Senior AWS Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Job Overview

We are in search of a skilled Senior AWS Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to architect, provision, manage, and enhance enterprise-level AWS cloud infrastructure across multiple account setups. This position emphasizes cloud infrastructure, automation, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), DevOps practices, security protocols, monitoring, troubleshooting, and operational excellence.

Key Responsibilities

• Provision, configure, and oversee AWS cloud infrastructure across enterprise and multi-account setups, focusing on compute, networking, storage, databases, containers, and complementary AWS services.
• Create and sustain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) utilizing Terraform/Terraform Enterprise, while automating infrastructure provisioning, configuration, patching, and operational tasks with Ansible, AWS Systems Manager, Python, and Shell scripting.
• Design and maintain CI/CD and DevOps workflows, ensuring seamless integration of infrastructure deployment, configuration management, security scanning, and automated operational processes.
• Monitor infrastructure availability, performance, capacity, and security through AWS and enterprise-grade monitoring and logging solutions.
• Diagnose intricate production infrastructure challenges, perform root cause analysis (RCA), and enact corrective and preventive measures.
• Establish infrastructure security protocols, including IAM hardening, least-privilege access, vulnerability remediation, patch management, security findings remediation, penetration test findings, and audit/compliance requirements.
• Assist with cloud migration, modernization, backup, high availability, resilience, and continuous improvement projects.
• Collaborate with application, cybersecurity, network, cloud service provider, and vendor teams to ensure the delivery of robust and secure cloud infrastructure.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation, standard operating procedures (SOPs), operational runbooks, and best practices for infrastructure engineering.
• Offer technical guidance and support for infrastructure automation, operational enhancements, and enterprise cloud initiatives.

Required Qualifications & Skills

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 7+ years of relevant experience in ICT infrastructure, cloud engineering, DevOps, systems engineering, or infrastructure operations.
• Extensive hands-on experience with AWS cloud infrastructure.
• Comprehensive knowledge of AWS services related to Compute, Networking, Storage, Databases, Containers, and associated cloud services.
• Practical experience with Terraform/Terraform Enterprise, Ansible, or comparable Infrastructure as Code and configuration-management technologies.
• Familiarity with CI/CD and source-control platforms such as Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Bitbucket, or similar.
• Deep understanding of cloud and infrastructure security, including IAM, least privilege, vulnerability management, system hardening, patching, security remediation, and audit/compliance standards.
• Strong scripting and automation proficiency using Python, Shell/Bash, AWS Systems Manager, or similar technologies.
• Experience with infrastructure monitoring, logging, troubleshooting, and production incident management.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder management abilities.
• Capability to effectively collaborate with application, infrastructure, cybersecurity, networking, and vendor teams.

Preferred Experience

• Experience managing enterprise or multi-account AWS environments.
• Involvement in cloud migration and modernization projects.
• Knowledge of AWS high availability, disaster recovery, backup, and resilience strategies.
• Experience in environments that require security assessments, penetration testing, vulnerability remediation, and regulatory/audit compliance.
• Experience in creating reusable infrastructure modules, automation frameworks, and operational tools.