Cloud Engineer

Mylapay; Chennai District; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Mylapay in Chennai is seeking a Cloud Engineer with 2+ years of hands-on experience to design, deploy, and manage scalable cloud platforms on AWS, Kubernetes, and hybrid environments.

You will collaborate with development, security, and operations teams to optimize costs, ensure security and high availability, and implement monitoring, CI/CD, and database services on AWS.

Qualifications

• 2+ years hands-on cloud engineering experience.
• Strong expertise in AWS, Kubernetes, containerization, CI/CD, cloud databases, monitoring.
• Knowledge of hybrid cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and maintain cloud infrastructure on AWS.
• Manage and administer Kubernetes (Amazon EKS) clusters.
• Build, deploy, and manage Docker containers and registries.
• Develop, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines.
• Administer AWS databases: RDS, Aurora PostgreSQL, SQL Server.

Skills

AWS

Kubernetes

Containerization

CI/CD

Linux administration

Hybrid cloud

Monitoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Information Technology/Engineering

Tools

Terraform

AWS CloudFormation

Amazon ECS

Amazon EKS

Docker

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK Stack

Datadog

Job description

About the Role

We are looking for a skilled and motivated Cloud Engineer with at least 2 years of hands‑on experience in designing, deploying, and managing cloud infrastructure. The ideal candidate should have strong expertise in AWS, Kubernetes, containerization, CI/CD, cloud databases, monitoring, Linux administration, and hybrid cloud environments. You will work closely with development, infrastructure, security, and operations teams to build scalable, secure, highly available, and cost-optimized cloud platforms.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and maintain cloud infrastructure on Amazon Web Services (AWS).
• Manage and administer Kubernetes (Amazon EKS) clusters for containerized applications.
• Build, deploy, and manage Docker containers and container registries.
• Develop, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines for automated application deployment.
• Administer and manage Amazon RDS, Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL, and Microsoft SQL Server databases hosted on AWS.
• Perform database provisioning, upgrades, patching, backup and recovery, replication monitoring, performance tuning, high availability, and disaster recovery planning.
• Monitor database health, optimize SQL performance, troubleshoot database issues, and ensure database security and availability.
• Implement infrastructure monitoring, logging, and alerting using CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, Datadog, or similar tools.
• Ensure cloud infrastructure security, compliance, reliability, scalability, and cost optimization.
• Configure and manage networking components including VPC, Route Tables, Security Groups, Load Balancers, NAT Gateway, VPN, DNS, SSL/TLS, and IAM.
• Perform root cause analysis (RCA) for production incidents and implement preventive measures.
• Collaborate with application development teams to improve deployment automation and operational efficiency.
• Support cloud migration and modernization initiatives.
• Maintain technical documentation, standard operating procedures (SOPs), architecture diagrams, and deployment guides.
• Assist in implementing disaster recovery (DR), backup strategies, and business continuity plans.
• Support infrastructure audits, vulnerability remediation, and compliance requirements.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or AWS CloudFormation).
• Experience working with Microservices Architecture.
• Experience with Amazon ECS and Amazon EKS.
• Knowledge of AWS Lambda, EventBridge, SQS, SNS, and API Gateway.
• Experience with AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS).
• Knowledge of PostgreSQL query optimization and Microsoft SQL Server administration.
• Basic knowledge of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services.
• Basic knowledge of Microsoft Azure services.
• Basic understanding of on-premises infrastructure, including:
• VMware/Hyper-V virtualization
• Windows Server
• Linux Servers
• SAN/NAS Storage
• Active Directory
• DNS/DHCP
• Hybrid cloud connectivity
• Experience with hybrid cloud environments integrating AWS, Azure, GCP, and on-premises infrastructure.
• Exposure to PCI DSS, ISO 27001, SOC 2, or similar security and compliance standards is an added advantage.
• AWS Certifications (Solutions Architect Associate, SysOps Administrator, or DevOps Engineer Professional) are preferred.
• Azure Administrator Associate or Google Associate Cloud Engineer certification is an added advantage.

Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).