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Senior AWS Cloud Engineer

Current job openings at Peterson Technology Partners
Current job openings at Peterson Technology Partners
Details
  • Req No : 106186
  • Number of Position : 1
  • Priority : High
Location

Irving, TX 75063, USA

Employment Type
  • Work Authorization Status : greencard, h4ead, l2ead, opt, uscitizen
  • Duration : 6 months+
  • Location : Onsite
Technical Profile
  • Professional Experience : 8-10 years
  • Primary Skills : AWS, AWS Architecture, ECS , API, Software Development
  • Additional Notes : contract

Contact

Anant N Awatare

Anant N Awatare

anant@ptechpartners.com Anant Nagawatare on LinkedIn

Job Description:

Our client is seeking an Senior AWS Cloud Engineer to join their team. This is a hands-on individual contributor role responsible for designing, building, and supporting secure, scalable, resilient, and supportable AWS platforms for business-critical applications and enterprise services. The role combines cloud architecture leadership with senior-level software development, technical design, implementation, code review, testing, and production support. 

Key Responsibilities:

  • Develop production-quality services, APIs, background workers, event handlers, integrations, and automation using modern engineering practices. 
  • Design and implement AWS solutions using services such as ECS/Fargate, Lambda, API Gateway, ALB, EventBridge, SQS/SNS, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, CloudFront, Route 53, IAM, KMS, Secrets Manager, CloudWatch, and VPC networking. 
  • Mentor developers and promote consistent cloud, integration, security, and operational engineering practices. 
  • Support production incidents, root-cause analysis, technical debt reduction, capacity planning, and post-incident improvements. 
  • Partner with security, identity, network, data, quality assurance, and platform teams to complete architecture and security reviews. 
  • Define non-functional requirements for latency, throughput, availability, disaster recovery, security, auditability, and supportability. 
  • Lead code reviews, technical design reviews, testing strategy, debugging, performance tuning, and production issue resolution. 
  • Review solution designs, infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, API specifications, data models, logging, monitoring, and production-readiness checklists. 
  • Create and maintain architecture diagrams, sequence diagrams, data-flow diagrams, API contracts, threat models, and operational runbooks. 
  • Establish reference patterns for synchronous APIs, asynchronous events, scheduled workers, batch processing, and file-based integrations. 
  • Define target-state cloud architectures for applications, integrations, data flows, and operational tooling. 

Expectations:

  • The contractor will collaborate across engineering, product, infrastructure, security, data, quality assurance, and operations stakeholders. 
  • This is a full-time contract role requiring onsite work five days per week. 

Years of Experience:

  • 8+ years of experience in software engineering, cloud architecture, infrastructure, or solution architecture, including 4+ years designing and operating AWS solutions. 

Required Qualifications (Non-Negotiable):

  • Demonstrated hands-on experience developing and delivering production-grade applications and services using at least one modern technology stack, such as Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, Node.js, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, AWS cloud services, or an equivalent platform. 
  • Experience supporting production systems with incident management, root-cause analysis, and operational runbooks. 
  • Experience working through enterprise security, identity, network, privacy, compliance, and architecture-review processes. 
  • Strong background in observability using CloudWatch or comparable tools, structured logging, metrics, traces, dashboards, and alerting. 
  • Experience with unit testing, integration testing, automated quality gates, secure coding, code review, and agile delivery practices. 
  • Experience with infrastructure as code using CloudFormation, Terraform, or an equivalent platform. 
  • Experience with at least one relational database platform, preferably PostgreSQL or SQL Server, and familiarity with migration, replication, backup, and recovery. 
  • Experience designing REST APIs, webhooks, message-based integrations, batch/file interfaces, authentication, authorization, versioning, and data contracts. 
  • Strong understanding of event-driven and distributed-system design, including queues, retries, idempotency, dead-letter handling, replay, eventual consistency, and reconciliation. 
  • Experience architecting and implementing containerized platforms using ECS/Fargate, Docker, ECR, ALB, and production CI/CD pipelines. 
  • Strong hands-on experience with AWS networking, IAM, VPCs, private connectivity, load balancing, DNS, encryption, and secrets management. 
  • 8+ years of experience in software engineering, cloud architecture, infrastructure, or solution architecture, including 4+ years designing and operating AWS solutions. 

