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# AWS Cloud Engineer

- **Company:** Ascii Group, LLC
- **Location:** San Diego, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $124,800.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Amazon Cloudfront, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon S3, Audit Trail, Cloud Computing, DevOps, Disaster Recovery, Github, Identity and Access Management, Network Security, Prometheus, AWS Cdk, Data Logging, Enterprise Software Applications, Cloud Platform System, System Availability, Grafana, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), AWS ECS, Cloudformation, Amazon Relational Database Service, Gitlab-ci, Kubernetes, Route53, Functional Programming, Cloud Optimization, Cloudwatch, Api Gateway, Terraform, AWS EKS, Docker, Jenkins
- **Published:** August 7, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/5b2a2396-9ffe-4c24-88b9-714bf41024f0

## About the Role

Minimum years of experience: 8 years A seasoned AWS professional capable of leading cloud transformation initiatives, establishing cloud governance, optimizing cloud operations, and driving enterprise adoption of AWS best practices.

## Description

Design, deploy, and manage enterprise-scale AWS cloud environments using services such as EC2, VPC, S3, RDS, Lambda, API Gateway, CloudFront, Route 53, ECS/EKS, and IAM.
Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or AWS CDK.
Lead cloud migration, modernization, and transformation initiatives for enterprise applications.
Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or similar DevOps tools.
Implement containerization and orchestration solutions using Docker, Kubernetes, AWS ECS, and AWS EKS.
Establish monitoring, logging, and observability using CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Prometheus, Grafana, and related tools.
Ensure cloud environments meet security, governance, compliance, and audit requirements through IAM, encryption, and network security controls.
Drive cloud cost optimization and operational efficiency using AWS native tools and FinOps best practices.
Support disaster recovery, backup strategies, high availability, and business continuity planning.
Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and architectural guidance to engineering teams.
Must-Have Skills:

 * AWS
 * EC2
 * VPC
 * IAM
 * ECS
 * EKS


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