Required Skills And Experience

• AWS Cloud Management : Minimum 5 years of hands-on experience in deploying and managing AWS services such as EC2, VPC, RDS, S3, ALB, Route 53, API Gateway, and CloudFront in production environments. AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (SAA) or Solutions Architect - Professional (SAP) is preferred.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) : Minimum 4 years of experience with Terraform for provisioning, managing, and scaling cloud infrastructure.
  
  

HashiCorp Certified : Terraform Authoring and Operations Professional or HashiCorp Certified : Terraform Associate (003) is preferred.

- Linux Administration : Proficiency in Linux system administration, including patching, security hardening, and performance tuning in cloud environments.-

• Observability & Monitoring : Hands-on experience with CloudWatch, New Relic, OpenSearch, Sumo Logic, or similar tools for log analysis, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
• Scripting & Automation : Proficiency in Python, Shell, or PowerShell for automating cloud infrastructure tasks, deployments, and operational workflows.
• Cloud Networking & Security : Strong understanding of VPC networking, VPNs, load balancers, and security best practices, including WAFs (Web Application Firewalls) and endpoint protection tools.
• Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Practices : Experience with SLA, SLI, and SLO, incident management, and ensuring system reliability for production workloads.
• Disaster Recovery & Resilience : Experience conducting DR and BCP tests for AWS workloads and implementing high-availability architectures.
  
  

Roles & Responsibilities

• AWS Cloud Administration : Own the troubleshooting, administration, and optimization of AWS environments, applications, databases, and servers.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) : Design, implement, and maintain cloud infrastructure using Terraform.
• Monitoring & Performance Optimization : Continuously monitor infrastructure health, application performance, and security gaps, ensuring proactive resolution.
• Compliance & Security Audits : Support the implementation and auditing of security and compliance frameworks such as SOC 2, StateRAMP, and FedRAMP.
• Automation & Scripting : Develop and optimize automation scripts for infrastructure provisioning, patching, and operational tasks.
• Production Readiness & Reliability : Conduct regular DR tests, enforce reliability best practices, and optimize cloud resource utilization.
• Incident & Change Management : Lead incident response for production issues, perform root cause analysis, and collaborate with teams to implement preventive measures.
• On-Call & Maintenance : Participate in a 24/7 On-Call rotation (one week per month) and monthly patching activities on one Saturday per month (compensatory time off provided).
  
  

(ref:hirist.tech)