Senior Cloud Engineer (AWS & Kubernetes)

About the role

An experienced Senior Cloud Engineer with strong expertise in Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) is sought to design, implement and maintain scalable, secure and highly available cloud infrastructure. The role covers managing Kubernetes-based container platforms, automating infrastructure with Infrastructure-as-Code, implementing CI/CD and GitOps workflows, and keeping production environments reliable and secure.

Key responsibilities

• Design, deploy, manage and scale AWS infrastructure (EC2, S3, IAM, RDS, Lambda, VPC, Route 53, Load Balancers) and automate it with Terraform and AWS CloudFormation
• Manage production EKS clusters, containerised microservices, Kubernetes networking, RBAC, Helm charts, ingress controllers and service meshes; patch worker nodes and troubleshoot clusters
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows with Argo CD, GitHub Actions and GitLab CI, and reusable Terraform modules
• Set up monitoring, logging and observability with Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog and AWS CloudWatch; run incident management, root-cause analysis and on-call support
• Apply cloud security best practices (IAM, least privilege, network and container security scanning) and cost optimisation and governance
• Collaborate with development, security and operations teams, provide technical guidance and maintain documentation

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or a related discipline
• 6-10 years of hands-on experience in cloud infrastructure, DevOps or platform engineering
• Desirable: GitOps tools such as Argo CD, Helm charts, ingress controllers, service meshes, and experience with production microservices
• Preferred certifications: AWS Solutions Architect Associate or Professional, AWS DevOps Engineer Professional, CKA, CKS

Required skills

• AWS: EC2, S3, IAM, RDS, Lambda, VPC, Route 53, Load Balancers, CloudFormation
• Kubernetes, EKS, Docker, RBAC, Helm charts
• Terraform (mandatory)
• CI/CD pipelines and GitOps (Argo CD, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI)
• Monitoring and observability (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, CloudWatch)
• Scripting in Python, Bash or Go