AWS Cloud Engineer MidLevel

Benefits:

• Competitive salary
• Opportunity for advancement
• Training & development

AWS Cloud Engineer – Mid-Level

Location:

Charlotte, NC (Onsite – 3 Days/Week) Job Type: Contract

Build the Future of Cloud with The AES Group

The AES Group is a leading technology staffing and services firm delivering enterprise cloud, data, and digital transformation solutions for over 20 years. We enable organizations to modernize operations and drive measurable technology impact.

• Competitive compensation aligned to performance
• Enterprise-scale cloud modernization initiatives
• Exposure to advanced AWS technologies
• Collaborative, innovation-driven environment
• High-visibility role supporting mission-critical platforms

We are seeking a Mid-Level AWS Cloud Engineer to design, deploy, and support secure, scalable AWS infrastructure across enterprise environments. This role focuses on cloud engineering, automation, monitoring, and operational reliability.

Utilities industry experience (energy, power, water, grid operations) is preferred.

• Design and maintain scalable AWS environments supporting enterprise workloads
• Implement secure networking, compute, storage, and IAM configurations
• Support migration and modernization initiatives
• Build high-availability and disaster recovery architectures

• Develop Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform or Cloud Formation
• Implement CI/CD pipelines for automated deployments
• Automate provisioning, patching, scaling, and operational workflows
• Support container platforms including ECS, EKS, and Docker

• Configure Cloud Watch monitoring, logging, and alerting
• Troubleshoot performance and availability issues
• Enforce AWS security best practices (IAM, encryption, network controls)
• Support multi-account governance and compliance standards

• Deploy applications across AWS compute platforms
• Manage S3, EBS, RDS, and Dynamo
  
  DB environments
• Implement backup and lifecycle management strategies

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (preferred)
• 2–5 years of hands-on AWS engineering experience
• Experience supporting enterprise cloud environments
• Utilities domain exposure preferred
• Ability to collaborate across distributed US and India teams

• AWS Services: EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, RDS, Lambda, Route 53, Cloud Watch
• Containers: ECS, EKS, Docker, Auto Scaling, Load Balancers
• IaC:
  Terraform, Cloud Formation
• CI/CD:
  Git Hub Actions, Jenkins, AWS Code Pipeline
• Databases: RDS, DynamoDB
• Security & Networking:
  Security Groups, NACLs, IAM policies, encryption
• Scripting:
  Python, Bash, or Power Shell
• Monitoring:
  Cloud Watch, Cloud Trail

Certifications Preferred: AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner or AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

Help design secure, scalable AWS platforms that drive enterprise transformation.

Ready to make an impact? Apply now and join us on our journey!