AWS Cloud Engineer

1 week ago

Mundelein IL, Lake County, IL; Illinois, United States Gridiron IT Full-time

Salary: $180,000 - 260,000 per year Requirements:

  • Active TS/SCI clearance; TS/SCI CI Poly is required.
  • Strong hands-on AWS engineering experience.
  • Experience with AWS infrastructure, microservices, containers, serverless technologies, CI/CD, and Infrastructure as Code.
Responsibilities:
  • Lead cloud migrations, including lift-and-shift, re-platforming, and re-architecting.
  • Modernize applications using microservices, containers, and serverless architectures.
  • Design and manage AWS environments using services and tools such as EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, RDS, S3, IAM, VPC, and CloudFormation/CDK.
  • Build and enhance CI/CD pipelines with GitLab, Terraform, AWS CDK, CodePipeline, and related tools.
  • Collaborate with customer teams to provide technical guidance, mentorship, and knowledge transfer.
  • Help establish cloud best practices, automation, security, and operational standards.
Technologies:
  • AI
  • AWS
  • Lambda
  • CI/CD
  • Cloud
  • EC2
  • GitLab
  • IAM
  • Security
  • Serverless
  • Terraform
  • microservices
  • DevOps

More:

We are hiring a Senior AWS Cloud Developer for work in Herndon or Springfield. The salary range is $180,000–$260,000 and may be adjusted; compensation depends on factors such as location, experience, skills, education, certifications, seniority, and business needs. We offer eligible employees medical, dental, and vision insurance; HSA and FSA accounts; a 401(k); disability, accidental death and dismemberment, life, and pet insurance. Regular employees working at least 30 hours per week may participate in our benefits programs. Gridiron IT Solutions is a Washington, D.C.-area Women Owned Small Business supporting federal agency missions nationwide. We provide IT infrastructure and cloud services, cybersecurity, software integration and development, data solutions and AI, and enterprise applications. We are an equal opportunity employer.

last updated 42 week of 2026