Experience - 10+ Years.
Designation name : Cloud Engineer III.
Location - Chennai.
Shift Timings - 1.30 PM to 10.30 PM - IST - UK based Shift timings.
Looking for Immediate Joiners only.
Job Purpose :
AWS Engineer with strong technical leadership, hands-on AWS cloud architecture expertise, and a DevOps mindset.
The ideal candidate will have deep knowledge of AWS services, infrastructure automation, networking, and security, as well as a proven track record of customer satisfaction and cloud deployment success.
This role requires excellent communication, leadership, and problem-solving skills in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
Essential Functions :
- 40% - Code and develop continuous automation / delivery processes and tools.
- 25% - Design and build a hybrid cloud product to support a Managed Services model.
- 20% - Solution design and architecture in support of customer assessments and sales engagements.
- 15% - Train and educate staff; pursue self-training, professional growth, and continued education.
Certifications :
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional.AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional.HashiCorp Terraform Associate.Experience :
8+ years of overall software engineering experience.5 years focused on AWS (cloud application development and deployment).Special Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities :
Cloud & DevOps :
5+ years developing and deploying cloud applications with seamless integration, scalability, and performance tuning.Strong DevOps mindset with a customer-first approach.Proficiency with Git (Bitbucket), code reviews, branching, tagging, pipelines, and CI / CD (Jenkins).AWS Architecture & Automation :
Active participation in AWS architecture planning (data perimeter, SCPs, legacy account migration, tagging / IAM strategies).Automated creation of AWS accounts with base infrastructure (IAM policies, S3 settings, VPC Flow Logs, AWS Config, tagging, EC2 DNS records, backups, metrics onboarding) while ensuring policy compliance.AWS Services :
Networking & Content Delivery : VPC, API Gateway, CloudFront, Route 53, Direct Connect, Transit Gateway, Elastic Load Balancing (ELB).Compute : EC2, EC2 Auto Scaling, Lambda.Security & Compliance : IAM, GuardDuty, Inspector, Certificate Manager, Firewall Manager, Key Management Service.Databases : Aurora, DynamoDB, RDS, Redshift (SQL & NoSQL).Storage : S3, EBS.Analytics : Glue, Athena, Kinesis.Application Integration : Step Functions, EventBridge, SNS, SQS.Cloud Financial Management : Cost Explorer, Budgets, Cost & Usage Reports.Containers : EKS, ECS, Fargate.Management & Governance : Organizations, CloudFormation, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, Service Catalog, CLI, Config, Systems Manager.Infrastructure as Code & Tooling :
Advanced Terraform and Terragrunt for scalable infrastructure automation.Logging and monitoring with Splunk and New Relic.Security / risk mitigation tools such as Prisma and Wiz.Cloud networking tools such as Aviatrix.Development & Programming :
Expert-level Python (cloud automation, infrastructure as code, AI / ML pipelines, API development, data processing).Experience with Boto3 (AWS SDK for Python), PowerShell, and shell scripting.AI / ML experience : building generative AI solutions for automation, code generation, cost analysis, knowledge retrieval, and designing retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines with enterprise data sources.Implementing guardrails for AI systems to enforce content policies and compliance.Agile & Documentation :
ITIL knowledge : incident management, problem resolution, change management.Agile practices : PI planning, sprint planning, backlog grooming, stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives.Proficient with Jira and Confluence for user story creation and project tracking.Code documentation in Bitbucket with clear comments and README files for :Strong ability to diagnose and resolve infrastructure, networking, and service-related issues to improve performance and reliability.(ref : hirist.tech)