AWS Cloud Engineer

Digital Omnis Consulting; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Digital Omnis Consulting in Kuala Lumpur is seeking a Cloud/DevOps Engineer to design, provision and maintain AWS infrastructure. You will deploy services like EC2, VPC, S3, RDS and CloudFront, and implement IaC with Terraform or CloudFormation. Collaboration with developers and production support will be essential.

You will optimise deployments, monitor systems and implement security controls, while enabling CI/CD pipelines and disaster recovery practices in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Minimum 1 year hands-on AWS experience in a Cloud/DevOps role.
• Must hold at least one active AWS Associate-level certification (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate).
• Strong knowledge of core AWS services (EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, RDS) and monitoring tools.

Responsibilities

• Deploy and manage AWS services such as EC2, VPC, ALB/NLB, S3, RDS, CloudFront, Route 53, IAM, CloudWatch, EBS, Auto Scaling and AWS WAF.
• Configure VPC networking, subnets, route tables, security groups, NAT gateways and related components.
• Deploy and maintain Linux-based application and infrastructure servers.
• Support containerised deployments with Docker and Kubernetes (EKS).
• Implement IaC using Terraform, CloudFormation or CDK.
• Assist with CI/CD pipelines and automated deployments.
• Configure monitoring, logging, backup and DR mechanisms.
• Apply AWS security best practices including IAM, encryption, least privilege.
• Troubleshoot infrastructure, networking and deployment issues.
• Support sizing and cost optimisation.
• Prepare infrastructure diagrams and deployment docs.
• Collaborate with development teams on deployment issues.

Skills

AWS

EC2

VPC

S3

RDS

CloudWatch

Load Balancer

Docker

Kubernetes

Git

CI/CD

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

AWS CDK

EKS

Job description

Design, provision, configure, and maintain infrastructure on Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Responsibilities

• Deploy and manage AWS services such as EC2, VPC, ALB/NLB, S3, RDS, CloudFront, Route 53, IAM, CloudWatch, EBS, Auto Scaling and AWS WAF.
• Configure VPC networking, subnets, route tables, security groups, NAT gateways and related network components.
• Deploy and maintain Linux-based application and infrastructure servers.
• Support containerised application deployments using Docker and Kubernetes environments such as Amazon EKS.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform, AWS CloudFormation or AWS CDK.
• Assist with CI/CD pipelines and automated application deployments.
• Configure monitoring, logging, alerting, backup and disaster recovery mechanisms.
• Apply AWS security best practices including IAM policies, least-privilege access, encryption and network security controls.
• Perform infrastructure troubleshooting, performance analysis and incident resolution.
• Support cloud infrastructure sizing and cost optimisation.
• Prepare and maintain infrastructure diagrams, deployment documentation, configuration records and operational procedures.
• Work with application development teams to troubleshoot infrastructure and deployment-related issues.
• Participate in deployment and production support activities when required.

Qualifications

- Minimum 1 year of hands‑on AWS experience in a Cloud Engineer, DevOps Engineer, System Engineer or similar technical role.

- Must possess at least one active AWS Associate-level certification, such as:

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

Required Skills

• Hands‑on experience with core AWS services, particularly EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, RDS, Load Balancing and CloudWatch.
• Good understanding of AWS networking concepts including VPC, public/private subnets, routing, security groups and load balancing.
• Familiarity with Docker and containerised application deployment.
• Basic understanding of Kubernetes; hands‑on experience with Amazon EKS will be an advantage.
• Experience with Terraform or other Infrastructure as Code tools is highly desirable.
• Familiarity with Git and CI/CD concepts.
• Good understanding of cloud security, availability, scalability, backup and disaster recovery concepts.
• Able to troubleshoot infrastructure, networking and application deployment issues independently.
• Good written and verbal communication skills.
• Able to work effectively with developers, technical leads and project teams.

Preferred Skills

Candidates with any of the following experience will have an added advantage:

• Terraform / Cloudformation
• AWS WAF and CloudFront
• RDS / database infrastructure
• NGINX and reverse proxy configuration
• CI/CD tools such as GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions or Jenkins
• Hybrid cloud or on-premise-to-AWS connectivity
• AWS backup and disaster recovery implementation
• Cloud security hardening
• AWS cost optimisation
• Experience supporting enterprise, financial services or government projects