Senior AWS Engineer: Cloud Architecture for Retail Technology

Job Responsibilities:

AWS Architecture & Design:

• Design and implement scalable, secure, and cost-efficient AWS cloud architectures.
• Evaluate existing architecture for improvements and optimizations.
• Provide expertise in AWS services and assist in the selection of the appropriate solutions.
• Analyze and optimize AWS costs and resource utilization.
• Implement and manage monitoring solutions to ensure high availability and performance.
• Plan and execute disaster recovery strategies to maintain data integrity and availability.
• Oversee the deployment and configuration of AWS resources, including EC2 instances, S3 buckets, RDS databases, and VPCs.

Programming and Development:

• Develop and maintain APIs, serverless applications, and automated workflows.
• Utilize AWS services such as Lambda, SQS, and SNS effectively in various projects.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate application deployments, testing, and releases using tools such as AWS Code Pipeline, Jenkins, or GitLab CI/CD
• Deploy and manage virtual servers, containers, and serverless functions on AWS.

Security and Compliance:

• Implement and enforce security best practices, conduct regular security assessments, and ensure compliance with industry standards.
• Manage access controls, IAM policies, and encryption mechanisms to protect sensitive data.

Monitoring and Troubleshooting:

• Implement monitoring solutions to track performance metrics, troubleshoot issues, and ensure optimal system performance.
• Respond to and resolve incidents, perform root cause analysis, and implement preventive measures.

Automation and Scripting:

• Develop and maintain automation scripts using tools like AWS CloudFormation, Terraform, or scripting languages (Python, Shell) to streamline deployment and management processes.

Collaboration and Documentation:

• Work closely with cross-functional teams to understand application requirements and provide scalable solutions.
• Document configurations, procedures, and best practices to ensure knowledge transfer and continuity.

Other information

• Ready to travel for short or long term to any country

Educational Qualification:

Bachelor or Master degree in relevant field, AWS certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified SysOps Administrator)

Experience:

• Total Experience of minimum 5 year and maximum 10 years with 3+ yrs of relevant experience
• Experience using DevOps tools in a cloud environment, such as Terraform, Docker, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Maven, Gradle, Sonar Qube, etc. is MUST
• Experience with AWS services such as Lambda, SQS, and SNS effectively in various projects is MUST
• Experience in Developing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines to automate application deployments, testing, and releases using tools such as AWS Code Pipeline, Jenkins, or GitLab CI/CD is MUST
• Experience in Deploying and managing virtual servers, containers, and serverless functions on AWS is MUST
• Hands on in source code management tools like Git, Github, GitLab etc.
• Familiarity with version control systems, particularly Git, and Git branching and versioning strategies.
• Experience using monitoring solutions like CloudWatch, Datadog, ELK Stack, Prometheus, Grafana, PagerDuty, etc.
• Linux (RHEL/CentOS/Ubuntu) and Windows system administration
• Solid understanding of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery best practices
• Strong scripting skills for automation (e.g., Python, Shell).
• Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.