Cloud Engineer

Description

We are looking for an experienced Cloud Engineer to support and enhance a highly available cloud environment. This role focuses on strengthening infrastructure reliability, improving observability, and advancing automation across core AWS services. The ideal candidate brings deep hands-on expertise in cloud operations, disaster recovery planning, and DevOps practices, along with the ability to work effectively with engineering and security partners.

Responsibilities:

Manage and improve cloud infrastructure components such as VPCs, DNS services, content delivery layers, load balancers, and compute resources to support secure and reliable operations.

Build and maintain resilient architecture strategies across availability zones, including automated disaster recovery solutions and regular validation of recovery readiness.

Respond to operational incidents by investigating issues, identifying root causes, and driving corrective actions that reduce recurrence and improve service stability.

Establish and refine monitoring and observability capabilities using tools such as CloudWatch and Datadog, with a focus on logging, alerting, metrics, and trend analysis.

Analyze infrastructure performance, capacity, and cost patterns to recommend and implement improvements that enhance scalability and efficiency.

Create and support infrastructure-as-code solutions using tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation to standardize provisioning and configuration management.

Strengthen deployment processes by developing and optimizing CI/CD workflows with platforms such as Harness, GitHub Actions, or similar pipeline tools.

Maintain clear technical documentation covering architecture decisions, operational procedures, and environment configurations for ongoing team alignment.

Partner with developers, system administrators, and security stakeholders to ensure cloud platforms meet operational, compliance, and business continuity need.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.
At least 10 years of hands-on cloud engineering experience, including significant depth in AWS environments.
Required AWS certification; advanced AWS certifications are considered an advantage.
Strong background with AWS services and technologies such as EC2, VPC, Auto Scaling, Route 53, CDNs, and DynamoDB.
Experience with infrastructure automation and IaC tools, including Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or AWS CDK.
Proficiency in scripting and automation using languages such as Python or PowerShell, with a focus on operational best practices.
Familiarity with DevOps and delivery tools such as Ansible, JIRA, Azure DevOps, Harness, or GitHub Actions.
Ability to work independently, translate technical requirements into deliverables, and contribute effectively to discussions with senior engineers and architects.

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