Key skills
AIGenAIAgenticMLOpsAWSAzureGoogle CloudTerraformKubernetesDockerEKSCloudFormationEC2LambdaS3RDSIAMCloudWatchGrafanaGitCI/CDStakeholder ManagementCommunicationCloud Security
About this role
HMG America LLC is the best Business Solutions focused Information Technology Company with IT consulting and services, software and web development, staff augmentation and other professional services. One of our direct clients is looking for AWS Cloud Lead in Waukegan, IL. Below is the detailed job description.
Title: AWS Cloud Lead
Location: Waukegan, IL onsite All 5 days
Job Description:
Role Overview
Lead the Cloud Operations and delivery of scalable, secure, and high performance solutions on AWS. Work closely with engineering, Enterprise Architects, business, and operations teams to define cloud architecture, drive modernization, and ensure best in class cloud practices, including but not limited to- Operations excellence, CIS benchmarks, Cloud Guardrails, security, Automations, and good understanding for future Automation/ AgenticAI, GenAI.
Key Responsibilities
- Architect scalable, secure AWS solutions (EC2, VPC, S3, RDS, Lambda, EKS, Control Tower,).
- Lead cloud migration, modernization, and infrastructure design.
- Ensure cloud security, IAM governance, compliance, and cost optimization (FinOps).
- Drive DevOps practices, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and automation.
- Set up monitoring & observability (CloudWatch, Grafana, ELK).
- Collaborate with stakeholders and provide architectural guidance.
- Join and support the P1/P2 MIM bridge and lead end to end.
- Work on RCA, vendor cases to build RCA.
Required Skills
- Strong hands on AWS expertise across compute, storage, networking, and security.
- Deep experience with Terraform/CloudFormation, Kubernetes (EKS), Docker, containers and AWS CLI
- Strong understanding of VPC architecture, networking, and security best practices.
- Expertise with CI/CD, Git, automation, and cloud-native design patterns.
- Excellent communication, documentation, and stakeholder management.
- Excellent in Monthly, Weekly status, pattern, reports to business.
Preferred
- AWS Professional certification.
- Knowledge of multi cloud (Azure/Google Cloud Platform).
- Experience with AWS EKS, AWS CLI, Cloud Formation & Automations use cases
- MLOps, GenAI, Agentic AI (nice to have).