Job Title: AWS Engineer (Contract-to-Hire, Remote)

Location: 100% Remote (U.S. based)

Type: 6-Month Contract to Hire

About the Role:

We are seeking a motivated and skilled AWS Engineer with 2–3 years of hands-on experience to join our growing cloud infrastructure team. This is a contract-to-hire opportunity designed for candidates who thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment and are passionate about helping application teams modernize and scale in the cloud.

What You’ll Do:

1. Support application teams on their cloud journey by automating infrastructure provisioning and offering expert AWS guidance.
2. Troubleshoot cloud-related issues quickly and effectively across a wide range of AWS services.
3. Contribute to sprint goals by completing stories and resolving support tickets efficiently.
4. Continuously learn and share best practices to help improve team productivity and system reliability.

Day One Overview:

1. Join IT New Hire onboarding to set up tools and access
2. Begin shadowing team members to learn processes, tools, and team structure
3. Get familiar with support workflows and infrastructure management tasks

Required Skills & Experience:

1. 2+ years of hands-on AWS experience
2. Experience deploying and troubleshooting services such as:
3. EKS, Lambda, VPC, EC2, Security Groups, IAM, KMS, DynamoDB, RDS, Route 53, S3, Glue, MSK
4. Strong command of AWS CLI, scripting, and CloudFormation
5. Understanding of observability concepts (monitoring/logging)

Preferred Skills:

1. CI/CD pipeline knowledge – GitLab, Terraform
2. Background in software development
3. Experience working in Agile environments using JIRA and Scrum methodologies

Education:

1. Required: Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related field
2. Preferred: AWS Certifications (optional)

Success Metrics:

1. Completion of sprint stories and backlog items
2. Timely and effective resolution of support tickets

Why Join Us?

1. Work 100% remotely from anywhere in the U.S.
2. Opportunity to grow into a long-term full-time role
3. Collaborate with experienced professionals in a cloud-first engineering environment

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