Senior Engineer AWS Automation and Disaster Recovery Specialist

Litmus7 Systems Consulting Ltd.; India; On-site; INR 2,000,000 - 2,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Litmus7 Systems Consulting Ltd. is seeking a Senior Engineer to design and implement AWS-based disaster recovery for mission-critical workloads. You will build automation using Terraform, CloudFormation, and CDK, and run regular DR drills to validate recovery procedures.

Leading this role requires 5+ years in cloud engineering with at least 3 years focused on AWS, plus scripting skills in Python or Bash and experience with containers like ECS/EKS.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in cloud or infrastructure engineering, with at least 3 years in AWS.
• Expertise across AWS core services (EC2, RDS, S3, IAM, VPC, Route 53).
• Experience with Global Accelerator/CloudFront.
• Experience executing disaster recovery and business continuity plans in AWS environments.
• Strong scripting experience (Python, Bash, or similar).
• Excellent troubleshooting skills and ability to work under pressure during incidents.
• Professional experience with container platforms (ECS, EKS, Docker).
• Background in security best practices related to AWS DR and automation; experience with large-scale enterprise DR programs.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain AWS-based disaster recovery solutions for mission-critical workloads.
• Develop automation frameworks and IaC solutions using Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK, or similar.
• Build end-to-end automated failover and recovery workflows to meet RTO/RPO objectives.
• Conduct regular DR drills, simulations, and failover tests to validate recovery procedures.
• Collaborate with application, infrastructure, and security teams to ensure DR readiness across all environments.
• Document DR strategies, recovery runbooks, and architecture diagrams.
• Evaluate new AWS services and technologies to continuously improve DR posture.

Skills

AWS

Automation

Disaster Recovery

Python

Incident Management

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

CDK

Docker

ECS

EKS

Global Accelerator

CloudFront

Job description

Senior Engineer AWS Automation and Disaster Recovery Specialist

Design, implement, and maintain AWS-based disaster recovery solutions for mission-critical workloads.

Develop automation frameworks and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) solutions using tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK, or similar.

Build end-to-end automated failover and recovery workflows to meet RTO/RPO objectives.

Conduct regular DR drills, simulations, and failover tests to validate recovery procedures.

Collaborate with application, infrastructure, and security teams to ensure DR readiness across all environments.

Document DR strategies, recovery runbooks, and architecture diagrams.

Evaluate new AWS services and technologies to continuously improve DR posture.

Required Qualifications:

5+ years of experience in cloud engineering or infrastructure engineering, with at least 3 years focused on AWS.

Strong expertise with AWS services such as EC2, RDS, S3, Route 53, CloudFormation, Lambda, CloudWatch, IAM, VPC, and Global Accelerator/CloudFront.

Executing disaster recovery and business continuity plans in AWS environments.

Strong scripting experience (Python, Bash, or similar).

Excellent troubleshooting skills and ability to perform under pressure during critical incidents.

ProfessionalExperience with container platforms (ECS, EKS, Docker).

Background in security best practices related to AWS DR and automation. Experience with large-scale enterprise DR programs.