Cloud Engineer
The Cloud Engineer at Confidential Client is responsible for operating, maintaining, and improving the AWS cloud platform supporting application teams. This role involves executing infrastructure changes, managing security and access, troubleshooting issues, and supporting platform reliability and cost efficiency. It is ideal for early-career professionals with strong technical fundamentals who collaborate well and follow established standards to ensure a secure and scalable cloud environment.
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Role Overview
Confidential Client is hiring a Cloud Engineer to help operate, maintain, and improve a secure, reliable cloud platform that supports application teams. This is an early-career individual contributor role on a platform/DevOps-oriented team. You will work with senior engineers to implement infrastructure changes, support platform services, respond to incidents, and help automate repeatable tasks.
- Estimated pay: $176,275 per year (estimated)
What You’ll Do
- Build and support AWS infrastructure using established designs, security controls, and change-management practices.
- Work with senior engineers to clarify requirements and technical decisions.
- Maintain, monitor, upgrade, and troubleshoot platform technologies including Amazon EKS, service meshes, API gateways, Kafka/MSK, and Redis/ElastiCache.
- Use Terraform, Helm, and GitHub Actions to provision infrastructure and deploy platform changes.
- Manage IAM, networking, encryption, and secrets requests using established standards and identify automation opportunities.
- Monitor platform health, respond to alerts and incidents, troubleshoot with application teams, and escalate complex issues.
- Apply tagging standards, support cost reporting, investigate waste, and implement approved cost-saving changes.
- Maintain runbooks, implementation notes, request records, and troubleshooting guides; share lessons learned with the team.
- Participate in the on-call rotation, respond to incidents, communicate impact, and help prevent repeat issues.
- Build AWS and cloud platform skills through hands-on work, training, certifications, and feedback.
Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
Entry-level candidates are welcome. Experience may come from employment, internships, labs, coursework, certifications, or personal projects.
- Experience with core AWS concepts and services (compute, networking, storage, IAM, security groups, subnets, routing, monitoring).
- Experience deploying, managing, or supporting containerized applications on Kubernetes (Amazon EKS familiarity is a plus).
- Scripting experience (Python, PowerShell, or shell).
- Familiarity with cloud security, identity and access management, monitoring, logging, incident response, and change-management practices.
- Willingness to learn and use AI-assisted tools to support scripting, analysis, documentation, and operational workflows.
What Will Put You Ahead (Preferred Qualifications)
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.
- Experience supporting cloud infrastructure, internal platforms, service requests, or operational queues.
- Hands-on experience with Terraform, CI/CD, and source control workflows.
- Experience with Amazon EKS, ingress controllers, container networking, or service mesh technologies (Istio, Solo Gloo, etc.).
- Experience with API gateway technologies (Kong, Gloo) and GitOps tools (Argo CD).
- Experience with Cloudflare or similar CDN/DNS/web security platforms.
- Experience integrating on-premises systems with AWS (networking, identity federation).
- Relevant certifications such as AWS Associate-level certifications, Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), or HashiCorp Terraform Associate.
Team & Company
You will join a platform team that partners closely with Software Engineering, Security, and IT leadership to deliver secure, scalable, and supportable platform solutions. Confidential Client values technical curiosity, knowledge sharing, critical thinking, and a collaborative, "can-do" attitude.
Our Benefits
Confidential Client provides a comprehensive benefits package designed to support physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing. Typical offerings may include medical, dental, vision, FSA/HSA, life and disability insurance, retirement plans, paid time off, and access to educational assistance. Benefits and eligibility may vary by location.
Hiring & Compliance Notes
Confidential Client is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants without regard to protected characteristics. Where permitted by law, certain offers may be conditioned upon successful completion of background checks or drug tests. This employer may use E-Verify where authorized. Reasonable accommodations are available for applicants with disabilities; please request accommodations during the process.
Equal Opportunity & Hiring Transparency
Careertakes and our client are Equal Opportunity Employers committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce. We prohibit discrimination or harassment of any kind. To support a fair and efficient hiring process, AI tools may be used to assist with application review or resume screening. These tools do not replace human decision-making. Final hiring decisions are made by people.
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