Cloud Operations Engineer

Job Description

As a L2 Cloud Engineer in Acqueon you will need. Ensure the highest uptime for customers in our SaaS environment Provision Customer Tenants & Manage SaaS Platform, Memos to the Staging and Production Environments Infrastructure Management: Design, deploy, and maintain secure and scalable AWS cloud infrastructure using services like EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, and CloudFormation. Monitoring & Incident Response: Set up monitoring solutions (e.g., CloudWatch, Grafana) to detect, respond, and resolve issues quickly, ensuring uptime and reliability. Cost Optimization: Continuously monitor cloud usage and implement cost-saving strategies such as Reserved Instances, Spot Instances, and resource rightsizing. Backup & Recovery: Implement robust backup and disaster recovery solutions using AWS tools like AWS Backup, S3, and RDS snapshots. Security Compliance: Configure security best practices, including IAM policies, security groups, and encryption, while adhering to organizational compliance standards. Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Use Terraform, CloudFormation, or AWS CDK to provision, update, and manage infrastructure in a consistent and repeatable manner. Automation & Configuration Management: Automate manual processes and system configurations using Ansible, Python, or shell scripting. Containerization & Orchestration: Manage containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes (EKS) for scaling and efficient deployment. Skills & Qualifications: Experience: 3-5 years of experience in CloudOps roles with a strong focus on AWS. Proficient in AWS services, including EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, IAM, CloudFront, and VPC. Hands-on experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, or other IaC tools. Revenue Execution Platform Strong knowledge of CI/CD pipelines (e.g., AWS CodePipeline, Jenkins, GitHub Actions). Experience with container technologies like Docker and orchestration tools like Kubernetes (EKS). Scripting knowledge (e.g., Python, Bash, PowerShell) for automation and tooling. Monitoring & Logging: Experience with monitoring tools like AWS CloudWatch, ELK stack, Prometheus, or Grafana. Security: Strong understanding of cloud security principles, including IAM, encryption, and AWS security tools (e.g., AWS WAF, GuardDuty). Collaboration Tools: Familiarity with tools like Git, Jira, and Confluence. Good Knowledge on Windows Servers, Linux & able to troubleshoot critical issues