AWS Cloud Engineer Onsite at Little Rock, AR Contract role Roles and Responsibilities • Provide primary operational support and engineering for the public cloud platform, and debug and optimize systems and automate routine tasks. • Plan, design, and implementation of workload migrations from on premises to AWS Cloud. • Configure, monitor and assist with the maintenance and support of the infrastructure environment within the AWS environment. • Configure, tune, and maintain AWS services like CloudWatch, CloudTrail, GuardDuty, Security Hub, Systems Manager, Network Firewall, WAF, Security Group, Tagging, Network ACL’s and Routing Tables. • Setup and maintain Gateway Load Balancer and Transit Gateway. • Setup and maintain VPC’s in different Availability Zones, including WFCS and SQL installations and HAG. • Setup and maintain backup solutions using AWS native services. This includes EC2 instances, FSX Servers, various S3 storage types, AMI, and Infrastructure as Code scripts using CDK in Typescript. • Configure, automate, and monitor AWS CloudWatch alarms and notifications for system(s) health checks. • Design, develop and maintain Executive Level dashboards for system(s) utilization, health, and cost. • Setup and maintain security using tools like AWS Guard, AWS OU, IAM, CrowdStrike, and Tenable. • Environment hardening to meet compliance requirements and configuration rules for Pub 1075, PII, and NIST frameworks. • Collaborate with other IT resources and vendors to resolve application and/or infrastructure related issues to the existing AWS environment. • Maintain technical documentation of the existing AWS environment related to storage, backups, & patching. • Participate in the selection of new technologies while maintaining departmental information technology and security standards. • Effectively communicate with Management, co-workers, and business partners. • Perform other duties as assigned.