AWS Cloud Engineer

Overview Role: The Cloud Infrastructure Engineer is an experienced individual contributor responsible for designing, implementing, and operating secure, scalable, and highly available AWS infrastructure supporting a production-grade, multi-account B2B SaaS platform in the financial services industry. This role is critical to maintaining platform resilience, security, automation maturity, and operational excellence across production and non-production environments. The engineer operates with moderate autonomy, owning defined areas of the AWS environment while contributing to infrastructure standards, reliability engineering, and security best practices. Responsibilities Design, build, and maintain AWS infrastructure across production and non-production environmentsSupport application deployments and underlying platform services required for reliable operationImplement and manage infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)Configure and maintain AWS services including compute, storage, networking, and managed servicesMonitor infrastructure health, availability, and performance; respond to incidents and perform root cause analysisPartner with application engineering and security teams to support system reliability and scalabilityImplement and maintain backup, disaster recovery, and high-availability solutionsSupport automation related to infrastructure provisioning and application deploymentsManage IAM roles, permissions, and access controls in alignment with security policiesContribute to cloud cost monitoring and optimization effortsMaintain documentation, runbooks, and operational proceduresParticipate in on-call or incident response rotations as required Core AWS & Cloud Technologies - Compute & Containers Amazon ECS (Elastic Container Service)Amazon EC2Amazon ECR (Elastic Container Registry)AWS Lambda (event-driven workloads) Networking & Edge Amazon VPC (multi-AZ design, subnet segmentation)Internet Gateway (IGW)VPC PeeringElastic Load Balancing (ALB)AWS WAFAmazon Route 53AWS Data Transfer optimization Databases & Caching Amazon RDS (PostgreSQL) and PSQLAmazon DocumentDB (MongoDB compatibility)Amazon ElastiCache (Redis) Messaging & Streaming Amazon MSK (Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka) Security & Compliance AWS IAMAWS KMSAWS Secrets ManagerAWS ConfigAWS CloudTrailAmazon GuardDutyAmazon InspectorAWS WAFAuth0 Monitoring & Observability Amazon CloudWatch (metrics, logs, alarms, events) CI/CD & DevOps CircleCIBitBucketGithubInfrastructure as Code (Terraform) Storage & Data Lifecycle Amazon S3Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive Managed Platform Services AWS Transfer FamilyAmazon WorkSpaces (administrative environments) Skills and Experience Strong hands-on experience operating production AWS environments in a multi-account architecture.Deep experience with containerized platforms (ECS) and distributed system design.Proven experience managing relational and document databases in high-availability configurations.Strong understanding of secure VPC architecture, ingress/egress control, and network isolation strategies.Experience operating Kafka-based streaming architectures (MSK).Expertise implementing infrastructure as code using Terraform.Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for containerized workloads.Strong knowledge of IAM design, encryption practices, and secrets management.Experience implementing monitoring, alerting, and log aggregation for production systems.Ability to troubleshoot performance, networking, scaling, and availability issues across distributed systems.Experience supporting regulated or compliance-sensitive environments (e.g., financial services).Demonstrated ability to leverage AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Cursor, ChatGPT) to accelerate infrastructure automation, troubleshooting, documentation, and code development while maintaining security and compliance standards.Strong judgment in the responsible use of AI tools to enhance productivity, improve code quality, and streamline operational workflows within regulated environments.Strong collaboration, documentation, and communication skills. Minimum Qualifications Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.4–6 years of experience in cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, or systems engineering roles.AWS certification (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate, SysOps Administrator, or equivalent) preferred. Integrity and Ethics All StarCompliance employees are expected to commit to a high standard of personal integrity and carry out their responsibilities in an ethical manner