Senior Cloud Operations Engineer

Job summary

The Cloud Operations Engineer designs, operates, and optimizes secure, scalable AWS environments, supporting production Linux systems, containerized workloads, and relational and NoSQL databases. The role manages Amazon EKS and ECS, improves platform observability with tools such as CloudWatch, Prometheus, and Grafana, responds to production incidents, and drives security and cost improvements. Infrastructure and configuration management include Terraform and Puppet.

Qualifications

• 4–5 years of experience in cloud operations, infrastructure engineering, or SRE.
• Hands-on experience with AWS services including EC2, EKS, ECS, RDS or Aurora, S3, VPC, IAM, Lambda, CloudWatch, Route 53, and load balancers.
• Experience designing and troubleshooting AWS networking and managing IAM roles, policies, and cross-account access.
• Production experience managing EKS and ECS workloads, cluster lifecycles, networking, and autoscaling.
• Strong Docker fundamentals, including image builds, ECR, and container security.
• Strong Linux administration and production server hardening experience.
• Proficiency with Terraform and experience using Puppet for configuration management.
• Experience with relational databases and familiarity with NoSQL databases.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and observability tools.
• Ability to work effectively with distributed teams; detail-oriented, task-driven, and strong communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, operate, and optimize secure, scalable, highly available AWS infrastructure.
• Manage Amazon EKS and ECS clusters, networking, scaling, and troubleshooting.
• Administer, secure, and tune production Linux systems.
• Maintain and optimize relational and NoSQL databases, including backups, failover, and disaster recovery.
• Improve cloud security through IAM, network controls, and secrets management.
• Implement and improve monitoring, logging, alerting, and performance analytics.
• Respond to production incidents, lead troubleshooting, and conduct root cause analysis.
• Collaborate with software engineering, DevOps, and platform teams to improve deployments and reliability.
• Identify and implement cloud cost optimization opportunities.

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