Cloud Engineer

AWS Cloud Engineer 

Location: US / Canada (Eastern Time) - Home based

Job Type: Full-time, Permanent 

About AllCloud

AllCloud is a global professional services company providing organizations with cloud enablement and transformation tools. As an AWS Premier Consulting Partner and audited MSP, a Salesforce Platinum Partner, and a Snowflake Premier Partner, AllCloud helps clients connect their front and back offices by building a new operating model to harness the benefits of cloud technology and data and analytics.

Job Summary

AllCloud is seeking an AWS Cloud Engineer to design, build, and deploy highly scalable, reliable, and secure cloud environments for our customers. In this role, you will focus on delivering complex cloud projects, including large-scale migrations from on-premises data centers to AWS, building new landing zones, and implementing infrastructure-as-code using modern automation frameworks. You will be responsible for setting up, maintaining, and evolving AWS architectures; developing automation to streamline delivery; ensuring robust monitoring, alerting, and troubleshooting practices; and leveraging cutting-edge AWS services to help customers achieve their business goals. This position is hands-on, customer-facing, and integral to driving successful AWS delivery engagements.

Summary of Key Responsibilities

• Architect, design, deploy, and maintain scalable, highly available, and secure AWS infrastructure for project needs (e.g., compute, storage, networking, database).
• Lead or participate in cloud migrations: lifting and shifting on-premises workloads, re-architecting to cloud-native services.
• Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, AWS CDK.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines (for example via AWS CodePipeline / AWS CodeBuild / Jenkins / GitLab CI) to automate deployment workflows.
• Implement serverless solutions using AWS Lambda, Step Functions, and integrate event-driven architectures where appropriate.
• Containerize applications (Docker) and orchestrate containers using AWS ECS, EKS, Fargate.
• Ensure monitoring, logging, alerting, tracing of AWS resources and applications using tools like CloudWatch, X-Ray, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK stack.
• Apply best practices around security: IAM policies, least privilege, encryption (at rest/in transit), network segmentation (VPCs, subnets), Web Application Firewall (WAF), GuardDuty, AWS Shield, etc.
• Implement backup, disaster recovery and high availability strategies; manage data redundancies, snapshots, multi-AZ / multi-region architectures.
• Optimize cost & performance: right-sizing resources, identifying waste, designing for efficiency.
• Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve issues in cloud infrastructure and services; conduct root cause analyses.
• Maintain documentation for architectures, configurations, standard operating procedures, runbooks.
• Engage with cross-functional teams: developers, QA, operations, security/compliance, and project managers to ensure successful delivery.
• Stay up to date on the latest AWS services, features, industry best practices; evaluate new technologies and recommend improvements.

Summary of Requirements & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology or relevant field (or equivalent work experience).
• 3-5+ years of hands-on experience working with AWS in an engineering or infrastructure role (seniority adjustable).
• Strong knowledge of core AWS services: EC2, S3, VPC, RDS / Aurora, Lambda, API Gateway, IAM, CloudWatch, etc.
• Proven experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools: Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or AWS CDK.
• Experience with containerization and orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes / EKS / ECS / Fargate.
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, AWS CodePipeline, GitHub Actions.
• Solid scripting skills (Python, Bash, NodeJS, PowerShell, or similar) for automating tasks.
• Working familiarity with monitoring, logging, tracing tools (e.g. CloudWatch, X-Ray, ELK stack, Prometheus, Grafana).
• Strong understanding of cloud networking, security, and compliance (VPCs, subnets, security groups, network ACLs, encryption, identity management).
• Experience in project delivery: working in agile or scrum environments, estimating work, delivering against milestones.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Good communication skills—able to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Why work for us? 

Our team inspires progress in each other and in our customers through our relentless pursuit of excellence; you will work with leaders who promote learning and personal development.

AllCloud is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetics or any other basis forbidden under federal, provincial, or local law.