AWS Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Design, provision, and sustain secure AWS environments across various accounts and lifecycle phases.

• Create reusable Terraform modules, manage remote state, and uphold version-controlled infrastructure configurations and deployment standards.

• Oversee AWS compute, storage, database, container, serverless, and networking services.

• Architect and maintain VPCs, routing, security groups, load balancers, DNS, VPN, and private connectivity.

• Implement scalable and highly available infrastructure utilizing Auto Scaling, Multi-AZ, backup, and disaster recovery strategies.

• Develop and support CI/CD infrastructure and environment promotion workflows, including self-hosted GitHub Actions runners on EC2.

• Enforce IAM, encryption, secrets management, logging, monitoring, alerting, and security baseline controls.

• Monitor infrastructure, resolve incidents, apply patches, validate backups, and enhance performance and cost efficiency.

• Assist with account governance, tagging, configuration compliance, capacity planning, and regulated infrastructure changes.

• Produce architecture diagrams, Terraform standards, operating procedures, troubleshooting guides, and disaster recovery documentation.

• Assess AWS services and design alternatives based on security, reliability, operational complexity, performance, and cost.

⛳️ Requirements

• Practical experience in designing, deploying, and managing AWS infrastructure.

• Extensive experience in authoring and maintaining Terraform modules or similar infrastructure-as-code solutions.

• Proficient knowledge of core AWS services such as EC2, S3, RDS or Aurora, VPC, IAM, Lambda, and CloudWatch.

• Solid understanding of cloud networking, encompassing routing, DNS, load balancing, firewalls, and private connectivity.

• Experience with Docker and AWS container platforms like ECS or EKS.

• Proven experience in supporting CI/CD pipelines and facilitating infrastructure changes across multiple environments.

• Knowledgeable in IAM, encryption, secrets management, monitoring, highly available architectures, and disaster recovery.

• Experience in troubleshooting production infrastructure, connectivity, permissions, capacity, or deployment challenges.

• Familiarity with Git workflows, scripting, configuration management, and automated infrastructure validation.

• Excellent communication and technical documentation skills.

• Relevant AWS certification.

• Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with AWS Organizations, Control Tower, multi-account governance, or centralized networking.

• Experience operating self-hosted CI/CD runners or GitHub Actions infrastructure.

• Experience with observability, infrastructure security, or regulated environments.

• Familiarity with data platforms, event-driven architectures, or hybrid cloud integrations.

• Knowledge of CMS ARC-AMPE, NIST SP 800-53, and HIPAA requirements.

• Experience implementing cloud controls that adhere to security and compliance requirements.

🏝️ Benefits

• A flexible remote work policy with optional access to our Portland, Maine office.

• A 4-day workweek after 3 years of service.

• Generous paid time off, including 11 holidays.

• Medical, disability, life insurance, and optional dental/vision coverage.

• 401(k) retirement plan with company matching.

• Training & certification reimbursement.

• Milestone recognition programs, annual PTO increases, and more.