AWS Cloud Operations & Platform Readiness Engineer

Apexon; New Jersey; On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Apexon seeks an experienced AWS Cloud Operations & Platform Readiness Engineer to support the setup, monitoring, and management of AWS environments for pilot and production deployments. You will ensure highly available, secure, and scalable cloud platforms with emphasis on IAM, encryption, and DR practices.

Responsibilities include configuring and optimizing AWS environments across development to production, implementing cloud operational best practices, and coordinating with engineering teams

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in AWS Cloud Operations, Cloud Infrastructure, or Platform Support role.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS services including monitoring, alerting, storage management, and database administration.

Responsibilities

• Configure, maintain, and support AWS environments across development, testing, staging, and production.
• Ensure infrastructure is properly provisioned, validated, and optimized to meet business and technical requirements.
• Collaborate with engineering and architecture teams to implement cloud operational best practices.
• Support environment readiness activities for pilot and production deployments.
• Design and implement monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions using AWS services.
• Configure dashboards, health checks, metrics, and notifications for proactive issue detection.
• Monitor platform performance, availability, and operational health.
• Provide troubleshooting and operational support for infrastructure and cloud platform issues.
• Configure and manage Amazon S3 storage, lifecycle policies, and data retention strategies.
• Set up, maintain, and optimize Amazon Aurora databases (MySQL/PostgreSQL).
• Implement backup, recovery, and disaster recovery procedures.

Skills

AWS Cloud Operations

Cloud Infrastructure

Monitoring & Alerting

Backup & Disaster Recovery

Database Administration

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

AWS CloudWatch

AWS Systems Manager

Aurora

Job description

We are looking for an experienced AWS Cloud Operations & Platform Readiness Engineer to support the setup, monitoring, and operational management of AWS environments for pilot and production deployments. The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on experience with AWS cloud services, infrastructure operations, monitoring, alerting, storage management, and database administration to ensure highly available, secure, and scalable cloud platforms.

Key Responsibilitie

sCloud Platform & Environment Managemen

• tConfigure, maintain, and support AWS environments across development, testing, staging, and production
• .Ensure infrastructure is properly provisioned, validated, and optimized to meet business and technical requirements
• .Collaborate with engineering and architecture teams to implement cloud operational best practices
• .Support environment readiness activities for pilot and production deployments

.Monitoring & Operational Suppor

• tDesign and implement monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions using AWS services
• .Configure dashboards, health checks, metrics, and notifications for proactive issue detection
• .Monitor platform performance, availability, and operational health
• .Provide troubleshooting and operational support for infrastructure and cloud platform issues

.Storage & Database Administratio

• nConfigure and manage Amazon S3 storage, lifecycle policies, and data retention strategies
• .Set up, maintain, and optimize Amazon Aurora (MySQL/PostgreSQL) databases
• .Implement backup, recovery, and disaster recovery procedures
• .Monitor database performance and recommend optimization improvements

.Release & Operational Readines

• sSupport deployment validation, production readiness assessments, and release activities
• .Develop operational procedures, support documentation, and runbooks
• .Participate in production cutovers, hypercare support, and incident management activities
• .Coordinate with cross-functional teams during deployments and operational events

.Security & Complianc

• eImplement AWS security best practices, including IAM, encryption, access management, and logging
• .Support compliance, audit, backup, and disaster recovery requirements
• .Ensure cloud environments align with organizational security and governance standards

Required Qualificatio

• ns8+ years of experience in AWS Cloud Operations, Cloud Infrastructure, or Platform Support role
• s.Strong hands-on experience with AWS services, includin
• g:Amazon CloudWat
• chAmazon S
• NSAmazon
• L)AWS I
• AMAWS Systems Manag
• erAWS Back
• upAWS CloudTra
• ilExperience implementing monitoring, alerting, and operational support processe
• s.Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure operations, availability, performance tuning, backup, recovery, and disaster recovery concept
• s.Experience supporting production cloud environments and troubleshooting complex infrastructure issue

Preferred Qualificati

• onsExperience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or CloudFormatio
• n).Knowledge of DevOps methodologies and CI/CD pipelin
• es.Experience supporting enterprise-scale AWS environmen
• ts.AWS Associate-level Certification (Solutions Architect, SysOps Administrator, or Developer) preferr