Senior Cloud Engineer - AWS and Managed Services

Location: Thiruvananthapuram, Keralam, India

Department: Cloud Engineering

Workplace: on_site

Description

Role Summary

We are looking for a motivated Senior Cloud Engineer to build, automate, monitor, secure, and support AWS cloud environments. The ideal candidate will have good AWS fundamentals, practical troubleshooting experience, and enthusiasm for learning new technologies. Expertise in every AWS service is not required. The role will work closely with the Principal Architect, development, security, and support teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Build, maintain, automate, and troubleshoot AWS infrastructure.
• Support cloud environments, containers, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, security, and operational processes.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or an equivalent tool.
• Participate in incident response, root-cause analysis, documentation, and on-call support when required.
• Improve cloud reliability, security, automation, and cost efficiency.
• Collaborate with development, security, and support teams.
• Learn and support new cloud services based on business and customer requirements.

Requirements

Required skills

• 4–7 years of experience in cloud engineering, DevOps, infrastructure engineering, SRE, or a similar role.
• Practical AWS experience.
• Good understanding of cloud fundamentals, including compute, storage, networking, databases, IAM, security, and monitoring.
• Experience with Terraform or another Infrastructure as Code tool.
• Basic exposure to containers, Kubernetes, CI/CD, or cloud operations.
• Basic scripting knowledge in Python, Bash, PowerShell, or a similar language.
• Experience with Git and structured change-management processes.
• Good troubleshooting, communication, and documentation skills.
• Strong willingness to learn unfamiliar technologies.

Added advantages

• Knowledge of Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, or another cloud platform.
• Knowledge of serverless architecture.
• Advcanced knowledge to Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, or GitOps.
• Knowledge of Elastic Stack, Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, or OpenSearch.
• Basic knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases such as RDS, DynamoDB, MongoDB, Redis etc.
• Familiarity with Prometheus, Grafana, Fluent Bit, or similar observability tools.
• Experience with AWS security, data, messaging, or AI services.
• Experience supporting managed services or multiple customer environments.
• AWS or Azure certification.

Candidate profile

We are looking for someone who:

• Has strong cloud fundamentals rather than narrow specialist expertise.
• Can troubleshoot issues methodically.
• Takes ownership of assigned work and production issues.
• Learns new technologies independently.
• Communicates clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Knows when to solve an issue independently and when to involve a specialist.