Cloud Engineer DevOps AWS

Job Title: Cloud Engineer DevOps

Location: Remote /Hybrid India

Department: Cloud & Infrastructure Engineering

Type: Full-time | Rotational Shifts | 24/7 Support Environment

About The Role

Unified Consultancy Services is seeking a skilled and proactive Cloud Engineer to manage, optimize, and secure our SaaS platform infrastructure. You will play a critical role in ensuring high availability, performance, and security across our AWS environments while supporting deployments in staging and production systems.

Key Responsibilities

• SaaS Platform Management:
• Provision and manage customer tenants, deploy updates to staging and production environments ensuring high uptime.
• Infrastructure Design & Management:
• Design, deploy, and maintain scalable, secure AWS infrastructure using EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, and CloudFormation.
• Monitoring & Incident Response:
• Implement observability solutions (CloudWatch, Grafana, Prometheus) to detect and remediate issues swiftly.
• Cost Optimization:
• Track usage trends and optimize cloud spend using strategies like Reserved Instances, Spot Instances, and rightsizing.
• Disaster Recovery & Backups:
• Develop and manage backup and disaster recovery plans using AWS Backup, RDS Snapshots, and S3 lifecycle policies.
• Security & Compliance:
• Enforce security standards, configure IAM roles and policies, VPC security groups, and encryption mechanisms.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC):
• Use Terraform, AWS CDK, or CloudFormation to provision and manage cloud resources efficiently and consistently.
• Automation & Scripting:
• Automate operational tasks using scripting (Python, Bash, PowerShell) and tools like Ansible.
• Containerization & Orchestration:
• Build and manage Docker-based containerized applications, leveraging Kubernetes (EKS) or ECS for orchestration.

• 2–5 years of experience in Cloud Operations, Infrastructure Management, or DevOps.
• Advanced expertise in AWS services (EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, IAM, Lambda, CloudFormation).
• Hands-on experience with Terraform for provisioning and managing infrastructure.
• Scripting proficiency in Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
• Strong grasp of networking, IAM, security best practices, and RBAC models.
• Experience with monitoring/logging tools like CloudWatch, Datadog, ELK, or Prometheus.
• Experience managing container platforms (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, or EKS).
• Ability to troubleshoot cloud-based performance, reliability, and availability issues.
• Flexibility to work in a 24/7 rotational shift environment.

• AWS certifications (e.g., Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer).
• Experience with hybrid cloud or on-premises to AWS migration projects.
• Exposure to other cloud platforms like Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud (GCP).
• Knowledge of database solutions (RDS, DynamoDB) and caching tools (Redis, ElastiCache).