AWS Engineer

AWS Engineer

Job Description:

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Team Lead – AWS Engineer to lead our Engineering team. This role combines Sr. technical expertise in AWS with leadership responsibilities to guide a team of 7x24 global AWS and App Platform Engineers. The role does not require and human resource responsibilities.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and mentor a team of AWS and App Platform engineers, providing a global operations support service with a focus on strong collaboration, service excellence, and value.
• Operations support of a scalable, secure AWS architecture environment.
• Oversee cloud operations, automation, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Ensure compliance with security and Governance standards.
• Automating tasks via python scripting is vitally important to this organization – expertise required.
• Test/ validate AWS environments for business requirements and integration with other providers.
• Onboard applications, develop end to end application integration and deployment process documents. 
• Provide 7x24 migration and integration support for applications, cloud providers, and/or other platforms.
• Risk and vulnerability remediation (patching).
• Create/ maintain standards documentation (AWS/App)
• Administer security scheme for both internal and customer access of AWS systems including account management and SAML.
• Refine, maintain, develop strategy for performance monitoring, automation & selfheal, and reporting.
• Maintain/ develop capacity management and planning reports, dashboards, etc.
• Maintain/ Develop platform reporting metrics.
• Provide continuous Integration, Deployment, and Infrastructure support/ implementation for cloud-based services.
• Act as an escalation point for cloud-related incidents and troubleshooting.
• Collaborate with Customer DevOps, Security, and Application teams.
• Contribute to knowledge sharing and training.
• Service Management – Mange to customer defines SLA’s for repair cases (MTTR), service requests, change/ deployment success.
• Cloud Velocity, handle account administration (AMD), support security control/ compliance, and controls.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree Computer Science or equivalent years of experience in Engineering, or related field.
• 5+ years of AWS cloud engineering experience.
• 2+ years in a leadership or team lead role.
• Strong knowledge of AWS services (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC, IAM, etc.).
• Experience with DevOps tools (Git, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes).
• Proficiency in scripting (Python, Bash) and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Cloud Velocity (Lifecycle, Account creation using existing modules, IAM policies)
• High level understanding of application architecture
• Strong working knowledge of AWS CloudFormation and YAML/JSON framework.
• Strong working knowledge AWS networking
• Experience with Lambda, Python, shell scripting, or Boto3 Library
• Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills
• Strong communicator, participate in community discussions
• A decision maker

 
Accreditation / Certification / Licenses:

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Strongly desired
• AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Strongly desired
• Experience with multi-account AWS environments and Control Tower.
• Familiarity with cloud security frameworks and compliance standards.

Due to U.S. Government requirements applicable to foreign-owned telecommunications providers, non-US citizens may be required to submit to an extensive government agency background check which will necessitate disclosure of sensitive Personally Identifiable Information.