Sr. Cloud Engineer

Company: Connection

Location: Baton Rouge, LA 70807 (Remote)

Type: Full-time

Remote: Yes

Posted: 2026-06-09

About this role

Overview:

Connection has a fantastic opportunity through our Technical Staffing division for a Senior Cloud Engineer. This is a contract-to-hire opportunity and is 100% remote.

Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time.

Responsibilities:

  • Design and evolve AWS architecture for scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency
  • Standardize infrastructure patterns and reusable templates to deploy infrastructure across dev, stage and production environments
  • Design and maintain build and deployment pipelines
  • Implement monitoring and alerting (CloudWatch, third-party tools), logging and tracing, health checks and synthetic monitoring
  • Diagnose and resolve production incidents, performance bottlenecks, lead root-cause analysis and post-incident reviews
  • Create and manage user accounts for SSO access to internal systems
  • Communicate on all open projects and give updates to technology team staff

Qualifications:

  • 5+ years AWS serverless architecture and administration
  • 2+ years Infrastructure as Code
  • 2+ years Creating CI/CD pipelines for web deployment and dbt
  • 2+ years IAM and cloud security
  • 2+ years Cloud networking basics
  • 2+ years RDS administration
  • Ability to manage multiple projects and meet deadlines
  • Okta configuration
  • Snowflake, big data administration
  • Multi-region data center management and disaster recovery.

Because of the possibility for fraudulent job postings on many popular job boards, please be advised that Connection will never offer a position of employment without a complete interview process and communication with a “live person".

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