Home Jobs AWS Engineer AWS Engineer Jobs AWS Engineers design, build, and operate cloud infrastructure on Amazon Web Services — networking, compute, storage, IAM, observability, cost management, and the IaC patterns to manage it all. The role overlaps with cloud architect, DevOps, and platform engineering, with AWS-specific depth as the signal.
Salary by Experience Level Junior
$95,000 – $130,000
per year
Mid-Level
$135,000 – $195,000
per year
Senior
$200,000 – $300,000
per year
Required Skills AWS (EC2, ECS / EKS, Lambda, RDS, S3, IAM, VPC) Terraform / CloudFormation / CDK IAM policy design AWS networking (VPC, Transit Gateway) Observability (CloudWatch, OTel) Cost optimization Security (GuardDuty, Security Hub) CI/CD on AWS
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