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, highly available, and secure AWS infrastructure tailored to project requirements.

• Lead or engage in cloud migration efforts, including transitioning on-premises workloads and redesigning for cloud-native services.

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

• Establish CI/CD pipelines to automate deployment processes.

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

• Package applications with Docker and manage microservices orchestration using Amazon EKS, ECS, and Fargate.

• Ensure comprehensive monitoring, logging, alerting, and tracing of AWS resources and applications.

• Apply best practices for AWS security, including IAM, encryption, network segmentation, WAF, GuardDuty, and AWS Shield.

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

• Optimize cloud costs and performance through resource right-sizing and minimizing waste.

• Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve issues related to cloud infrastructure and services; conduct root cause analyses.

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

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

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

• Assess trade-offs, identify underlying issues, and design resilient cloud architectures.

• Keep abreast of the latest AWS services, features, and industry best practices; evaluate technologies and suggest enhancements.

• Perform OS-level troubleshooting and system administration across 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 hands-on experience in AWS within an engineering or infrastructure capacity (seniority adjustable).

• Strong familiarity with core AWS services: EC2, S3, VPC, RDS/Aurora, Lambda, API Gateway, IAM, CloudWatch, etc.

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

• Practical experience in containerization and orchestration with Docker, Kubernetes/Amazon EKS, ECS, and Fargate.

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

• Experience in creating CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, AWS CodePipeline, or GitHub Actions.

• Strong scripting skills (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).

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

• Experience in project delivery: working within agile or scrum methodologies, estimating tasks, and meeting milestones.

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

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

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

• Exceptional client-facing communication skills, with a proven ability to build trust and manage technical discussions with stakeholders.

• Outstanding critical thinking, analytical reasoning, and decisive problem-solving skills under complex or ambiguous scenarios.

🏝️ Benefits

• Opportunities for learning and personal development.

• Collaborate with leaders who encourage growth and personal advancement.