
Senior Cloud Engineer – Architecture, Foundation
Posted May 30

Posted May 30
This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Brazil.
• Design scalable, resilient, and secure cloud architectures, applying standards and best practices from the AWS Well-Architected Framework.
• Assess architectural trade-offs considering cost, performance, security, reliability, and operational excellence.
• Create and maintain architecture diagrams (C4, AWS Architecture Icons) and detailed technical documentation.
• Conduct design reviews and architectural analyses with development teams.
• Implement and evolve cloud infrastructure focusing on scalability, resilience, security, and cost optimization.
• Define reusable infrastructure standards and frameworks to accelerate team delivery.
• Automate operational tasks using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and scripting, eliminating manual processes.
• Ensure high availability and performance of services by implementing disaster recovery and backup strategies.
• Plan and monitor service capacity and performance, optimizing cloud resource consumption.
• Implement and maintain observability solutions (logs, metrics, and traces) to ensure complete visibility of infrastructure.
• Actively collaborate with development, product, and architecture teams, serving as a technical reference for cloud solutions.
• Develop and implement code following our internal quality standards, maintainability, and best practices.
• Perform code reviews and technically contribute to platform architecture and products.
• Identify and implement continuous improvements in processes, architecture, and operations.
• Participate in the evaluation and resolution of critical incidents, conducting root cause analyses.
• Promote and disseminate a culture of excellence in cloud architecture and best practices in Cloud Engineering.
• Evaluate new technologies and AWS services, proposing adoption when appropriate.
• Professional experience designing and implementing cloud architectures (AWS).
• In-depth experience and knowledge of AWS services and their use cases (Compute, Storage, Database, Networking, Security).
• Familiarity with the AWS Well-Architected Framework and its six pillars.
• Experience designing high availability architectures, multi-AZ, and multi-region solutions.
• Knowledge of cloud-native architectural patterns (microservices, event-driven, serverless).
• Understanding of Serverless and event-driven architectures (AWS Lambda, EventBridge, SQS, SNS, Step Functions).
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) (AWS CDK, Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Experience with containers (Docker) and container orchestration (ECS, Kubernetes).
• Solid understanding of networking and connectivity (VPC, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect, VPN, security groups, NACLs).
• Experience designing storage solutions (S3, EBS, EFS, FSx) and backup/DR strategies.
• Proficiency in Linux systems (Ubuntu), including tools and scripting (Shell script, Bash, Python).
• Experience with CI/CD (CodePipeline, GitHub Actions, Jenkins).
• Familiarity with API development and microservices architecture.
• Experience with relational database administration and optimization (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL, RDS, Aurora).
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools (e.g., Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, New Relic, CloudWatch).
• Knowledge of cloud security practices (IAM, secrets management, encryption, compliance).
• Ability to create and maintain technical documentation and architecture diagrams.
• Technical English proficiency (reading and writing).
• Medical and dental assistance with no co-payment.
• Life insurance.
• Support for purchasing medications.
• Assistance for physical activities.
• Home Office support.
• Work equipment provided.
• Furniture support.
• Partnerships with coworking spaces.
• Day Off in the birthday month.
• Happy Hour assistance.
• Bonus for referring new employees.
• Performance-based annual bonus.
• Stock Options plan.
• Light work environment with a casual dress code.
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