Cloud Engineer

Cloud Engineer with strong experience in managing Windows-based workloads on AWS, with a particular focus on maintaining company-compliant standard builds and AMI pipelines.

Requirement : Location Offshore India

Onboarding Immediate

Will need English speaking candidate

Key Skillsets and Experience Required:

• Windows Expertise on AWS: Proven experience in configuring, hardening, and managing Windows Server 2022 (priority), 2019, and 2016 in a cloud-native environment.
• AMI Factory Management: Hands-on experience with automated AMI pipeline managementbuilding, maintaining, and versioning compliant Windows AMIs at scale.
• Security and Compliance Integration: Integration of enterprise observability agents (e.g., CloudWatch, Splunk, DataDog etc), endpoint protection tools, and compliance agents (e.g., Trend Micro) as part of image builds.
• Industry Benchmarking: Familiarity with applying CIS Benchmarks for Windows operating systems and ensuring that AMIs are hardened and validated against such benchmarks.
• MS SQL Standard Builds: Exposure to packaging and maintaining MS SQL Server configurations as part of the standard image builds, ensuring licensing, security, and performance configurations are aligned with best practices.
• Automation & Infrastructure as Code: Strong experience with automation tools git ansible ,CloudFormation(important)) and PowerShell, AWS SSM, Packer(not important), Terraform(not important), to support AMI lifecycle management.
• Governance & Documentation: Ability to document standard build processes, hardening steps, and compliance checkpoints to support audit and operational readiness.