Senior Cloud & Backend Engineer - AWS/IaC Remote

Smart Working; Islamabad; Remote; PKR 13,827,000 - 22,124,000; Full time

Job summary

Smart Working is hiring a Senior Cloud & Backend Engineer in a remote-first role. You will own and scale an AWS-based platform, build and improve backend services in Java, and drive infrastructure as code, security, and CI/CD practices across a cross-functional team.

Ideal candidates have deep AWS, Terraform IaC, Docker/Kubernetes experience and a proven ability to own architectural decisions, working autonomously while collaborating with peers to deliver reliable, scalable solutions for global

Qualifications

• Senior-level hands-on experience in cloud engineering or DevOps.
• Strong AWS experience: EC2, ECS, RDS/Aurora, DynamoDB, Lambda.
• Proficient with Terraform and IaC.
• Experience designing CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions (or GitLab/Jenkins).
• Knowledge of SBOMs, container image signing and verification.
• Experience with monitoring, alerting and cloud infrastructure.
• Hands-on Docker and Kubernetes experience.
• Backend development with Java microservices.
• Ability to own decisions and work independently.

Responsibilities

• Develop and manage AWS cloud infrastructure using Terraform.
• Strengthen and improve existing IaC configurations, infrastructure reliability and platform maturity.
• Own, maintain and optimise CI/CD pipelines, primarily using GitHub Actions, with Jenkins integrations where applicable.
• Implement and improve software supply-chain security processes, including SBOMs, container image signing and verification.
• Improve AWS monitoring, alerting and operational visibility across the platform.
• Manage Docker-based container deployments and orchestration using ECS and/or Kubernetes.
• Support ECS Anywhere deployments running across self-managed EC2 instances.
• Work with AWS services, including EC2, ECS, RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB and Lambda.
• Develop and enhance backend microservices, primarily written in Java.
• Implement new backend features and functionality supporting RBAC and multi-tenancy.
• Develop backend capabilities for metrics ingestion and processing.
• Implement backend functionality supporting multi-tenancy.
• Manage deployments, troubleshoot infrastructure issues and CI/CD pipeline failures.
• Support cloud and on-premises deployment environments, including opportunities to improve consistency between them.
• Identify opportunities to improve platform reliability, performance, security and delivery quality.
• Contribute to cost optimisation while maintaining cloud-agnostic approach.
• Identify technical gaps and propose improvements.

Skills

Cloud engineering

AWS

Terraform / IaC

CI/CD

Java backend

RBAC

Multi-tenancy

Docker

Kubernetes

Team collaboration

Tools

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI/CD

Jenkins

Terraform

ECS

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

Smart Working is hiring a Senior Cloud & Backend Engineer in a remote-first role. You will own and scale an AWS-based platform, build and improve backend services in Java, and drive infrastructure as code, security, and CI/CD practices across a cross-functional team.

Ideal candidates have deep AWS, Terraform IaC, Docker/Kubernetes experience and a proven ability to own architectural decisions, working autonomously while collaborating with peers to deliver reliable, scalable solutions for global