• Lead high-performing teams delivering complex, multi-cloud solutions across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform • Help shape and lead our evolution into an agentic AI-powered future • Identify opportunities to transform how our teams design, deploy, operate, and optimize cloud infrastructure using AI agents and intelligent automation • Serve as the senior technical authority for cloud architecture and infrastructure decisions • Advance and mature our Infrastructure as Code practices ensuring consistency, security, and scalability • Provide meaningful technical guidance and architectural direction to engineering teams • Champion the adoption of AI agents and multi-agent systems

• Design and implement secure, scalable cloud infrastructure solutions • Lead cloud modernization and migration efforts across enterprise environments • Develop cloud architecture standards and best practices • Partner with engineering, DevSecOps, and cybersecurity teams to deliver secure cloud solutions • Ensure compliance with federal security and regulatory requirements • Support IAM, encryption, infrastructure automation, CI/CD, and cloud operations • Assess technical risks, architecture tradeoffs, resiliency, and performance optimization • Translate mission and business needs into scalable cloud architectures

• Implement landing zones, VPC/VNet networking, IAM, and security baselines. • Provision and configure compute, storage, and database services using IaC. • Develop and maintain pipeline automation for app and infrastructure deployments. • Design and package applications with latest containerization and orchestration. • Configure logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting - apply SRE practices. • Produce cost-and-capacity reports with FinOps tooling. • Produce well-structured design documents, diagrams, and hand-over guides.

Role Description Connection has a fantastic opportunity through our Technical Staffing division for a Senior Cloud Engineer. This is a contract-to-hire opportunity and is 100% remote. Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time. Responsibilities - Design and evolve AWS architecture for scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency - Standardize infrastructure patterns and reusable templates to deploy infrastructure across dev, stage and production environments - Design and maintain build and deployment pipelines - Implement monitoring and alerting (CloudWatch, third-party tools), logging and tracing, health checks and synthetic monitoring - Diagnose and resolve production incidents, performance bottlenecks, lead root-cause analysis and post-incident reviews - Create and manage user accounts for SSO access to internal systems - Communicate on all open projects and give updates to technology team staff Qualifications - 5+ years AWS serverless architecture and administration - 2+ years Infrastructure as Code - 2+ years Creating CI/CD pipelines for web deployment and dbt - 2+ years IAM and cloud security - 2+ years Cloud networking basics - 2+ years RDS administration - Ability to manage multiple projects and meet deadlines - Okta configuration - Snowflake, big data administration - Multi-region data center management and disaster recovery Company Description Because of the possibility for fraudulent job postings on many popular job boards, please be advised that Connection will never offer a position of employment without a complete interview process and communication with a “live person".