AWS Cloud Engineer

Quick Facts

• Role: AWS Cloud Engineer

• Location: Jersey City, NJ

• Duration: 6 Months + Extension

• Work Authorization: US-Citizen, H-1B, OPT-EAD, GC-EAD

• Contract: C2C/1099

Description

We are seeking an experienced AWS Cloud Engineer with 10+ years designing, implementing, and supporting scalable, secure, highly available AWS infrastructure. You will build hands-on CI/CD and automated release workflows across Salesforce (Copado), AWS workloads, and analytics environments, and develop serverless applications and backend microservices using Python or Node.js. You will also manage Infrastructure as Code, event-driven integrations (Salesforce to AWS/Snowflake), monitoring, security scanning, and release governance.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines across Salesforce (Copado), AWS workloads (GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline), and analytics environments.

• Architect automated release workflows in Copado, including standardized deployment stages, metadata validations, and org-to-org synchronization.

• Develop, test, and deploy AWS serverless applications and backend microservices (AWS Lambda, API Gateway, SQS/SNS, EventBridge) using Python or Node.js.

• Build event-driven integrations and secure data ingestion workflows connecting Salesforce, AWS (S3/compute), and Snowflake.

• Develop, provision, and maintain infrastructure and application environments using CloudFormation and Terraform.

• Support automated schema migrations, objects, and deployment pipelines for enterprise cloud data platforms (Snowflake).

• Define and enforce Git/GitHub branching strategies, pull request workflows, and merge conflict resolutions across application code and IaC templates.

• Integrate unit testing, linting, secrets management, and security vulnerability scanning into pipeline deployment stages.

• Oversee multi-tier sandbox seeding, data masking, and metadata parity across enterprise environments.

• Configure telemetry, pipeline metrics, and operational monitoring using Amazon CloudWatch and Salesforce diagnostic tools.

• Author runbooks, API documentation, deployment architecture diagrams, and release governance standards.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience designing, implementing, and supporting scalable, secure, and highly available AWS cloud infrastructure.

• Hands-on expertise with AWS services, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, configuration management, containers, Linux/Windows administration, monitoring, security, cloud migration, and cost optimization.

Benefits

• Contract role: 6 Months + Extension (C2C/1099).