Allied Consultants

AWS Cloud Engineer

Allied Consultants$100K — $130K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 4-7 years of experience in cloud, infrastructure, or systems engineering
  • 2+ years of hands-on experience supporting AWS environments
  • Experience in remediation, migration, or modernization of legacy cloud systems
  • Proficient in using Terraform for deploying and managing cloud infrastructure
  • Familiarity with cloud security best practices and the shared responsibility model
  • Ability to follow specified architecture, security, and governance standards
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills

Responsibilities

  • Remediate a legacy AWS cloud environment addressing security vulnerabilities and technical risks
  • Assess existing AWS workloads and remediate identified security findings
  • Migrate resources to a standardized and secure AWS Landing Zone
  • Implement and manage infrastructure as code using Terraform
  • Apply AWS security best practices for identity and access management, network security, and logging
  • Validate compliance with security policies and audit requirements
  • Produce necessary technical and operational documentation

Benefits

  • Opportunity to collaborate with a high-impact technical services team
  • Engagement in challenging projects focused on security and AWS modernization
  • Development of skills in modern cloud practices and tools
  • Experience working with a standardized and secure AWS environment
  • Potential for professional growth in an emerging tech environment
Full Job Description
Overview

We are currently seeking an experience AWS Cloud Engineer to play a key role within a high-impact technical services team.

 

Responsibilities

The AWS Cloud Engineer will remediate a legacy AWS cloud environment to address identified security vulnerabilities and technical risk. Work includes assessing existing AWS workloads, remediating security findings, and migrating resources to a standardized and secure AWS Landing Zone aligned with approved architecture, governance, and security standards.

The engineer will use Terraform to implement and manage infrastructure as code, ensuring consistent, repeatable, and auditable remediation and migration activities. Responsibilities include implementing AWS security best practices related to identity and access management, network security, logging, monitoring, and encryption; validating compliance with DIR security policies and audit requirements; and producing required technical and operational documentation.

Qualifications

Minimum (Required):

Years

Skills/Experience

4-7

Experience in cloud, infrastructure, or systems engineering

2+

Handson experience supporting AWS environments

 

Experience supporting remediation, migration, or modernization of existing (legacy) cloud

 

Handson experience working in Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise environmentsExperience remediating cloud security findings or implementing security controls under established standards

 

Experience supporting remediation, migration, or modernization of existing (legacy) cloud

 

Experience using Terraform to deploy, update, or manage cloud infrastructure

 

Familiarity with cloud security best practices and the shared responsibility model

 

Experience following documented architecture, security, and governance standards

 

Ability to execute defined remediation and migration tasks under general direction

 

Experience producing technical documentation and implementation artifacts

 

Strong communication and collaboration skills

 

Preferred (Optional):

Years

Skills/Experience

 

Prior experience supporting legacy AWS environment remediation

 

Familiarity with AWS Landing Zone concepts or standardized cloud environments

 

Working or supporting experience with Microsoft Azure (hybrid or sharedservices scenarios)

 

Familiarity with DIR security standards and compliance expectations

 

Experience supporting TxDOT, other Texas state agencies, or publicsector environments

About Allied Consultants

Allied Universal is an American provider of security systems and services; janitorial services; and staffing. The company was formed in 2016 by the merger of Santa Ana, California-based security and janitorial services company Universal Services of America, and Conshohocken, Pennsylvania-based security firm AlliedBarton Security Services. At the time of the merger, the combined company was reportedly the largest provider of security guards in the United States, with 140,000 trained officers between the two companies. In October 2021, Allied Universal completed a $5.1 billion takeover of British security firm G4S, creating a combined company of 800,000 employees, with revenues of more than $18 billion USD. The company maintains two corporate headquarters, one is in Santa Ana, California and the main headquarters is in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania.
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