AWS Cloud Engineer

Responsibilities

• Work with a team to design and implement highly available, secure, scalable and cost-effective systems and processes, ensuring the reliability and performance of the company's AWS infrastructure.
• Develop infrastructure-as-code (IaC) automation (e.g., Terraform) to create IaC patterns and modules that accelerate development for end users programmatically.
• Monitor systems and applications, proactively identifying and resolving any performance bottlenecks or availability issues.
• Manage Kubernetes clusters on AWS EKS, including deployment, scaling, monitoring, and troubleshooting containerised workloads to ensure high availability and optimal performance.
• Develop and maintain monitoring tools, alerts, and dashboards to provide visibility into system health and performance.
• Conduct post-incident analyses to identify root causes and implement preventive measures to avoid future incidents.
• Automate repetitive tasks and processes to improve efficiency and reduce manual intervention.
• Create and maintain documentation for system architecture, configuration, and troubleshooting procedures.
• Collaborate with development teams to implement and deploy new features and enhancements, ensuring they meet reliability and performance standards.
• Stay up to date with industry best practices, new technologies, and emerging trends in site reliability engineering.

Requirements

• 4+ years of relevant AWS Cloud/DevOps/Software engineering experience
• Demonstrable skills in working with complex ecosystems
• Understanding of security concepts: encryption, secure application development, defensive programming, software vulnerabilities and exploits, general issues in web security
• AWS Administration experience, optimum resource management/security
• Experience delivering scalable Event Driven systems
• Comfortable scripting and debugging
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in AWS infrastructure management, including automation with Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) using Terraform, and managing Kubernetes clusters on AWS EKS. Proficient in monitoring system performance, conducting post-incident analyses, and implementing security best practices.