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.
• 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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