# Senior AWS Cloud Engineer

**Company:** [Forterra](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/forterra)
**Location:** Clarksburg, MD
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $145k – $165k/yr
**Experience:** 3+ years
**Skills:** AWS, Terraform, IAM, Vpc, S3, EC2, EKS, CloudWatch, Guardduty, Cloudtrail
**Posted:** 2026-04-14

> Designs, manages, and secures AWS cloud infrastructure across multi-account environments using Terraform for autonomous vehicle platforms. Requires 3+ years AWS experience, strong IaC skills, and security focus; GovCloud/FedRAMP preferred.

## Job Description

## What you'll do

- Manage and secure AWS infrastructure across multiple accounts (commercial and GovCloud).
- Design and implement infrastructure-as-code using Terraform, including modules for IAM, networking, compute, and storage.
- Build and maintain an infrastructure inventory for all critical services and accounts.
- Implement change management processes for production infrastructure (source control, review, monitoring).
- Respond to and remediate infrastructure incidents; participate in postmortem reviews.
- Configure and maintain monitoring, alerting, and observability for cloud services.
- Support security compliance initiatives (GuardDuty, CloudTrail, Panther SIEM, CrowdStrike integration).
- Collaborate with Cybersecurity on vulnerability management, patching, and asset tagging.
- Manage cost optimization across AWS accounts, including reserved instances, savings plans, and storage tiering.
- Document infrastructure architecture, runbooks, and operational procedures.

## Qualifications

- 3+ years of professional experience managing AWS infrastructure.
- Strong Terraform experience (modules, state management, multi-account patterns).
- Experience with AWS IAM, VPC networking, S3, EC2, EKS, and CloudWatch.
- Understanding of networking concepts: VPN, Transit Gateway, DNS, security groups.
- Incident response experience; ability to troubleshoot across application, infrastructure, and network layers.
- Strong documentation and communication skills.

## Preferred Qualifications

- Experience with AWS GovCloud or FedRAMP compliance environments.
- Experience with EKS cluster management (managed node groups, add-ons).
- Experience with CI/CD pipeline infrastructure (GitLab CI, runners, container registries).
- Experience with infrastructure monitoring and alerting (Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, or equivalent).
- Linux systems administration proficiency.
- Experience with SIEM platforms (Panther, Splunk, or equivalent).
- Experience with SSO/SAML integration (AWS IAM Identity Center, Entra ID).
- Familiarity with cost management tools (AWS Cost Explorer, budgets, FinOps practices).
- Security certifications (AWS Security Specialty, CompTIA Security+, or equivalent).

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