As a Cloud Engineer, you will design, maintain cloud infrastructure on AWS, optimize performance, and ensure security while collaborating with various teams.
About the Role
We're looking for an experienced Cloud Engineer to join our growing tech team. You’ll play a key role in designing, building, and maintaining cloud infrastructure on AWS, ensuring our systems are secure, scalable, and efficient. If you're passionate about cloud technologies, automation, and continuous improvement, we want to hear from you.
Main Accountabilities and Key Tasks:
- Collaborate with architects to design and deploy AWS applications at scale.
- Monitor and optimize cloud components for performance, uptime, and cost.
- Identify legacy systems suitable for cloud migration and lead modernization efforts.
- Build and manage infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform or CloudFormation.
- Implement monitoring and logging solutions to proactively detect and prevent issues.
- Write clear, effective documentation for cloud architecture and operations.
- Work through the full development lifecycle for AWS-based projects.
- Troubleshoot incidents, perform root cause analysis, and implement fixes.
- Partner with Security, DevOps, and Engineering teams to enforce cloud security and best practices.
Knowledge and experience:
- 3+ years in a similar cloud-focused role.
- Deep knowledge of AWS services and architecture.
- Experience and understanding of building VPC’s in AWS – including subnets, route tables, NACLs, Internet Gateways and NAT gateways/instances.
- Experience with EC2, Load Balancers,AutoScaling groups.
- Proficiency with IaC tools (Terraform, CloudFormation).
- Experience in Linux administration and shell scripting.
- Solid understanding of Kubernetes and container orchestration.
- Familiarity with monitoring tools (e.g., CloudWatch).
- Strong grasp of cloud security principles and best practices.
- Experience with standards like PCI-DSS, GDPR, or CIS is a plus.
- Work on high-impact, cloud-first projects in a collaborative environment.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams across engineering, data science, security, and DevOps.
- Be part of a company that values innovation, autonomy, and continuous learning.
Why Join Us?
Research shows that individuals from underrepresented backgrounds often hesitate to apply for roles unless they meet every single qualification, while others may apply when they meet only a portion of the criteria. If you believe you have the skills and potential to succeed in this role, even if you don't meet every listed requirement, we encourage you to apply. We'd love to hear from you and explore whether you could be a great fit.
Top Skills
AWS
CloudFormation
Ec2
Kubernetes
Linux
Load Balancers
Terraform
Vpc
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