Senior AWS Consultant

**This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Senior AWS Consultant based in the United States.** This role offers an opportunity for an experienced cloud professional to design and operate enterprise-scale AWS environments that support critical business operations. The position focuses on cloud architecture, infrastructure automation, security, reliability, and continuous improvement across complex technology ecosystems. You will work hands-on with modern AWS services, DevOps practices, and cloud-native solutions while helping teams adopt scalable and secure architectures. The ideal candidate will combine deep technical expertise with strong problem-solving skills and the ability to influence engineering decisions. This is a fully remote opportunity within the United States, offering long-term engagement and meaningful technical ownership. You will contribute to building resilient cloud platforms while collaborating with application, security, and infrastructure teams. ### Accountabilities: As a Senior AWS Consultant, you will lead the design, implementation, and optimization of secure cloud platforms while providing technical guidance across cloud engineering initiatives. - Architect, deploy, and maintain enterprise-grade AWS environments across compute, networking, storage, identity, and managed data services. - Design and implement scalable AWS architectures focused on reliability, performance, security, and cost efficiency. - Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code solutions using Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or AWS CDK with strong engineering practices. - Build and manage AWS multi-account environments, including landing zones, governance models, centralized logging, and shared services. - Design secure networking solutions including VPC architectures, subnetting, routing, transit gateways, VPN, and Direct Connect integrations. - Implement enterprise IAM strategies using AWS roles, permission boundaries, SSO, and least-privilege access controls. - Deploy and operate containerized workloads using Amazon EKS, ECS, and related cloud-native technologies. - Manage AWS data and analytics services including RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, S3, Redshift, Glue, and Kinesis. - Build and improve CI/CD pipelines using tools such as AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI. - Establish observability practices through monitoring, logging, alerting, dashboards, and service-level objectives. - Drive cloud cost optimization initiatives through resource analysis, right-sizing, savings plans, and architectural improvements. - Implement disaster recovery strategies, automated backups, cross-region replication, and operational runbooks. - Strengthen cloud security posture through AWS security services and collaboration with security teams. - Advise development teams on AWS best practices, cloud-native patterns, and architecture decisions. - Develop automation tools and scripts using Python, Bash, or Go to improve operational efficiency. - Mentor engineers, contribute to architecture reviews, and promote cloud engineering best practices. ## Requirements: The ideal candidate is an experienced AWS professional with strong cloud engineering expertise, automation skills, and the ability to design secure enterprise solutions. - Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field. - 5+ years of cloud engineering experience, including at least 3 years working with AWS production environments. - Strong hands-on experience with AWS services including EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, RDS, Lambda, CloudFront, and CloudFormation. - Proven experience designing and managing infrastructure-as-code solutions using Terraform, AWS CDK, or CloudFormation. - Experience operating Amazon EKS or ECS clusters in production environments. - Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and application deployments. - Proficiency in Py…