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

Smart Working; Peshawar City Tehsil; Remote; PKR 33,195,000 - 49,793,000; Full time

Job summary

Smart Working is seeking a Senior Cloud & Backend Engineer to own and scale a cloud-agnostic AWS platform, build backend services in Java, and improve IaC and CI/CD pipelines. You’ll work with Terraform, ECS/Kubernetes, and RBAC across multi-tenant systems.

You’ll contribute to platform reliability, security, monitoring, and cost optimisation while collaborating with a small team in a remote-first environment that values ownership and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in cloud engineering/DevOps with ownership of infra.
• Proven AWS infrastructure experience.
• 3+ years Java backend development.
• Proficiency with Terraform and IaC.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and tooling.
• Knowledge of software supply-chain security and SBOMs is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain and scale AWS cloud infrastructure using Terraform and IaC.
• Improve IaC configurations and platform reliability.
• Own and optimise CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions; Jenkins integrations).
• Enhance monitoring and alerting across the platform.
• Develop backend microservices in Java and support RBAC and multi-tenancy.
• Collaborate with team to improve platform reliability, security and delivery quality.
• Troubleshoot deployment pipelines and production infra issues.
• Contribute to cloud cost optimisation and platform improvements.

Skills

AWS

Terraform

Java backend

CI/CD

Docker

Kubernetes

RBAC

Multi-tenancy

Security

Monitoring

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI/CD

Tools

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

GitLab CI/CD

Job description

Smart Working is seeking a Senior Cloud & Backend Engineer to own and scale a cloud-agnostic AWS platform, build backend services in Java, and improve IaC and CI/CD pipelines. You’ll work with Terraform, ECS/Kubernetes, and RBAC across multi-tenant systems.

You’ll contribute to platform reliability, security, monitoring, and cost optimisation while collaborating with a small team in a remote-first environment that values ownership and continuous improvement.