AWS Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

CLOUD PLATFORM & INFRASTRUCTURE Design, automate, and support secure, scalable AWS infrastructure. Build the Future of Data Solutions At Arkatechture, we have a simple shared mission: to build a sustainable organization built upon three pillars: Do something meaningful, With a great team, Earning what you deserve. Founded in 2012, Arkatechture has grown into a nationally recognized data and technology company, partnering with organizations across the fintech, AI, and financial services spaces. We combine deep industry knowledge with technical expertise to help our clients unlock the full potential of their data. Whether it’s modernizing infrastructure, building analytics platforms, or leveraging AI for smarter decision-making, we thrive at the intersection of innovation and impact. Our team is made up of curious, collaborative, and community-minded professionals who are passionate about solving complex problems and staying ahead of what’s next in data and technology. While our roots are in New England, our reach is nationwide, and we support flexible, remote-friendly work to match. The Opportunity The AWS Cloud Infrastructure Engineer designs, builds, and supports AWS infrastructure and shared platform services for application and data workloads across development, test, staging, and production. The role emphasizes cloud administration, infrastructure automation, networking, security, reliability, and operational support. The engineer will work closely with application, data, security, and delivery teams to establish consistent cloud patterns and ensure that environments remain scalable, maintainable, and aligned with organizational standards. Key Responsibilities Design, provision, and maintain secure AWS environments across multiple accounts and lifecycle stages. Develop reusable Terraform modules, maintain remote state, and support version-controlled infrastructure configurations and deployment standards. Manage AWS compute, storage, database, container, serverless, and networking services. Design and support VPCs, routing, security groups, load balancers, DNS, VPN, and private connectivity. Implement scalable and highly available infrastructure using Auto Scaling, Multi-AZ, backup, and disaster recovery patterns. Build and support CI/CD infrastructure and environment-promotion workflows, including self-hosted GitHub Actions runners on EC2. Implement IAM, encryption, secrets management, logging, monitoring, alerting, and security baseline controls. Monitor infrastructure, troubleshoot incidents, apply patches, validate backups, and improve performance and cost efficiency. Support account governance, tagging, configuration compliance, capacity planning, and controlled infrastructure changes. Create architecture diagrams, Terraform standards, operating procedures, troubleshooting guides, and disaster recovery documentation. Evaluate AWS services and design options based on security, reliability, operational complexity, performance, and cost. Skills, Knowledge and Expertise Required Skills and Experience Hands-on experience designing, deploying, and administering AWS infrastructure. Strong experience authoring and maintaining Terraform modules or comparable infrastructure-as-code solutions. Working knowledge of core AWS services such as EC2, S3, RDS or Aurora, VPC, IAM, Lambda, and CloudWatch. Strong understanding of cloud networking, including routing, DNS, load balancing, firewalls, and private connectivity. Experience with Docker and an AWS container platform such as ECS or EKS. Experience supporting CI/CD pipelines and promoting infrastructure changes across multiple environments. Knowledge of IAM, encryption, secrets management, monitoring, highly available architectures, and disaster recovery. Experience troubleshooting production infrastructure, connectivity, permissions, capacity, or deployment issues. Familiarity with Git workflows, scripting, configuration management, and automated infrastructure validation. Strong communication and technical documentation skills. Relevant AWS certification. Preferred Qualifications Experience with AWS Organizations, Control Tower, multi-account governance, or centralized networking. Experience operating self-hosted CI/CD runners or GitHub Actions infrastructure. Experience with observability, infrastructure security, or regulated environments. Familiarity with data platforms, event-driven architectures, or hybrid cloud integrations. Familiarity with CMS ARC-AMPE, NIST SP 800-53, and HIPAA requirements. Experience implementing cloud controls that support security and compliance requirements. Why You'll Love Working Here We offer a competitive benefits package that includes: A flexible remote work policy with optional access to our Portland, Maine office A 4-day workweek after 3 years of service Generous paid time off, including 11 holidays Medical, disability, life insurance, and optional dental/vision 401(k) retirement plan with company match Training & certification reimbursement Milestone recognition programs, annual PTO increases, and more All employees share our core values: put the team first, practice humility, take pride in everything we do, stay curious, care for our community & environment, take work seriously; ourselves not so much. Ready to Apply? If you're excited about designing secure, scalable cloud infrastructure, automating environments with Infrastructure as Code, and building reliable AWS platforms that power critical applications, we'd love to hear from you. To help us get to know you, please include your resume and answer the following question in the cover letter section of your application: Describe an AWS infrastructure project that best demonstrates your ability to design, automate, and support secure, scalable cloud environments. What was your role, which AWS services and tools did you use, what challenges did you overcome, and what was the outcome? (250 words or less.) Don't meet every qualification listed above? We still encourage you to apply. Research consistently shows that talented candidates, particularly women and underrepresented groups, often hesitate to apply unless they meet every requirement. If this role excites you, we'd love to hear from you.