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Job Title: AWS Cloud Engineer
Location: Quincy, MA (Hybrid 3 days at client place)
Duration: 6 Months Contract
 
Job Description:
Key Responsibilities
  • Design, implement, and optimize multi-region AWS architectures ensuring scalability, high availability, and resilience.
  • Build and manage advanced VPC networking including VPC peering, Transit Gateway (TGW), routing policies, and cross-region connectivity.
  • Configure and maintain networking components:
    • Security Groups
    • Network ACLs (NACLs)
    • Route Tables
    • Internet Gateways (IGW) & NAT Gateways
  • Ensure High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) strategies across regions.
  • Set up and manage hybrid connectivity (VPN, Direct Connect).
  • Perform UNIX/Linux system administration, including:
    • Server provisioning, patching, performance tuning
    • Shell scripting and system-level troubleshooting
  • Support and administer database environments in cloud and hybrid setups.
  • Handle database administration tasks including:
    • Installation, configuration, upgrades, and patching
    • Backup & recovery, performance tuning, and monitoring
    • Ensuring data availability, security, and integrity
  • Collaborate with DevOps and application teams for secure deployments.
  • Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting for infrastructure.
  • Optimize environments for cost, performance, and governance.
 
Required Skills & Experience
Core Experience
  • 10+ years of experience as a Cloud Engineer / DevOps Engineer / AWS Infrastructure Engineer.
  • Strong experience working in enterprise-scale cloud environments.
 
Technical Skills
AWS & Networking
  • Strong expertise in:
    • VPC, Transit Gateway (TGW), Route 53
    • VPN, Direct Connect
    • Security Groups & NACLs
  • Experience designing multi-region HA/DR architectures.
Compute, Containers & Data
  • Hands-on experience with:
    • EC2
    • ECS (Fargate & EC2 launch types)
    • Amazon Redshift
UNIX / Linux
  • Strong hands-on experience in:
    • Linux/UNIX administration (RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu, etc.)
    • Shell scripting (Bash) and system automation
    • Performance tuning and system troubleshooting
Database & DBA Skills
  • Solid experience with database administration (DBA) in cloud/on-prem environments:
    • RDBMS such as Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, or SQL Server
    • Database installation, configuration, and upgrades
    • Backup & recovery strategies
    • Performance tuning and query optimization
  • Familiarity with AWS database services (RDS, Aurora, Redshift) and migrations
Infrastructure as Code & Automation
  • Strong experience with:
    • Terraform / CloudFormation
    • Scripting using Python or Bash
DevOps & CI/CD
  • Experience setting up and managing CI/CD pipelines
Monitoring & Observability
  • Experience with:
    • CloudWatch, OpenSearch
    • Grafana / Prometheus, Datadog
Additional Skills
  • Knowledge of cloud cost optimization and tagging strategies
  • Strong troubleshooting and root cause analysis skills
 
Nice to Have
  • AWS certifications (Solutions Architect / Advanced Networking)
  • Experience with containerized and microservices architectures
  • Knowledge of cloud security and compliance frameworks

Information

Locations Quincy, MA Position Open to Only locals Industry IT Staffing Status Open Job Age 28 Day's Created Date 06/30/2026 No.of Positions 1 Duration 6 Months Contract Zip Code