Cloud Engineer

6 month contract for a Sr Cloud Engineer to work hybrid 1 day a week min to our client's NYC downtown office No 3rd party candidates. Cloud Engineer Job Summary: As a key member of our Platform team, you’ll write high-quality, maintainable code to build and manage the cloud infrastructure. This is not just a DevOps or infrastructure role, it’s a software engineering position focused on automating infrastructure, improving deployment pipelines, and enabling developer velocity through code. You’ll help drive modern cloud practices using Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD automation, and cloud-native development to support our growing suite of applications. Key Responsibilities: • Develop infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, and the Serverless Framework; coding is a daily responsibility. • Write code to build and manage AWS-based infrastructure that supports scalable, secure, and highly available systems. • Collaborate with software engineers to design cloud solutions that align with application architecture. • Create and maintain CI/CD pipelines to enable rapid and reliable software delivery. • Automate operational processes and platform services with reusable, tested code. • Partner with security and compliance teams to ensure all infrastructure is secure and auditable by design. • Drive the adoption of DevOps best practices and a coding-first approach to platform engineering. Qualifications: • Strong programming skills are required; experience in languages such as Python, Node.js, Java, or C# is essential. • 5+ years of experience building and maintaining infrastructure in AWS environments. • Deep hands-on experience with container orchestration using ECS or EKS. • Solid foundation in infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform required; CloudFormation and Terragrunt also a plus). • Experience managing observability stacks (monitoring, alerting, logging). • Ability to write reusable modules, pipelines, and automation scripts that scale across teams. • Experience with Gruntwork.io or other reusable IaC module frameworks is a strong plus. • AWS certifications (e.g., Solutions Architect or DevOps Engineer) are advantageous. Vertex Solutions Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, national origin, ancestry, religion, age, citizenship, sex, marital or veteran status, disability or handicap, sexual orientation or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.