AWS Cloud Engineer

AWS Cloud Engineer

4 days ago
Contract
On-site
San Diego, California, United States
AWS
Job Title: AWS Cloud Engineer
Experience: 5–8 Years
Education: BE/B.Tech / Master’s Degree
<.>Job Summary
We are looking for a seasoned AWS Cloud Engineer with 5–8 years of hands-on experience in designing, deploying, managing, and optimizing enterprise-scale AWS cloud environments.
The ideal candidate will have strong expertise across core AWS services, Infrastructure as Code, DevOps, containerization, Kubernetes, Linux administration, and cloud migration/modernization. The candidate will play a key role in driving cloud transformation initiatives, establishing cloud governance, optimizing cloud operations, and enabling enterprise adoption of AWS best practices.
<.>Must-Have Skills
1. Strong hands-on experience with the AWS Cloud Platform.
2. Expertise in AWS services including:
– EC2
– VPC
– IAM
– S3
– RDS
– Lambda
– CloudFront
– API Gateway
– Route 53
– ECS/EKS
– CloudWatch
3. Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using:
– Terraform
– AWS CloudFormation
– AWS CDK
4. Strong knowledge of Linux/Unix administration.
5. Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps toolchains.
6. Strong expertise in Docker and Kubernetes platforms.
7. Experience with cloud migration, modernization, and transformation projects.
8. Strong scripting experience with Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
<.>Detailed Responsibilities
– Design, deploy, configure, and manage enterprise-scale AWS cloud environments.
– Implement and manage AWS services including EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, RDS, Lambda, API Gateway, CloudFront, Route 53, ECS/EKS, and CloudWatch.
– Develop, maintain, and optimize Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or AWS CDK.
– Lead and contribute to AWS cloud migration, modernization, and transformation initiatives for enterprise applications.
– Design and implement secure, scalable, highly available, and cost-optimized AWS architectures.
– Build, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or similar DevOps tools.
– Implement containerization solutions using Docker and container orchestration using Kubernetes/EKS.
– Manage Linux/Unix-based cloud infrastructure and troubleshoot operating-system and application-level issues.
– Develop automation scripts using Python, Bash, or PowerShell to improve operational efficiency.
– Implement cloud monitoring, logging, alerting, and operational best practices using AWS CloudWatch and related tools.
– Implement AWS security best practices around IAM, networking, access control, encryption, and resource governance.
– Collaborate with application, infrastructure, security, and DevOps teams to support cloud adoption.
– Identify opportunities for cloud optimization, automation, scalability, reliability, and cost reduction.
– Troubleshoot complex AWS infrastructure, networking, container, and deployment issues.
– Establish and follow AWS best practices for governance, security, availability, performance, and operational excellence.
– Support enterprise adoption of standardized cloud architecture and DevOps practices.
<.>Top 3 Responsibilities
1. AWS Cloud Expertise – Design, deploy, manage, and optimize enterprise AWS cloud environments.
2. AWS Services – Provide strong hands-on expertise across EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, RDS, Lambda, CloudFront, API Gateway, Route 53, ECS/EKS, and CloudWatch.
3. Docker & Kubernetes – Design, implement, and manage containerized workloads using Docker and Kubernetes/EKS.
<.>Preferred Experience
– Experience working on large-scale AWS migration and modernization programs.
– Experience with enterprise cloud governance and security.
– Experience with Terraform and reusable IaC modules.
– Experience with AWS EKS/ECS and production container environments.
– Experience with Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, or similar tools.
– Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
– Experience working in Agile/DevOps environments.