(Senior) Cloud Engineer
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30+ days ago
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Job Summary
About GFT
GFT Technologies is a global leader in driving the digital transformation of the worlds foremost financial institutions. Our expertise extends to other sectors such as industry and insurance where we leverage our robust consulting and implementation skills across pioneering technologies including cloud engineering artificial intelligence the Internet of Things for Industry 4.0 and blockchain. With our deep technological expertise strong partnerships and scalable IT solutions GFT enhances productivity in software development providing clients with faster access to new IT applications and innovative business models while mitigating risk.
Since 2001 we have been pioneers of near-shore delivery now boasting an international team spanning 16 countries and a global workforce of over 9000 professionals. GFT is recognized by industry analysts such as Everest Group as a leader among global mid-sized Service Integrators and ranks in the Top 20 for leading global Service Integrators in exponential technologies like Open Banking Blockchain Digital Banking and App Services.
Sign-on Bonus: Eligible for candidates who are currently employed elsewhere and able to join GFT within 30 days of offer acceptance.
Role Summary
We are looking for a skilled Cloud Engineer with 46 years of experience specializing in Amazon Web Services (AWS). You will be responsible for building and managing modern automated cloud-native infrastructure and application pipelines for our banking clients. This role requires strong collaboration with product and development teams to deliver functionality in a repeatable and automated manner as well as migrating legacy infrastructure into modular scalable and secure structures.
Key Responsibilities
Infrastructure Management: Build and manage automated cloud-native infrastructure and application pipelines on AWS.
Tooling Development: Develop and codify shared tooling for repeatable build and deploy patterns across the organization.
Legacy Migration: Migrate legacy infrastructure and delivery pipelines to modern modular AWS-based architectures.
Continuous Improvement: Review and enhance Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) for scalability performance and maintainability.
Team Collaboration: Work closely with product and development teams to deliver functionality in a repeatable automated manner.
Operational Support: Participate in weekly prioritization release and change management meetings.
Monitoring & Reliability: Define and implement service level objectives (SLOs/SLIs) and ensure system observability on AWS.
On-call Rotation: Provide support for AWS-based infrastructure as part of an on-call schedule.
Tool Identification: Identify and recommend AWS-native tools and services that reduce manual effort and improve efficiency.
Required Skills & Experience
AWS Expertise: 46 years of hands-on experience with AWS services (e.g. EC2 ECS/EKS S3 RDS IAM Lambda CloudFormation).
Automation & IaC: Strong experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform or AWS CloudFormation preferred).
Architectural Design: Ability to design document and own AWS-native cloud architecture patterns.
Scalability & Security: Solid understanding of designing highly scalable fault-tolerant and secure AWS environments (including compliance frameworks such as PCI-DSS).
Containerization: Experience with Docker and Kubernetes (EKS preferred).
Monitoring & Alerting: Experience implementing monitoring and alerting using AWS CloudWatch Prometheus or similar tools.
Messaging Systems: Experience with Kafka or AWS-native equivalents (e.g. Kinesis MSK).
Migration Experience: Proven experience migrating on-premise systems to AWS cloud.
Collaboration & Communication: Strong stakeholder management and ability to work in fast-paced delivery environments.
Nice-to-Have
AWS Tooling: Proficiency with AWS-native CI/CD tools (CodePipeline CodeBuild CodeDeploy).
DevOps Tools: GitLab Jenkins Nexus/Artifactory SonarQube Snyk.
Observability Tools: ELK Prometheus Grafana for advanced monitoring and logging.
Databases: Experience with PostgreSQL or other relational databases on AWS (RDS Aurora).
Certifications: AWS Certified Solutions Architect or equivalent certification.
Security Practices: Knowledge of advanced AWS security practices IAM policies and compliance frameworks.
Development Background: Software development experience (Java Python) to collaborate effectively with dev teams.
Key Skills
- APIs
- C/C++
- Computer Graphics
- Go
- React
- Redux
- Node.js
- AWS
- Library Services
- Assembly
- GraphQL
- High Voltage
About Company
We see opportunity in technology. In domains such as cloud, AI, mainframe modernisation, DLT and IoT, we blend established practice with new thinking to help our clients stay ahead.
