AWS Cloud Engineer

Position Summary

The AWS Cloud Engineer is responsible for designing, deploying, and managing scalable, secure, and highly available cloud infrastructure on Amazon Web Services. This role collaborates with development, security, and operations teams to build robust CI/CD pipelines, automate infrastructure provisioning, and ensure the reliability and performance of cloud-hosted applications and services. The AWS Cloud Engineer applies best practices in cloud architecture, cost optimization, and security compliance while enabling health's digital transformation goals and protecting confidential company, employee, and patient-related information.

Essential Job Functions

• Design, provision, and maintain scalable AWS infrastructure using services such as EC2, ECS/EKS, RDS, S3, Lambda, VPC, CloudFront, and Route 53, ensuring high availability and fault tolerance.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform and/or AWS CloudFormation to automate and standardize environment provisioning across development, staging, and production.
• Build, manage, and optimize CI/CD pipelines using tools such as AWS CodePipeline, GitHub Actions, or Jenkins to support rapid, reliable software delivery.
• Monitor cloud infrastructure health, performance, and costs using AWS CloudWatch, AWS Cost Explorer, and third-party observability tools; proactively identify and remediate issues.
• Implement and enforce cloud security best practices including IAM policies and roles, encryption, secrets management (AWS Secrets Manager / Parameter Store), VPC security groups, and compliance with organizational and regulatory standards.
• Collaborate with software development teams to architect cloud-native solutions, provide guidance on AWS services, and ensure applications are designed for resilience, scalability, and cost efficiency.
• Manage database infrastructure on AWS including RDS (PostgreSQL/MySQL), Aurora, DynamoDB, and ElastiCache; support backup, recovery, and performance tuning activities.
• Support disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity planning by implementing multi-region strategies, automated backups, and runbooks for failover procedures.
• Conduct cloud cost optimization reviews, implement tagging strategies, right-size resources, and provide recommendations to reduce cloud spend without compromising performance.
• Participate in incident response, perform root cause analysis for cloud-related outages or performance degradations, and implement corrective and preventive actions.
• Maintain accurate and up-to-date technical documentation including architecture diagrams, runbooks, standard operating procedures, and change records.
• Evaluate emerging AWS services and cloud technologies and recommend adoption where they advance health's technical and business objectives.
• Leverage and embrace technology to drive process improvement, operational efficiency, and improved clinical outcomes.
• Work collaboratively with colleagues to continue to define and support the health culture within the market and across the company.

Other Job Functions

• Understand, adhere to, and implement the Company's policies and procedures.
• Provide excellent customer service, consistently demonstrating awareness and sensitivity to the needs of internal and external clients and proactively working to meet or exceed those needs.
• Take personal responsibility for continued growth by acquiring new technical, business, and leadership knowledge and applying it to the cloud engineering environment.
• Communicate clearly and professionally, including translating complex cloud concepts for non-technical stakeholders and managing expectations during incidents or planned maintenance.
• Set and complete challenging goals while balancing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Demonstrate attention to detail, sound judgment, accountability, and accuracy in all work products.

Required Qualifications

Minimum Experience

• At least 3-5 years of hands-on experience in cloud engineering, DevOps, or infrastructure roles with a primary focus on AWS; six or more years is preferred.
• Demonstrated experience designing and operating production workloads on AWS, including compute, networking, storage, database, and serverless services.
• Proficiency with IaC tools (Terraform preferred; CloudFormation acceptable) and source control systems (Git/GitHub/GitLab).
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and working in Agile or DevOps delivery models.
• Hands-on experience with containerization and orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes (Amazon EKS preferred).
• Familiarity with monitoring, logging, and alerting tools such as AWS CloudWatch, Grafana, Prometheus, or Datadog.
• Healthcare industry experience is preferred.

Education/Licensure

• A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience, is required.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate or Professional is required; AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional or AWS Certified SysOps Administrator is preferred. Additional relevant certifications (e.g., HashiCorp Terraform Associate, CKA) are a plus.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

Language Skills: Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to work effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders in a fast-paced environment. Technical Skills: Deep expertise in AWS core and advanced services, IaC, CI/CD, containerization, cloud security, and cost management. Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or PowerShell for automation. Reasoning Ability: Ability to analyze complex cloud architecture and operational problems, assess risk and impact, and recommend pragmatic and scalable solutions. Security and Compliance: Strong understanding of cloud security frameworks, identity and access management, data protection, and healthcare regulatory requirements (HIPAA preferred). Collaboration: Ability to work effectively across engineering, security, and product teams; influence technical decisions; and contribute to a culture of shared ownership and continuous improvement. Organization: Ability to manage multiple concurrent projects, incidents, and initiatives while maintaining quality and accuracy in all deliverables. Confidentiality: Ability to appropriately handle confidential company, employee, and patient-related information in accordance with privacy and security requirements.