Cloud Engineer Jobs in Boston, MA

Role: AWS Cloud Engineer

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