Cloud Engineer

About the job We're assisting our client hire a Senior Cloud Engineer (AWS). As a Senior Cloud Engineer, you will be a key architect of the infrastructure powering millions of monthly transactions. You will take ownership of our AWS environment, using Terraform for infrastructure provisioning from day one and Ansible for configuration management. We are looking for someone who is passionate about engineering excellence—someone who can "spiral up" and bring momentum and energy to those around them. You will be expected to "be an owner," taking accountability for finding solutions, learning from mistakes, and owning tasks to completion within our infrastructure landscape. Your primary mission will be to help the team "be world class at speed" by delivering world-leading solutions quickly. Key Responsibilities Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Design and maintain scalable AWS architectures using Terraform to manage ALBs, VPCs, WAF, subnets, ECS, database, cache, CloudWatch, and storage. Configuration Management: Develop and optimize Ansible playbooks to automate system updates, service installations, and application deployments across multi-tier environments. Security & Compliance: Implement cloud security best practices (IAM, encryption, secrets management) to protect sensitive customer and payment data. Performance & Scaling: Monitor infrastructure health and manage capacity planning to handle high-concurrency traffic patterns. Mentorship: Guide team members on cloud-native design patterns and promote an "automation-first" culture. Cost Optimization: Work with internal partners to apply cost-saving recommendations and make strategic decisions based on historical usage data. Incident Resolution: Collaborate with engineering teams to debug and resolve production incidents, providing expert insight from a cloud infrastructure perspective. Continuous Improvement: Evolve cloud infrastructure following industry best practices and recommend new technologies that align with our domain. Technical Documentation: Maintain and contribute to the technical knowledge base and infrastructure documentation. Qualifications Experience: 5+ years in Cloud Engineering or DevOps, with a strong focus on production-grade AWS environments. Provisioning Tools: Advanced proficiency in Terraform, including state management and modular design. Configuration Tools: Expert knowledge of Ansible for managing large-scale, consistent configurations. AWS Expertise: Deep understanding of core services (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, ECS) and networking (VPC, Route53, Load Balancing, Gateway / Nginx). Required Skills Experience with container orchestration in ECS or Kubernetes. Scripting proficiency in Python or Bash. Knowledge of monitoring tools such as CloudWatch, Prometheus, or Datadog. Relevant AWS certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect or DevOps Engineer Professional). Experience in secure, compliant, high-transaction environments (e.g., payments, fintech, loyalty programs) is highly preferred.