Senior Cloud Engineer (AWS & DevOps)

Smartedge Client is looking for an individual to help with their Senior Cloud Engineer (AWS & DevOps) @ Dublin, Ireland (Hybrid Working)

Job Description :

We are looking for a strong hands-on Senior Cloud Engineer with deep AWS expertise to design, implement, secure, automate, and operate highly available cloud infrastructure across internal and client-facing environments.

AWS will be the primary cloud platform for this role. The engineer should also have a good working knowledge of other major cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure and/or Google Cloud Platform (GCP), as some of our clients operate on these platforms or have hybrid/on-premises environments that integrate with our services.

The role focuses on production reliability, cloud infrastructure, automation, observability, security, incident management, disaster recovery, performance, cost optimization, and continuous improvement.

This is not a traditional infrastructure support role. The successful candidate is expected to use engineering and automation to reduce operational toil, eliminate recurring incidents, improve platform reliability, and continuously enhance operational efficiency.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, manage, and troubleshoot highly available AWS infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code.
• Strong hands-on experience with:
• Design and manage AWS networking including:
• Perform infrastructure lifecycle management, patching, software upgrades, and technology refresh activities.
• Support cloud migration, modernization, and application onboarding initiatives.
• Recommend architectural improvements to enhance reliability, scalability, security, performance, and operational efficiency.
• Support AWS as the primary cloud platform, while collaborating with teams supporting Azure, GCP, and client-specific cloud environments.
• Working knowledge of core Azure and/or GCP services including compute, networking, storage, identity, security, and monitoring.
• Troubleshoot connectivity and integration issues across AWS, other public clouds, and on-premises infrastructure.
• Understand hybrid connectivity patterns including VPN, dedicated connectivity, DNS, routing, identity federation, and secure data integration.
• Participate in client technical discussions involving non-AWS cloud environments where required.
• Apply consistent operational, security, reliability, and governance standards across hybrid environments.
• Implement AWS security best practices including IAM, least privilege, encryption, secrets management, and network security.
• Support cloud security hardening and vulnerability remediation.
• Participate in security audits, vulnerability assessments, and closure of audit findings.
• Ensure cloud infrastructure complies with organizational, client, regulatory, and security requirements.
• Implement and maintain appropriate security guardrails and controls.
• Work closely with Security teams to identify and remediate cloud security risks.
• Design, implement, and maintain AWS disaster recovery solutions.
• Participate in DR and failover testing and validation.
• Ensure infrastructure meets defined RTO and RPO requirements.
• Identify and remediate BCP/DR gaps.
• Support multi-AZ and multi-region resilience initiatives.
• Develop and maintain DR procedures, runbooks, and recovery documentation.
• Monitor infrastructure capacity and performance and proactively identify bottlenecks.
• Conduct performance and capacity analysis and recommend improvements.
• Work with Architecture and Engineering teams to improve the cost/performance profile of the platform.
• Own the operational health, availability, performance, and reliability of AWS cloud environments.
• Lead resolution of high-severity production incidents, including participation in client bridge calls where required.
• Support client-facing technical discussions and production escalations.
• Participate in project planning, technology evaluations, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Experience with GenAI tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude, or equivalent.
• Ability to use AI to accelerate infrastructure automation, troubleshooting, documentation, CI/CD, monitoring, and operational processes.
• 10+ years of IT/infrastructure engineering experience, with at least 5+ years of strong hands-on AWS experience.
• Deep hands-on experience designing, implementing, troubleshooting, and supporting production AWS environments.
• Strong knowledge of Linux/Unix administration, OS configuration, troubleshooting, and shell scripting.
• Strong understanding of AWS networking, security, cloud architecture, and high-availability principles.
• Strong experience with Terraform / Infrastructure as Code.
• Strong scripting and automation skills using Python and/or Shell.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes/EKS.
• Experience with CI/CD, DevOps, and SRE practices.
• Experience with monitoring, logging, and observability platforms such as Splunk, CloudWatch, and OpenTelemetry.
• Strong experience managing high-severity production incidents and performing deep technical RCA.
• Experience with DR, BCP, RTO/RPO, and resilience solutions.
• Experience with messaging middleware, particularly IBM MQ, ActiveMQ, or JMS.
• Experience with cloud security, vulnerability remediation, audit, and compliance.
• Experience with AWS cost optimization / FinOps.
• Working knowledge of Azure and/or GCP.
• Experience working in regulated, enterprise, and client-facing environments.
• Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills.
• Ability to work across Application, Infrastructure, Architecture, Security, Network, DBA, and Product teams.
• Willingness to participate in on-call rotations and critical production support activities.

If this sounds like a role you would be interested in or if you know someone in this field.

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