AWS-Cloud Engineer-W2 Only

Company: nTech Workforce
Location: Baltimore
Posted on: January 14, 2026

Job Description:

Job Description Terms of Employment: • W2 Contract-to-Hire, 12 Months • This position is hybrid. Candidates must be comfortable working onsite in Columbia, MD two-to-three days per month. • This role requires scheduled after-hours work (evenings and weekends) to support maintenance and upgrades. Weekend work would be roughly once per month in the mornings. Overview & Responsibilities: We are looking for a Senior Systems Engineer to join a key FEP Bridge team managing the infrastructure for a large-scale, multi-tenant claims processing application. In this role, you will manage, maintain, and optimize the team's core AWS infrastructure. You will be a key player in designing future cloud architecture, optimizing the current environment for cost and efficiency, and helping migrate the final on-premise systems to AWS. You will… • Manage and maintain the core AWS infrastructure, including creating and managing EC2 instances. • Help design and implement future AWS cloud architecture. • Support the migration of remaining on-prem infrastructure to AWS. • Analyze and optimize the current AWS environment to improve efficiency and reduce costs. • Work with cross-functional teams to manage connectivity for third-party integrations, including REST APIs, SFTP, and Message Queues (MQ). • Design infrastructure architecture solutions and work with network and firewall engineers to implement them. • Participate in required after-hours and weekend maintenance activities (typically 1-2 evenings per week and 1-2 weekends per month). Required Qualifications • 5-7 years of total IT experience focused on infrastructure management. • A minimum of 4 years of hands-on experience managing AWS environments. • Strong hands-on experience with core AWS services: EC2, S3, and networking (VPC, DNS, static IPs, ALBs/NLBs, availability zones). • Experience with infrastructure-level support for integrations: REST APIs (connectivity, not development), SFTP/File Transfer Protocol, and Message Queue (MQ) systems. • Hands-on implementation and production-level experience in an AWS environment. • Must be able to work the hybrid schedule and required after-hours. Preferred Qualifications • Experience with IBM MQ. • Experience with monitoring tools like Dynatrace, Datadog, or Nagios. • Basic scripting skills in Linux or Windows. • AWS Solutions Architect certification. • Healthcare industry background. • Hands-on experience with automation and Infrastructure as Code (IaC). ________________________________________ nTech is an equal opportunity employer. All offers of employment are contingent upon pre-employment drug and background screenings. Only candidates who meet all of the above client requirements will be contacted by a recruiter.

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