AWS Cloud Infrastructure Engineer (W2 only) (Any visa expect H1B)

NOTE: Need only W2 (Any Visa Except H1B)

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Role: Senior AWS Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Location: Boston, MA (Hybrid 3 days/week)

Rate: $55/hr on W2 Max..!

Duration: Long Term (12 Months Min)

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and optimize multi-region AWS architectures ensuring scalability, high availability, and resilience.
• Build and manage advanced VPC networking including VPC peering, Transit Gateway (TGW), routing policies, and cross-region connectivity.
• Configure and maintain networking components:
• Security Groups
• Network ACLs (NACLs)
• Route Tables
• Internet Gateways (IGW) & NAT Gateways
• Ensure High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) strategies across regions.
• Set up and manage hybrid connectivity (VPN, Direct Connect).
• Perform UNIX/Linux system administration, including:
• Server provisioning, patching, performance tuning
• Shell scripting and system-level troubleshooting
• Support and administer database environments in cloud and hybrid setups.
• Handle database administration tasks including:
• Installation, configuration, upgrades, and patching
• Backup & recovery, performance tuning, and monitoring
• Ensuring data availability, security, and integrity
• Collaborate with DevOps and application teams for secure deployments.
• Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting for infrastructure.
• Optimize environments for cost, performance, and governance.

Required Skills & Experience

Core Experience

• 10+ years of experience as a Cloud Engineer / DevOps Engineer / AWS Infrastructure Engineer.
• Strong experience working in enterprise-scale cloud environments.

Technical Skills

AWS & Networking

• Strong expertise in:
• VPC, Transit Gateway (TGW), Route 53
• VPN, Direct Connect
• Security Groups & NACLs
• Experience designing multi-region HA/DR architectures.

Compute, Containers & Data

• Hands-on experience with:
• EC2
• ECS (Fargate & EC2 launch types)
• Amazon Redshift

UNIX / Linux

• Strong hands-on experience in:
• Linux/UNIX administration (RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu, etc.)
• Shell scripting (Bash) and system automation
• Performance tuning and system troubleshooting

Database & DBA Skills

• Solid experience with database administration (DBA) in cloud/on-prem environments:
• RDBMS such as Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, or SQL Server
• Database installation, configuration, and upgrades
• Backup & recovery strategies
• Performance tuning and query optimization
• Familiarity with AWS database services (RDS, Aurora, Redshift) and migrations

Infrastructure as Code & Automation

• Strong experience with:
• Terraform / CloudFormation
• Scripting using Python or Bash

DevOps & CI/CD

• Experience setting up and managing CI/CD pipelines

Monitoring & Observability

• Experience with:
• CloudWatch, OpenSearch
• Grafana / Prometheus, Datadog

Additional Skills

• Knowledge of cloud cost optimization and tagging strategies
• Strong troubleshooting and root cause analysis skills

Nice to Have

• AWS certifications (Solutions Architect / Advanced Networking)
• Experience with containerized and microservices architectures
• Knowledge of cloud security and compliance framework