AWS Engineer

Title: AWS Engineer
Type: Contract to Hire. 
Location: New York, USA
Schedule: Hybrid, 2–3 days per week
Pay: $80-$95/ Hour

AWS Platform Engineering

• Design, deploy, and optimize AWS workloads and supporting platform services.
• Support architecture and engineering decisions across EC2, S3, EKS, IAM, and related AWS capabilities.

Security & Reliability

• Help implement secure configuration, access controls, resilience, and operational standards for AWS environments.
• Support backup, failover, monitoring, and recovery readiness.

Optimization & Automation

• Improve automation, provisioning speed, and infrastructure consistency through tooling and repeatable engineering patterns.
• Partner on usage optimization and cost-aware design decisions.

Cross-Functional Delivery

• Work with infrastructure, security, and development teams to support enterprise platforms and practice development activities running on AWS.

You Have:

• 5+ years of experience designing and supporting AWS environments in production.
• Strong hands-on knowledge of AWS services, including EC2, S3, EKS, IAM, and related infrastructure capabilities.
• Experience with automation, infrastructure as code, and secure cloud operations.
• Comfort with troubleshooting, optimizing, and improving AWS environments, with a focus on scalable, secure, and reliable outcomes.
• Ability to work across engineering, security, and operational teams; you are a strong collaborator across technical teams.
• Bachelor's degree preferred; AWS certifications are a plus.