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# AWS Cloud Engineer

- **Company:** American CyberSystems
- **Location:** Maryland Heights, MO, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $114,400.0 - $124,800.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon S3, Systems Development Life Cycle, Software Deployment, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Kubernetes, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Terraform
- **Published:** August 10, 2026
- **Apply:** https://public-rest34.bullhornstaffing.com/rest-services/2WXP1S/query/JobBoardPost?where=id=1022132&fields=id,title,publishedCategory(id,name),address(city,state),employmentType,dateLastPublished,publicDescription,isOpen,isPublic,isDeleted

## About the Role

* AWS cloud production support experience.
 * Strong knowledge of AWS services including S3, EC2, and VPC.
 * Expertise with Terraform for AWS infrastructure management.
 * Expertise in Kubernetes and container orchestration.
 * Experience supporting code deployments, hotfixes, patches, and configuration fixes.
 * Experience automating infrastructure and application delivery using SDLC principles.
 * 5 to 10 years of relevant experience.

## Description

* Proactively monitor cloud operational costs, implement AWS resource tagging strategies, and propose continuous infrastructure improvements
 * Architect and maintain platform monitoring solutions, specifically driving migrations and refining alerting logic to minimize noise
 * Build, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines. Coordinating release activities
 * Hands-on experience managing and scaling Kubernetes workloads and containerized infrastructure
 * Ongoing support during hot-fixes, patches, and correcting configuration issues


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