Lead AWS Cloud Engineer
$127,000–$163,000 year
HybridHolyoke, Massachusetts, United States
Job Summary
Lead design, delivery, and operations for enterprise AWS cloud infrastructure and platform services, building secure, scalable multi-region environments using Terraform, GitOps, and reusable modules. Define and improve cloud standards, architecture patterns, security guardrails, and infrastructure-as-code practices while owning core AWS services including identity, networking, security, observability, AWS Organizations, Control Tower, and AFT. Develop automation for account vending, baseline customization, golden AMI pipelines, and cloud operations. Partner with Security, Networking, Application, Cloud Platform, and Infrastructure Architecture teams to support production reliability and on-call operations. Manage AWS Account Factory for Terraform (AFT) for automated account vending and baseline customization. This role supports ISO New England's mission to ensure the safe and reliable flow of electricity in New England while transitioning to clean energy.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in a related technical field or equivalent experience
- 8+ years of infrastructure, cloud engineering, or platform engineering experience in regulated, critical infrastructure, or high-availability environments
- Advanced hands-on experience with AWS, Terraform, multi-account architecture, multi-region infrastructure, and infrastructure as code
- Strong AWS security and identity expertise, including IAM, IAM Identity Center, SCPs, KMS, least privilege, policy as code, and audit-ready configurations
- Experience with AWS networking and platform services such as VPC, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect, VPN, Network Firewall, Route 53, AWS Organizations, and Control Tower
- Manage AWS Account Factory for Terraform (AFT) for automated account vending and baseline customization
- Proficiency with automation and serverless technologies, including Python, Lambda, EventBridge, Step Functions, SAM, Packer, Ansible, and EC2 Image Builder
- Experience with Terraform Cloud, Scalr, private module registries, GitOps workflows, or similar orchestration platforms
- Knowledge of hybrid cloud, observability, governance, CMDB integrations, CSPM tools, SIEM integrations, Splunk, Kinesis Firehose, and HEC pipelines
- This is a U.S. based role. If the successful candidate resides outside of the U.S., relocation will be required.
- We maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing.
Desired Qualifications
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate or higher certification preferred; equivalent hands-on AWS expertise accepted
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