AWS Cloud Engineer - W2 ONLY

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• This is a Contract-to-Hire position and candidates MUST BE local to Columbia, MD
• This is a W2 position and C2C/OPT-EAD Candidates are not eligible to apply.

Role: AWS Cloud Engineer

W2 Contract-to-Hire: 12 Months

Location: Hybrid in Columbia, MD
• Must be comfortable working 2-3 days per month
• This role requires scheduled after-hours work (evenings and weekends) to support maintenance and upgrades. Weekend work would be roughly once per month in the mornings.

Pay Rate: $60/hour on W2 - All inclusive

Overview & Responsibilities:

We are looking for a Senior Systems Engineer to join a key FEP Bridge team managing the infrastructure for a large-scale, multi-tenant claims processing application. In this role, you will manage, maintain, and optimize the team's core AWS infrastructure. You will be a key player in designing future cloud architecture, optimizing the current environment for cost and efficiency, and helping migrate the final on-premise systems to AWS.

You will

Manage and maintain the core AWS infrastructure, including creating and managing EC2 instances.

Help design and implement future AWS cloud architecture.

Support the migration of the remaining on-prem infrastructure to AWS.

Analyze and optimize the current AWS environment to improve efficiency and reduce costs.

Work with cross-functional teams to manage connectivity for third-party integrations, including REST APIs, SFTP, and Message Queues (MQ).

Design infrastructure architecture solutions and work with network and firewall engineers to implement them.

Participate in required after-hours and weekend maintenance activities (typically 1-2 evenings per week and 1-2 weekends per month).

Required Qualifications

5-7 years of total IT experience focused on infrastructure management.

A minimum of 4 years of hands-on experience managing AWS environments.

Strong hands-on experience with core AWS services: EC2, S3, and networking (VPC, DNS, static IPs, ALBs/NLBs, availability zones).

Experience with infrastructure-level support for integrations: REST APIs (connectivity, not development), SFTP/File Transfer Protocol, and Message Queue (MQ) systems.

Hands-on implementation and production-level experience in an AWS environment.

Must be able to work the hybrid schedule and be required after-hours.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with IBM MQ.

Experience with monitoring tools like Dynatrace, Datadog, or Nagios.

Basic scripting skills in Linux or Windows.

AWS Solutions Architect certification.

Healthcare industry background.

Hands-on experience with automation and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).