Senior AWS Infrastructure as Code Engineer

We are seeking a Senior AWS Infrastructure as Code Engineer for a 12-month contract role based in Cumming, Georgia. In this position, you will design, build, and maintain enterprise cloud infrastructure using Terraform, AWS, and CI/CD pipelines, with a focus on automation, scalability, and standardized infrastructure practices across complex environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain AWS infrastructure using Terraform, including reusable modules, templates, and deployment standards.
• Automate provisioning of AWS compute, networking, storage, IAM, security, and other cloud services across development, testing, staging, and production environments.
• Develop and maintain Jenkins CI/CD pipelines to automate Terraform planning, validation, and deployment.
• Manage Terraform state, dependencies, variables, and environment-specific configurations; troubleshoot infrastructure and deployment issues.
• Maintain AWS CloudFormation templates and support migrations to Terraform-based automation.
• Develop Python scripts and AWS Lambda functions to extend infrastructure automation.
• Establish Infrastructure as Code best practices for security, scalability, reliability, and maintainability while collaborating with DevOps, development, security, and architecture teams.

Qualifications

• Required

• 10+ years of AWS cloud infrastructure, cloud engineering, DevOps, or related experience.

• 4+ years of production Terraform experience, including developing reusable modules and managing infrastructure across multiple environments.

• 4+ years of Jenkins experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, preferably integrated with Terraform deployments.

• Experience with AWS CloudFormation.

• Python scripting experience.

• Python-based AWS Lambda function development.

• Strong knowledge of AWS networking, compute, storage, IAM, security, and infrastructure troubleshooting.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, or a related technical field.

• Preferred

• AWS Professional-level certification.

• Terraform certification.

• Experience establishing enterprise Infrastructure as Code standards.

• Experience migrating CloudFormation to Terraform.

• Experience implementing infrastructure testing, security scanning, and policy enforcement.