AWS Cloud Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States, +1 more country.

📋 Description

• Design, architect, deploy, and sustain scalable, secure, and highly available AWS infrastructure tailored to project requirements, encompassing compute, storage, networking, and databases.

• Lead or engage in cloud migration initiatives, which include lifting and shifting on-premises workloads as well as re-architecting them to utilize cloud-native services.

• Develop and manage Infrastructure as Code utilizing Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, and AWS CDK.

• Establish CI/CD pipelines through AWS CodePipeline, AWS CodeBuild, Jenkins, or GitLab CI.

• Create serverless architectures with AWS Lambda and Step Functions, focusing on event-driven designs.

• Containerize applications using Docker and manage microservices orchestration via Amazon EKS, ECS, and Fargate.

• Ensure comprehensive monitoring, logging, alerting, and tracing of AWS resources and applications leveraging CloudWatch, X-Ray, Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK/EFK.

• Implement AWS security best practices, covering IAM, encryption, VPCs, subnets, WAF, GuardDuty, and AWS Shield.

• Establish backup, disaster recovery, high availability, data redundancy, snapshots, and multi-AZ/multi-region strategies.

• Optimize performance and cost in the cloud through resource right-sizing and waste elimination.

• Address and resolve cloud infrastructure and service issues, conducting root cause analysis as necessary.

• Maintain documentation related to architecture, configuration, standard operating procedures, and runbooks.

• Collaborate with developers, QA, operations, security/compliance teams, and project managers to ensure effective project delivery.

• Communicate with clients to identify technical requirements, provide progress updates, and clarify complex solutions.

• Assess trade-offs, pinpoint root causes, and design resilient cloud architectures.

• Stay updated with AWS services and industry best practices, recommending enhancements as needed.

• Conduct OS-level troubleshooting and system administration in both Linux and Windows cloud environments.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent professional experience).

• 3-5+ years of practical experience with AWS in an engineering or infrastructure capacity (seniority level adjustable).

• Extensive knowledge of essential AWS services: EC2, S3, VPC, RDS/Aurora, Lambda, API Gateway, IAM, CloudWatch, etc.

• Demonstrated experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or AWS CDK.

• Practical expertise in containerization and orchestration through Docker, Kubernetes/Amazon EKS, ECS, and Fargate.

• Proven capability to debug and troubleshoot intricate container workload challenges in Kubernetes, Amazon EKS, and AWS ECS environments.

• Experience in constructing CI/CD pipelines using platforms like Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, AWS CodePipeline, or GitHub Actions.

• Strong scripting abilities (Python, Bash, NodeJS, PowerShell, or similar) for task automation.

• Familiarity with monitoring, logging, and tracing tools (e.g., CloudWatch, X-Ray, ELK stack, Prometheus, Grafana).

• Comprehensive understanding of cloud networking, security, and compliance (including VPCs, subnets, security groups, network ACLs, encryption, and identity management).

• Experience in project delivery within agile or scrum frameworks, including work estimation and milestone achievement.

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities, with a keen attention to detail.

• Strong communication skills—capable of articulating complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.

• In-depth technical knowledge and hands-on expertise in OS-level administration, configuration, and advanced troubleshooting for both Linux and Windows Server platforms.

• Robust client-facing communication capabilities, with a proven history of establishing trust and managing technical discussions with stakeholders.

• Exceptional critical thinking, analytical reasoning, and decisive problem-solving skills, particularly in complex or ambiguous situations.

🏝️ Benefits

• Opportunities for learning and personal growth.

• Collaborate with leaders who advocate for learning and development.

• Equal Opportunity Employer.