AWS Cloud Engineer - REMOTE WORK - 60278

$124,800 - $135,200/Yr

Primus Global Services - Dallas, TX

Full-time - Mid Level

Onsite - Dallas, TX

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The AWS Cloud Engineer position is a long-term contract role focused on enhancing the Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM) team for a major client. The engineer will support U.S. Bank's cloud adoption journey by integrating AWS accounts with corporate IAM controls, developing automation for cloud deployments, and facilitating migration from on-premises systems to the cloud. This role requires a strong background in AWS, IAM, and Information Security, along with experience in IT or security engineering.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with stakeholders to integrate acquisition AWS accounts with security requirements.
• Help build patterns for application and infrastructure teams to deploy to the cloud using Infrastructure as Code.
• Work with existing security teams to create scripts and automation for compliance with IAM requirements.
• Develop and implement security best practices within the cloud while engineering solutions for cloud migration.
• Evaluate new services from cloud providers and develop requirements and implementation plans for those services.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience provisioning and managing infrastructure/applications in both virtual and cloud infrastructures (AWS, Azure).
• Experience in scripting for process automation (Powershell, Python, Bash, or similar language).
• Familiarity with configuration languages (Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Azure ARM).
• Experience managing cloud-based systems.

Nice-to-haves

• 3+ years of experience working with DevOps teams and CICD pipelines to support Infrastructure as Code or IAM as Code.
• Knowledge of application architecture.
• Experience with modern authentication methods (SSO, SAML, OAuth, OIDC).
• Familiarity with Active Directory.

Benefits

• Remote work opportunity
• Competitive pay rate of $60-$65/hr