Senior Cloud Engineer

Job Description

***Only qualified Senior Cloud Engineer candidates located near Boston, MA will be considered, as the position requires onsite presence***

Preferred Education:
• Bachelor’s degree or substantial career experience in Information Technology, Computer
• Science, Engineering, or a related field

Preferred Certification:
• AWS Cloud Certification (AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate or Professional)

Required Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
• 7+ years of enterprise IT experience with a blend of architecture and hands-on engineering
• Proven experience designing and implementing AWS solutions in enterprise or government settings
• Prior direct, hands-on experience supporting cloud migrations at scale
• Demonstrated success supporting mission-critical applications with high visibility and uptime expectations
• Proficiency in both Windows Server administration and Linux systems (RHEL or Amazon Linux)
• Strong experience with Terraform, Ansible, and GitHub/GitHub Actions
• Familiarity with AWS-native container services such as ECS, Fargate, and EKS, with practical experience deploying or supporting containerized workloads in production
• Hybrid storage expertise: experience with NetApp, caching appliances, or FSx for ONTAP
• Strong scripting and automation capabilities (PowerShell, Bash, or Python)
• Baseline familiarity with modern AI technologies, including Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) patterns in cloud-native architectures
• Experience with GitHub Enterprise, branching strategies, and DevSecOps practices
• Exposure to multi-account AWS organizations and hybrid networking design

Preferred Experience:
Background in state or government agency environments

Client is seeking 2 experienced and well-rounded Senior Cloud Engineers (with architecture experience) to join our core enterprise cloud operations and modernization team. Senior Cloud Engineers with complementary skillsets — one focused on Infrastructure & Automation and the other on Support & Operations. These individuals will provide day-to-day support across AWS and hybrid on-premises environments, ensuring stability, performance, and uptime of mission-critical, public-facing systems. In addition to operational support, the engineers will also contribute to modernization efforts — including lift-and-shift, re-platforming, containerization, and integration of emerging technologies — working with senior architects to guide longer-term strategy while driving hands-on execution.

Ideal Candidate profile:
• Equally comfortable whiteboarding architecture and writing automation scripts.
• Able to work across silos, bring people together, and guide consensus.
• Thrives in high-accountability, low-handholding environments.
• Operates with a disruptor mindset - challenges outdated models, while navigating government dynamics with diplomacy.

Key Responsibilities:
• Design and implement enterprise cloud solutions within a hybrid architecture (AWS + on-prem).
• Participate in modernization of legacy systems through lift-and-shift, re-platforming, containerization, and refactoring
• Build and manage CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Ansible),and automated workflows via GitHub Actions and similar tooling
• Collaborate on hybrid storage strategies leveraging NetApp ONTAP and caching appliances integrated with AWS
• Apply expertise across both Windows Server and Linux (RHEL/Amazon Linux) environments
• Serve as a key contributor in cross-functional architecture discussions and migration planning
• Ensure alignment with governance, tagging, security, and operational policies
• Troubleshoot technical issues across the stack: compute, network, storage, identity, and containers