Senior Cloud Engineer - AWS & Python

We’re looking for a Senior AWS Cloud Engineer / Architect to lead a critical cloud hardening and resilience project. You’ll take an existing AWS environment and transform it into a secure, highly available, production-grade platform — implementing best-in-class backup, failover, disaster recovery, and security controls. This is a hands-on delivery role with architectural ownership. What You’ll Be Doing Design and implement backup & disaster recovery strategy (RTO/RPO defined) Build multi-AZ, highly available architectures with automated failover Implement AWS Network Firewall & WAF for full perimeter security Harden environments with least privilege IAM, MFA, and access controls Set up CloudWatch, CloudTrail & VPC Flow Logs for monitoring and audit Deliver Infrastructure as Code (Terraform / CloudFormation / scripts) Create runbooks, architecture diagrams, and DR procedures Execute testing & validation (failover, backup restore, DR simulation) Key Requirements We’re targeting experienced contractors who can hit the ground running: Core Skills Strong hands-on AWS experience (5+ years) Proven experience with: High availability & failover design Backup, replication & disaster recovery AWS networking & security architecture Deep understanding of: IAM (RBAC, least privilege, MFA) CloudWatch, CloudTrail, logging & monitoring Experience implementing: AWS WAF & Network Firewall (or similar) Secure VPC design (segmentation, NACLs, security groups) Technical Tools Infrastructure as Code (Terraform / CloudFormation preferred) AWS services: EC2, RDS/SQL, EBS, ELB, VPC Bonus Experience in security-focused or regulated environments Strong documentation & stakeholder communication skills By the end of the contract, you will have delivered: A fully hardened AWS environment Tested and validated failover & DR processes Complete monitoring, alerting, and security controls Clear documentation and runbooks for ongoing operations