AWS Cloud Operations Engineer

About the role

The NETS Group, a payments services group operating Singapore's national debit scheme, is hiring an AWS Cloud Operations Engineer in Braddell. The role manages the daily operations of AWS infrastructure to ensure uptime, performance and reliability.

Key responsibilities

• Manage daily operations of AWS infrastructure, ensuring uptime, performance and reliability
• Monitor environments using CloudWatch and CloudTrail and resolve incidents with root cause analysis
• Implement and maintain backup, disaster recovery and failover mechanisms
• Automate operational tasks using Terraform, CloudFormation, Python or scripting
• Manage AWS services including EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, ELB and Auto Scaling
• Enforce security best practices (IAM, patching, encryption, vulnerability management)
• Support deployments and CI/CD pipelines with DevOps teams
• Optimize cloud usage and costs through rightsizing and governance

Required profile

• Degree in Computer Science, IT or a related field
• 5+ years in infrastructure/cloud operations, with 4+ years of hands-on AWS experience
• AWS Solutions Architect Associate or AWS SysOps Administrator Associate certification (mandatory)

Required skills

• Strong experience with AWS core services (EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch)
• Infrastructure as Code with Terraform or CloudFormation
• Linux/Unix administration
• Networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, load balancing)
• Monitoring and logging tools; containers (Docker, Kubernetes, EKS) preferred
• Cloud security principles