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

Smart Working; Abbottabad; Remote; PKR 3,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Smart Working is seeking a Senior Cloud & Backend Engineer to own and scale a cloud-agnostic AWS platform while building backend services and new product capability.

You will strengthen infrastructure, IaC, CI/CD pipelines, software supply-chain security, monitoring and multi-tenancy support, with Docker/ECS/Kubernetes deployments. Collaboration with a small team is essential, and independent ownership is expected.

Qualifications

• 5 years of senior-level cloud/DevOps experience.
• Strong AWS core services: EC2, ECS, RDS/Aurora, DynamoDB, Lambda.
• 3 years of Java backend experience.
• Proficient with Terraform and IaC.
• Proven CI/CD design, preferably GitHub Actions (or GitLab/Jenkins).
• Knowledge of software supply-chain security (SBOMs, container image signing).
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes/ECS.
• Ability to work independently and own technical decisions.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain AWS cloud infra using Terraform (IaC).
• Own and optimise CI/CD pipelines, primarily GitHub Actions; integrate Jenkins where applicable.
• Improve platform reliability, monitoring and security across the stack.
• Develop backend microservices in Java; implement RBAC and multi-tenancy features.
• Support cloud and on‑prem deployments; optimize costs and performance.

Skills

Independent ownership

Cloud engineering

Problem solving

Team collaboration

Tools

AWS

Terraform

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI/CD

Jenkins

Kubernetes

Docker

SBOMs

Job description

Smart Working is seeking a Senior Cloud & Backend Engineer to own and scale a cloud-agnostic AWS platform while building backend services and new product capability.

You will strengthen infrastructure, IaC, CI/CD pipelines, software supply-chain security, monitoring and multi-tenancy support, with Docker/ECS/Kubernetes deployments. Collaboration with a small team is essential, and independent ownership is expected.