AWS Cloud Operations Engineer

About the role

We are seeking an AWS Cloud Operations Engineer to run, monitor, and support our cloud‑native platform on Amazon Web Services. The platform powers a high‑traffic, multi‑market mobile super‑app and is transitioning from on‑premises infrastructure to managed AWS services. You will ensure the health of production and non‑production environments, respond to incidents, and drive continuous improvements in reliability, observability, automation, and cost efficiency.

Key responsibilities

• Operate, monitor, and maintain AWS workloads across Dev, QA, Pre‑Prod, and Production environments, ensuring availability, performance, and cost‑efficiency.
• Respond to incidents and alerts, perform root‑cause analysis, and implement corrective and preventive actions to reduce mean time to recovery.
• Manage containerized workloads on Amazon EKS, including deployments, scaling, health checks, and self‑healing policies.
• Administer managed data services such as Amazon RDS/Aurora PostgreSQL, ElastiCache, and Amazon MQ, handling backups and restores.
• Build and maintain proactive monitoring, alerting, and dashboards to expand observability and eliminate reactive detection.
• Implement and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or CloudFormation and support CI/CD pipelines.
• Apply security and compliance controls including IAM, WAF, network segmentation, patching, and key management.
• Support migration of workloads from on‑premises to AWS and contribute to runbooks and operational documentation.
• Collaborate with application, QA, and security teams across multiple markets and time zones.

Required profile

• Proven operational experience running production workloads on AWS (administration, monitoring, troubleshooting, support).
• Strong hands‑on knowledge of core AWS services: EC2, EKS, VPC, IAM, S3, CloudWatch, RDS/Aurora.
• Solid Linux administration skills and experience with containers (Docker, Kubernetes/EKS).
• Demonstrated incident management and root‑cause analysis in a live production environment.
• Working knowledge of Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD concepts and tooling.
• Competent scripting/automation ability (Bash, Python).
• Clear communication skills and ability to work effectively across distributed teams.

Required skills

• AWS (EC2, EKS, VPC, IAM, S3, CloudWatch, RDS/Aurora)
• Linux system administration
• Docker and Kubernetes
• Terraform or CloudFormation
• CI/CD pipeline tools
• Bash scripting
• Python scripting