ALTA IT Services, LLC · 1 day ago
AWS Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Columbia, MD
Contract
Hybrid
Senior Level
5+ years expALTA IT Services, LLC is seeking an AWS Cloud Infrastructure Engineer responsible for managing, maintaining, optimizing, and designing a large-scale AWS cloud environment. This hands-on role involves supporting production systems and ensuring high availability, performance, security, and cost efficiency of AWS-based systems.
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Responsibilities
Manage, maintain, and support production AWS cloud infrastructure in a hybrid environment
Design and contribute to future AWS cloud architecture, including improvements to scalability, availability, and cost efficiency
Perform system installation, configuration, tuning, upgrades, and troubleshooting across cloud infrastructure
Support disaster recovery strategies, backup processes, and AWS recovery procedures
Monitor system health, performance, and availability using Dynatrace (Datadog or Prometheus acceptable)
Identify, troubleshoot, and resolve infrastructure incidents; perform root cause analysis
Optimize AWS environments with a strong focus on cost reduction and operational efficiency
Support infrastructure automation and infrastructure-as-code initiatives (goal is to provision infrastructure with code)
Work closely with Network Engineers on DNS, routing, load balancing, and connectivity to internal and external systems
Support and integrate services involving:
IBM MQ
SFTP / FTP / file transfer protocols
APIs and REST-based web service calls (consuming/integrating, not developing from scratch)
Manage and support:
EC2 / VM instances
Load balancers
Identity and Access Management (IAM)
Data storage solutions
Networking components including VPCs, subnets, routing, static IPs, and availability zones
Participate in system evaluations, testing, and validation, including end-user reviews
Research and recommend new tools, services, and technologies to improve infrastructure performance and reliability
Maintain documentation and best practices for cloud infrastructure and operational procedures
Qualification
Required
5–7 years of overall IT Infrastructure experience
4+ years of hands-on AWS Cloud experience in implementation and production environments
Strong hands-on experience managing AWS infrastructure, including: EC2 / VM instances, VPCs, subnets, availability zones, Load balancing, IAM, AWS recovery and disaster recovery procedures
Solid understanding of cloud computing principles and AWS architecture
Strong background in infrastructure management and monitoring
Experience with Dynatrace (Datadog or Prometheus acceptable)
Strong understanding of network architecture, including: DNS, Network routing, Static IPs, Load balancers, Connectivity to APIs and external systems
Experience working with: IBM MQ, SFTP / FTP / file transfer protocols, REST APIs (integration and consumption, not API development)
Experience supporting Linux-heavy environments (approx. 90% Linux / 10% Windows)
Proven experience working in cross-functional teams and collaborating with engineers and stakeholders
Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and problem-solving skills
Ability to work independently and manage multiple priorities
Preferred
AWS Certifications (Cloud Practitioner, Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, etc.) – strongly preferred
Healthcare industry experience
Scripting experience (Bash, Python, or similar)
Experience with infrastructure automation tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar)
Benefits
Health and welfare benefits coverage options including medical, dental, vision, spending accounts, life insurance, voluntary plans
Participation in a 401(k) plan
Company
ALTA IT Services, LLC
ALTA IT Services, LLC combines experience and expertise to deliver IT talent that meets and exceeds the expectations of our clients.
201-500 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
unknown2015-12-18Acquired
Leadership Team
Bonnie Wells
Senior Business Development Manager - Strategic Staffing Partner
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