Senior AWS Cloud Engineer

JOB PURPOSE:

Senior AWS Cloud Engineer with deep expertise in AWS managed services and migration, complemented by working knowledge of Azure. The role focuses on managing complex AWS environments and executing migration initiatives while maintaining operational excellence and cost optimization.

CERTIFICATIONS:

AWS Solutions Architect Professional certification

AWS DevOps Engineer Professional

AWS Advanced Networking or Security Specialty certification

Azure Fundamentals certification (AZ-900)

RESPONSIBILITIES (INCLUDES ALL TASKS):

Cloud Operations & Management

Design, implement, and manage enterprise AWS infrastructure focusing on high availability

Develop and maintain infrastructure standards and best practices documentation

Implement comprehensive monitoring solutions with proactive alerting

Design and implement backup and disaster recovery solutions with proven RPO/RTO

Manage capacity planning and resource optimization across multiple environments

Handle security implementations including compliance requirements (ISO, SOC, PCI as applicable)

Provide L3 technical support for production issues

Manage cloud costs and implement optimization strategies

Build and maintain infrastructure automation solutions

Participate in 24x7 on-call support rotation

Migration & Transformation

Conduct detailed infrastructure and application assessment for migration planning

Create and execute migration strategies for different types of workloads

Handle complex database migrations with minimal downtime

Implement and manage hybrid cloud connectivity

Ensure application dependency mapping and migration

Execute staged migrations with proper testing and validation

Manage stakeholder communication during migration events

Create and maintain migration runbooks and documentation

Provide post-migration support and optimization

Handle data synchronization and cutover planning

DevOps Implementation

Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for application deployments

Implement Infrastructure as Code practices using industry-standard tools

Create automated solutions for routine operational tasks

Manage container orchestration platforms for microservices

Implement comprehensive logging and monitoring solutions

Automate security and compliance checks

Support development teams with deployment automation

Maintain deployment documentation and runbooks

Azure Knowledge Requirements

Good Understanding of Azure infrastructure services (Compute, Storage, Network)

Familiarity with Azure migration tools and methodologies

Experience in hybrid cloud scenarios between AWS and Azure

Understanding of Azure monitoring and management tools

Knowledge of Azure identity and access management

TECHNICAL SKILLS /COMPETENCIES:

AWS Core Services Expertise

Compute & Containers

Amazon EC2 (deep expertise in instance types, AMIs, user data)

Auto Scaling Groups and Launch Templates

AWS Lambda for automation and serverless operations

EC2 Image Builder for AMI management

AWS Systems Manager for instance management

Storage

Amazon S3 (including lifecycle policies, replication)

Amazon EBS (including snapshots, encryption)

Amazon EFS and FSx

AWS Storage Gateway

AWS Backup

Networking

Amazon VPC (including subnetting, routing, security groups)

Transit Gateway and VPC peering

Route 53 (including health checks, routing policies)

AWS Direct Connect and Site-to-Site VPN

Application and Network Load Balancers

AWS Global Accelerator

Database

Amazon RDS (including Multi-AZ, Read Replicas)

Amazon Aurora

DynamoDB

ElastiCache

Database Migration Service (DMS)

Security & Identity

AWS IAM (roles, policies, permissions boundaries)

AWS Organizations and Control Tower

AWS Security Hub and GuardDuty

AWS KMS and CloudHSM

AWS WAF and Shield

AWS Certificate Manager

Monitoring & Management

Amazon CloudWatch (metrics, logs, events)

AWS CloudTrail

AWS Config

AWS Systems Manager

AWS Service Catalog

AWS Control Tower

Migration Tools Proficiency

AWS Application Migration Service (MGN)

AWS Database Migration Service (DMS)

AWS Server Migration Service (SMS)

AWS Application Discovery Service

AWS Migration Hub

AWS Schema Conversion Tool (SCT)

CloudEndure Migration

Automation & DevOps

Infrastructure as Code using CloudFormation and Terraform

AWS CLI and SDK proficiency

Python scripting for AWS automation

PowerShell scripting for Windows workloads

Git for version control

Jenkins/AWS CodePipeline experience

CI/CD & Automation

AWS CodePipeline

AWS CodeBuild

AWS CodeDeploy

AWS CodeArtifact

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI/CD

Terraform and AWS CDK

Ansible

Chef/Puppet

Containerization & Orchestration

Docker and container concepts

Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS)

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)

AWS Fargate

Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR)

Kubernetes administration

Container security and best practices

Service mesh (AWS App Mesh)

SOFT SKILLS:

Large-scale cloud migration projects

Production environment management

Cost optimization initiatives

Security and compliance implementation

Infrastructure automation projects

High availability architecture design

Database migration and management

DevOps transformation initiatives