Senior Terraform Engineer
Veridian Tech Solutions, Inc. · Texas, United States
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About the role
Title: Senior Terraform Engineer
Duration: Full-Time Opportunity
Location: Dallas, TX
Role Overview
We are seeking highly skilled Senior Terraform Engineers to develop, maintain, and enhance reusable Terraform modules and infrastructure patterns that accelerate AWS cloud migration and modernization initiatives. The role will focus on module development, automation, testing, governance implementation, and migration team enablement.
Key Responsibilities
- Terraform Module Development
- Design, develop, and maintain reusable Terraform modules and compositions.
- Build AWS infrastructure patterns covering:
- Compute
- Networking
- Storage
- Databases
- Security
- Monitoring
- Governance
- Containers
- Migration tooling
- Infrastructure Automation
- Implement Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and AWS best practices.
- Develop higher-order compositions such as:
- Landing Zones
- Workload Accounts
- Network Hubs
- Shared Services Platforms
- CI/CD & GitOps
- Build and manage GitOps workflows for infrastructure deployments.
- Configure automated:
- Terraform plan and apply workflows
- Linting and validation
- Security scanning
- Cost estimation
- Policy validation
- Drift detection
- Testing & Quality Assurance
- Create module-level unit and integration tests.
- Implement automated testing using:
- Terratest
- Terraform Compliance
- TFLint
- Tfsec
- Checkov
- Ensure code quality, maintainability, and backward compatibility.
- Terraform State & Governance
- Support remote state management using S3 and DynamoDB.
- Maintain workspace strategies and multi-account deployments.
- Enforce naming conventions, tagging standards, and policy controls.
- Documentation & Enablement
- Develop module documentation and usage guides.
- Produce example implementations and runbooks.
- Assist migration teams with:
- Pattern adoption
- Troubleshooting
- Pull Request reviews
- Customization support
- Continuous Improvement
- Optimize Terraform patterns for:
- Cost reduction
- Operational efficiency
- Security compliance
- Performance improvements
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Required Qualifications
Experience
- 8–10+ years of cloud infrastructure and automation experience.
- 4+ years of hands-on Terraform development experience.
- Strong AWS implementation experience in enterprise environments.
- Experience supporting large-scale cloud transformation initiatives.
- Technical Skills
- Terraform (HCL)
- AWS Cloud Platform
- Git and Git-based workflows
- GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, CodePipeline, or similar CI/CD tools
- TFLint, Tfsec, Checkov
- Terratest or Terraform Compliance
- AWS Secrets Manager and Parameter Store
- Cloud networking and security fundamentals
- AWS Knowledge
- Strong hands-on experience with:
- EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda
- VPC, Route53, Transit Gateway
- ALB/NLB, CloudFront
- S3, EFS, FSx, EBS
- RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB
- IAM, KMS, Security Groups
- CloudWatch Monitoring
- Certifications
- HashiCorp Terraform Associate (preferred)
- AWS Solutions Architect Associate/Professional (preferred)
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Preferred Qualifications
- Terraform Cloud/Enterprise exposure.
- AWS Control Tower and AFT experience.
- Sentinel or OPA policy authoring.
- Multi-account AWS deployment experience.
- FinOps / Infracost integration.
- Telecom, highly regulated, or large enterprise environment experience.