Senior AWS Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
PLACE Corporate Careers, Bethesda, MD +1
What you will do
- Design and maintain enterprise AWS infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC); establish and enforce cloud architecture standards and operational best practices.
- Develop reusable infrastructure modules and deployment patterns; monitor and optimize AWS infrastructure costs (FinOps) without compromising reliability; partner with vendors on large-scale, cost-effective cloud solutions.
- Design, implement, and govern CI/CD pipelines (CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, and/or Jenkins/GitHub Actions); standardize deployment processes across multiple development teams.
- Design and maintain load-testing environments and automated performance benchmarks; validate auto-scaling for EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, and RDS/Aurora workloads.
- Implement security controls aligned with enterprise standards, including IAM roles/policies, AWS KMS, Secrets Manager, and least-privilege access models.
- Design, configure, and maintain AWS WAF and Shield policies and Amazon API Gateway, including throttling, rate limiting, usage plans, and API governance standards.