AWS Cloud Engineer – Mid-level

Position Title: AWS Cloud Engineer Mid-level
Location: Charlotte NC (USA) - Onsite 3 days
Job Type: Contract

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 an AWS Cloud Engineer to design implement and support scalable secure cloud infrastructure and application platforms on AWS. This role focuses on cloud provisioning automation monitoring and operational reliability while supporting enterprise workloads and modernization initiatives.

The ideal candidate has hands-on AWS engineering experience strong troubleshooting skills and familiarity with infrastructure automation and DevOps practices. Experience supporting clients in the utilities industry (energy power water or grid operations) is strongly preferred.

Key Responsibilities

Cloud Infrastructure & Solution Delivery

• Design deploy and maintain scalable AWS infrastructure supporting enterprise applications.
• Implement secure networking compute storage and IAM configurations.
• Support cloud migrations and modernization initiatives across development and production environments.

Automation CI/CD & DevOps Practices

• Build and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform CloudFormation or similar tools.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines for cloud deployments and environment provisioning.
• Automate operational tasks including environment setup patching and scaling.

Monitoring Reliability & Security

• Configure monitoring logging and alerting using CloudWatch and related services.
• Troubleshoot performance availability and connectivity issues across AWS workloads.
• Apply cloud security best practices including least-privilege IAM encryption and network controls.

Data & Application Platform Support

• Support deployment and integration of applications across AWS compute and container platforms.
• Manage storage solutions including S3 EBS and database services.
• Assist in designing resilient architectures for high availability and disaster recovery.

Technical Collaboration & Growth

• Collaborate with architects developers and operations teams to deliver cloud solutions.
• Document infrastructure designs deployment processes and operational procedures.
• Continuously build cloud expertise and contribute to improving engineering standards and automation.

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering Information Systems or related field preferred.
• 2 5 years of hands-on AWS cloud engineering experience.
• Experience supporting enterprise cloud environments or application deployments.
• Utilities industry experience preferred (energy power water grid systems or infrastructure operations).
• Proven ability to work in global distributed teams across US and India locations with the following technology stack:
• AWS Core Services: EC2 VPC IAM S3 RDS Lambda CloudWatch Route 53
• Containers & Compute: ECS EKS Docker Auto Scaling Load Balancers
• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform AWS CloudFormation
• CI/CD & Automation: GitHub Actions Jenkins AWS CodePipeline scripting automation
• Databases & Storage: RDS DynamoDB S3 lifecycle management backups
• Networking & Security: Security Groups NACLs IAM roles/policies encryption secrets management
• Languages & Scripting: Python Bash PowerShell (any combination)
• Monitoring & Logging: CloudWatch CloudTrail centralized logging tools
• Platforms & Architecture: Multi-account AWS environments high-availability architectures disaster recovery patterns
• Certifications: AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner OR AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate

What We Offer

• Competitive pay aligned to performance and outcomes
• Opportunities to work on enterprise-scale cloud modernization 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 secure scalable cloud platforms. Apply now.