Senior Cloud Engineer (AWS/Java) – Backend & IaC Leader

Smart Working; Lahore; Remote; PKR 2,400,000 - 4,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Smart Working is hiring a Senior Cloud & Backend Engineer to own and scale a cloud-agnostic AWS platform, develop backend services and drive product functionality.

You will strengthen Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines, security, monitoring and multi-tenancy while collaborating with a small engineering team to deliver reliable solutions. Frontend experience is a plus but not essential.

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, including EC2, ECS, RDS/Aurora, DynamoDB and Lambda.
• 3 years of experience with Java-based backend services, or relevant backend development expertise applicable to Java microservices.
• Strong hands-on experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Proven experience designing, maintaining and improving CI/CD pipelines, ideally using GitHub Actions. Equivalent experience with GitLab CI/CD or Jenkins is acceptable where transferable expertise can be demonstrated.
• Knowledge and practical experience of software supply-chain security, including SBOMs, signed container images and image verification.
• Experience implementing and maintaining cloud monitoring and alerting solutions.
• Hands-on experience with Docker, containerised services and container orchestration using ECS and/or Kubernetes.
• Strong backend development experience, with the ability to independently implement new features and functionality in microservices.
• Ability to develop backend functionality involving access control, metrics ingestion and multi-tenancy
• Experience troubleshooting production infrastructure, deployment pipelines and backend services
• Understanding of platform reliability, maintainability, security and continuous improvement
• Ability to work independently, take ownership of technical decisions and contribute beyond assigned development tasks
• Strong collaboration, knowledge-sharing and problem-solving skills
• Ability to propose and justify technical improvements constructively

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain AWS cloud infrastructure using Terraform and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Strengthen and improve existing IaC configurations, infrastructure reliability and platform maturity.
• Own, maintain and optimise CI/CD pipelines, primarily using GitHub Actions, with Jenkins integrations where applicable.
• Implement and improve software supply-chain security processes, including Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs), container image signing and verification.
• Improve AWS monitoring, alerting and operational visibility across the platform.
• Manage Docker-based container deployments and orchestration using ECS and/or Kubernetes.
• Support ECS Anywhere deployments running across self-managed EC2 instances.
• Work with AWS services, including EC2, ECS, RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB and Lambda.
• Develop and enhance backend microservices, primarily written in Java.
• Implement new backend features and functionality supporting role-based access control (RBAC).
• Develop backend capabilities for metrics ingestion and processing.
• Implement backend functionality supporting multi-tenancy.
• Manage application deployments, troubleshoot infrastructure issues and resolve CI/CD pipeline failures independently.
• Support cloud and on-premises deployment environments, including opportunities to improve consistency between them.
• Identify opportunities to improve platform reliability, performance, security and delivery quality.
• Contribute to cloud cost optimisation while maintaining a cloud-agnostic approach and avoiding unnecessary vendor lock-in.
• Identify technical gaps, propose improvements and contribute proactively to product and platform development.
• Collaborate with other engineers, share technical knowledge and challenge technical decisions constructively.
• Use AI-assisted development tools responsibly, reviewing and taking ownership of generated code and integrations

Skills

AWS

Terraform

CI/CD

Java backend

Docker

Kubernetes

SBOMs

Security mindset

Tools

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI/CD

Jenkins

Job description

Smart Working is hiring a Senior Cloud & Backend Engineer to own and scale a cloud-agnostic AWS platform, develop backend services and drive product functionality.

You will strengthen Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines, security, monitoring and multi-tenancy while collaborating with a small engineering team to deliver reliable solutions. Frontend experience is a plus but not essential.