We’re looking for a Senior AWS Cloud Engineer / Architect to lead a critical cloud hardening and resilience project.
You’ll take an existing AWS environment and transform it into a secure, highly available, production-grade platform — implementing best-in-class backup, failover, disaster recovery, and security controls.
This is a hands-on delivery role with architectural ownership.
What You’ll Be Doing
* Design and implement backup & disaster recovery strategy (RTO/RPO defined)
* Build multi-AZ, highly available architectures with automated failover
* Implement AWS Network Firewall & WAF for full perimeter security
* Harden environments with least privilege IAM, MFA, and access controls
* Set up CloudWatch, CloudTrail & VPC Flow Logs for monitoring and audit
* Deliver Infrastructure as Code (Terraform / CloudFormation / scripts)
* Create runbooks, architecture diagrams, and DR procedures
* Execute testing & validation (failover, backup restore, DR simulation)
Key Requirements
We’re targeting experienced contractors who can hit the ground running:
Core Skills
* Strong hands-on AWS experience (5+ years)
* Proven experience with:
* High availability & failover design
* Backup, replication & disaster recovery
* AWS networking & security architecture
* Deep understanding of:
* IAM (RBAC, least privilege, MFA)
* CloudWatch, CloudTrail, logging & monitoring
* Experience implementing:
* AWS WAF & Network Firewall (or similar)
* Secure VPC design (segmentation, NACLs, security groups)
Technical Tools
* Infrastructure as Code (Terraform / CloudFormation preferred)
* AWS services: EC2, RDS/SQL, EBS, ELB, VPC
Bonus
* Experience in security-focused or regulated environments
* Strong documentation & stakeholder communication skills
By the end of the contract, you will have delivered:
* A fully hardened AWS environment
* Tested and validated failover & DR processes
* Complete monitoring, alerting, and security controls
* Clear documentation and runbooks for ongoing operations