AWS Cloud Engineer

Job Summary:

Cloud Engineer with strong hands-on experience in AWS

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, deploy, and manage secure, scalable, and highly available infrastructure on AWS.
• Provision and configure core AWS services including EC2, VPC, S3, IAM, RDS, Lambda, CloudFormation/Terraform, and more.
• Implement and manage CI/CD pipelines for automated deployments and infrastructure as code (IaC).
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize system performance, availability, and reliability.
• Implement cloud security best practices including identity/access management, encryption, and compliance monitoring.
• Perform cost optimization, resource tagging, and usage analysis.
• Maintain infrastructure documentation and standard operating procedures.
• Participate in on-call rotation and incident response processes.
• Collaborate with development, DevOps, security, and operations teams to support cloud-native applications.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• 4+ years of experience as a Cloud Engineer or in a similar role.
• Proven hands-on expertise in AWS services: EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, CloudWatch, RDS, Lambda, ECS/EKS, Route 53, CloudTrail, etc.
• Proficient in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using

  CloudFormation

  and/or

  Terraform

  .
• Experience with configuration management tools (e.g., Ansible, Chef, or Puppet).
• Strong scripting skills (Python, Bash, or PowerShell).
• Familiarity with monitoring and alerting tools (e.g., CloudWatch, Datadog, Prometheus).
• Understanding of networking concepts, security controls, and cloud governance.
• Experience with DevOps practices, CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI, AWS CodePipeline).

Preferred Qualifications:

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate or Professional.
• Experience in hybrid cloud environments or multi-cloud strategies.
• Exposure to containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Working knowledge of Agile/Scrum methodologies.