AWS Cloud Engineer

AWS Cloud Engineer

Location: US / Canada (Eastern Time) - Home based

Job Type: Full-time, Permanent

About AllCloud

AllCloud is a leader in amplifying organizations’ cloud potential through AI. With a track record of hundreds of successful migrations and implementations across AWS and Salesforce, AllCloud has developed strategies and solutions that enable businesses of all sizes to remain at the forefront of innovation.

AllCloud is a leader in AI-led professional and managed services. As an AWS Premier and audited managed services Partner, and Salesforce Consulting partner, AllCloud provides comprehensive AI-led cloud journey support, from initial migration to ongoing management through our Engage Managed Services. Our expertise ensures that clients remain aligned with ecosystem best practices while focusing on their core business growth.

AllCloud serves clients across the globe with offices in EMEA and North America. www.allcloud.io

Job Summary

AllCloud is seeking an AWS Cloud Engineer to design, build, and deploy highly scalable, reliable, and secure cloud environments for our customers. In this role, you will focus on delivering complex cloud projects, including large-scale migrations from on-premises data centers to AWS, containerized application deployment (including Amazon EKS), building new landing zones, and implementing infrastructure-as-code using modern automation frameworks. You will be responsible for setting up, maintaining, and evolving AWS architectures; developing automation to streamline delivery; ensuring robust monitoring, alerting, and troubleshooting practices; and leveraging cutting-edge AWS services to help customers achieve their business goals. This position is hands-on, customer-facing, and integral to driving successful AWS delivery engagements.

Summary of Key Responsibilities

• Architect, design, deploy, and maintain scalable, highly available, and secure AWS infrastructure for project needs (e.g., compute, storage, networking, database).
• Lead or participate in cloud migrations: lifting and shifting on-premises workloads, re-architecting to cloud-native services.
• Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, AWS CDK.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines (for example via AWS CodePipeline / AWS CodeBuild / Jenkins / GitLab CI) to automate deployment workflows.
• Implement serverless solutions using AWS Lambda, Step Functions, and integrate event-driven architectures where appropriate.
• Containerize applications (Docker) and orchestrate microservices using AWS container platform services, with a strong focus on Amazon EKS, ECS, and Fargate.
• Ensure monitoring, logging, alerting, tracing of AWS resources and applications using tools like CloudWatch, X-Ray, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK stack.
• Apply best practices around security: IAM policies, least privilege, encryption (at rest/in transit), network segmentation (VPCs, subnets), Web Application Firewall (WAF), GuardDuty, AWS Shield, etc.
• Implement backup, disaster recovery and high availability strategies; manage data redundancies, snapshots, multi-AZ / multi-region architectures.
• Optimize cost & performance: right-sizing resources, identifying waste, designing for efficiency.
• Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve issues in cloud infrastructure and services; conduct root cause analyses.
• Maintain documentation for architectures, configurations, standard operating procedures, runbooks.
• Engage with cross-functional teams: developers, QA, operations, security/compliance, and project managers to ensure successful delivery.
• Communicate proactively and effectively with clients to understand technical needs, provide progress updates, and articulate complex solutions clearly.
• Apply critical thinking and strategic problem-solving to evaluate trade-offs, identify root causes, and design robust cloud architectures.
• Stay up to date on the latest AWS services, features, industry best practices; evaluate new technologies and recommend improvements.
• Perform deep OS-level troubleshooting and system administration across both Linux and Windows environments operating in the cloud.

Summary of Requirements & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology or relevant field (or equivalent work experience).
• 3-5+ years of hands-on experience working with AWS in an engineering or infrastructure role (seniority adjustable).
• Str…