Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Job Category: Development
Job Type: Contract
Job Location: Remote
Duration: short term
Experience: 5+ years
JOB DESCRIPTION & RESPONSIBILITIES
- Responsible for building and managing our cloud infrastructure (AWS) with code first mindset.
- Implement data storage solutions such as S3, ERDS and NoSQL databases.
- Automate workflows using orchestration systems like airflow, oozie etc.
- Build monitoring and observability dashboards.
- Cost optimization and management.
- Enforce security (create and maintain users and roles, assign privileges), establish procedures to ensure data integrity and availability.
- Perform on-call duties to keep the lights up 24×7.
- Setup and maintain documentation and standards.
PRIMARY SKILLS
- BSc degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
- 5+ years experience on public cloud such as AWS (preferred), Azure or GCP.
- Working knowledge of public cloud, Big data fundamentals.
- Excellent programming skills – shell script or Python.
- Experience with relational & non-relational databases, containerization and Kubernetes, IAM & networking security.
- Hands-on with Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform or Ansible or CloudFormation and Jenkins.
SECONDARY SKILLS (IF ANY)
- Experience with performance diagnostics, debugging and performance tuning.
- Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills.
CERTIFICATIONS REQUIRED (IF ANY)
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect or relevant cloud certification (preferred)