-Code automation.
Experience building automated self-service cloud platforms.

Technical Expertise

AI and Generative AI architecture and governance.
AWS core services: EC2 S3 IAM VPC EBS CloudWatch SSM Security Groups.
CI/CD pipeline development and automation.
CloudFormation Terraform Python.
Containers (EKS ECR EMR).
Monitoring and observability tools.
Strong understanding of AWS security frameworks and constructs.

Pay Range:$70-$75/hr

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