Expert AWS Cloud Engineer for Infrastructure Review & Security Hardening (DevOps Consultant)

We are seeking an experienced AWS Cloud Engineer / DevOps Consultant to help us review and strengthen our existing AWS infrastructure across multiple projects.

This role is focused on cloud infrastructure assessment, security & network hardening, and best-practice recommendations. Our platforms are already live - we are not looking to rebuild everything, but to improve reliability, security, and operational maturity.

This can start as a short-term engagement with the possibility of ongoing DevOps support based on outcomes.

Key Responsibilities:

Manage and optimize AWS infrastructure for multiple projects, ensuring reliability, scalability, and cost-efficiency.

Manage AWS services such as EC2, S3, RDS, ALB, Lambda, and Route 53.

Assess VPC design, subnets, routing, and public/private exposure

Review Security Groups, NACLs, IAM roles, and access policies

Identify security gaps and recommend hardening measures

Review RDS and database access patterns

Suggest improvements for scalability, availability, and fault tolerance

Review logging, monitoring, and alerting setup

Align recommendations with AWS Well-Architected Framework

Provide clear, prioritized actionable recommendations

Collaborate with development teams to address infrastructure and deployment needs.

Requirements:

Proven experience as an AWS Cloud Engineer / DevOps Specialist

Strong understanding of AWS networking and security

Experience securing production AWS environments

Hands-on experience with IAM, VPC, SGs, NACLs, RDS security

Ability to explain findings and recommendations clearly

Strong troubleshooting and architectural thinking skills

Preferred Qualifications:

AWS certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, or SysOps Administrator.

Experience with SaaS and/or startup environments.

Experience with WAF, Shield, Bastion access patterns

Familiarity with monitoring tools like CloudWatch, Grafana, or Datadog.

To Apply: Please provide:

Brief overview of your AWS & DevOps experience

Examples of infra reviews or security hardening work you’ve done

Your approach to auditing an existing AWS setup

Availability and hourly or fixed-price rate