Sr AWS Cloud Engineer
Cloudious LLC
South San Francisco, United States of America
8 days ago
Role details
Contract type
Permanent contract Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours) Working hours
Regular working hours Languages
English Experience level
Senior Compensation
$ 134KJob location
South San Francisco, United States of America
Tech stack
JavaScript
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Cloud Computing Security
Cloud Engineering
Computer Security
Computer Programming
Databases
Data Security
DNS
Identity and Access Management
Subnetting
Python
Routing
Cloud Services
Data Logging
Cloud Platform System
Cloudformation
Terraform
Serverless Computing
Job description
We are seeking a driven Sr AWS Cloud Engineer with a strong foundation in cloud platform engineering, security, and operations. This role is ideal for a self starter and go getter who takes pride in designing systems that are secure by design, verifiable by default, and continuously ready for internal and external scrutiny. What You'll Do
- Design and operate AWS cloud environments that are secure, scalable, and operationally mature
- Own reliability, security, and operational health of cloud environments
- Lead initiatives independently from concept through delivery
- Partner with application teams to enable secure self service cloud capabilities
- Proactively identify risks, gaps, and process weaknesses and drive improvements
- Develop automation and tooling using modern scripting and programming languages
What You Bring (Required)
- Strong hands-on experience with AWS cloud services
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Requirements
- Organizational level identity and access governance
- Identity and access management (IAM), Least privilege principles
- Logging, monitoring, and traceability
- Encryption and data protection
- Configuration standardization and drift prevention
- Experience with preventive and detective guardrails to ensure systems remain within defined security and operational boundaries
- Proven ability to lead initiatives independently
- Self starter mentality - proactive, decisive, and execution focused
- Hands on experience with Infrastructure as Code (CloudFormation or Terraform)
- Automation & scripting experience with Python, JavaScript, or Shell
- Strong hands-on CI/CD pipelines that enforce security by default, including policy checks and approval gates
Nice to Have
- Experience with AWS networking (VPCs, subnets, routing, dns)
- AWS Multi-Account Control Tower / Account Factory experience
- Familiarity with compliance frameworks (SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI, HIPAA)
- AWS certifications (Security, Solutions Architect, SysOps)
- Containers (ECS/EKS) or serverless architectures (Lambda)
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