Nice-to-Have Qualifications (Desired but Not Required):

  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, or comparable certification. 
  • Experience with GitLab CI/CD, Jira, Confluence, Splunk, or similar engineering and observability platforms. 
  • Experience designing AI-assisted operational tooling, retrieval-augmented knowledge systems, or automated incident diagnostics. 
  • Experience with data lakes, analytics platforms, business intelligence, data contracts, and operational reporting. 
  • Experience with Kafka, Kinesis, SQS, SNS, EventBridge, or other streaming and event platforms. 
  • Experience with RDS cross-region recovery, VPC Flow Logs, AWS Network Firewall, PrivateLink, Transit Gateway, or equivalent enterprise networking patterns. 
  • Experience with AWS migration from on-premises or vendor-hosted platforms. 

Education & Certification Requirements:

  • AWS certification is preferred but not required. 
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field is preferred; equivalent professional experience will be considered. 

Preferred Industry Experience:

  • Experience supporting large-scale enterprise applications, cloud platforms, and distributed systems is preferred.  

Salary/Rate: $65-$80/HR (depends on experience level). This is a contract position with candidates expected to work 40 hours/ week.  

About Us

Peterson Technology Partners (PTP) is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to creating a transparent, inclusive, and human-centered hiring experience.

For more than 28 years, PTP has operated as one of the top IT staffing and recruiting firms in the USA—built on trust, long-term partnerships, and technical excellence.

Based in the Chicago suburb of Park Ridge, IL, our team of more than 500 employees and consultants is dedicated to:

  • Helping every client make the best hiring decisions possible
  • Matching professionals with the right IT jobs and career opportunities

As part of that commitment, we believe in providing clear information about how our hiring technologies work and how your data is used. The following section outlines our AI-assisted interview process and your rights as a candidate.

AI-Assisted Interview Experience (Pete & Gabi – Rebecca):

To provide a consistent, fair, and flexible experience for all candidates, we use AI-assisted tools to support parts of the interview process. This includes our proprietary AI platform Pete & Gabi, which includes AI recruiter Rebecca.

These AI hiring tools help us:

  • Conduct recorded video interviews
  • Transcribe interviews
  • Summarize candidate responses
  • Generate job-related insights
  • Streamline communication and scheduling

Please note that:

  • The AI does NOT make hiring decisions; all decisions are made by our human recruiters, hiring managers, or client partners.
  • The AI does not evaluate facial expressions, emotions, or physical traits; it is used only to support fairness, consistency, and efficiency.

If you prefer a non-AI interview format, we will gladly provide an alternative.

Technical or Case Interviews (Role-Dependent):

When applying for certain tech jobs, you may participate in:

  • A technical interview
  • A coding challenge
  • A case study
  • A client-specific assessment

We will always explain what to expect in advance so you can prepare with confidence.

Human Review & Selection: +

Every candidate’s profile—including interviews, conversations, and assessments—is reviewed by experienced recruiters and hiring leaders.

AI insights may assist with organization and evaluation, but final decisions are always human-driven.

Your Rights as a Candidate: +

At PTP, every candidate has the right to:

  • Request a non-AI interview path
  • Ask how your data is being used
  • Request access to transcripts or interview recordings
  • Request deletion of your AI-recorded interview
  • Receive clear, timely communication

Our goal is to ensure you feel respected, informed, and supported throughout your experience.

Our Commitment: +

For more than 28 years, PTP has focused on putting people first—candidates, consultants, employees, and clients.

We’re committed to a hiring process that is:

  • Transparent
  • Compliant
  • Equitable
  • Powered by innovative technology that enhances—not replaces—human judgment

Welcome to the future of hiring at Peterson Technology Partners.

We’re excited to learn more about you.

Equal Employment Opportunity: +

Peterson Technology Partners is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.

