AWS Cloud Engineer

Title: AWS Cloud Engineer – AI Identity Solutions

Employment Type: 12-Month Contract

Work Arrangement: 100% Onsite – 5 Days a Week

Location: Washington, DC, USA

Position Overview

We are looking for an experienced AWS Cloud Engineer to support an AI Identity Solutions team focused on integrating and securing AI agents, applications, and workloads across AWS environments.

The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on experience with AWS IAM, cloud security, identity integrations, Python, and PowerShell. This role involves solution implementation, troubleshooting, automation, and collaboration with enterprise cloud and security teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Implement and support AWS integrations for AI identity solutions and applications.
• Work with AWS IAM, roles, policies, trust relationships, STS, and least-privilege access.
• Support integrations involving AWS services, APIs, applications, and protected resources.
• Troubleshoot AWS networking, DNS, certificates, logging, monitoring, and security dependencies.
• Develop scripts and automation using Python, PowerShell, or shell scripting.
• Work with Terraform, CloudFormation, Git, and CI/CD processes.
• Coordinate with AWS, infrastructure, security, and SRE teams to resolve technical dependencies.
• Create technical documentation, implementation plans, test scenarios, and operational procedures.
• Support logging, monitoring, auditability, and security validation.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in AWS Cloud Engineering, Cloud Security, Platform Engineering, or a related field.
• Strong hands-on knowledge of AWS IAM, roles, policies, STS, and least-privilege access.
• Experience integrating applications with AWS services, enterprise identity providers, APIs, and security controls.
• Working knowledge of AWS networking, DNS, certificates, load balancing, proxies, and monitoring.
• Proficiency in Python and/or PowerShell scripting.
• Familiarity with Terraform, CloudFormation, Git, and CI/CD.
• Strong troubleshooting, communication, and documentation skills.
• Ability to collaborate across multiple technical and infrastructure teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Amazon Bedrock, Bedrock AgentCore, or other AWS AI services.
• Knowledge of OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SAML, token exchange, and workload identity.
• Experience with EKS, OpenShift, containers, secrets management, or API gateways.
• AWS Cloud or Security certifications.
• Experience working in enterprise environments with formal security and change-management processes.

Dexian stands at the forefront of Talent + Technology solutions with a presence spanning more than 70 locations worldwide and a team exceeding 10,000 professionals. As one of the largest technology and professional staffing companies and one of the largest minority-owned staffing companies in the United States, Dexian combines over 30 years of industry expertise with cutting-edge technologies to deliver comprehensive global services and support.

Dexian connects the right talent and the right technology with the right organizations to deliver trajectory-changing results that help everyone achieve their ambitions and goals. To learn more, please visit https://dexian.com/.

Dexian is an Equal Opportunity Employer that recruits and hires qualified candidates without regard to race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, disability, or veteran status.