Senior AWS Cloud Engineer

Role Overview

• Manage and optimize AWS services including ECS, Lambda, RDS, S3, CloudFront, and VPC configurations.
• Implement AWS best practices for security, performance, and cost optimization.
• Monitor and maintain system health across multiple environments (dev, staging, production).
• Conduct regular infrastructure audits and implement improvements.
• Design, implement, and maintain infrastructure using Pulumi.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration management.
• Manage environment configurations across dev, staging, and production.
• Implement version control and code review processes for infrastructure changes.
• Develop reusable infrastructure components and modules.
• Design, implement, and maintain disaster recovery plans for critical systems and databases.
• Develop and execute backup strategies for RDS databases, S3 data, and application configurations.
• Conduct regular DR drills and validate recovery procedures.
• Document and maintain runbooks for disaster recovery scenarios.
• Implement multi-region failover strategies for high-availability services.
• Perform routine system maintenance including patching, updates, and security hardening.
• Manage database maintenance tasks including backups, performance tuning, and capacity planning.
• Monitor system performance and proactively address potential issues.
• Coordinate maintenance windows and communicate with stakeholders.
• Maintain and rotate secrets, certificates, and access credentials.
• Support application deployments for Angular containers, NestJS servers, and Java Spring Boot services.
• Manage Docker container deployments to AWS ECS and serverless environments.
• Coordinate release of deployments and provide rollback support when needed.
• Maintain deployment documentation and standard operating procedures.
• Implement and maintain AWS security best practices including IAM policies, security groups, and encryption.
• Conduct regular security assessments and vulnerability remediation.
• Ensure compliance with industry standards for banking and financial services integrations.
• Manage access controls and audit logging across AWS environments.
• Maintain comprehensive monitoring solutions using CloudWatch, application logs, and custom metrics.
• Configure and tune alerting thresholds for infrastructure and application health.
• Participate in on-call rotation for production incidents.
• Conduct post-incident reviews and implement preventative measures.
• Monitor and optimize AWS costs through resource right sizing and reserved capacity planning.
• Identify and eliminate unused or underutilized resources.
• Implement cost allocation tags and provide cost reporting to stakeholders.
• Create and maintain operational documentation, runbooks, and architecture diagrams.
• Document system configurations, procedures, and troubleshooting guides.
• Share knowledge with development and operations teams through training and mentorship.
• Work closely with SRE team on infrastructure reliability and incident response.
• Partner with development teams to understand operational requirements.
• Collaborate with security team on compliance and vulnerability management.
• Participate in Scrum ceremonies and contribute to operational planning.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field
• 7+ years of experience in DevOps, systems administration, or cloud operations roles
• Solid experience with infrastructure as code tools, particularly Pulumi, Terraform or CloudFormation
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS services and cloud architecture
• Proven experience designing and implementing disaster recovery solutions
• Solid understanding of database administration, particularly PostgreSQL/RDS
• Experience with containerization using Docker and orchestration with ECS or Kubernetes
• Proficiency in scripting languages: Python, Bash, or Ruby for automation tasks
• Strong understanding of networking concepts, VPCs, security groups, and load balancers
• Experience with monitoring and logging tools (CloudWatch, ELK stack, or similar)
• Knowledge of security best practices and compliance requirements
• Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to troubleshoot complex system issues
• Strong communication skills and ability to document technical procedures clearly
• Experience with banking or financial services systems is a plus
• AWS certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified SysOps Administrator) are highly desirable.

Tech Stack

• Angular
• AWS
• Cloud
• Docker
• Java
• Kubernetes
• Postgres
• Python
• Ruby
• Spring
• Spring Boot
• SpringBoot
• Terraform

Benefits

• Equal Opportunity Employer
• Employees have unique strengths, experiences, and backgrounds