Cloud Engineer

Position Overview:

Cloud Kinetics is looking for a Senior Cloud Engineer to join our Proserv PoD (Practice on Demand) team. In this role, you will be deployed on AWS Professional Services engagements in India, working hands-on to build, migrate, and optimise cloud infrastructure for enterprise customers on AWS. You will serve as a key technical executor, translating architecture designs into production-ready cloud environments with a focus on infrastructure delivery, automation, and operational excellence.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and provision AWS infrastructure components including VPCs, subnets, security groups, EC2 instances, EBS volumes, load balancers, and Auto Scaling groups.
• Implement and manage cloud networking components including Transit Gateway, VPC Peering, Direct Connect, Site-to-Site VPN, Route 53, and CloudFront configurations.
• Build and configure managed services including RDS, Aurora, ElastiCache, S3, EFS, and FSx.
• Deploy containerised workloads using Amazon ECS and EKS.
• Execute cloud migration activities using AWS Application Migration Service (MGN), AWS DMS, and AWS DataSync.
• Develop and maintain IaC templates using Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, and/or AWS CDK.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines using AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, or third-party tools.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 4+ years of experience in cloud engineering, infrastructure engineering, or DevOps roles.
• 2+ years of hands-on experience building and managing infrastructure on AWS in production environments.

Certifications:

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (required).
• AWS Certified Developer – Associate or AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate (required or in progress).

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with AWS Landing Zone, AWS Control Tower, and multi-account AWS Organizations environments.
• Hands-on experience with DevSecOps practices including infrastructure security scanning (Checkov, tfsec), SAST/DAST tooling integration, and compliance-as-code frameworks.