Benefits:

Competitive salary

Opportunity for advancement

Training & development

AWS Cloud Engineer – Mid-Level

Location: Charlotte, NC (Onsite – 3 Days/Week) Job Type: Contract

Build the Future of Cloud with The AES Group

The AES Group is a leading technology staffing and services firm delivering enterprise cloud, data, and digital transformation solutions for over 20 years. We enable organizations to modernize operations and drive measurable technology impact.

Why Join Us?

Competitive compensation aligned to performance

Enterprise-scale cloud modernization initiatives

Exposure to advanced AWS technologies

Collaborative, innovation-driven environment

High-visibility role supporting mission-critical platforms

Role Overview

We are seeking a Mid-Level AWS Cloud Engineer to design, deploy, and support secure, scalable AWS infrastructure across enterprise environments. This role focuses on cloud engineering, automation, monitoring, and operational reliability.

Utilities industry experience (energy, power, water, grid operations) is preferred.

Key Responsibilities

Cloud Infrastructure

Design and maintain scalable AWS environments supporting enterprise workloads

Implement secure networking, compute, storage, and IAM configurations

Support migration and modernization initiatives

Build high-availability and disaster recovery architectures

Automation & DevOps

Develop Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform or CloudFormation

Implement CI/CD pipelines for automated deployments

Automate provisioning, patching, scaling, and operational workflows

Support container platforms including ECS, EKS, and Docker

Monitoring & Security

Configure CloudWatch monitoring, logging, and alerting

Troubleshoot performance and availability issues

Enforce AWS security best practices (IAM, encryption, network controls)

Support multi-account governance and compliance standards

Data & Application Support

Deploy applications across AWS compute platforms

Manage S3, EBS, RDS, and DynamoDB environments

Implement backup and lifecycle management strategies

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (preferred)

2–5 years of hands-on AWS engineering experience

Experience supporting enterprise cloud environments

Utilities domain exposure preferred

Ability to collaborate across distributed US and India teams

Technical Skills

AWS Services: EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, RDS, Lambda, Route 53, CloudWatch Containers: ECS, EKS, Docker, Auto Scaling, Load Balancers IaC: Terraform, CloudFormation CI/CD: GitHub Actions, Jenkins, AWS CodePipeline Databases: RDS, DynamoDB Security & Networking: Security Groups, NACLs, IAM policies, encryption Scripting: Python, Bash, or PowerShell Monitoring: CloudWatch, CloudTrail

Certifications Preferred: AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner or AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

Help design secure, scalable AWS platforms that drive enterprise transformation.

Ready to make an impact? Apply now and join us on our journey!