AWS Cloud Engineer/Linux Administrator

Job DescriptionJob DescriptionWe are looking for a Cloud Engineer to join a healthcare-focused organization in San Antonio, Texas on a Contract to Permanent basis. This position is ideal for a hands-on specialist who combines strong Linux administration expertise with practical experience supporting cloud infrastructure in a collaborative enterprise environment. The role will help strengthen platform stability, improve cloud operations, and contribute to modernization efforts tied to long-term Linux-based architecture.

You will work closely with engineering partners and operational stakeholders to enhance performance, reliability, and security across critical systems.

Responsibilities:

• Manage and improve cloud infrastructure services with a focus on stability, performance, and day-to-day operational excellence.

• Administer Linux-based systems that support enterprise applications and ensure dependable platform availability.

• Participate in the migration of workloads from Windows environments to Linux as part of a broader re-platforming effort.

• Support cloud networking, compute, storage, and security configurations in alignment with established enterprise architecture.

• Carry out environment updates, service redeployments, and production support activities across cloud-hosted systems.

• Collaborate with engineering teams, leadership, vendors, and operations partners to deliver infrastructure enhancements and resolve issues efficiently.

• Evaluate storage usage patterns and recommend tiering or data movement strategies to optimize cost and access requirements.

• Contribute to the ongoing support and enhancement of healthcare-related workloads hosted in the cloud, including highly available business-critical platforms.• 2-4 years of hands-on experience working with AWS cloud technologies in an enterprise setting.

• Strong Linux systems administration background with the ability to support and troubleshoot production environments independently.

• Experience with core AWS services such as EC2, Auto Scaling, networking, and storage management.

• Knowledge of cloud security principles and infrastructure reliability practices.

• Ability to work effectively in a highly collaborative, primarily onsite team environment.

• Experience supporting infrastructure modernization or platform transformation initiatives.

• Familiarity with Ansible or similar automation tools is preferred.

• AWS certification such as Solutions Architect is preferred; Red Hat certification is a plus.