Senior Cloud Engineer

This is a remote position.

Role

• Managing the infrastructure and the applications deployed on AWS.
  

• Maintaining and managing AWS services such as EC2, RDS, S3, SNS, CloudFront, CloudWatch, IAM, Lambda, VPC, Auto Scaling, CloudTrail, Certificate Manager, Application Load Balancer, Route 53
  

• Managing web servers and other resources such as Nginx, PHP-FPM, pm2, and Supervisord
  

• Periodic patching and managing of Linux servers, updating the required packages and other system services to its latest version.
  

• Responding to any issues and troubleshooting outages.
  

• Maintaining uptime and high availability for the AWS services required for running the application on different environments.
  

• Performing and automating routine tasks such Backup/Restore, Maintenance, Report generation, Disk management, Scheduling Cron jobs.
  

• Setting up Alerting and Monitoring, troubleshooting critical incidents, and reviewing server logs.
  

• Configuring and effectively using APM tools such as Newrelic, Datadog, and Perconca.
  

• Managing incidents and communicating updates to all stakeholders.
  

• Cloud cost optimization and ensuring cloud infra is secure follow industry best practices by using CloudTrail, GuardDuty, etc.
  

• Encouraging and building automated processes wherever possible
  

• Helping developers with the deployment of applications in different environments
  

• Striving for continuous improvement and building continuous integration, continuous development, and constant deployment pipeline (CI/CD Pipeline)
  

• Being available on-call for handling critical issues on the platforms
  

Requirements

• Hands-on experience in networking security, databases, and cloud systems
  

• Proven knowledge in various scripting languages, system & server administration, and mass system deployments
  

• Working knowledge in cloud platform deployment and programming languages
  

• Good knowledge of various APM tools
  

• Excellent troubleshooting skills
  

• Awareness of critical concepts in DevOps and Agile principles
  

• Strong communication skills
  

• Strong sense of ownership and personal accountability