Senior AWS Cloud Engineer

About the role

• Forterra is seeking a Sr. AWS Cloud Engineer to design manage and secure cloud infrastructure
  supporting autonomous vehicle platforms and enterprise operations. This role will own critical
  workstreams including infrastructure inventory change management and security compliance
  across a multi-account AWS environment.
  The ideal candidate has hands-on AWS experience in a multi-account organization strong
  Terraform skills and a security-conscious mindset. Experience in GovCloud or FedRAMP
  environments is strongly preferred.

What youll do

• Manage and secure AWS infrastructure across multiple accounts (commercial and
  GovCloud).
• Design and implement infrastructure-as-code using Terraform including modules for IAM
  networking compute and storage.
• Build andmaintainan infrastructure inventory for all critical services and accounts.
• Implement change management processes for production infrastructure (source control
  review monitoring).
• Respond to and remediate infrastructure incidents;participatein postmortem reviews.
• Configure andmaintainmonitoring alerting and observability for cloud services.
• Support security compliance initiatives (GuardDuty CloudTrail Panther SIEM CrowdStrike
  integration).
• Collaborate with Cybersecurity on vulnerability management patching and asset tagging.
• Manage cost optimization across AWS accounts including reserved instances savings plans
  and storage tiering.
• Document infrastructure architecture runbooks and operational procedures.

Qualifications

• 3 years of professional experience managing AWS infrastructure.
• Strong Terraform experience (modules state management multi-account patterns).
• Experience with AWS IAM VPC networking S3 EC2 EKS and CloudWatch.
• Understanding of networking concepts: VPN Transit Gateway DNS security groups.
• Incident response experience; ability to troubleshoot across application infrastructure and
  network layers.
• Strong documentation and communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with AWS GovCloud or FedRAMP compliance environments.
• Experience with EKS cluster management (managed node groups add-ons).
• Experience with CI/CD pipeline infrastructure (GitLab CI runners container registries).
• Experience with infrastructure monitoring and alerting (Prometheus Grafana CloudWatch
  or equivalent).
• Linux systems administrationproficiency.
• Experience with SIEM platforms (Panther Splunk or equivalent).
• Experience with SSO/SAML integration (AWS IAM Identity Center Entra ID).
• Familiarity with cost management tools (AWS Cost Explorer budgets FinOps practices).
• Security certifications (AWS Security Specialty CompTIA Security or equivalent).
  
  

US Salary Range
$145000.00$165000.00

The salary range for this role is an estimate and is based on a wide variety of compensation factors. The salary offered to candidates will vary based on a variety of factors including (but not limited to) relevant work experience education specialized training critical expertise training and more. Equity in Forterra is included in most of our full-time high-demand roles and is therefore considered part of Forterras overall compensation addition to base salary and equity Forterra offers competitive benefits for full-time employees including:

• Premium Healthcare Benefits: Three plan options including an HSA-eligible plan with Forterra covering 80% of the plan premium for you and your dependents.
• Basic Life/AD&D short and long-term disability insurance plans 100% covered by Forterra plus the option to purchase additional life insurance for you and your dependents.
• Extremely generous company holiday calendar including a winter break in December.
• Competitive paid time off (PTO) offering 20 days accrued per year.
• A minimum of 7 weeks fully paid parental leave for birth/adoption.
• A $9k annual tuition reimbursement or professional development stipend.
• Fully stocked beverage refrigerators with all the Celsius your little heart desires.
• 401(k) retirement savings plan including traditional Roth 401(k) and after-tax deferral with company match up to 4%.

Your recruiter will be able to share more information about our salary and benefits offering during the hiring process.

Forterra is an equal-opportunity employer providing and promoting equal employment opportunity in accordance with local state and federal laws. Forterrans are unique talented individuals who are united through a shared passion to deliver autonomous systems that enable national resilience and a robust supply chain. All qualified applications will receive equal consideration for employment.

Required Experience:

Senior IC