AWS Cloud Engineer

AWS Cloud Engineer – Slalom

Candidates can live within commutable distance to any Slalom office in the U.S. We have a hybrid and flexible environment.

As a modern technology company, our Slalom Technologists are disrupting the market and building strategies, solutions, and creative products to help our clients solve their most complex and interesting business problems. We surround our technologists with interesting challenges, innovative minds, and emerging technologies.

We are looking for a skilled AWS Cloud Engineer with expertise in workload migrations and operational experience. The ideal candidate will design, deploy, and manage scalable cloud infrastructure, ensuring high availability, security, and efficiency. You will play a key role in automating cloud deployments, optimizing performance, and troubleshooting infrastructure‑related issues.

At Slalom, we invest heavily in our partnership with AWS. In 2024, we were honored with three AWS Partner Awards at re:

Invent, including GenAI Global Consulting Partner of the Year (for the second year in a row) and Industry Partner of the Year for both Travel & Hospitality and Retail in North America.

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC):
  Design, implement, and maintain AWS infrastructure using Terraform.
• Cloud Operations:
  Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize cloud environments for performance, security, and cost efficiency.
• Automation & CI/CD:
  Develop automation scripts and pipelines using tools like Terraform, Ansible, AWS CDK, or Git Hub Actions.
• Security & Compliance:
  Implement best practices for security, identity management, and compliance (IAM, VPC, encryption, logging).
• Observability & Monitoring:
  Set up and maintain monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions (Cloud Watch, Prometheus, Grafana).
• Incident Management:
  Respond to and resolve production incidents, ensuring minimal downtime and fast recovery.
• Collaboration:
  
  Work closely with developers, Dev Ops teams, and security teams to support cloud‑based applications.
• Documentation:
  Maintain clear and up‑to‑date documentation for cloud infrastructure and automation processes.

• 5+ years of hands‑on experience with AWS services (EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, VPC, Cloud Watch, SSM, SSO, etc.).
• Strong experience with Terraform for infrastructure automation.
• Experience with cloud operations, monitoring, and incident response.
• Familiarity with Linux systems administration and scripting (Bash, Python, or Power Shell).
• Strong knowledge of networking concepts (VPC, VPN, DNS, Load Balancing, Security Groups).
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automation tools.
• Strong problem‑solving skills and ability to work in a fast‑paced environment.
• Good communication skills and ability to collaborate with cross‑functional teams.

• Experience with one of the following:
  Python, Power Shell, Bash, Go, Rust.
• Experience with AWS MGN, DRS, Migration Factory.
• AWS certifications (AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified Dev Ops Engineer, etc.).
• Experience with Kubernetes (EKS), Docker, or other container orchestration tools.
• Experience with RDS, Managed MSSQL, Postgre
  
  SQL.

Slalom is a fiercely human business and technology consulting company that leads with outcomes to bring more value, in all ways, always. From strategy through delivery, our agile teams across 52 offices in 12 countries collaborate with clients to bring powerful customer experiences, innovative ways of working, and new products and services to life. We are trusted by leaders across the Global 1000, many successful enterprise and mid‑market companies, and 500+ public sector organizations to improve operations, drive growth, and create value.

At Slalom, we believe that together, we can move faster, dream bigger, and build better tomorrows for all.

Slalom prides itself on helping team members thrive in their work and life. We invest in benefits that include meaningful time off and paid holidays, parental leave, 401(k) with a match, a range of choices for highly subsidized health, dental, and vision coverage, adoption and fertility assistance, and short/long‑term disability. We also offer a…