Senior Cloud Engineer (AWS and Azure)

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Job Summary

We are looking for an experienced Senior Cloud Engineer with 4–5 years of hands-on experience managing, monitoring, securing, and optimizing AWS and Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure. The candidate will be responsible for day-to-day cloud operations, infrastructure provisioning, security, performance optimization, troubleshooting, and ensuring high availability across production and non-production environments.

Key Responsibilities

1. Cloud Infrastructure Management – AWS and Azure

• Manage AWS EC2 instances, EBS volumes, AMIs, Elastic IPs, Azure Virtual Machines, Managed Disks, and Storage Accounts.
• Configure and manage AWS ALB/NLB, Azure Load Balancer, and Azure Application Gateway.
• Manage AWS Auto Scaling Groups, scaling policies, launch templates, and Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets.
• Manage Amazon CloudFront, Azure Front Door, Route 53, and Azure DNS.
• Manage Amazon S3 and Azure Blob Storage, including lifecycle policies, versioning, backup, and recovery.

2. Database Management

• Manage and monitor Amazon RDS, Amazon Aurora, and Azure Database services, including MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Azure SQL Database.
• Monitor database performance, CPU utilization, storage, connections, availability, and latency.
• Manage backups, snapshots, read replicas, high availability, maintenance, and recovery.
• Troubleshoot database connectivity and performance issues.

3. Container Services – ECS, EKS, and AKS

• Deploy, manage, and troubleshoot applications running on Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS, and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
• Manage container workloads, clusters, services, deployments, and Kubernetes resources.
• Manage Amazon ECR and Azure Container Registry (ACR).
• Monitor container health, deployments, resource utilization, and availability.

4. Cloud Networking

• Manage AWS VPCs and Azure Virtual Networks (VNets), subnets, route tables, and network connectivity.
• Configure Security Groups, Network ACLs, Network Security Groups (NSGs), VPC Flow Logs, and Network Watcher.
• Manage Internet Gateways, NAT Gateways, VPC endpoints, Azure NAT Gateway, and private endpoints.
• Configure and troubleshoot AWS Site-to-Site VPN, Azure VPN Gateway, and hybrid cloud connectivity.
• Troubleshoot network latency, routing, DNS resolution, and connectivity issues.

5. Cloud Security

• Manage AWS IAM roles and policies and Azure Microsoft Entra ID, Azure RBAC, and managed identities.
• Configure AWS WAF, AWS Shield, GuardDuty, Security Hub, Inspector, and CloudTrail.
• Manage Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Azure Firewall, Azure WAF, and Microsoft Entra ID security controls.
• Implement encryption, certificate management, least-privilege access, and security monitoring.
• Identify and remediate vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and security findings.

6. Monitoring and Day-to-Day Operations

• Perform daily monitoring of AWS and Azure infrastructure, including compute, databases, storage, networking, and container services.
• Monitor Amazon CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and application logs.
• Monitor CPU, memory, disk utilization, network traffic, database performance, load balancer health, and application availability.
• Configure alerts, dashboards, notifications, and monitoring reports.
• Investigate alerts, resolve performance issues, and maintain infrastructure availability.

7. Incident Management and Troubleshooting

• Troubleshoot infrastructure failures, high CPU utilization, connectivity issues, database problems, and application outages.
• Analyze CloudWatch logs, CloudTrail events, Azure Activity Logs, Azure Monitor logs, load balancer logs, and network flow logs.
• Perform root cause analysis (RCA) and coordinate with application, database, networking, and security teams.
• Participate in incident response, change management, and production maintenance activities.

8. Backup and Disaster Recovery

• Manage EBS snapshots, AMI backups, RDS backups, S3 lifecycle policies, Azure Backup, and Azure Site Recovery.
• Validate backup completion and perform restoration and disaster recovery testing.
• Maintain backup retention, recovery procedures, and business continuity requirements.

9. Performance and Cost Optimization

• Optimize AWS EC2/RDS and Azure VM/database sizing and resource utilization.
• Review AWS Cost Explorer and Azure Cost Management to identify cost-saving opportunities.
• Recommend Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, Azure Reservations, and storage optimization strategies.
• Identify idle resources and implement cost optimization without compromising availability or performance.

10. Automation and Documentation

• Automate routine operational tasks using AWS CLI, Azure CLI, PowerShell, Bash, or Python.
• Work with AWS CloudFormation, Terraform, and Azure infrastructure-as-code solutions.
• Maintain infrastructure documentation, architecture diagrams, SOPs, runbooks, and operational reports.
• Collaborate with DevOps teams on CI/CD and deployment automation.

Required Skills and Qualifications

• 4–5 years of hands-on experience managing AWS and Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure.
• Strong knowledge of EC2, EBS, ALB/NLB, Auto Scaling, CloudFront, S3, Route 53, RDS, Azure VMs, VNets, Storage Accounts, and Azure Load Balancing services.
• Experience with ECS, EKS, AKS, Docker, Kubernetes, ECR, and ACR.
• Good understanding of cloud networking, IAM, Azure RBAC, WAF, GuardDuty, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, and cloud security best practices.
• Hands-on experience with CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, alerting, troubleshooting, and incident management.
• Knowledge of Linux administration, backup and recovery, disaster recovery, and cloud cost optimization.
• Familiarity with AWS CLI, Azure CLI, scripting, and infrastructure-as-code tools.

Preferred Qualifications

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect or AWS Certified SysOps Administrator.
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104) or Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305).
• Experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, CI/CD tools, and production workload support.
• Experience supporting production workloads and participating in on-call support.
• Ensure reliable, secure, and efficient day-to-day AWS and Azure infrastructure operations.
• Proactively monitor infrastructure and resolve issues before they affect business services.
• Maintain high availability, performance, security, and cost efficiency.
• Follow operational best practices and provide timely incident reports and RCA documentation.