Cloud Engineer DevOps AWS

Unified Consultancy Services; Delhi; Hybrid; INR 800,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Unified Consultancy Services is hiring a Cloud Engineer DevOps to manage and optimize AWS infrastructure in a 24/7 environment. Responsibilities include provisioning customer environments, designing scalable solutions, and ensuring high availability.

The role requires 2–5 years of experience in Cloud Operations, advanced AWS skills, and proficiency in scripting. The position is fully remote or hybrid, offering competitive compensation.

Qualifications

• 2–5 years of experience in Cloud Operations, Infrastructure Management, or DevOps.
• Hands-on experience with Terraform for provisioning and managing infrastructure.
• Strong grasp of networking, IAM, security best practices, and RBAC models.

Responsibilities

• Provision and manage customer tenants, deploy updates ensuring high uptime.
• Design, deploy, and maintain scalable AWS infrastructure.
• Implement observability solutions to detect and remediate issues swiftly.
• Track usage trends and optimize cloud spend.
• Develop and manage backup and disaster recovery plans.
• Enforce security standards and configurations.
• Use Terraform to provision and manage cloud resources.
• Automate operational tasks using scripting and tools.
• Build and manage Docker-based containerized applications.

Skills

AWS services (EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, IAM, Lambda, CloudFormation)

Terraform

Scripting (Python, Bash, PowerShell)

Monitoring tools (CloudWatch, Datadog, ELK, Prometheus)

Containerization (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, EKS)

Networking and security best practices

Job description

Job Title: Cloud Engineer DevOps
Location: Remote /Hybrid India
Department: Cloud & Infrastructure Engineering
Type: Full-time | Rotational Shifts | 24/7 Support Environment

About The Role

Unified Consultancy Services is seeking a skilled and proactive Cloud Engineer to manage, optimize, and secure our SaaS platform infrastructure. You will play a critical role in ensuring high availability, performance, and security across our AWS environments while supporting deployments in staging and production systems.

Key Responsibilities

• SaaS Platform Management:
  • Provision and manage customer tenants, deploy updates to staging and production environments ensuring high uptime.
• Infrastructure Design & Management:
  • Design, deploy, and maintain scalable, secure AWS infrastructure using EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, and CloudFormation.
• Monitoring & Incident Response:
  • Implement observability solutions (CloudWatch, Grafana, Prometheus) to detect and remediate issues swiftly.
• Cost Optimization:
  • Track usage trends and optimize cloud spend using strategies like Reserved Instances, Spot Instances, and rightsizing.
• Disaster Recovery & Backups:
  • Develop and manage backup and disaster recovery plans using AWS Backup, RDS Snapshots, and S3 lifecycle policies.
• Security & Compliance:
  • Enforce security standards, configure IAM roles and policies, VPC security groups, and encryption mechanisms.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC):
  • Use Terraform, AWS CDK, or CloudFormation to provision and manage cloud resources efficiently and consistently.
• Automation & Scripting:
  • Automate operational tasks using scripting (Python, Bash, PowerShell) and tools like Ansible.
• Containerization & Orchestration:
  • Build and manage Docker-based containerized applications, leveraging Kubernetes (EKS) or ECS for orchestration.

Skills & Qualifications

• 2–5 years of experience in Cloud Operations, Infrastructure Management, or DevOps.
• Advanced expertise in AWS services (EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, IAM, Lambda, CloudFormation).
• Hands‑on experience with Terraform for provisioning and managing infrastructure.
• Scripting proficiency in Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
• Strong grasp of networking, IAM, security best practices, and RBAC models.
• Experience with monitoring/logging tools like CloudWatch, Datadog, ELK, or Prometheus.
• Experience managing container platforms (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, or EKS).
• Ability to troubleshoot cloud‑based performance, reliability, and availability issues.
• Flexibility to work in a 24/7 rotational shift environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• AWS certifications (e.g., Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer).
• Experience with hybrid cloud or on‑premises to AWS migration projects.
• Exposure to other cloud platforms like Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud (GCP).
• Knowledge of database solutions (RDS, DynamoDB) and caching tools (Redis, ElastiCache).