Resource 1, Inc.Remote
Sr. AWS Cloud Engineer (IoT) – DIRECT CANDIDATES ONLY
United States of America
Contract
3 days ago
$80 - $100 USD
No H1B
Key skills
AWSCloud EngineeringAWS Core ServicesTerraformInfrastructure as CodeKubernetesEKSCI/CD PipelinesAutomationDistributed SystemsIoT PlatformsCloud SecurityCJenkinsGitHub ActionsEC2LambdaS3IAMGitHubSaaSCI/CD
About this role
Resource 1, Inc. is seeking a Sr. AWS Cloud Engineer with hands-on experience in building and securing cloud-native solutions in AWS environments. The role involves designing, implementing, and optimizing scalable infrastructure and services, particularly focused on IoT platforms in a production environment.
Responsibilities:
- Design, build, and maintain scalable AWS cloud infrastructure supporting IoT and distributed systems with millions of users
- Implement and manage secure, highly available architectures across AWS services
- Work with large-scale device or event-driven data pipelines (IoT or near-real-time systems)
- Configure and manage AWS services such as EC2, Lambda, VPC, Security Groups, NACLs, S3, EBS and Kubernetes (EKS)
- Deploy infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools (Terraform strongly preferred)
- Support CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar)
- Partner with engineering and security teams to address vulnerabilities, implement monitoring/ logging solutions and ensure compliance with best practices
- Troubleshoot and resolve performance, scalability, and reliability issues
- C loud security posture improvements using tools like GuardDuty, Security Hub, Inspector, etc
Requirements:
- Strong experience in cloud engineering, with deep AWS expertise
- Hands-on experience with AWS core services (EC2, S3, Lambda, IAM, VPC)
- Hands-on experience with Terraform (or similar IaC tools)
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes (EKS)
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and automation
- Experience designing and supporting high-scale distributed systems
- Experience working in production environments with minimal ramp-up time
- Experience with IoT platforms (device comm., telemetry ingestion, MQTT, AWS IoT Core)
- Support of large-scale environments (high request volume, millions of devices/ users)
- Familiarity with Rapid7 (or similar vulnerability management tool) and GitHub Actions (or modern CI/CD tooling)
- Experience in IoT, SaaS platforms, or high-availability consumer applications