Cloud Engineer

Description

We are looking for an experienced Cloud Engineer to lead the design, reliability, and ongoing improvement of cloud infrastructure. This role focuses on building secure, resilient, and high-performing AWS environments while partnering closely with engineering and operations teams to support critical systems. The ideal candidate brings strong hands-on expertise in infrastructure automation, observability, and incident management, along with the ability to drive operational excellence across a modern cloud platform.

Responsibilities:

Manage and enhance AWS core infrastructure components, including VPCs, Route 53, CDNs, load balancers, and EC2 services, to support secure and highly available operations.

Build and refine multi-zone disaster recovery and resiliency solutions, and validate recovery readiness through recurring testing and review.

Respond to production issues with cross-functional teams by diagnosing failures, identifying root causes, and implementing long-term corrective measures.

Develop and maintain observability practices using tools such as CloudWatch and Datadog, including logging, metrics, dashboards, and alerting.

Evaluate cloud environments for performance, scalability, and cost improvements, and recommend changes that strengthen operational efficiency.

Create and support infrastructure automation using Terraform, CloudFormation, or AWS CDK to standardize provisioning and configuration management.

Improve deployment workflows by contributing to CI/CD pipelines and automation processes using tools such as GitHub Actions, Harness, or similar platforms.

Maintain clear technical documentation for infrastructure designs, configurations, procedures, and support practices.

Partner with developers, system administrators, and security stakeholders to align cloud architecture with business and technical requirements.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
10+ years of hands-on cloud engineering experience, including significant depth in AWS environments.
Required AWS certification; advanced AWS certifications are strongly preferred.
Strong experience with infrastructure as code and automation tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, or AWS CDK.
Proficiency with AWS services including EC2, VPC, Auto Scaling, Route 53, and DynamoDB.
Experience supporting CI/CD and DevOps practices with tools such as GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, JIRA, or similar platforms.
Solid scripting skills in languages such as Python or PowerShell for automation and operational tasks.
Ability to work independently, deliver against defined requirements, and collaborate effectively in technical discussions with senior engineers and architects.

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