AWS CloudOps Engineer
28 days ago
Plano
Job DescriptionCompany Description Working Location: Plano, TX Contract Period: 1 year Pay rate: $54/hr DOE Senior CloudOps Engineer with 6+ years of experience operating carrier-grade AWS and hybrid cloud platforms supporting telecom, data engineering, and high-throughput network workloads. Specialized in AWS–on-prem integration, private networking, secure data movement, and cost-controlled production operations. Job Description • Designed and operated hybrid AWS + on-prem architectures using Site-to-Site VPN, Direct Connect, Transit Gateway, and private routing for telecom data flows, • Built secure, isolated VPC environments for multiple customers using VPC peering, PrivateLink, NLB/ALB, and Route 53 private DNS, • Supported telecom data pipelines (4G/5G RAN, KPI feeds, CDRs) ingesting TB-scale data into AWS via SFTP, private links, and batch pipelines, • Owned production EC2 and container platforms (ECS/EKS) running analytics, monitoring, and customer-facing services, • Implemented network-level security using Security Groups, NACLs, firewall rules, private subnets, and endpoint policies, • Built high-availability and failover designs across Availability Zones and regions for customer-critical services, • Led incident response and RCA for network failures, SFTP outages, latency issues, and data pipeline disruptions, • Automated infrastructure using Terraform and CloudFormation for VPCs, routing, IAM, and service deployments, • Implemented end-to-end observability for network, compute, and data pipelines using CloudWatch, Prometheus, and centralized logging, • Controlled AWS and data-transfer costs through right-sizing, Savings Plans, S3 lifecycle policies, and cost dashboards, • Designed backup and DR for both cloud and hybrid workloads using snapshots, replication, and cross-region restoresQualifications AWS & Platform Stack • Compute & Containers : EC2, Auto Scaling, ECS, EKS, Lambda, • Networking & Connectivity : VPC, Transit Gateway, PrivateLink, ALB, NLB, Route 53, VPN, Direct Connect, • Storage & Database: S3, EBS, EFS, Glacier/ RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, • Security & Identity: IAM, KMS, Secrets Manager, GuardDuty, CloudTrail, Config, • Infrastructure as Code & CI/CD: Terraform, CloudFormation, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, • OS & Networking Skills : Linux, Bash, Networking, Firewalls, SFTP, Private Routing Additional Information All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.