Job Description
Job Title: Cloud Infrastructure Engineer (AWS)
Location: Austin, TX - must be local and able to be onsite 1-2 days per week
Duration: 6 month contract-to-hire
Compensation: $75-$95/HR
Work schedule: Monday-Friday (8 AM-5PM CST) - onsite 1-2x per week
Benefits: This position is eligible for medical, dental, vision and 401(k).
What You’ll Do
- Design, deploy, and manage AWS cloud infrastructure supporting business-critical applications.
- Optimize cloud environments for performance, scalability, cost efficiency, security, and availability.
- Build and maintain infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (CloudFormation, Terraform, Ansible).
- Monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve issues across cloud infrastructure, networking, and application deployments.
- Implement and enforce cloud security best practices, including IAM, encryption, and compliance standards.
- Partner with DevOps, engineering, and business teams to deliver scalable cloud solutions.
- Support cloud-native architectures, including microservices and serverless workloads.
- Mentor junior engineers and provide exceptional service to internal customers.
- Stay current on AWS technologies and recommend improvements to cloud strategy.
What You’ll Bring
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, MIS, or equivalent practical experience.
- 4+ years of hands-on AWS cloud infrastructure experience (Azure/GCP experience is a plus).
- Strong experience with AWS services such as EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, IAM, VPC, ECS/EKS, Fargate, and CloudWatch.
- Experience with IaC tools (CloudFormation, Terraform, Ansible) and CI/CD pipelines.
- Solid understanding of cloud networking, security best practices, and compliance frameworks (SOC 2, NIST, GDPR).
- Familiarity with Agile methodologies and DevOps practices.
- Proficiency in one or more scripting/programming languages (Python, Bash, PowerShell, C#, or Go).
- Proven troubleshooting skills and the ability to work independently across teams.
- AWS and IaC certifications highly preferred.
Who You Are
- Customer‑focused and committed to delivering exceptional internal experiences.
- Highly collaborative with strong communication skills.
- Comfortable operating in ambiguous environments.
- An active learner who continuously improves through experimentation.
| Addison Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Addison Group provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. Addison Group complies with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. Reasonable accommodation is available for qualified individuals with disabilities, upon request. |
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Numbers & Facts
| Location | Austin, Texas |
| Industry | Staffing/Employment Agencies |
| Salary | $75–$95 Per Hour |
| Company Size | 1,500 to 1,999 employees |
| Year Founded | 1999 |
| Website | http://www.addisongroup.com/ |
About Company
Need a job? Need an employee? Then you need Addison Group, the professional staffing and search firm that has reshaped the industry with our excellent placements in the Administrative & HR, Engineering, Executive Search, Finance & Accounting, Healthcare, and IT sectors.
Addison Group has enjoyed rapid growth since its inception in 1999, when a group of visionary industry leaders in Chicago set out with the simple goal of recruiting the best candidates for the best companies. With the help of its strategic investment partner, Trilantic Capital Partners, Addison Group has expanded its reach across the country through 13 offices and six core industry sectors, from Administrative to IT.
Addison Group has enjoyed rapid growth since its inception in 1999, when a group of visionary industry leaders in Chicago set out with the simple goal of recruiting the best candidates for the best companies. With the help of its strategic investment partner, Trilantic Capital Partners, Addison Group has expanded its reach across the country through 13 offices and six core industry sectors, from Administrative to IT.
Skills
- AWS Lambdaunmatched
- Agile Programming Methodologiesunmatched
- Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)unmatched
- Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)unmatched
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)unmatched
- Ansibleunmatched
- Bash Scriptingunmatched
- Best Practicesunmatched
- Business Supportunmatched
- Cloud Architectureunmatched
- Cloud Computingunmatched
- Communication Skillsunmatched
- Computer Scienceunmatched
- Consultingunmatched
- Continuous Deployment/Deliveryunmatched
- Continuous Improvementunmatched
- Continuous Integrationunmatched
- Customer Support/Serviceunmatched
- DevOpsunmatched
- GCP (Good Clinical Practices)unmatched
- Identify Issuesunmatched
- Management of Information Systems/Technology (MIS)unmatched
- Mentoringunmatched
- Microservicesunmatched
- Microsoft C# (C Sharp)unmatched
- Microsoft Windows Azureunmatched
- Network Securityunmatched
- Performance Tuning/Optimizationunmatched
- Problem Solving Skillsunmatched
- Python Programming/Scripting Languageunmatched
- Scripting (Scripting Languages)unmatched
- Software Engineeringunmatched
- Team Playerunmatched
- U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)unmatched
- Windows PowerShellunmatched
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