Job Description
Role: AWS Cloud Engineer
Location: Boston(Hybrid 3 days at client place)
Key Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and optimize multi-region AWS architectures ensuring scalability, high availability, and resilience.
- Build and manage advanced VPC networking including VPC peering, Transit Gateway (TGW), routing policies, and cross-region connectivity.
- Configure and maintain networking components:
- Security Groups
- Network ACLs (NACLs)
- Route Tables
- Internet Gateways (IGW) & NAT Gateways
- Ensure High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) strategies across regions.
- Set up and manage hybrid connectivity (VPN, Direct Connect).
- Perform UNIX/Linux system administration, including:
- Server provisioning, patching, performance tuning
- Shell scripting and system-level troubleshooting
- Support and administer database environments in cloud and hybrid setups.
- Handle database administration tasks including:
- Installation, configuration, upgrades, and patching
- Backup & recovery, performance tuning, and monitoring
- Ensuring data availability, security, and integrity
- Collaborate with DevOps and application teams for secure deployments.
- Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting for infrastructure.
- Optimize environments for cost, performance, and governance.
Required Skills & Experience
Core Experience
- 10+ years of experience as a Cloud Engineer / DevOps Engineer / AWS Infrastructure Engineer.
- Strong experience working in enterprise-scale cloud environments.
Technical Skills
AWS & Networking
- Strong expertise in:
- VPC, Transit Gateway (TGW), Route 53
- VPN, Direct Connect
- Security Groups & NACLs
- Experience designing multi-region HA/DR architectures.
Compute, Containers & Data
- Hands-on experience with:
- EC2
- ECS (Fargate & EC2 launch types)
- Amazon Redshift
UNIX / Linux
- Strong hands-on experience in:
- Linux/UNIX administration (RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu, etc.)
- Shell scripting (Bash) and system automation
- Performance tuning and system troubleshooting
Database & DBA Skills
- Solid experience with database administration (DBA) in cloud/on-prem environments:
- RDBMS such as Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, or SQL Server
- Database installation, configuration, and upgrades
- Backup & recovery strategies
- Performance tuning and query optimization
- Familiarity with AWS database services (RDS, Aurora, Redshift) and migrations
Infrastructure as Code & Automation
- Strong experience with:
- Terraform / CloudFormation
- Scripting using Python or Bash
DevOps & CI/CD
- Experience setting up and managing CI/CD pipelines
Monitoring & Observability
- Experience with:
- CloudWatch, OpenSearch
- Grafana / Prometheus, Datadog
Additional Skills
- Knowledge of cloud cost optimization and tagging strategies
- Strong troubleshooting and root cause analysis skills
Nice to Have
- AWS certifications (Solutions Architect / Advanced Networking)
- Experience with containerized and microservices architectures
- Knowledge of cloud security and compliance frameworks