Cloud Engineer

Troubleshoot and resolve day-to-day AWS support tickets across compute, storage, and networking for cross-functional customers (engineering tools, HPC/simulation workloads, mission control systems, data platform, manufacturing systems). We're looking for a Cloud Engineer to help operate and support our AWS environment, working closely with the Cloud Engineering team and partnering with engineering teams across IT & Applications, Infrastructure, Product Software, Data Platform, and Manufacturing Operations.

Job Title:	Cloud Engineer
Job Duration:	06+ Months contract with possible extension.
Location	Foster City, CA 94404
Pay Range	$100.00– 105.00/hour on W2.
Work Type	Hybrid

 
Job Description:

Cloud Engineer
Onsite in Foster City, CA | at least 3 days in office

Client is expanding its IT Platform team to support our mission of Autonomous Mobility. We're looking for a Cloud Engineer to help operate and support our AWS environment, working closely with the Cloud Engineering team and partnering with engineering teams across IT & Applications, Infrastructure, Product Software, Data Platform, and Manufacturing Operations. This role executes day-to-day provisioning, automation, and support work that keeps Client's AWS platform running securely and reliably.

In this role, you will:

- Provision and manage AWS accounts and tenant structures, including IAM users/roles, cross-account access, and SSO group setup, following established playbooks

- Write and maintain Terraform modules — both applying existing centralized modules and authoring new ones — for account setup, networking, IAM, and resource provisioning

- Build and configure AWS networking resources (VPCs, subnets, VPC peering, routing) based on team designs

- Support secrets management workflows (AWS Secrets Manager, Vault) for integrations with third-party platforms (e.g., Mulesoft)

- Apply security and governance guardrails to provisioned resources (least-privilege IAM, encryption, AMI/container compliance checks)

- Troubleshoot and resolve day-to-day AWS support tickets across compute, storage, and networking for cross-functional customers (engineering tools, HPC/simulation workloads, mission control systems, data platform, manufacturing systems)

- Follow and help maintain runbooks/playbooks for recurring provisioning and operational tasks

- Escalate architectural or ambiguous issues to senior team members while owning execution of well-defined requests


Qualifications:

- 5+ years of experience

- Hands-on experience with AWS in a production environment — compute, storage, networking, and IAM

- Experience with Infrastructure as Code, ideally Terraform, including writing and modifying modules

- Working knowledge of AWS networking fundamentals (VPCs, subnets, routing, security groups)

- Understanding of IAM and cloud security fundamentals (least privilege, encryption, secrets management)

- Comfortable working from tickets, playbooks, and runbooks, and following documented processes accurately

- Good written and verbal communication skills; able to work with engineers and business stakeholders to clarify requirements

- Ability to work independently on well-scoped tasks while knowing when to escalate


Bonus Qualifications:

- Experience with Terraform Cloud, Spacelift, or similar centralized IaC platforms

- Exposure to multi-account AWS environments (Landing Zones, Control Tower)

- Experience with containerized workloads (Kubernetes/EKS)

- Familiarity with monitoring/alerting tools (e.g., Grafana, CloudWatch)

- Exposure to AI/ML or HPC cloud workloads