Senior Cloud & Backend Engineer (AWS/Java) - Remote

Smart Working; Karachi Division; Remote; PKR 24,896,000 - 35,961,000; Full time

Job summary

Smart Working is seeking a Senior Cloud & Backend Engineer to own and scale a cloud-agnostic AWS platform, developing backend services and new product features. You will strengthen infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, and security, implement multi-tenancy and RBAC, and collaborate with a small team to deliver reliable, scalable solutions across cloud and on‑prem environments.

Frontend experience is a plus but not required, and strong independent ownership will help you thrive in our

Qualifications

• Senior-level hands-on experience in cloud engineering, platform engineering or DevOps.
• Strong experience with AWS core services (EC2, ECS, RDS/Aurora, DynamoDB, Lambda).
• 3+ years in Java backend services and microservices.
• Proven Terraform and IaC expertise.
• CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions; Jenkins or GitLab CI/CD acceptable.
• Knowledge of SBOMs, signed container images and image verification.
• Experience with monitoring, alerting and cloud operations.
• Hands-on with Docker, ECS, Kubernetes; multi-tenancy and RBAC.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain AWS infrastructure using Terraform and IaC.
• Strengthen IaC configurations, reliability and platform maturity.
• Own and optimize CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions; Jenkins where relevant).
• Implement and improve software supply-chain security (SBOMs, image signing).
• Enhance AWS monitoring, alerting and operational visibility.
• Manage container deployments with Docker, ECS and Kubernetes.
• Support ECS Anywhere deployments across self-managed EC2 instances.
• Develop backend microservices in Java and enable RBAC and multi-tenancy.
• Collaborate with engineers; own technical decisions and drive improvements.

Skills

AWS

Terraform

Java

CI/CD

Docker

Kubernetes

IaC

SBOMs

Security

Monitoring

RBAC

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Tools

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Job description

Smart Working is seeking a Senior Cloud & Backend Engineer to own and scale a cloud-agnostic AWS platform, developing backend services and new product features. You will strengthen infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, and security, implement multi-tenancy and RBAC, and collaborate with a small team to deliver reliable, scalable solutions across cloud and on‑prem environments.

Frontend experience is a plus but not required, and strong independent ownership will help you thrive in our