Senior AWS Cloud Administrator

Elfonze Technologies; India; Remote; INR 1,500,000 - 2,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Elfonze Technologies is seeking an experienced AWS Cloud Administrator with 7-8 years of IT experience to manage AWS production environments, ensure high availability, and implement security best practices.

You will design fault-tolerant architectures, optimize costs, support migrations, and drive DevOps integration, IaC, and incident/change management across AWS workloads.

Qualifications

• 7-8+ years IT experience with cloud administration.
• Minimum 5+ years managing AWS production environments.
• Strong Linux/Windows admin, networking, security, and automation.
• Experience with multi-account AWS environments and IAM.
• Proficient in IaC, CI/CD, DevOps integrations.
• Familiarity with ITSM processes (Incident, Change, Problem).

Responsibilities

• Manage production, staging, and development AWS environments.
• Ensure high availability and fault-tolerant cloud architectures.
• Implement security best practices and compliance controls.
• Support cloud migrations and operational excellence initiatives.
• Perform capacity planning, performance tuning, and cost optimization.
• Automate deployments and operational tasks using IaC and CI/CD.
• Manage networking, IAM, and security groups across accounts.
• Develop and test disaster recovery procedures and backups.

Skills

AWS Admin

Linux/Windows

Networking

Security

Automation

Infrastructure as Code

DevOps

ITSM

Tools

EC2

ALB/NLB

EBS

S3

VPC

IAM

Auto Scaling

Direct Connect

Transit Gateway

AWS Organizations

Lambda

CloudFormation

CI/CD

Security Groups

Job description

We are seeking an experienced AWS Cloud Administrator with 7-8 years of overall IT experience and strong expertise in AWS Cloud infrastructure management, administration, monitoring, security, networking and cost optimization. Candidate will be responsible for managing production cloud environments, ensuring high availability, implementing security best practices, supporting cloud migrations, and driving operational excellence across AWS workloads.

Experience Required

• 7-8 Years Overall IT Experience
• Minimum 5+ years managing AWS production environments.
• Strong background in Linux/Windows administration, networking, security, and automation.
• Manage, monitor, and maintain AWS production, staging, and development environments.
• Provision and administer AWS resources using infrastructure best practices.
• Design and maintain highly available and fault-tolerant cloud environments.
• Perform capacity planning, performance tuning, and resource optimization.
• Manage multi-account AWS environments using AWS Organizations.
• Administer EC2 instances, AMIs, Auto Scaling Groups, and Launch Templates.
• Manage Elastic Load Balancers (ALB/NLB).
• Configure and maintain EBS, EFS, FSx, and S3 storage services.
• Perform storage lifecycle management and optimization.
• Manage VPCs, Subnets, Route Tables, NAT Gateways, Internet Gateways, and Security Groups.
• Troubleshoot network connectivity and routing issues.
• Configure VPN, Direct Connect, Transit Gateway, and VPC Peering.
• Implement network security and segmentation best practices.
• Manage AWS IAM Users, Groups, Roles, and Policies.
• Implement least-privilege access controls.
• Configure MFA, AWS SSO, and identity federation.
• Support security hardening and compliance requirements.
• Review and remediate security findings.
• Implement AWS Backup solutions.
• Configure automated snapshots and retention policies.
• Develop and test disaster recovery procedures.
• Maintain backup compliance and recovery objectives (RPO/RTO).
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code solutions.
• Automate cloud deployment and operational tasks.Support CI/CD and DevOps integration initiatives.
• Strong knowledge of ITSM process and tool – Incident ,Change ,Problem Management.

Cost Optimization & Governance

• Monitor AWS spend using Cost Explorer and AWS Budgets.
• Identify cost-saving opportunities and right-sizing recommendations.
• Optimize Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, and storage costs.