Senior Cloud Engineer

Job summary

Invu Technology is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer for a long-term contract with a leading FinTech company. This role involves designing, implementing, and supporting scalable, secure, and high-performing AWS cloud environments, Kubernetes, and modern big data platforms. The ideal candidate will have a significant impact on a high-profile project in the banking and financial services industry.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of hands-on experience as a Cloud Engineer.
• 5+ years of experience designing, implementing, and managing AWS cloud environments, including EC2, S3, ECS, RDS, VPC, and IAM.
• 3+ years of experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration technologies in production environments.
• 3+ years of experience working with modern data platforms such as Databricks, Snowflake, or similar technologies supporting data ingestion, processing, and streaming workloads.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), including strong Terraform expertise.
• 3+ years of experience implementing cloud security best practices, including IAM, role-based access controls, encryption, key management, secrets management, and VPC/network security.
• Experience building and supporting CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation processes.
• Strong understanding of highly available, resilient, scalable, and cost-optimized cloud architectures.
• Experience troubleshooting and supporting distributed systems in production environments.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.
• Experience working in financial services, fintech, or other highly regulated environments is a plus.
• AWS certifications are a plus.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field.
• Must be based in the United States and authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and maintain scalable, secure, and highly available cloud infrastructure within AWS.
• Build and manage cloud-native solutions utilizing AWS services including EC2, S3, ECS, RDS, VPC, and IAM.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions using Terraform to automate provisioning and environment management.
• Deploy, manage, and support containerized applications using Kubernetes and cloud-native orchestration platforms.
• Collaborate with engineering, data, security, and operations teams to deliver reliable and scalable cloud solutions.
• Support data ingestion, processing, and streaming workloads using platforms such as Databricks, Snowflake, or similar technologies.
• Implement cloud security best practices, including identity and access management, encryption, key management, secrets management, and network security controls.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation initiatives.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize cloud infrastructure for performance, reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency.
• Participate in architecture discussions and provide technical guidance on cloud engineering best practices.

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Relocation