AWS Cloud Engineer – Serverless, IaC

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in New York.

📋 Description

• Examine multi-service serverless applications developed on AWS

• Evaluate service choices, integration patterns, and architectural compromises

• Identify flawed assumptions or vulnerabilities in serverless architectures

• Analyze infrastructure definitions created with AWS CDK, CloudFormation, or SAM

• Review deployment architecture, infrastructure reproducibility, consistency, and technical accuracy

• Assess event sources, routing mechanisms, triggers, subscriptions, downstream processing, and asynchronous workflows

• Evaluate IAM roles, policies, permission boundaries, and cross-service authentication and authorization

• Analyze failure management, retry strategies, dead-letter queues, timeouts, duplicate processing, lost events, idempotency, and recovery mechanisms

• Review testing methodologies and local development or emulation using tools like LocalStack

• Examine integrations involving compute, storage, messaging, API, and orchestration services

• Assess logging, monitoring, tracing, operational visibility, performance, scalability, and optimization of serverless costs

• Evaluate assigned cloud engineering tasks against established technical criteria

• Provide clear, written, rubric-based technical feedback that is backed by specific architectural, infrastructure, or implementation evidence

• Consistently apply grading standards and differentiate significant architecture issues from reasonable alternative designs

⛳️ Requirements

• More than 3 years of practical experience in developing multi-service AWS serverless applications

• Strong professional expertise with AWS Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, S3, EventBridge, SNS/SQS, and Step Functions

• Proficient in infrastructure as code using AWS CDK, CloudFormation, or SAM

• In-depth knowledge of event-driven architecture

• Strong understanding of IAM permissions and security boundaries

• Experience in designing and assessing failure, retry, and recovery behaviors in distributed systems

• Familiarity with LocalStack or similar local AWS testing solutions

• Ability to differentiate local emulation behavior from actual AWS service behavior

• Strong skills in cloud architecture, debugging, and technical review

• Excellent written communication skills and ability to deliver precise technical feedback

• H1-B and STEM OPT support are not available for this position

🏝️ Benefits

• Part-time independent contractor engagement

• Fully remote work within the United States

• Flexible scheduling according to project requirements

• Project durations may be extended, shortened, or concluded based on project needs and performance