Lead AWS Cloud Platform Engineer - IaC / Automation / SRE
Reston, VA
Experience: 10
Education: BS
Category: Information Technology
Contractor Work Model: Hybrid
Brand: System One
Compensation Range: 109.05 Per Hour
Job ID: 377464
Date Posted: 07/27/2026
Shortcut: http://jobs.systemone.com/9URRij
Lead AWS Cloud Platform Engineer (IaC / Automation / SRE)
Type: Contract (approx. 6 months)
Schedule: Mon–Fri, 8:00am–5:00pm ET (Eastern Time)
Location: Primarily Remote (U.S.-based). If you’re local to the DMV/Reston, some projects may require up to 1 day/week onsite.
Pay (W2): USD $109.05/hr
JOB OVERVIEW
We’re hiring a hands-on AWS Engineer to help build, automate, and support a modern cloud platform as part of a major AWS migration program. This role is for a senior engineer who can provision AWS infrastructure with IaC and jump into production troubleshooting, log/metrics review, and root-cause analysis alongside application and architecture teams.
Important: “Lead” here means seniority/experience—it’s not a people-management role.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Provision and automate AWS infrastructure using Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and policy-as-code practices
- Provide production support: incident troubleshooting, log analysis, metrics review, and root-cause analysis (RCA)
- Partner with application teams and architects to diagnose issues and stabilize workloads in production
- Support ongoing on-prem to AWS migration, including containerized/EKS-based environments
- Troubleshoot AWS networking/connectivity, security, and performance bottlenecks
- Improve reliability and scalability using automation and SRE-style operational best practices
- Support monitoring, upgrades/patching, capacity planning, and continuous platform improvements
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 10+ years overall IT experience (senior/lead-level background)
- 5+ years recent, hands-on AWS platform engineering/admin experience
- AWS must have been your primary focus for the last 5 years
- Strong experience provisioning AWS resources and supporting production environments
- Proven ability to troubleshoot outages and perform RCA, including where/what to check in logs
- Terraform (1+ year minimum) provisioning AWS infrastructure
- Strong automation/scripting experience (including Bash)
- Linux administration experience
- Python automation experience (Lambda/Boto3 preferred)
- Hands-on AWS experience with (at minimum): EC2 (required), VPC, subnets, IAM, security groups, S3, CloudWatch
- At least one current AWS certification
- Strong communication and cross-team collaboration skills
NICE TO HAVE
- Kubernetes / containers, especially AWS EKS
- SRE experience
- CI/CD and DevOps tooling (Jenkins, Git/Bitbucket, Artifactory, Ansible, etc.)
- CloudFormation and/or AWS CDK
- Database troubleshooting experience
- Exposure to AWS AI/ML services (Bedrock, SageMaker, Kendra, RAG solutions) — helpful for some project assignments
System One, and its subsidiaries including Joulé and Mountain Ltd., are leaders in delivering outsourced services and workforce solutions across North America. We help clients get work done more efficiently and economically, without compromising quality. System One not only serves as a valued partner for our clients, but we offer eligible employees health and welfare benefits coverage options including medical, dental, vision, spending accounts, life insurance, voluntary plans, as well as participation in a 401(k) plan.
System One is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, family care or medical leave status, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.
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