This position is responsible for providing secure, scalable cloud-based solutions. The Cloud Engineer ensures servers and services are configured using industry best practices for reliability and can scale environments based on client needs. You should be patient, possess strong communication skills, and demonstrate a desire to learn new technologies.

Responsibilities

• Provide and design secure, scalable solutions in the cloud for client environments
• Implement system hardening, security best practices, and configuration management across cloud infrastructure and client servers
• Build and manage code release pipelines for development, staging, and production environments
• Implement and maintain infrastructure as code
• Configure new CloudWatch monitoring alerts and dashboards
• Maintain uptime, service reliability, and sustainability of cloud infrastructure and hosted applications
• Maintain an accurate inventory of existing server, storage, networking, software/hardware, and virtual environments to support scaling for various project requirements
• Help developers and DevOps teams build new services using containers (Docker/Kubernetes)
• Identify pain points and bottlenecks in the development lifecycle, and find ways to automate processes to support development and IT teams
• Ensure servers and services are configured using standard best practices for reliability and scale based on client needs

Technical Qualifications

• Experience working on cloud providers like AWS, Azure, and GCP
• Experience in Windows Server, Linux server administration
• Experience in Amazon Services like EC2, RDS, Aurora, S3, CloudFront, VPC, ECS, etc
• Experience in creating and executing IaC using Terraform and CloudFormation
• Experience in setup and configuration of containerization using Docker, ECS, EKS
• Good understanding of using monitoring tools like PRTG, Amazon CloudWatch, New Relic, Prometheus and Grafana
• Good understanding of networking concepts to help implement new services and troubleshoot issues—DNS, DHCP, software update server, deployment server, file server, firewall, routing, switching
• Good knowledge of implementing and configuring continuous integration tools like Jenkins, CodeBuild
• Knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle and working on platforms like GitHub, GitLab
• Knowledge of creating scripts using Bash, Python, PowerShell

Personal Skills

• Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, with a range of stakeholders—from junior developers to executive leadership and clients
• Ability to communicate clearly in a client-facing role and respond confidently to client queries
• Ability to manage and contribute to multiple projects, including supporting cloud-based solutions across client environments
• Ability to identify optimal solutions quickly and apply timely fixes when needed
• Ability to remain calm and professional while troubleshooting and resolving support issues
• Ability to work effectively in a collaborative, team-oriented environment
• Ability to learn new concepts and software tools quickly
• Ability to adapt to changing priorities by adjusting tasks and schedules as required

Education and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in a computer-related field
• Minimum of 3 years of relevant experience in cloud engineering or infrastructure roles
• Certification in Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900), AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner or any interrelated skill will be an added advantage