Senior AWS Cloud Engineer

Current job openings at Peterson Technology Partners
Current job openings at Peterson Technology Partners
Details
  • Req No : 106186
  • Number of Position : 1
  • Priority : High
Location

Irving, TX 75063, USA

Employment Type
  • Work Authorization Status : greencard, h4ead, l2ead, opt, uscitizen
  • Duration : 6 months+
  • Location : Onsite
Technical Profile
  • Professional Experience : 8-10 years
  • Primary Skills : AWS, AWS Architecture, ECS , API, Software Development
  • Additional Notes : contract

Contact

Anant N Awatare

Anant N Awatare

anant@ptechpartners.com Anant Nagawatare on LinkedIn

Job Description:

Our client is seeking an Senior AWS Cloud Engineer to join their team. This is a hands-on individual contributor role responsible for designing, building, and supporting secure, scalable, resilient, and supportable AWS platforms for business-critical applications and enterprise services. The role combines cloud architecture leadership with senior-level software development, technical design, implementation, code review, testing, and production support. 

Key Responsibilities:

  • Develop production-quality services, APIs, background workers, event handlers, integrations, and automation using modern engineering practices. 
  • Design and implement AWS solutions using services such as ECS/Fargate, Lambda, API Gateway, ALB, EventBridge, SQS/SNS, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, CloudFront, Route 53, IAM, KMS, Secrets Manager, CloudWatch, and VPC networking. 
  • Mentor developers and promote consistent cloud, integration, security, and operational engineering practices. 
  • Support production incidents, root-cause analysis, technical debt reduction, capacity planning, and post-incident improvements. 
  • Partner with security, identity, network, data, quality assurance, and platform teams to complete architecture and security reviews. 
  • Define non-functional requirements for latency, throughput, availability, disaster recovery, security, auditability, and supportability. 
  • Lead code reviews, technical design reviews, testing strategy, debugging, performance tuning, and production issue resolution. 
  • Review solution designs, infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, API specifications, data models, logging, monitoring, and production-readiness checklists. 
  • Create and maintain architecture diagrams, sequence diagrams, data-flow diagrams, API contracts, threat models, and operational runbooks. 
  • Establish reference patterns for synchronous APIs, asynchronous events, scheduled workers, batch processing, and file-based integrations. 
  • Define target-state cloud architectures for applications, integrations, data flows, and operational tooling. 

Expectations:

  • The contractor will collaborate across engineering, product, infrastructure, security, data, quality assurance, and operations stakeholders. 
  • This is a full-time contract role requiring onsite work five days per week. 

Years of Experience:

  • 8+ years of experience in software engineering, cloud architecture, infrastructure, or solution architecture, including 4+ years designing and operating AWS solutions. 

Required Qualifications (Non-Negotiable):

  • Demonstrated hands-on experience developing and delivering production-grade applications and services using at least one modern technology stack, such as Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, Node.js, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, AWS cloud services, or an equivalent platform. 
  • Experience supporting production systems with incident management, root-cause analysis, and operational runbooks. 
  • Experience working through enterprise security, identity, network, privacy, compliance, and architecture-review processes. 
  • Strong background in observability using CloudWatch or comparable tools, structured logging, metrics, traces, dashboards, and alerting. 
  • Experience with unit testing, integration testing, automated quality gates, secure coding, code review, and agile delivery practices. 
  • Experience with infrastructure as code using CloudFormation, Terraform, or an equivalent platform. 
  • Experience with at least one relational database platform, preferably PostgreSQL or SQL Server, and familiarity with migration, replication, backup, and recovery. 
  • Experience designing REST APIs, webhooks, message-based integrations, batch/file interfaces, authentication, authorization, versioning, and data contracts. 
  • Strong understanding of event-driven and distributed-system design, including queues, retries, idempotency, dead-letter handling, replay, eventual consistency, and reconciliation. 
  • Experience architecting and implementing containerized platforms using ECS/Fargate, Docker, ECR, ALB, and production CI/CD pipelines. 
  • Strong hands-on experience with AWS networking, IAM, VPCs, private connectivity, load balancing, DNS, encryption, and secrets management. 
  • 8+ years of experience in software engineering, cloud architecture, infrastructure, or solution architecture, including 4+ years designing and operating AWS solutions. 

