Cloud Engineer DevOps AWS

Job Title: Cloud Engineer DevOps Location: Remote /Hybrid India Department: Cloud & Infrastructure Engineering Type: Full-time | Rotational Shifts | 24/7 Support Environment About The Role Unified Consultancy Services i s seeking a skilled and proactive Cloud Engineer to manage, optimize, and secure our SaaS platform infrastructure. You will play a critical role in ensuring high availability, performance, and security across our AWS environments while supporting deployments in staging and production systems. Key Responsibilities SaaS Platform Management: Provision and manage customer tenants, deploy updates to staging and production environments ensuring high uptime. Infrastructure Design & Management: Design, deploy, and maintain scalable, secure AWS infrastructure using EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, and CloudFormation. Monitoring & Incident Response: Implement observability solutions (CloudWatch, Grafana, Prometheus) to detect and remediate issues swiftly. Cost Optimization: Track usage trends and optimize cloud spend using strategies like Reserved Instances, Spot Instances, and rightsizing. Disaster Recovery & Backups: Develop and manage backup and disaster recovery plans using AWS Backup, RDS Snapshots, and S3 lifecycle policies. Security & Compliance: Enforce security standards, configure IAM roles and policies, VPC security groups, and encryption mechanisms. Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Use Terraform, AWS CDK, or CloudFormation to provision and manage cloud resources efficiently and consistently. Automation & Scripting: Automate operational tasks using scripting (Python, Bash, PowerShell) and tools like Ansible. Containerization & Orchestration: Build and manage Docker-based containerized applications, leveraging Kubernetes (EKS) or ECS for orchestration. Skills & Qualifications 2–5 years of experience in Cloud Operations, Infrastructure Management, or DevOps. Advanced expertise in AWS services (EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, IAM, Lambda, CloudFormation). Hands-on experience with Terraform for provisioning and managing infrastructure. Scripting proficiency in Python, Bash, or PowerShell. Strong grasp of networking, IAM, security best practices, and RBAC models. Experience with monitoring/logging tools like CloudWatch, Datadog, ELK, or Prometheus. Experience managing container platforms (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, or EKS). Ability to troubleshoot cloud-based performance, reliability, and availability issues. Flexibility to work in a 24/7 rotational shift environment. Preferred Qualifications AWS certifications (e.g., Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer). Experience with hybrid cloud or on-premises to AWS migration projects. Exposure to other cloud platforms like Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud (GCP). Knowledge of database solutions (RDS, DynamoDB) and caching tools (Redis, ElastiCache).