Remote Senior Cloud Engineer

Summary

Join Protera Technologies as an AWS Cloud Engineer and contribute to the company's mission of delivering forward-thinking ITO Services Platform empowering organizations to leverage IT to drive business growth and efficiency gains.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience on AWS
• Active certification in AWS DevOps Engineer or AWS Solutions Architect Professional
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience
• Proven experience as a Cloud Engineer or similar role, with a focus on AWS cloud infrastructure
• Proficient in using Terraform for IaC and managing cloud resources
• Strong experience in designing and managing CI/CD pipelines
• Proficient in Python scripting for automation and tooling
• Experience with Ansible for configuration management
• Familiarity with AWS core components such as EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, Lambda, and IAM
• Understanding of security best practices and compliance standards
• AWS Cloud Engineer Certification is required

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and manage cloud infrastructure using AWS core components such as EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, Lambda, and IAM
• Monitor and optimize AWS resources for cost-effectiveness and performance, implementing auto-scaling solutions to handle varying workloads
• Configure networking components such as VPCs, subnets, and security groups to ensure secure communication between cloud resources
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform for creating, updating, and managing cloud resources
• Utilize Ansible for automating configuration management, deploying software packages, and ensuring consistency across servers
• Automate server provisioning and application deployment, minimizing manual intervention
• Cloud formation template creation
• Design, build, and manage CI/CD pipelines for continuous integration, testing, and deployment of applications
• Collaborate with development teams to integrate automated testing and ensure deployment processes align with project goals
• Implement rollback mechanisms for rapid response to deployment failures, ensuring minimal downtime
• Develop Python scripts for automating repetitive tasks, implementing custom tooling solutions, and integrating monitoring systems
• Integrate existing and new tools into workflows to optimize team productivity and streamline development cycles
• Ensure that cloud infrastructure and applications adhere to security best practices and compliance standards
• Implement monitoring and alerting solutions to proactively identify and address potential vulnerabilities
• Conduct regular security audits and vulnerability assessments, applying fixes as needed
• Work closely with development, QA, and product management teams to resolve issues, deploy new features, and provide support during production releases
• Document infrastructure configurations, CI/CD pipelines, and automation processes to facilitate knowledge transfer and onboarding

Preferred Qualifications

Terraform certification is preferred

Benefits

• Work from Home set-up
• Comprehensive medical benefits
• Gratuity, PF, EPS and Bonus, NPS
• Shift Allowances
• On-call Allowance
• Health and wellness Allowances
• Learning and Development Allowances