AWS Cloud Engineer + Sys Admin

Viraaj HR Solutions Private Limited; Kolkata District; On-site; INR 600,000 - 1,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hands-on learning opportunities

Certification support

Collaborative operations culture

Job summary

A tech-focused staffing company in Kolkata is seeking an AWS Cloud Engineer to design and manage secure AWS infrastructure. The role involves Linux systems administration and capabilities in Infrastructure-as-Code, required for automation and platform engineering. Strong knowledge of AWS, Terraform, CloudFormation, and Ansible is essential, along with a proactive approach to operational excellence and collaboration.

Qualifications

• Strong experience with AWS services, managing and deploying cloud infrastructure.
• Proficient in Linux systems administration and automation.
• Knowledge of Infrastructure-as-Code tools like Terraform and CloudFormation.

Responsibilities

• Design and operate secure AWS infrastructure across environments.
• Author and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code templates and improve CI/CD pipelines.
• Perform Linux systems administration tasks and automate operational activities.

Skills

Amazon Web Services

Linux

Terraform

CloudFormation

Ansible

Bash

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Job description

Overview

Opportunity in the IT Services & Cloud Infrastructure sector — focused on managed cloud operations, systems reliability, and platform engineering for enterprise workloads. This is an on-site role based in India supporting production AWS environments, infrastructure automation, and Linux systems administration. Primary title (best-performing on LinkedIn): AWS Cloud Engineer.

Role & Responsibilities

• Design, deploy and operate secure, highly available AWS infrastructure (VPC, EC2, S3, RDS, ELB, Route 53) across environments using Infrastructure-as-Code.
• Author and maintain IaC templates and modules with Terraform and CloudFormation; review and improve CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure deployments.
• Perform Linux systems administration including patching, user and process management, capacity planning, backup and recovery, and performance tuning.
• Automate operational tasks and incident remediation using Bash and Python scripts plus configuration management with Ansible.
• Implement monitoring, alerting and observability (CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana); create runbooks and lead incident troubleshooting to restore service quickly.
• Enforce security best practices: IAM policy design, security groups, encryption, vulnerability remediation and compliance checks.

Skills & Qualifications

Must-Have

• Amazon Web Services
• Linux
• Terraform
• CloudFormation
• Ansible
• Bash

Preferred

• Docker
• Kubernetes
• Prometheus

Benefits & Culture Highlights

• On-site role with direct ownership of production systems and fast visibility to operational impact.
• Opportunity for hands-on learning across cloud, automation and observability tooling; certification support available.
• Collaborative operations culture with emphasis on reliability engineering, clear runbooks and continuous improvement.

Skills: ansible, amazon web services, terraform, iam, grafana, git, jenkins, docker, bash, prometheus, s3, kubernetes, linux, python, ec2