Cloud Engineer

Overview

Client is seeking a Cloud Engineer to design, implement, and maintain secure, scalable, and reliable AWS cloud solutions. This role will support enterprise and research applications by optimizing cloud infrastructure, automating deployments, and ensuring cloud environments meet security, compliance, performance, availability, and cost-efficiency standards.

Core Responsibilities

• Design and deploy AWS cloud architectures that meet performance, security, availability, and cost-efficiency requirements.
• Architect and implement cloud networking, compute, storage, and identity constructs with security built in from the outset.
• Apply least-privilege access, network segmentation, encryption, and defense-in-depth principles across cloud environments.
• Evaluate and recommend cloud services, architectural patterns, and infrastructure approaches.
• Build adoption cases that account for engineering capability, operational cost, and long-term platform sustainability.
• Implement and maintain infrastructure-as-code frameworks using Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, or equivalent tools.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for cloud infrastructure and application deployments.
• Ensure cloud changes are tested, validated, deployed safely, and supported by automated rollback capability.
• Automate operational tasks including patching, scaling, monitoring, alerting, and cost optimization.
• Implement and maintain controls for identity management, secrets management, audit logging, and encryption at rest and in transit.
• Monitor cloud security posture and remediate misconfigurations, drift, and policy violations.
• Integrate CSPM tooling into operational workflows for proactive compliance management.
• Partner with Cybersecurity teams to align cloud platform security with enterprise threat models and applicable regulatory frameworks.
• Monitor cloud environments for performance, availability, and cost efficiency.
• Identify cloud waste, right-size resources, and support FinOps practices.
• Contribute to platform engineering standards, reference architectures, and guardrails.
• Troubleshoot and resolve cloud infrastructure issues.
• Support post-incident analysis and implement preventive improvements.

Essential Qualifications, Skills, and Technologies

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 3+ years of hands-on cloud engineering experience in a production AWS enterprise environment.
• Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, or equivalent.
• Experience with version control using Git.
• Proficiency with scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or equivalent for automation and tooling development.
• Strong understanding of cloud networking, virtualization, containerization, and cloud security principles.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices in a cloud-native environment.
• Experience designing and operating secure, reliable, and cost-conscious cloud infrastructure.
• Ability to work with developers and business stakeholders on platform guidance and cloud investment decisions.

Preferred Skills or Experience

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate or Professional certification.
• AWS DevOps Engineer certification.
• Azure Administrator or Azure Architect certification.
• Experience with FinOps practices and cloud cost optimization at enterprise scale.
• Familiarity with monitoring and observability platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, or equivalent.
• Experience in pharmaceutical, healthcare, life sciences, or other regulated industries.
• Experience with GxP, 21 CFR Part 11, or HIPAA cloud compliance requirements.
• Experience with Kubernetes in production, including EKS, AKS, or self-managed clusters.
• Experience with Kubernetes cluster operations and workload management.
• Background in cloud security architecture, including IAM design, secrets management, network security groups, and cloud-native security tooling.
• 3 years of experience delivering in an Agile methodology.