AWS Cloud Engineer
Overview:
In this role you will ensure reliable, scalable, and secure AWS-based infrastructure for Stout. You'll manage cloud environments, automation, CI/CD pipelines, and container workloads while helping teams improve deployment processes and production operations. You'll implement Infrastructure as Code, monitor and respond to incidents, and drive security, cost management, and high availability. This opportunity is a chance to shape platform engineering practices within a values-driven, collaborative culture. Compensation / Benefits Total Rewards program with competitive compensationbenefits and wellness optionsflexible work schedulesdiscretionary time off policyprofessional growth through training and mentorshipemployee resource groups and feedback culture
Responsibilities:
- Build, manage, and maintain AWS infrastructure using Terraform and IaC practices
- Administer AWS services including ECS, EC2, VPC, ALB/NLB, Auto Scaling, IAM, S3, Secrets Manager, Systems Manager
- Manage Docker-based workloads and ECS services, deployments, scaling, capacity management, and production troubleshooting
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using CodePipeline, CodeBuild, GitHub Actions, or similar tools
- Configure and maintain AWS networking, security groups, load balancing, TLS, private connectivity, and access controls
- Maintain monitoring, logging, and alerting through CloudWatch and related tools
- Troubleshoot production incidents involving AWS infrastructure, containers, networking, and pipelines
- Support high availability, backup/recovery, capacity planning, cloud security, and cost management
- Maintain infrastructure and deployment configurations in Git using GitOps workflows
- Develop and maintain operational documentation, automation, and runbooks
- Partner with technology teams to improve platform engineering practices, tooling, and processes
Key requirements:
- Strong hands-on experience managing AWS infrastructure and production environments
- Advanced Terraform experience with reusable modules, remote state, and multi-environment deployments
- Strong Docker and container orchestration experience, preferably AWS ECSExperience building or supporting CI/CD pipelines using CodePipeline, CodeBuild, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, or similar tools
- Strong knowledge of AWS networking (VPCs, subnets, security groups, load balancers, NAT, IAM)
- Experience with CloudWatch, monitoring, incident response, and production troubleshooting
- Strong understanding of Git, IaC, GitOps, cloud security, and highly available AWS architectures
- Experience with MongoDB Atlas, OpenSearch, Redis, ElastiCache, or Valkey is preferred
- Familiarity with security tools such as Wazuh, Falco, Rapid7, Action1, or comparable technologies is preferredExperience with EC2 Image Builder, Lambda, SNS, Fluentd, or related AWS automation tools is a plus
- Familiarity with PHP/Laravel, Python/Flask, Celery, and Redis-based architectures is preferredExperience with platform engineering, developer tooling, or runbook development is a plus
- Ownership and accountability
- Collaborative teamwork
- Sound judgment in incident handling
- Terraform (advanced)
- Docker and ECSCI/CD tooling (CodePipeline, CodeBuild, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI)