Sr AWS and Infrastructure Engineer

What success looks like in this role:

Key Responsibilities

• Define and own the target-state AWS infrastructure architecture and operational standards for production environments ensuring scalability resilience security and alignment to business objectives.
• Act as the technical authority for Linux and Windows OS engineering on AWS driving platform stability through proactive improvements advanced troubleshooting and performance tuning across complex environments.
• Establish enterprise-grade Infrastructure as Code (IaC) frameworks reusable patterns and governance using Terraform and/or CloudFormation; review and approve infrastructure changes for quality and risk.
• Lead security architecture and compliance implementation across IAM strategy network segmentation encryption/KMS centralized logging/auditing and continuous control validation in partnership with security and risk teams.
• Drive performance engineering and cost optimization strategy across AWS workloads including right-sizing scaling design storage optimization lifecycle policies and standard optimization playbooks.
• Own DR/BCP architecture and readiness including RTO/RPO definition support recovery designs runbooks testing cadence and continuous improvements based on lessons learned.
• Enable mature CI/CD and deployment practices by integrating infrastructure and platform controls with pipelines (CodePipeline/CodeDeploy and/or Jenkins/GitLab) including guardrails policy-as-code and release governance.
• Lead major incident and problem management for cloud infrastructure providing deep technical leadership during outages ensuring high-quality RCAs and driving corrective/preventive actions and reliability improvements.
• Provide technical leadership across teams: mentor L1L3 engineers conduct design reviews contribute to hiring/upskilling and promote best practices and standardization.
• Maintain high-quality documentation and reference architectures including standards blueprints operational procedures and knowledge base articles.

Skills (Must-haves)

• 8 years of infrastructure engineering/operations experience with 5 years delivering and operating AWS production environments at scale.
• Expert-level understanding of AWS services and architecture patterns including EC2 EBS S3 VPC IAM CloudWatch CloudTrail load balancing and scaling strategies.
• Deep Linux and Windows engineering expertise in cloud environments (hardening standards patching strategy automation performance tuning troubleshooting at scale).
• Expert-level IaC capability using Terraform and/or CloudFormation including reusable frameworks module design version control CI validation and drift/compliance management.
• Advanced AWS networking design expertise: VPC architecture routing segmentation NACL/security posture VPN/Direct Connect DNS fundamentals and traffic management patterns.
• Security engineering depth: IAM design patterns KMS/encryption strategy audit logging secure baselines threat detection integration and compliance control implementation.
• Strong observability and reliability engineering skills: monitoring strategy alert design log/metric correlation SLO/SLA awareness and operational readiness practices.
• Advanced automation/scripting proficiency (Python/Bash/PowerShell) with ability to build operational tooling and integrate automation into pipelines and runbooks.
• Ability to influence and communicate effectively with senior stakeholders including translating complex technical risk/decisions into clear options and recommendations.

You will be successful in this role if you have:

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science / IT / Engineering (or equivalent practical experience).
• AWS Professional-level certification required: AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional and/or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional (or equivalent expertise)

Good to Have / Desirable Skills

• Enterprise AWS connectivity and multi-account design: Transit Gateway Direct Connect VPC endpoints/PrivateLink landing zones cross-account IAM and governance.
• Strong AWS Systems Manager expertise (Automation Patch Manager Session Manager Run Command Inventory Parameter Store) and standard runbook automation.
• Security services experience: GuardDuty Security Hub AWS Config AWS Shield; familiarity with vulnerability management and compliance reporting.
• Experience operating regulated environments and implementing policy-as-code / guardrails at scale.
• Experience with AWS-managed databases (RDS/Aurora/DynamoDB) including availability monitoring backups and performance troubleshooting.
• Strong CI/CD and GitOps maturity including pipeline guardrails change governance and promotion strategies across environments.
• FinOps maturity exposure: chargeback/showback inputs cost governance savings tracking and continuous optimization operating model.

Unisys offers an outstanding benefits package featuring unlimited paid time off a 401(k) plan comprehensive healthcare HSA matching ongoing learning opportunities and more! Were committed to supporting work-life balance and investing in your future success.

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