Cloud AWS Engineer (AWS)

TL;DR

Cloud AWS Engineer (Infrastructure): Bridge business objectives and technical delivery for large-scale cloud projects with an accent on resilient, scalable, and secure infrastructure. Focus on designing optimized hosting environments, leading IaC and DevOps adoption, and aligning stakeholders across business, development, and infrastructure teams.

Location: Richmond, VA 23219

Salary: $156,000 - $208,000

Company

Staffing firm specializing in STEM connections, offering medical, dental, vision, 401k benefits for longer assignments.

What you will do

• Own end-to-end technical delivery of large cross-functional projects.
• Design, analyze, and optimize infrastructure footprint using deep hosting knowledge.
• Lead adoption of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and modern DevOps practices for deployment pipelines.
• Act as liaison between business, development, and infrastructure stakeholders, translating needs into actionable insights.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent professional experience.
• 3+ years (Senior) or 6+ years (Advanced) in technical delivery of large-scale projects with business, dev, and infrastructure stakeholders.
• 2+ years hands-on with cloud technologies (virtualization, containerization, IaC) and associate-level certification (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Proven experience with IaC tools: Terraform, CloudFormation, or CDK.
• Strong knowledge of networking (VPNs, TCP/IP, firewalls, routing), security (PKI, auth protocols, smart cards), and hosting/distributed messaging.
• Strategic mindset for high-level analysis and technical decision-making.

Culture & Benefits

• Equal Opportunity Employer committed to accommodations for disabilities.
• Participates in E-Verify; considers qualified applicants regardless of criminal history per Fair Chance laws.
• For assignments 13+ weeks: major medical, dental, vision, 401k, statutory sick pay.