Eliassen Group
Senior AWS Cloud Engineer (IaC/Networking)
Almont, Colorado, USA · Senior · Contract
Sponsorship not specified$75k-$85kDetected 35 days ago
PythonGoBashGitAWSCloud PlatformsTerraformCI/CDJenkinsLinuxPlatform EngineeringCybersecurityNetwork SecurityTCP/IPDNSLoad BalancingCommunicationProblem Solving
About the role
- Fulfill infrastructure change requests through ITSM processes and formal change management.
- Operate within Terraform Cloud workspaces with policy-as-code enforcement and contribute to internal modules and guardrails.
- Enforce encryption and data protection standards across EBS, RDS, S3, and KMS.
Responsibilities
- Provision and manage AWS accounts and services, including decommissioning within AWS Organizations.
- Perform VPC provisioning, upgrades, and configuration management using Terraform.
- Manage Transit Gateway attachments, route table configurations, and cross-account connectivity.
- Support compute infrastructure including EC2 fleet management, Auto Scaling Groups, and load balancers.
- Develop, maintain, and troubleshoot Terraform configurations for AWS provisioning.
- Implement and maintain SCPs, IAM policies, and least-privilege access models.
- Manage VPC endpoints, PrivateLink connectivity, and network security controls.
- Support FinOps practices including budget monitoring, enforcement, and resource optimization.
- Participate in an on-call rotation for cloud platform support.
- Collaborate with application, security, and enterprise architecture stakeholders.
Requirements
- 5 to 10 years of hands-on cloud infrastructure engineering with an AWS focus.
- Demonstrated experience with Terraform and IaC lifecycle management.
- Experience operating multi-account AWS environments using AWS Organizations and SCPs.
- Proficiency in IAM policy design, cross-account access patterns, and least-privilege principles.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines such as Terraform Cloud, Jenkins, or GitHub Actions.
- Experience with Git-based workflows including branching strategies, pull requests, and code reviews.
- Experience working in regulated or enterprise environments with formal change management such as ServiceNow.
- Effective written and verbal communication with ability to produce clear technical documentation.
- Due to client requirements, applicants must be willing and able to work on a w2 basis.
Nice to have
- other employment options may be available that may result in pay outside of the provided range.
- Eliassen Group will never ask you for personal information (home address, bank account, or check routing number) until you have worked with someone clearly associated with Eliassen Group.
- If you have any indication of fraudulent activity, please contact.
- Deep knowledge of AWS core services including VPC, EC2, Lambda, S3, RDS, IAM, KMS, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Route 53, API Gateway, and ELB (ALB/NLB), plus Transit Gateway.
Skills
- Nice-to-have
- Recruitment Transparency Notice Eliassen Group values transparency in our recruitment practices.
- All AI-assisted evaluations and responses are reviewed by human recruiters before any hiring decisions are made.
- Skills, experience, and other compensable factors will be considered when determining pay rate.
- W2 employees of Eliassen Group who are regularly scheduled to work 30 or more hours per week are eligible for the following
Compensation
- $75k-$85k
Benefits
- medical (choice of 3 plans), dental, vision, pre-tax accounts, other voluntary benefits including life and disability insurance, 401(k) with match, and sick time if required by law in the worked-in state/locality.
- For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.
Company info
- We are driven by a purpose to positively impact the lives of our employees, clients, consultants, and the communities we serve.
Equal opportunity
- We are an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer and all employment decisions are based on merit, performance, and business needs.
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