Senior AWS Cloud Engineer

Senior AWS Cloud Engineer

Location: Santiago, Chile (Hybrid, 2 days per week in office)

Type: Permanent

Salary: CLP $4,600,000 - $5,600,000 Gross per Month

The Opportunity

We're partnering with an established US technology company operating in the IoT and connected-device space. Their platform provides secure connectivity for millions of deployed devices across Europe and the Americas, supporting critical functions such as remote monitoring, firmware updates, and payment-enabled device interactions.

As a Senior AWS Cloud Engineer, you'll take ownership of the AWS environment across multiple accounts, driving cloud governance, security, networking, identity management, and automation initiatives. You'll play a key role in an ongoing AWS account redesign programme focused on least-privilege access and identity federation, while working alongside a Platform Engineer responsible for Kubernetes and CI/CD.

This is an opportunity to influence cloud strategy, lead key infrastructure domains, and work closely with engineering teams across Chile and the United States.

Key Responsibilities

• Own AWS IAM and identity management across a multi-account environment.
• Manage identity federation with external identity providers using SAML and SCIM.
• Drive least-privilege access initiatives and ongoing governance improvements.
• Administer AWS Organizations, Service Control Policies (SCPs), CloudTrail, Access Analyzer, and Secrets Manager.
• Design and maintain AWS networking, including VPCs, routing, Transit Gateway, and DNS.
• Develop infrastructure through Terraform, CloudFormation, or CDK.
• Create automation solutions using Python.
• Collaborate with global engineering teams to improve security, scalability, and operational excellence.

Required Experience

• 5+ years of hands-on experience operating production AWS environments.
• Expert-level AWS IAM knowledge, including roles, policies, trust relationships, and least-privilege design.
• Experience with Identity Center (AWS SSO), SAML, SCIM, and external identity providers.
• Strong AWS governance and security experience.
• Advanced networking knowledge covering VPCs, routing, Transit Gateway, and DNS.
• Infrastructure-as-Code expertise using Terraform, CloudFormation, or CDK.
• Python scripting and automation experience.
• Strong spoken English skills (C1 level or above).

Nice to Have

• Experience with EKS, ECS, or Kubernetes access models.
• FinOps or cloud cost optimisation experience.
• CloudWatch or Grafana experience.
• Supply chain security knowledge.
• Experience implementing governance for AI and agentic tooling.

What's on Offer?

• Ownership of a large-scale AWS environment.
• Exposure to global infrastructure supporting millions of connected devices.
• Collaboration with international engineering teams.
• Budget for AI tools, training, courses, and books.
• Long-term career growth within a highly technical cloud environment.