AWS Cloud / DevOps Engineer

AWS Cloud / DevOps Engineer

Role Overview

We are looking for an experienced AWS Cloud / DevOps Engineer with strong hands-on expertise in AWS infrastructure, AWS CDK, GitHub Actions, serverless services, containers, APIs, IAM, databases, and CI/CD deployments.

The candidate should be capable of designing, implementing, deploying, and maintaining production-grade AWS infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code and automated deployment pipelines.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain AWS cloud infrastructure using AWS CDK and Infrastructure as Code.

• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions.

• Automate application and infrastructure deployments across development, staging, and production environments.

• Work extensively with:

• AWS Lambda

• Amazon API Gateway

• Amazon ECS

• Amazon SQS

• Amazon SNS

• Amazon DynamoDB

• AWS IAM

• Amazon CloudWatch

• Amazon VPC

• Amazon S3

• Design and implement REST APIs using API Gateway and Lambda.

• Build event-driven architectures using SQS, SNS, and Lambda.

• Deploy and manage containerized applications using ECS.

• Design secure IAM roles, policies, permissions, and service-to-service access.

• Implement infrastructure completely through CDK, minimizing manual AWS console configuration.

• Develop reusable CDK constructs and maintain multiple AWS environments/accounts.

• Configure monitoring, logging, alerting, and troubleshooting using AWS services.

• Manage application configuration, secrets, networking, security, and deployment dependencies.

• Troubleshoot production infrastructure and deployment issues.

• Follow AWS best practices for security, scalability, availability, reliability, and cost optimization.

• Collaborate with developers to integrate application deployments with AWS infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines.

Required Technical Skills

AWS

Strong hands-on experience with:

• Lambda

• API Gateway

• ECS

• SQS

• SNS

• DynamoDB

• IAM

• S3

• CloudWatch

• VPC

• CloudFormation

• Event-driven architectures

• REST APIs

Infrastructure as Code

• Strong experience with AWS CDK

• Ability to create and manage complete AWS infrastructure using code

• Experience with reusable CDK constructs

• Understanding of CloudFormation and infrastructure lifecycle management

CI/CD

• Strong experience with GitHub Actions

• Automated build, test, and deployment pipelines

• Environment-specific deployments

• AWS authentication and secure deployment workflows

• Deployment rollback and release strategies

Development / Scripting

• Experience with at least one language such as TypeScript, Python, or Java

• Understanding of REST APIs and JSON

• Shell scripting and automation experience

Security

• Strong understanding of AWS IAM

• IAM roles, policies, trust relationships, and least-privilege access

• Secure CI/CD authentication and AWS deployments

• Understanding of AWS networking and security best practices

Preferred Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience working with AWS/cloud infrastructure.

• Strong production experience with AWS serverless and container-based architectures.

• Experience designing end-to-end AWS solutions.

• Experience managing multiple environments such as Dev, QA, UAT, and Production.

• Experience with AWS account/region management.

• Knowledge of observability, logging, monitoring, and incident troubleshooting.

• AWS certifications are a plus.

Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate should be able to take an application from source code infrastructure CI/CD pipeline AWS deployment monitoring production support and independently manage the complete lifecycle.

Strong practical experience with AWS CDK + GitHub Actions + Lambda + API Gateway + ECS + SQS/SNS + DynamoDB + IAM is essential.