Senior Cloud & Backend Engineer - AWS/Java, Remote

Smart Working Solutions; Lahore; Remote; PKR 33,195,000 - 44,260,000; Full time

Job summary

Smart Working is seeking a Senior Cloud & Backend Engineer to own and scale a cloud‑agnostic AWS platform, build robust backend services in Java, and advance product functionality. You’ll strengthen infrastructure, implement IaC, and drive secure, reliable deployments.

Collaboration with a small team, ownership of end‑to‑end solutions, and a focus on platform maturity are core to this role. Remote‑first roles enable global collaboration while maintaining high standards for security, monitoring

Qualifications

• 5 years of senior‑level hands‑on experience in cloud engineering, platform engineering or DevOps.
• Strong AWS experience: EC2, ECS, RDS/Aurora, DynamoDB and Lambda.
• 3 years of Java backend services or equivalent Java microservices experience.
• Terraform and IaC expertise with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions preferred).
• Knowledge of SBOMs, signed container images and image verification.
• Experience with monitoring, security, multi‑tenancy and RBAC.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain and improve AWS cloud infrastructure using Terraform and IaC.
• Own and optimise CI/CD pipelines, primarily GitHub Actions, with Jenkins.
• Enhance software supply‑chain security, including SBOMs and image signing.
• Improve AWS monitoring, alerting and operational visibility across the platform.
• Manage Docker deployments and orchestration with ECS and/or Kubernetes.
• Develop backend microservices in Java and implement RBAC features.
• Support multi‑tenancy, metrics ingestion and backend functionality.
• Troubleshoot production infrastructure and CI/CD pipeline failures.
• Collaborate with engineers, share knowledge and improve platform reliability.

Skills

Cloud engineering

DevOps

Backend development

Java microservices

Independent ownership

Tools

Terraform

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI/CD

Jenkins

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Smart Working is seeking a Senior Cloud & Backend Engineer to own and scale a cloud‑agnostic AWS platform, build robust backend services in Java, and advance product functionality. You’ll strengthen infrastructure, implement IaC, and drive secure, reliable deployments.

Collaboration with a small team, ownership of end‑to‑end solutions, and a focus on platform maturity are core to this role. Remote‑first roles enable global collaboration while maintaining high standards for security, monitoring