Specialist Cloud Engineer – AWS

Roles & Responsibilities:

Cloud Engineering & Operations

• Design and implement AI/GenAI-powered cloud solutions, leveraging intelligent agents and workflow automation to improve operational efficiency and business outcomes.
• Build, manage, and support cloud platforms and services, ensuring they are secure, reliable, scalable, and cost-effective.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions using Terraform, CloudFormation, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Implement automation, observability, and AIOps capabilities to improve platform reliability, monitoring, and engineering productivity.
• Troubleshoot complex production issues, support incident resolution, and perform root cause analysis to enhance service stability.
• Work closely with security and engineering teams to implement IAM, encryption, governance, and compliance controls with a security-first mindset.
• Contribute to cloud modernisation and continuous improvement initiatives by applying operations/engineering best practices, automation, and technical problem-solving.
• Support AWS FinOps activities, including cost optimisation, resource utilisation reviews, budgeting inputs, forecasting support, and cloud spend visibility.
• Ensure cloud platforms comply with enterprise standards for security, risk controls, reliability, and operational excellence.

Basic Qualifications:

• Master’s degree and 6 to 8 years of experience in cloud operations, with at least 3 years of hands-on technical ownership in AWS cloud engineering OR
• Bachelor’s degree and 8 to 10 years of experience in cloud operations, with at least 4 years of hands-on technical ownership in AWS cloud engineering OR
• Diploma and 10 to 12 years of experience in cloud operations, with at least 5 years of hands-on technical ownership in AWS cloud engineering OR
• Deep expertise in AWS services (EC2, S3, SCPs, RDS, Lambda, Control Tower, Landing Zone, R53, EKS, IAM, VPC, etc.).
• Expertise in implementing solution for cloud operations work leveraging AI, Agents, Workflows etc..
• Strong knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automation frameworks.
• Experience in SRE principles including observability, MTTR, SLIs/SLOs, and incident response.
• Solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines and cloud-native application deployment.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Proven experience in building and operating large-scale AWS platforms, with expertise in AI and agent-based solutions leveraging Amazon Bedrock, Agent Core, and modern cloud automation frameworks.
• Strong experience implementing enterprise cloud solutions, with hands-on expertise in cloud security, compliance controls, risk controls, and operational excellence frameworks.
• Proven expertise in building automation, monitoring, observability, and AIOps solutions within AWS environments to drive platform reliability, reduce operational toil, and accelerate engineering delivery.
• Strong understanding of AWS FinOps principles and cloud financial optimisation practices, including cost analysis, budgeting inputs, forecasting support, chargeback/show back models, and cloud spend visibility.
• Strong experience supporting and operating enterprise-scale AWS and GCP environments, with deep technical expertise in AWS cloud services, architecture, security, automation, and operational best practices.

Professional Certifications:

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect (preferred)

Soft Skills:

• Critical thinking and technical analysis
• Strong technical judgement and problem-solving abilities
• Excellence in cross functional collaboration
• Outstanding communication skills
• Ability to support incident response and high-priority technical issue resolution
• Clear technical communication and stakeholder collaboration skills

Shift Information: This is an onsite position requiring flexibility to support a global operating model. The successful candidate must be willing to work outside standard business hours, including evenings, weekends, and on-call shifts, as required to support 24x7 cloud operations and critical business priorities.

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