AWS Platform Admin

Algae Services; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,000,000 - 5,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Algae Services in Bengaluru is seeking an experienced AWS Cloud Data Platform Administrator to manage, secure, monitor, and optimize cloud-based data platforms. You will ensure platform availability, performance, security, and cost efficiency in production environments.

Responsibilities include administering AWS services (EC2, S3, Glue, Lambda, Redshift, RDS/Aurora, EMR, Athena), provisioning with Terraform or CloudFormation, IAM management, monitoring, incident response, and cost optimization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• 7+ years of overall experience in cloud infrastructure, data platform administration, database administration, or data engineering operations.
• At least 4 years of hands‑on AWS experience supporting production environments.
• Strong troubleshooting, root‑cause analysis, documentation, and communication skills.
• Willingness to participate in on‑call support and planned maintenance activities, if required.

Responsibilities

• Administer and support AWS data platforms across development, testing, staging, and production environments.
• Manage AWS services, including EC2, S3, Glue, Lambda, Redshift, RDS/Aurora, EMR, Athena, and CloudWatch.
• Provision and configure cloud resources using Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or AWS CDK.
• Manage IAM roles, policies, permissions, and access controls.
• Monitor platform performance, data pipelines, storage, and cloud resources.
• Troubleshoot production issues and handle incident, problem, change, and service request management.
• Optimize Redshift queries, compute resources, storage, and cloud costs.
• Implement backup, recovery, high availability, and disaster recovery procedures.
• Ensure cloud security through encryption, network controls, logging, and least-privilege access.
• Automate cloud administration and monitoring tasks using Python, Shell scripting, and AWS CLI.
• Maintain operational documentation, runbooks, SOPs, and troubleshooting guides.
• Collaborate with data engineering, security, application, and architecture teams.
• Support platform upgrades, migrations, capacity planning, and root-cause analysis.

Skills

AWS EC2

AWS Glue

AWS Lambda

AWS S3

Production support

Monitoring

Troubleshooting

Security best practices

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/IT/Engineering

Tools

Terraform

AWS CloudFormation

AWS CDK

Python

Shell scripting

SQL

Job description

Job Overview

We are looking for an experienced AWS Cloud Data Platform Administrator to manage, secure, monitor, and optimize cloud-based data platforms. The candidate should have hands‑on AWS administration experience and expertise in supporting production environments, ensuring platform availability, performance, security, and cost efficiency.

Key Responsibilities

• Administer and support AWS data platforms across development, testing, staging, and production environments.
• Manage AWS services, including EC2, S3, Glue, Lambda, Redshift, RDS/Aurora, EMR, Athena, and CloudWatch.
• Provision and configure cloud resources using Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or AWS CDK.
• Manage IAM roles, policies, permissions, and access controls.
• Monitor platform performance, data pipelines, storage, and cloud resources.
• Troubleshoot production issues and handle incident, problem, change, and service request management.
• Optimize Redshift queries, compute resources, storage, and cloud costs.
• Implement backup, recovery, high availability, and disaster recovery procedures.
• Ensure cloud security through encryption, network controls, logging, and least-privilege access.
• Automate cloud administration and monitoring tasks using Python, Shell scripting, and AWS CLI.
• Maintain operational documentation, runbooks, SOPs, and troubleshooting guides.
• Collaborate with data engineering, security, application, and architecture teams.
• Support platform upgrades, migrations, capacity planning, and root-cause analysis.

Mandatory Technical Skills

• Hands‑on experience with AWS EC2, AWS Glue, AWS Lambda, and AWS S3.
• Strong knowledge of AWS cloud administration and production support.
• Experience managing cloud infrastructure, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
• Understanding of AWS security, access management, and operational best practices.

Additional Technical Skills

• Amazon Redshift, RDS/Aurora, EMR, Athena, and Lake Formation.
• AWS IAM, KMS, Secrets Manager, VPC, CloudTrail, and CloudWatch.
• Terraform or AWS CloudFormation.
• Python and Shell scripting.
• Strong SQL knowledge and understanding of ETL/ELT processes.
• Data lake, data warehouse, and data platform administration.
• Cloud cost optimization, backup, and disaster recovery.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• 7+ years of overall experience in cloud infrastructure, data platform administration, database administration, or data engineering operations.
• At least 4 years of hands‑on AWS experience supporting production environments.
• Strong troubleshooting, root‑cause analysis, documentation, and communication skills.
• Willingness to participate in on‑call support and planned maintenance activities, if required.

Good to Have

• Knowledge of AWS Well‑Architected Tool and framework.