Senior AWS Cloud Engineer: Hybrid, Automation

Luxoft; Dallas (TX); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

In-office at Dallas

Job summary

Luxoft in Dallas seeks a Senior Cloud Engineer with deep AWS expertise to design, automate, and operate highly available cloud infrastructure across client environments. You will own production reliability, security, observability, and cost optimization while collaborating across DevOps, Security, and Engineering teams.

Hybrid role requiring 3 days in office per week with strong emphasis on IaC, Terraform, Python scripting, and multi-cloud awareness (Azure/GCP experience a plus).

Qualifications

• 10+ years IT/infrastructure engineering experience, with at least 5+ years of strong hands‑on AWS experience.
• Deep hands‑on experience designing, implementing, troubleshooting and supporting production AWS environments.
• Strong knowledge of Linux/Unix administration, OS configuration, troubleshooting and shell scripting.
• Strong understanding of AWS networking, security, cloud architecture, and high‑availability principles.
• Strong experience with Terraform / Infrastructure as Code.
• Strong scripting and automation skills using Python and/or Shell.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes/EKS.
• Experience with CI/CD, DevOps and SRE practices.
• Experience with monitoring, logging and observability platforms such as Splunk, CloudWatch and OpenTelemetry.
• Strong experience managing high‑severity production incidents and performing deep technical RCA.
• Experience with DR, BCP/RTO/RPO and resilience solutions.
• Experience with messaging middleware, particularly IBM MQ, ActiveMQ or JMS.
• Experience with cloud security, vulnerability remediation, audit and compliance.
• Experience with AWS cost optimisation / FinOps.
• Working knowledge of Azure and/or GCP.
• Experience working in regulated, enterprise and client‑facing environments.
• Strong communication and stakeholder‑management skills.
• Ability to work across Application, Infrastructure, Architecture, Security, Network, DBA and Product teams.
• Willingness to participate in on‑call rotations and critical production support activities.

Responsibilities

• Own the operational health, availability, performance and reliability of AWS cloud environments.
• Lead resolution of high‑severity production incidents, including participation in client bridge calls where required.
• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure, networking, application and cloud‑platform issues.
• Lead technical Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for major incidents and drive corrective and preventive actions through to completion.
• Identify recurring incidents and implement permanent engineering solutions to prevent repeat failures.

Skills

AWS expertise

Terraform

Python scripting

Linux/Unix

Cloud security

CI/CD & DevOps

Tools

EC2

ECS

EKS

S3

VPC

IAM

Lambda

EventBridge

AWS Batch

MSK/Kafka

OpenSearch

CloudWatch

Route 53

Load Balancers

Auto Scaling

Secrets Manager

KMS

Job description

Luxoft in Dallas seeks a Senior Cloud Engineer with deep AWS expertise to design, automate, and operate highly available cloud infrastructure across client environments. You will own production reliability, security, observability, and cost optimization while collaborating across DevOps, Security, and Engineering teams.

Hybrid role requiring 3 days in office per week with strong emphasis on IaC, Terraform, Python scripting, and multi-cloud awareness (Azure/GCP experience a plus).