AWS Cloud Engineer
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Job Description
AWS Infrastructure Design & Implementation
- Implement, and manage highly available AWS cloud environments.
- Maintain VPCs, Subnets, Security Groups, and IAM policies to enforce security best practices.
- Optimize AWS costs using reserved instances, savings plans, and auto-scaling.
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) & Automation
- Maintain, and enhance Terraform & CloudFormation templates for cloud provisioning.
- Automate deployment, scaling, and monitoring using AWS-native tools & scripting.
- Implement and manage CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and application deployments.
Cloud Security & Compliance
- Enforce best practices in IAM, encryption, and network security.
- Ensure compliance with SOC2, ISO27001, and NIST standards.
- Implement AWS Security Hub, GuardDuty, and WAF for threat detection and response.
Monitoring & Performance Optimization
- Set up AWS CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, and logging solutions for proactive monitoring.
- Implement autoscaling, load balancing, and caching strategies for performance optimization.
- Troubleshoot cloud infrastructure issues and conduct root cause analysis.
Collaboration & DevOps Practices
- Work closely with software engineers, SREs, and DevOps teams to support deployments.
- Maintain GitOps standard processes for cloud infrastructure versioning.
- Support on-call rotation for high-priority cloud incidents.
What we expect of you
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Basic Qualifications:
- Master’s degree and 1 to 3 years of computer science, IT, or related field experience OR
- Bachelor’s degree and 3 to 5 years of computer science, IT, or related field experience OR
- Diploma and 7 to 9 years of computer science, IT, or related field experience
- Hands-on experience with AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC, IAM, ECS/EKS, API Gateway, etc.).
- Expertise in Terraform & CloudFormation for AWS infrastructure automation.
- Strong knowledge of AWS networking (VPC, Direct Connect, Transit Gateway, VPN, Route 53).
- Experience with Linux administration, scripting (Python, Bash), and CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, CodePipeline, etc.).
- Troubleshooting and debugging skills in cloud networking, storage, and security.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with Kubernetes (EKS) and service mesh architectures.
- Knowledge of AWS Lambda and event-driven architectures.
- Familiarity with AWS CDK, Ansible, or Packer for cloud automation.
- Exposure to multi-cloud environments (Azure, GCP).
- Familiarity with HPC, DGX Cloud.
Professional Certifications (preferred):
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate or Professional
- AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional
Soft Skills:
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to work effectively with global, virtual teams
- Effective communication and collaboration with multi-functional teams.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, cloud-first environment.