AWS Cloud Engineer Job Description Template

In this role, you will be part of a team designing, automating, and deploying services on behalf of our customers to AWS. This is a dynamic industry and the problems you will solve are constantly evolving. This is the ideal opportunity for candidates who like a challenging and exciting work environment, and you will do meaningful work, solving complex business problems and building technology solutions to impact client success. 

Typical Duties and Responsibilities

• Work with customer engineering teams on a wide variety of AWS projects, including migration, containerization and transformation
• Write infrastructure as code 
• Perform AWS environment troubleshooting and setup
• Meet customer SLAs and managing communication in case of issues
• Configure and maintain backup, monitoring and alerting systems for multiple clients
• Interact with teams and customers to ensure 24/7 support
• Administrate automated deployments and scripting using Bash, PowerShell and/or Python
• Participate in work sessions with clients
• Complete technical documentation
• Deliver quality work in agile team environment

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field

Required Skills and Experience

• 5+ years’ experience in cloud computing
• Experience managing common AWS services (EC2, RDS, S3, VPC, CloudFormation etc.)
• Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience in basic administration of MySQL, MSSQL, Postgres, DynamoDB, MongoDB and/or ElasticSearch
• Experience working in regulated environments (HIPAA, PCI, ITAR, etc.)
• Knowledgeable about networking and security
• Knowledgeable about configuration management frameworks such as Puppet, Chef or Ansible
• Comfortable interacting with customers and clients 
• Effective communication skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Azure, AWS and/or GCP Certification