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AWS Cloud Engineer

Summary

Hands-on AWS cloud engineer to govern, secure, and optimize a large-scale multi-account environment with S3, EC2, and GPU compute, focusing on cost, security, and monitoring.

Our client is a Singapore-basedAI company operating a substantial AWS environment, including a multi-accountorganisation, a large-scale S3 data estate, and a GPU compute fleet. They areseeking a hands-on cloud engineer to strengthen platform governance, security,monitoring and cost efficiency.

What You'll Do

• Administer IAM and IAM Identity Center, includingfederation with an external identity provider

• Lead cost-optimisation initiatives, including ReservedInstance / Savings Plans sizing

• Establish cost-allocation tagging and reporting acrosstenants/products

• Manage large-scale S3 storage economics and lifecyclepolicies

• Remediate security findings and strengthen accountsecurity posture

• Own VPC and edge networking configuration

• Build a monitoring and alerting platform from theground up (dashboards, alarms, Slack integration)

• Establish backup and disaster-recovery processes fordatabases and storage

• Manage the EC2 fleet via Systems Manager and retirelegacy platforms

Core Key Skills

• 2-4 years in cloud/infrastructure engineering with 2+years running production AWS environments hands-on

• Experience operating both Linux and Windows Server EC2fleets

• Experience administering a multi-account AWSOrganization (Control Tower experience a strong plus)

• Hands-on experience with Reserved Instance / SavingsPlans analysis and purchasing

• Strong IAM knowledge: policy authoring, role design,and migrating from long-lived keys to role-based access

• VPC networking: subnet design, NAT gateways, securitygroups, load balancers

• Experience with S3 at multi-hundred-TB scale(lifecycle, tiering, replication)

• RDS PostgreSQL operations, including version upgradesand encryption migration

• CloudWatch monitoring/alerting setup andInfrastructure-as-Code (CloudFormation or similar)

• AWS Backup / disaster-recovery planning and execution

Nice to Have

• Terraform experience

• Experience migrating an AWS account betweenorganisations

• AWS Solutions Architect Professional, DevOps EngineerProfessional, or Security Specialty certification

• Experience with Singapore government-linked orcompliance-regulated clients

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