Job Description:
AWS Engineer
For this position, we are specifically seeking a highly hands-on Platform Engineer with deep expertise in designing and building cloud infrastructure at scale. Candidates should demonstrate strong proficiency in Terraform, serverless architectures, AWS Lambda, ECS, event-driven systems, and streaming technologies. They should know how to troubleshoot, provide tradeoff and talk to their design.
Experience in DevOps, SRE, deployment, or release management is valuable but should be considered supplementary rather than the primary qualification.
Investigate, Architect, deploy, and manage cloud-based infrastructure on AWS using services such as EC2, S3, VPC, Lambda, ECS,EKS,RDS, DynamoDB, and more.
Design scalable and highly available systems that meet business requirements.
Create, manage, and optimize AWS cloud environments and resources (e.g., security groups, VPCs, IAM roles).
Automate cloud infrastructure provisioning using tools like AWS CloudFormation, Terraform, or Ansible.
Write scripts to automate repetitive tasks (e.g., with Python, Bash, or PowerShell)
Ensure security best practices for AWS services, including network security (firewalls, VPNs), IAM, encryption, and access control.
Implement logging, monitoring, and alerting to ensure compliance and security (using AWS CloudWatch, AWS CloudTrail).
Conduct regular security assessments and audits of cloud environments.
Monitor and optimize cloud resource usage to reduce costs while ensuring system performance.
Provide recommendations for cost-effective cloud architecture and resource scaling
Analyze logs, metrics, and cloud monitoring tools (e.g., CloudWatch, New Relic) to troubleshoot and resolve performance bottlenecks.
Work closely with software developers, operations teams, and business stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver cloud solutions.
Provide technical guidance and support for cloud-based initiatives
Required Skills & Experience
Experience : 10 + years in aws, working as a platform engineer.
Hands-on expertise with AWS infrastructure and services (EC2, S3, RDS, IAM, VPC, Lambda, ECS/Fargate).
Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code (CloudFormation, CDK, Terraform) and CI/CD tooling.
Experience with container orchestration, automation scripting (Python, Bash), and cloud networking principles.
Solid knowledge of security, encryption, and compliance in AWS environments.
Effective collaboration and documentation skills with cross-functional technical teams.
AWS certifications preferred
