Cloud Engineer
Summary
The Cloud Engineer will design and maintain highly available, scalable AWS architectures while managing system reliability, observability, and incident response. The role focuses on infrastructure-as-code using tools like Terraform and implementing robust monitoring frameworks.
Job Description:
Technical Skills
- Advance knowledge of core AWS services: EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, S3, RDS/Aurora, DynamoDB, VPC, ELB/ALB/NLB, Route53, IAM.
- Designing multi-AZ and multi-region highly available architectures.
- Strong understanding of networking in AWS (subnets, routing tables, NAT, security groups, NACLs, VPC peering, PrivateLink).
- Experience with well-architected framework pillars (especially reliability, security, cost optimization).
- Designing fault-tolerant and
horizontally scalable systems - Advanced proficiency in Terraform, CloudFormation, or CDK
- Hands-on experience with CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Dynatrace, or OpenTelemetry
- Modular IaC design patterns and state management best practices.
Expected Duties
- Own end-to-end system reliability, availability, and performance using clearly defined SLAs, SLOs, and SLIs, with continuous monitoring and proactive improvement of service health.
- Establish and govern error budget policies in partnership with engineering leadership to balance release velocity with reliability, using error budgets to inform prioritization and release readiness decisions.
- Lead major and complex incident response efforts, collaborate during customer-impacting events, and drive blameless postmortems to ensure systemic corrective actions are implemented with urgency.
- Standardize and enhance observability across environments through robust monitoring, logging, and tracing frameworks using tools such as Dynatrace, CloudWatch, and OpenTelemetry.