Cloud Engineer (AWS)

About the role

NCS, an AI tech services company and subsidiary of the Singtel Group, is hiring a Cloud Engineer in Singapore. The role covers designing and deploying AWS cloud infrastructure, optimising its performance and cost, securing it, automating operations and supporting DevOps practices.

Key responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable, secure and cost-effective AWS architectures, deploying and managing services such as EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC and CloudFormation
• Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code with Terraform, CloudFormation or AWS CDK, and set up auto-scaling, load balancing and high availability
• Monitor performance, availability and security, optimise costs through right-sizing and reserved instances, and plan capacity and tune performance
• Manage backups, disaster recovery and business continuity, and troubleshoot infrastructure issues
• Apply AWS security best practices with IAM, Security Groups, NACLs and AWS Config, and configure GuardDuty, CloudTrail and AWS WAF
• Write automation scripts in Python, Bash or PowerShell and build CI/CD pipelines with AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild or Jenkins
• Support containerisation with ECS, EKS or Fargate and work with development teams on DevOps practices
• Maintain documentation, runbooks and architecture diagrams, share knowledge and take part in on-call rotation

Required profile

• Diploma or degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or a related discipline
• At least two years of IT experience in AWS
• Knowledge of cloud networking, routing and VPC management
• Familiarity with system backup and disaster recovery practices
• Basic knowledge of cybersecurity and IT infrastructure operations