AWS cloud Engineer

· Design and operate scalable, highly available, multi-account cloud infrastructure (AWS)

· Build and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code modules and standards using Terraform

· Develop reusable platform patterns, landing zones, and golden paths for engineering teams

· Optimize and operate CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Harness)

· Enable developer self-service and reduce manual intervention through automation

· Manage Kubernetes platforms (EKS) - networking, scaling, upgrades, and workload onboarding

· Operate and support Kafka-based event streaming platforms - topics, schemas, connectors, and cluster reliability

· Build and integrate REST APIs and self-service tooling to streamline platform workflows

· Implement cloud security and governance (IAM, OAuth/OIDC, OKTA, SSL/TLS, secrets management)

· Drive cloud cost optimization, capacity planning, and FinOps practices

· Implement observability - metrics, logging, tracing, alerting, and SLOs

· Lead incident response, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis across platform and runtime systems

· Partner with application teams to troubleshoot infrastructure, deployment, and runtime issues

· Drive continuous improvement using operational insights and user feedback

· Enhance documentation, runbooks, and platform usability

· Cloud: AWS (EKS, EC2, VPC/Networking, IAM, S3, RDS, Lambda)

· IaC: Terraform (modules, state management, policy-as-code)

· CI/CD: GitHub Actions, Harness

· APIs & Integration: REST APIs (design, development, integration), Async APIs

· Containers & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes (EKS)

· Event Streaming: Kafka, Confluent (topics, schemas, Kafka Connect, cluster linking)

· Monitoring/Observability: Datadog, CloudWatch

· Security: OAuth, OIDC, OKTA, SSL/TLS, IAM, secrets management

· Programming/Scripting: Java/Python

Key Competencies

· Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving across distributed systems

· Ability to translate operational issues into durable platform improvements

· Systems-thinking approach to reliability, security, and cost

· Effective collaboration and technical mentorship across engineering teams