AWS Cloud Engineer

Post Date

Jan 30, 2024

Location

Birmingham,
Alabama

ZIP/Postal Code

35211
US
Oct 02, 2025 Insight Global

Job Type

Contract-to-perm

Category

Software Engineering

Req #

BIR-678909

Pay Rate

$57 - $86 (hourly estimate)

Job Description

This individual will be joining a small team of 3 (15-20 overall) and will be supporting their AWS infrastructure. They will be designing, implementing, maintaining scalable, secure cloud infrastructure solutions. This team supports the infrastructure around a SaaS product. The core technologies used are relevant AWS services as well as Terraform for automation.

Required Skills & Experience

* 3-6 years of experience as a true Cloud Engineer, focused heavily on AWS (needs to be specialized).

* Experience with at least two of the following services: Lambda functions, CloudWatch, CloudFront, EC2 instances, RDS, RedShift.

* Strong experience using Terraform for IaC.

* Experience working in an Agile environment, ideally using Jira, Git and Github for tracking & team collaboration.

* Familiar with SOC 2 security and compliance (able to support yearly audits/meet guidelines).

* Excellent communication skills, strong work ethic, humble attitude, eager to learn & passionate about AWS solutions.

* Certification in AWS: Cloud Practitioner, Developer, Solutions Architect, SysOps Admin.

Nice to Have Skills & Experience

* Exposure to Azure (ie. O365, etc) and/or GCP (currently they are integrating with different services and migrating from GCP to AWS).

* Experience supporting a Microsoft-stack based application suite.

Benefit packages for this role will start on the 31st day of employment and include medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as HSA, FSA, and DCFSA account options, and 401k retirement account access with employer matching. Employees in this role are also entitled to paid sick leave and/or other paid time off as provided by applicable law.