Cloud Engineer

Sun Life Global Solutions; Taguig; On-site; PHP 800,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in financial services is seeking a Cloud Engineer to manage cloud environments, consult on AWS services, and ensure efficient cloud adoption. The ideal candidate will have extensive AWS experience, strong problem-solving skills, and a commitment to developing scalable cloud solutions.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in cloud solution or server administration.
• 8 years overall technical experience.
• Strong knowledge of AWS services.

Responsibilities

• Manage cloud accounts and onboard consumers.
• Consult on AWS services and implement cloud infrastructure.
• Monitor and optimize cloud environments.

Skills

Problem Solving

Cloud Security

Technical Documentation

Communication

Education

College Graduate

Tools

AWS

Terraform

Jenkins

Docker

Job description

Responsibilities

• Support Sunlife consumers in onboarding to the cloud, provisioning environments, developing roles, and building a seamless onboarding process.

• Manage critical cloud accounts, address cloud request tickets, and act as a liaison between Application Owners and cloud service providers.

• Assist partners in prototyping, demonstrating, and integrating products in customer environments.

• Consult and advise consumers on AWS services, best practices, and cost optimization strategies to ensure efficient cloud adoption.

• Design, implement, and maintain scalable, secure, and highly available cloud infrastructure solutions.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to automate cloud operations and improve system reliability.

• Monitor cloud environments for performance, security, and cost efficiency, and implement corrective actions as needed.

• Participate in engineering escalated on-call rotations to provide 24/7 support for critical cloud platforms.

• Be an active member of an Agile development team, participating in daily stand-ups, sprint planning, and retrospectives.

• Provide regular status updates, highlight issues, and propose solutions to blockers during team meetings.

• Develop and maintain documentation for cloud architectures, processes, and procedures.

• Stay up-to-date with emerging cloud technologies and trends, and evaluate their potential impact on Sunlife’s cloud strategy.

Additional Preferred Skills

• Experience with multi-cloud environments and hybrid cloud architectures.

• Knowledge of financial services or insurance industry regulations and compliance requirements (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA, PCI-DSS).

• Experience with database management and optimization in cloud environments (e.g., RDS, DynamoDB).

• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to think quickly under pressure.

Qualifications

• College Graduate

• 3+ years of relevant work experience in server administration, cloud solution administration, or cloud engineering in an enterprise environment.

• 8 years overall technical experience

• Proven experience with AWS services such as EC2, S3, RDS, CloudFormation, CloudWatch, and VPC.

• Proficiency in programming and/or scripting languages such as Python, Perl, Java, Bash, or Ruby.

• Strong knowledge of cloud-based platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and services, including IAM roles, permissions, and security policies.

• Hands-on experience with DevOps practices and tools (e.g., CI/CD pipelines, Terraform, Jenkins, Ansible).

• Experience with containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) is a plus.

• Knowledge of networking concepts (e.g., DNS, TCP/IP, firewalls, load balancers) and security best practices in cloud environments.

• Familiarity with serverless computing (e.g AWS Lambda, Azure Functions), and event driven architectures.

Preferred Skills

• Cloud Certification with one of the public cloud providers (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, or equivalent).

• Strong communication skills with the ability to build customer confidence and establish trusted partnerships.

• Ability to create and deliver technical documents, artifacts, and documentation (e.g., architecture diagrams, runbooks, process flows).

• Analytical mindset with the ability to troubleshoot complex issues and translate technical challenges into business impacts.

• Experience with monitoring and logging tools (e.g., CloudWatch, Splunk, Datadog) for performance optimization and incident management.

• Familiarity with Agile methodologies and tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence).