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Cloud Engineer(AWS)
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Contract type:
Freelance / Contract
Location:
Costa Rica
Work mode:
Onsite
Published on:
14 October 2026
What they need
About the Role
We are looking for an experienced Cloud Engineer with strong hands-on expertise in AWS infrastructure, .NET SaaS application support, and Microsoft SQL Server administration. The ideal candidate will be responsible for maintaining secure, scalable, reliable, and high-performing cloud environments while supporting production operations, deployments, and automation.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage and maintain AWS infrastructure, including EC2, VPC, S3, IAM, RDS, Load Balancers, Auto Scaling, Route 53, CloudWatch, and AWS Backup.
- Support production and non-production environments for .NET / ASP.NET / .NET Core SaaS applications hosted on Windows Server and IIS.
- Administer IIS, SSL certificates, DNS, application pools, Windows services, and application deployments.
- Perform Microsoft SQL Server administration, performance tuning, query optimization, indexing, backup and recovery, and database security.
- Monitor infrastructure, application, and database performance; troubleshoot complex production incidents and perform root cause analysis.
- Support CI/CD pipelines and automate infrastructure and operational tasks using PowerShell, Python, or similar scripting tools.
- Implement Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform or AWS CloudFormation.
- Maintain cloud security, IAM policies, patching, disaster recovery, and backup procedures.
- Collaborate with development teams to improve application availability, deployment reliability, scalability, and AWS cost efficiency.
Required Skills & Experience
- 5+ years of experience in Cloud Engineering, DevOps, Infrastructure Engineering, or SaaS Operations.
- Strong hands-on experience with AWS cloud infrastructure and services.
- Experience managing Windows Server, IIS, and production .NET / .NET Core applications.
- Strong Microsoft SQL Server DBA skills, including performance tuning, indexing, backups, restores, and database maintenance.
- Experience supporting production SaaS applications and troubleshooting application, database, networking, and infrastructure issues.
- Good understanding of cloud networking, including VPCs, subnets, routing, security groups, DNS, and load balancing.
- Experience with AWS CloudWatch, monitoring, logging, and alerting tools.
- Familiarity with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, or Azure DevOps.
- Experience with Terraform or AWS CloudFormation.
- Strong PowerShell scripting skills; Python or Bash is an advantage.
- Knowledge of cloud security, IAM, SSL/TLS, vulnerability management, and disaster recovery.
Technology Stack
AWS | .NET / ASP.NET Core | IIS | Windows Server | Microsoft SQL Server / Amazon RDS | PowerShell | Python | Terraform | CloudFormation | CloudWatch | CI/CD
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience managing multi-environment SaaS platforms across Development, QA, Staging, UAT, and Production.
- Exposure to high availability, disaster recovery, and AWS cost optimization.
- Ability to independently troubleshoot complex production issues across infrastructure, applications, and databases.
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