Senior Cloud Engineer – AWS, Java Backend, Remote

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

Job summary

Smart Working is a remote-first company seeking a Senior Cloud & Backend Engineer to own and scale a cloud-agnostic AWS platform while contributing to backend services and product functionality. You will strengthen infrastructure, IaC, CI/CD pipelines, security, monitoring and multi-tenancy.

In this role, you will work with a small team to drive platform maturity, support RBAC, metrics ingestion and multi-tenant architectures, and manage container deployments using ECS/Kubernetes.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of senior-level hands-on experience in cloud engineering, platform engineering or DevOps.
• Strong AWS infrastructure experience including EC2, ECS, RDS/Aurora, DynamoDB and Lambda.
• 3+ years of experience with Java-based backend services or relevant backend development for Java microservices.
• Hands-on experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Proven experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions preferred; Jenkins or GitLab CI acceptable).
• Knowledge of software supply-chain security including SBOMs and signed container images.
• Experience with cloud monitoring and alerting solutions and Docker container orchestration (ECS/Kubernetes).
• Ability to own technical decisions, work independently and collaborate effectively across teams.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain and improve AWS cloud infrastructure using Terraform and IaC.
• Own, maintain and optimise CI/CD pipelines, primarily using GitHub Actions.
• Improve AWS monitoring, alerting and operational visibility across the platform.
• Develop backend microservices written in Java and implement RBAC features.
• Manage Docker-based deployments and orchestration with ECS and/or Kubernetes.
• Collaborate with engineers to improve platform reliability, security and delivery quality.

Skills

AWS

Terraform

CI/CD

Java backend

Docker & Kubernetes

Security & SBOMs

RBAC

GitHub Actions

Tools

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

GitLab CI

Job description

Smart Working is a remote-first company seeking a Senior Cloud & Backend Engineer to own and scale a cloud-agnostic AWS platform while contributing to backend services and product functionality. You will strengthen infrastructure, IaC, CI/CD pipelines, security, monitoring and multi-tenancy.

In this role, you will work with a small team to drive platform maturity, support RBAC, metrics ingestion and multi-tenant architectures, and manage container deployments using ECS/Kubernetes.