Sr. Associate, Cloud Engineer

Job summary

The Cloud Operations Engineer designs, deploys, and maintains scalable, secure AWS infrastructure for financial services systems, supporting availability, performance, and reliability. The role automates provisioning with Terraform, manages Docker-based deployments, monitoring, and cloud security, and coordinates incident response and root-cause analysis. The work includes AWS networking and hybrid architectures, operational documentation, and after-hours business support.

Qualifications

• Proficiency with AWS services including EC2, S3, VPC, RDS, IAM, ECS, EKS, Identity Center, Config, Security Hub, and Lambda.
• Hands-on networking experience with AWS Transit Gateway and hybrid architectures.
• Experience with at least one non-shell programming language, such as Java, .NET, Python, Go, or Ruby.
• Hands-on experience with Terraform.
• Experience creating, managing, and deploying Docker containers.
• Knowledge of change management practices.
• Understanding of data governance, security, and cryptography.
• Ability to work with stakeholders in high-pressure situations.
• At least 4 years of experience developing with cloud technologies.
• At least 3 years of networking troubleshooting experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and manage secure, scalable AWS environments.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration with infrastructure-as-code tools.
• Monitor systems and tune performance to maintain high availability and reliability.
• Implement cloud security controls, governance policies, and auditing processes.
• Coordinate issue resolution across operations, functional, and technical teams in accordance with service-level agreements.
• Collaborate with development teams to containerize applications and optimize deployment pipelines.
• Lead outage calls, coordinate responders, and drive incidents through resolution and root-cause determination.
• Document known issues, workarounds, and standard operating procedures.
• Troubleshoot application stability and restore service when disruptions occur.
• Create scripts and automation tools to reduce manual work.
• Implement automated monitoring, alerting, and remediation.
• Provide after-hours business support.

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Relocation