[Remote] Cloud Engineer

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Oxenham Group is seeking a Cloud Engineer to join their commercial professional services delivery team. The role involves designing and building AWS cloud infrastructure to help clients achieve their business goals while ensuring high-quality service and customer experience.ResponsibilitiesDesign, build, and continuously tune AWS cloud infrastructure so clients can hit their business goalsStand up Amazon VPC networking — subnets, security groups, and network ACLsBuild IAM roles, groups, users, and policies on a least-privilege basisProvision, validate, and document environments across dev, pre-prod, and productionAuthor infrastructure-as-code with Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, and the AWS CDK to keep deployments repeatable and maintainableProduce gold AMIs and set up auto-scaling groups for compute workloadsTurn on multi-factor authentication across hardware and virtual devicesDevelop and maintain CI/CD pipelinesAdvise development teams on AWS architecture decisions and design principlesLead with an automation-first mindset, defaulting to Terraform and other IaC tooling wherever it makes senseApply consistent resource tagging to support cost allocation and capacity planningContribute to usage-based cost modeling and tune infrastructure for both performance and budgetHelp scope and execute workload migrations, including VM moves; relevant tooling spans cloud-native migration services (e.g., AWS MGN), hypervisor migration (e.g., VMware HCX), and third-party backup/recovery platforms (e.g., Veeam, Clumio)Confirm that workloads have landed cleanly in AWS, then retire the matching on-premises footprintJoin daily progress check-ins and hold the team accountable to agreed technical approachesLog time against assigned projects each dayWork transparently, respond quickly to teammates, and surface working preferences to keep the team performing wellPick up additional duties as neededSkills3+ years in a DevOps or SRE capacity within AWS environments and/or supporting engineering teams, to include:1+ year building AWS cloud infrastructure1+ year hands-on with Terraform1+ year building CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub, Azure DevOps, or similar)1+ year standing up automated alerting and monitoring dashboardsSolid command of current AWS cloud security practicesSkilled in IaC development (Terraform, AWS CloudFormation)Comfortable scripting configuration management with tools like Ansible, Chef, or PuppetWorking proficiency in one or more programming/scripting languages (Python, Java, Groovy, etc.)Familiar with both Agile and Waterfall delivery modelsAble to run multiple client engagements in parallelDetail-orientedStrong communicator with disciplined time managementContainer development and orchestration on platforms such as Kubernetes, Docker, and AWS EKSExperience across the broader HashiCorp stack (Vault, Consul, Boundary)Hands-on with Terraform Cloud or Terraform EnterpriseWiring static and dynamic code-analysis tools into CI/CD pipelinesUse of observability and code-analysis platforms such as AWS X-Ray, AppDynamics, or DynatracePreferred certifications:AWS Certified Developer – AssociateAWS Certified SysOps Administrator – AssociateAWS Certified Solutions Architect – AssociateHashiCorp Certified: Terraform AssociateBenefitsPosition_type: W-2 ContractWork_model: [onsite]Company OverviewOxenham Group offers specialized recruiting services, focusing on Life Science and IT industries. It was founded in 2019, and is headquartered in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA, with a workforce of 11-50 employees. Its website is http://www.oxenhamgroup.com.