Lead AWS Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Position- Sr. Lead AWS Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Location- DC Visa- USC, GC Type- Remote In this role, you will act as a key technical lead responsible for designing, deploying, automating, and maintaining highly scalable, secure, enterprise-grade cloud environments—primarily within AWS, with secondary support for Azure.

Leveraging your deep expertise across end-to-end cloud infrastructure, networking, security, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC), you will drive major cloud migrations, establish cloud governance policies, and optimize multi-cloud operations.

Working collaboratively with cross-functional teams in the DC area, you will lead modernization initiatives, mentor junior engineers, and deliver robust business continuity solutions to support critical organization-wide systems.

Key Responsibilities

Cloud Architecture & Engineering : Lead the end-to-end design, implementation, and operational management of scalable, resilient, and highly available AWS cloud infrastructure, with secondary support for Azure environments.

Automation & IaC

Drive Infrastructure as Code (IaC) adoption using tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation to automate cloud provisioning, configuration management, patching, and deployments.

Migration & Modernization

Architect and execute enterprise cloud migration, application modernization, and continuous platform optimization strategies.

Platform & Reusability

Design and maintain standardized, reusable cloud platform templates and enterprise landing zones to accelerate secure team onboarding.

Operations & Governance

Establish enterprise cloud security standards, IAM best practices, compliance controls, governance policies, and operational workflows.

Disaster Recovery & Continuity

Design and implement comprehensive backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity solutions across cloud workloads.

Troubleshooting & RCA

Resolve complex cloud networking, infrastructure, and application integration issues; perform root-cause analysis with a high sense of urgency and ownership.

Technical Leadership & Collaboration

Mentor junior cloud engineers, provide technical guidance across projects, and partner closely with DevOps, Security, Networking, and Application teams.

Qualifications

• Overall IT Experience: 12+ years of broad IT background spanning systems architecture, infrastructure management, operating systems, databases, enterprise applications, and hybrid networking.
• Hands-on Cloud Experience: 8+ years of dedicated, hands-on experience designing, deploying, and managing enterprise cloud infrastructure and applications.
• AWS Expertise : Deep knowledge of core AWS services, including EC2, VPC, Route 53, ALB/NLB, S3, IAM, CloudWatch, SSM, RDS, Lambda, and container services (ECS/EKS).

Multi-Cloud Familiarity

Practical working knowledge of Azure services, including Virtual Machines, VNETs, Azure Storage, IAM, and Azure Backup.

Scripting & CI/CD

Strong automation capabilities using PowerShell, Python, or Bash, along with experience managing Git-based source control and CI/CD pipelines.

Networking & Security

Solid understanding of DNS, TCP/IP, VPNs, firewalls, hybrid cloud connectivity, secrets management, and cloud security compliance controls. Containers & Orchestration : Hands-on experience with containerization technologies and platforms, including Docker and Kubernetes.

Soft Skills : Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills, a self-motivated drive to work independently or in an integrated team environment, and strong problem-solving skills under tight SLAs

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