Senior AWS Infrastructure Engineer
Summary
Senior AWS Infrastructure Engineer owning production AWS infrastructure end to end — reliability, security, automation, observability and cost — for a US fintech client, across .NET services and AI-integrated features. Core stack: AWS, Terraform, CI/CD, Docker. Fully remote contractor role paid in USD, requiring C1 English and US Eastern hours.
Compensation: $48k – $54k • No equity
At Niuro, we're hiring a Senior AWS Infrastructure Engineer for a US fintech company that handles sensitive financial data. You will own production AWS infrastructure end to end: reliability, security, automation, observability and cost, across .NET services and AI-integrated features.
What you'll do
- Design, build and operate production AWS infrastructure end to end.
- Manage infrastructure as code with Terraform: reusable modules, remote state and controlled deployments.
- Build and improve CI/CD pipelines for backend services, with reliable deploys and fast rollback.
- Own monitoring, logging, alerting and incident response.
- Harden IAM, networking, secrets, encryption and access controls.
- Optimize cost, performance and availability as usage grows.
What you bring
- 10+ years in infrastructure, DevOps or cloud engineering, with a strong recent focus on AWS.
- Hands-on EC2, ECS or EKS, Lambda, VPC networking, IAM, RDS, S3 and CloudWatch.
- Production Terraform with reusable modules, remote state and safe change workflows.
- CI/CD, Docker and containerized services in production, including .NET workloads.
- Security practice: least-privilege IAM, secrets management, encryption.
- A current AWS certification (Solutions Architect Professional or DevOps Engineer Professional preferred).
- C1 English and availability to work US Eastern hours, starting immediately.
Nice to have: fintech or regulated environments, compliance, infrastructure for AI/LLM services.
Full-time · Fully remote · Contractor paid in USD · Start ASAP