AWS Infrastructure Engineer

Location: Bangalore, KA, India

Job Description

What success looks like in this role:

Key Responsibilities

• Architect, deploy, and support AWS-based infrastructure components to meet technical and business requirements.
• Administer and troubleshoot Linux and Windows servers hosted on AWS, including patching, hardening, upgrades, and configuration management.
• Develop and maintain automation and infrastructure-as-code using AWS CloudFormation, Terraform, and AWS CLI to standardize provisioning and operational tasks.
• Implement AWS security best practices across IAM, VPC design, security groups, encryption, key management, and auditing to meet security and compliance needs.
• Monitor platform health and performance using CloudWatch/CloudTrail (and approved third-party tools), and proactively optimize availability, performance, and cost.
• Design and operate backup and disaster recovery solutions to ensure business continuity using AWS Backup, S3, Auto Scaling and recovery procedures.
• Support CI/CD integrations with AWS services using CodePipeline/CodeDeploy and/or tools such as Jenkins and GitLab to enable reliable deployments.
• Respond to incidents and service disruptions, perform troubleshooting and root cause analysis, and drive preventive actions to avoid recurrence.
• Collaborate with DevOps, application, and security teams to deliver infrastructure changes and operational improvements; mentor junior engineers and promote best practices.
• Create and maintain operational documentation, runbooks, and standard procedures for supported environments.

You will be successful in this role if you have:

Skills (Must-have)

• 3+ years of infrastructure/operations experience, with 2+ years supporting AWS environments.
• Strong hands-on knowledge of AWS core services: EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and load balancing concepts.
• Strong Linux and Windows server administration experience in cloud environments (OS troubleshooting, patching, hardening).
• Working knowledge of Infrastructure as Code and automation using CloudFormation and/or Terraform and AWS CLI.
• Strong understanding of AWS networking fundamentals: VPCs, subnets, route tables, security groups, NACLs, VPN/load balancer basics.
• Practical scripting skills in Python and/or Bash and/or PowerShell for operational automation.
• Strong troubleshooting skills for cloud infrastructure issues across OS, networking, access, and performance.
• Good communication skills with the ability to document clearly and explain technical issues to stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science / IT / Engineering (or equivalent practical experience).
• AWS Associate-level certification (Solutions Architect Associate and/or SysOps Administrator Associate).

Good to Have / Desirable Skills

• Exposure to advanced AWS services and patterns: Transit Gateway, Direct Connect, VPC endpoints, multi-account networking.
• Experience with AWS Systems Manager (Patch Manager, Automation, Run Command, Session Manager).
• Knowledge of AWS security services: KMS, GuardDuty, Security Hub, AWS Config, AWS Shield.
• Experience supporting AWS-managed databases: RDS/Aurora/DynamoDB (monitoring, backups, connectivity troubleshooting).
• Experience with CI/CD tooling beyond AWS native tools (Jenkins, GitLab CI) and release/change support.
• Experience with cost optimization practices (right-sizing, scheduling, storage lifecycle policies, reserved capacity awareness).
• Familiarity with ITIL processes (Incident, Problem, Change) and on-call/shift-based support models.

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