Cloud Engineer

We are looking for a Cloud Engineer to support cloud infrastructure initiatives within a Financial Services environment in Woodbridge, New Jersey. This Long-term Contract position focuses on building scalable, reliable AWS-based solutions while improving automation and operational efficiency. The ideal candidate will bring strong experience with infrastructure as code and cloud engineering best practices to help maintain secure, high-performing platforms.

Responsibilities:
• Design, build, and maintain cloud infrastructure solutions across AWS to support application performance, availability, and resilience.
• Create and manage automated provisioning workflows using infrastructure as code tools to deliver consistent and repeatable deployments.
• Develop and enhance Ansible-based automation for configuration management, environment setup, and operational tasks.
• Implement and optimize Amazon EC2 environments and auto scaling configurations to align capacity with business demand.
• Monitor cloud resources, identify opportunities for performance improvement, and recommend enhancements to reliability and cost efficiency.
• Collaborate with engineering and support teams to troubleshoot infrastructure issues and resolve cloud-related incidents in a timely manner.
• Apply cloud security and operational best practices to maintain stable, compliant, and well-governed AWS environments.

Qualifications:

• Hands-on experience designing and supporting infrastructure in Amazon Web Services (AWS).
• Strong working knowledge of Ansible for automation and configuration management.
• Proven ability to implement infrastructure as code for cloud provisioning and maintenance.
• Experience administering and optimizing Amazon EC2 instances in production environments.
• Familiarity with AWS Auto Scaling and strategies for high availability and elastic capacity.
• Understanding of cloud engineering principles within regulated or enterprise-level environments.
• Ability to troubleshoot technical issues, work collaboratively, and communicate effectively with cross-functional teams.

Compensation

$59.38-$68.75 Hourly

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