AWS Cloud Infrastructure Engineer (DevOps), Dallas

Job Description: Our client, a top-tier IT consulting company, has partnered with a leading Financial Institution in Dallas to hire anAWS Cloud Infra Engineer for designing, deploying, and maintaining AWS cloud infrastructure to support data platforms, trading systems, and time-series databases. Ensures scalable, secure, and cost-optimized environments for data engineering and analytics workloads. Required Skills and Qualifications: Design and manage AWS cloud infrastructure for data platforms (KDB, Databricks, and Timescale Implement infrastructure as code (IaC) using Terraform/CloudFormation. Build and manage networking, VPCs, security groups, IAM policies. Configure compute (EC2, EKS, ECS, and Lambda) and storage (S3, EBS, EFS) for scalability. Enable monitoring & observability with CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana. Implement cost management and optimization strategies. Ensure compliance with security and regulatory requirements (encryption, logging, IAM Strong expertise in AWS core services (EC2, S3, Lambda, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch Experience with IaC (Terraform or CloudFormation Knowledge of containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, EKS Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure deployment. Experience in cloud security (KMS, encryption, IAM best practices Exposure to supporting data platforms (Databricks, KDB, or PostgreSQL/Timescale Strong troubleshooting and performance optimization skills. We are an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment including the decision to hire, promote, discipline, or discharge, will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, citizenship/ immigration status, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.