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# AWS Cloud Engineer

- **Company:** Amazon.com, Inc.
- **Location:** Charlotte, NC, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Cloud Computing Security, Cloud Engineering, Databases, Disaster Recovery, Identity and Access Management, PostgreSQL, System Availability, Amazon Relational Database Service, Terraform
- **Published:** October 11, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.thejobnetwork.com/job/faea3af6-5316-4af9-83c4-7fc57e3f0ad9/senior-aws-cloud-engineer

## About the Role

The role requires a very senior cloud engineering background (8-10+ years) with strong hands-on experience across AWS architecture, AWS database services, Terraform/Terraform Enterprise, IAM, networking, and cloud security.

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Recent and relevant experience with Amazon RDS, Aurora, and PostgreSQL is particularly important. The candidate should be able to demonstrate that this database experience has been part of their recent hands-on work, rather than older experience listed on a resume.

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The successful candidate will design end-to-end AWS database solutions using Infrastructure as Code, build reusable Terraform modules, establish secure IAM architectures, and support enterprise cloud automation and deployment patterns., * 8-10+ years of professional experience is required.
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 * Strong Cloud Engineering background as the primary skillset.
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 * Strong AWS cloud engineering and architecture experience.
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 * Demonstrated experience working in large enterprise environments.
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 * Strong project tenure and a history of successfully delivering projects through completion.
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 * Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
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AWS Database Experience

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Recent, relevant, hands-on database experience is critical.

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 * Strong hands-on experience with Amazon RDS.
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 * Strong hands-on experience with Amazon Aurora.
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 * Strong hands-on experience with PostgreSQL.
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 * Candidates should have meaningful recent experience with these database technologies.
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 * Experience designing database architectures for high availability, disaster recovery, performance, scalability, and cost optimization.
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 * Experience with AWS security services including KMS, Secrets Manager, Parameter Store, and CloudTrail.
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## Description

The Senior Cloud Engineer / AWS Architect will design and implement secure, scalable, highly available AWS solutions within a large enterprise environment.