Senior Cloud & Backend Engineer - AWS/Java, Remote

Smart Working; Islamabad; Remote; PKR 16,598,000 - 30,429,000; Full time

Job summary

Smart Working is seeking a Senior Cloud & Backend Engineer to own and scale a cloud-agnostic AWS platform, develop backend services and implement IaC, CI/CD pipelines and security controls.

You will work with a small team to improve platform reliability, monitoring, cost and multi-tenancy support, with remote-first collaboration across international teams. Frontend experience is a plus but not required.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of senior-level hands-on experience in cloud engineering, platform engineering or DevOps.
• Strong practical experience with AWS infrastructure and core services (EC2, ECS, RDS/Aurora, DynamoDB, Lambda).
• 3 years of experience with Java-based backend services and microservices.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain and improve AWS cloud infrastructure using Terraform and IaC.
• Own CI/CD pipelines, primarily GitHub Actions; Jenkins integrations where applicable.
• Develop backend microservices in Java and implement RBAC and multi-tenancy features.
• Support cloud and on-prem deployments and improve platform reliability and security.

Skills

AWS infra

Terraform

CI/CD pipelines

Java backend

Docker

Kubernetes

RBAC

SBOMs

Monitoring

IaC

GitHub Actions

Tools

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI/CD

Jenkins

Job description

Smart Working is seeking a Senior Cloud & Backend Engineer to own and scale a cloud-agnostic AWS platform, develop backend services and implement IaC, CI/CD pipelines and security controls.

You will work with a small team to improve platform reliability, monitoring, cost and multi-tenancy support, with remote-first collaboration across international teams. Frontend experience is a plus but not required.