Senior AWS Cloud Engineer
We’re looking for a Senior AWS Cloud Engineer / Architect to lead a critical cloud hardening and resilience project.
You’ll take an existing AWS environment and transform it into a secure, highly available, production-grade platform — implementing best-in-class backup, failover, disaster recovery, and security controls.
This is a hands-on delivery role with architectural ownership.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Design and implement backup & disaster recovery strategy (RTO/RPO defined)
- Build multi-AZ, highly available architectures with automated failover
- Implement AWS Network Firewall & WAF for full perimeter security
- Harden environments with least privilege IAM, MFA, and access controls
- Set up CloudWatch, CloudTrail & VPC Flow Logs for monitoring and audit
- Deliver Infrastructure as Code (Terraform / CloudFormation / scripts)
- Create runbooks, architecture diagrams, and DR procedures
- Execute testing & validation (failover, backup restore, DR simulation)
Key Requirements
We’re targeting experienced contractors who can hit the ground running:
Core Skills
- Strong hands-on AWS experience (5+ years)
- Proven experience with:
- High availability & failover design
- Backup, replication & disaster recovery
- AWS networking & security architecture
- Deep understanding of:
- IAM (RBAC, least privilege, MFA)
- CloudWatch, CloudTrail, logging & monitoring
- Experience implementing:
- AWS WAF & Network Firewall (or similar)
- Secure VPC design (segmentation, NACLs, security groups)
Technical Tools
- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform / CloudFormation preferred)
- AWS services: EC2, RDS/SQL, EBS, ELB, VPC
Bonus
- Experience in security-focused or regulated environments
- Strong documentation & stakeholder communication skills
By the end of the contract, you will have delivered:
- A fully hardened AWS environment
- Tested and validated failover & DR processes
- Complete monitoring, alerting, and security controls
- Clear documentation and runbooks for ongoing operations