Nice-to-Have Qualifications (Desired but Not Required):

  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, or comparable certification. 
  • Experience with GitLab CI/CD, Jira, Confluence, Splunk, or similar engineering and observability platforms. 
  • Experience designing AI-assisted operational tooling, retrieval-augmented knowledge systems, or automated incident diagnostics. 
  • Experience with data lakes, analytics platforms, business intelligence, data contracts, and operational reporting. 
  • Experience with Kafka, Kinesis, SQS, SNS, EventBridge, or other streaming and event platforms. 
  • Experience with RDS cross-region recovery, VPC Flow Logs, AWS Network Firewall, PrivateLink, Transit Gateway, or equivalent enterprise networking patterns. 
  • Experience with AWS migration from on-premises or vendor-hosted platforms. 

Education & Certification Requirements:

  • AWS certification is preferred but not required. 
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field is preferred; equivalent professional experience will be considered. 

Preferred Industry Experience:

  • Experience supporting large-scale enterprise applications, cloud platforms, and distributed systems is preferred.  

Salary/Rate: $65-$80/HR (depends on experience level). This is a contract position with candidates expected to work 40 hours/ week.  

About Us

Peterson Technology Partners (PTP) is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to creating a transparent, inclusive, and human-centered hiring experience.

For more than 28 years, PTP has operated as one of the top IT staffing and recruiting firms in the USA—built on trust, long-term partnerships, and technical excellence.

Based in the Chicago suburb of Park Ridge, IL, our team of more than 500 employees and consultants is dedicated to:

  • Helping every client make the best hiring decisions possible
  • Matching professionals with the right IT jobs and career opportunities

As part of that commitment, we believe in providing clear information about how our hiring technologies work and how your data is used. The following section outlines our AI-assisted interview process and your rights as a candidate.

AI-Assisted Interview Experience (Pete & Gabi – Rebecca):

To provide a consistent, fair, and flexible experience for all candidates, we use AI-assisted tools to support parts of the interview process. This includes our proprietary AI platform Pete & Gabi, which includes AI recruiter Rebecca.

These AI hiring tools help us:

  • Conduct recorded video interviews
  • Transcribe interviews
  • Summarize candidate responses
  • Generate job-related insights
  • Streamline communication and scheduling

Please note that:

  • The AI does NOT make hiring decisions; all decisions are made by our human recruiters, hiring managers, or client partners.
  • The AI does not evaluate facial expressions, emotions, or physical traits; it is used only to support fairness, consistency, and efficiency.

If you prefer a non-AI interview format, we will gladly provide an alternative.

Technical or Case Interviews (Role-Dependent):

When applying for certain tech jobs, you may participate in:

  • A technical interview
  • A coding challenge
  • A case study
  • A client-specific assessment

We will always explain what to expect in advance so you can prepare with confidence.

Human Review & Selection: +

Every candidate’s profile—including interviews, conversations, and assessments—is reviewed by experienced recruiters and hiring leaders.

AI insights may assist with organization and evaluation, but final decisions are always human-driven.

Your Rights as a Candidate: +

At PTP, every candidate has the right to:

  • Request a non-AI interview path
  • Ask how your data is being used
  • Request access to transcripts or interview recordings
  • Request deletion of your AI-recorded interview
  • Receive clear, timely communication

Our goal is to ensure you feel respected, informed, and supported throughout your experience.

Our Commitment: +

For more than 28 years, PTP has focused on putting people first—candidates, consultants, employees, and clients.

We’re committed to a hiring process that is:

  • Transparent
  • Compliant
  • Equitable
  • Powered by innovative technology that enhances—not replaces—human judgment

Welcome to the future of hiring at Peterson Technology Partners.

We’re excited to learn more about you.

Equal Employment Opportunity: +

Peterson Technology Partners is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.

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