Cloud Engineer | AWS DevOps Engineer

About The Role

We are looking for a hands-on Cloud Engineer / AWS DevOps Engineer who can manage and optimize production-grade cloud infrastructure for high-traffic event-tech platforms. The role involves AWS infrastructure management, CI/CD automation, security hardening, monitoring, troubleshooting, scalability planning, and supporting live event workloads with high availability requirements.

This is not a “ticket forwarding” role. The engineer will directly work on production systems, deployments, scaling, performance optimization, and security improvements.

Key Responsibilities
• Manage and maintain AWS cloud infrastructure across multiple environments (Production, Staging, DR)
• Handle deployment, monitoring, troubleshooting, and optimization of live applications and APIs
• Configure and manage AWS services such as:
• EC2
• Load Balancer
• Auto Scaling
• RDS/Aurora
• DynamoDB
• S3
• CloudFront
• Route 53
• WAF
• IAM
• CloudWatch
• Lambda
• SNS/SQS
• ECS
• ECR
• AWS Security Services
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and/or Jenkins
• Work with Docker-based deployments and containerized applications
• Configure and troubleshoot Apache, Nginx, PHP-FPM, Node.js, and reverse proxy setups
• Perform infrastructure hardening, SSL/TLS setup, WAF tuning, and security best practices implementation
• Monitor production environments and troubleshoot issues related to:
• CPU/Memory spikes
• High traffic events
• Database bottlenecks
• 5xx errors
• Slow APIs
• Network issues
• Manage logging, alerting, and observability using CloudWatch and related tools
• Support load testing and performance tuning activities
• Work on backup, disaster recovery, and high availability strategies
• Coordinate with development teams for deployments and infrastructure requirements
• Handle DNS, domain, CDN, and networking-related tasks
• Support client-specific deployments, custom domains, and white-label environments
• Maintain infrastructure documentation and SOPs

Required Skills
• 2–3 years of hands-on experience in AWS Cloud / DevOps
• Strong understanding of Linux systems administration
• Good knowledge of AWS core services and networking concepts
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, etc.)
• Hands-on experience with Docker
• Good understanding of:
• VPC
• Security Groups
• IAM
• Load Balancers
• Auto Scaling
• DNS
• SSL/TLS
• Experience with web servers like Apache and Nginx
• Basic scripting knowledge in Bash or Python
• Experience troubleshooting production issues
• Understanding of monitoring and logging concepts
• Familiarity with Git and deployment workflows
• Good communication and ownership mindset

Good to Have
• Terraform or Infrastructure as Code experience
• Kubernetes basics
• PostgreSQL/MySQL administration knowledge
• Experience with CDN/WAF configuration
• Load testing experience (JMeter, k6, etc.)
• Experience handling high-concurrency applications
• Understanding of security best practices and compliance standards

What We Expect
• Strong ownership and problem-solving attitude
• Ability to work during live events or critical production windows when required
• Ability to troubleshoot independently
• Fast learner with practical implementation mindset
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced startup/product environment

Skills: ec2,aws,devops,ci,infrastructure,cd,cloud,aws lambda