Cloud Developer
About the job
About the Cloud Developer role
The Cloud Developer designs, implements, and operates scalable cloud solutions on AWS, supporting infrastructure, application workloads, and operational excellence. This role builds and manages cloud environments using infrastructure-as-code, automates deployments and resilience, and ensures secure, reliable operations across Linux and Windows systems. Working closely with clients and cross-functional teams in an agile setting, the Cloud Developer delivers customised AWS solutions, supports migrations, enhances CI/CD pipelines, and implements monitoring and security best practices. The role also contributes to incident management, documentation, and continuous improvement to maintain high availability, performance, and security in large-scale cloud environments.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Cloud Infrastructure & Operations:
- Implement robust solutions on AWS using services like EC2, Lambda, VPC, S3, RDS, and Document DB
- Manage infrastructure changes via IaC (Terraform), ensuring scalable environments with EC2, ALB, NLB, EBS, and EFS
- Migrate workloads to AWS, ensuring seamless transitions
- Automate deployments and data resilience using Python, shell scripting, and SSM
- Implement monitoring, alerting, and security with CloudWatch, SNS, CloudFront, and WAF
- Automate deployments, data resilience, and system administration using Python, shell scripting, Bash, and PowerShell
- Administer Linux and Windows environments, ensuring optimal performance and security
- Support incident management and participate in the on-call rotation
2. Collaboration & Continuous Improvement:
- Work with clients and internal teams to understand requirements and deliver customised AWS solutions
- Collaborate on CI/CD pipelines with tools like GitHub, Terraform, Jenkins, and AWS services
- Maintain comprehensive documentation and stay updated with industry trends
- Collaborate in an agile environment to deliver high-quality work
Requirements:
- 3+ years of experience with core AWS services, such as IAM, networking, security, and operations
- Strong understanding of both relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL databases (e.g., Document DB, Mongo DB)
- Proficiency in at least one programming language, such as Bash, Python, Go, etc., with additional expertise in Linux administration, Windows, and shell scripting
- Solid understanding and experience building systems using AWS compute services, such as EC2, and serverless platforms like AWS Lambda
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools, such as Terraform, and a clear understanding of infrastructure pipeline concepts
- Experience implementing AWS database solutions, such as RDS, DynamoDB, or Aurora
- Familiarity with network protocols and IP networking, along with experience in network troubleshooting
- Strong understanding of security best practices and a commitment to integrating them into daily tasks and projects
- Experience with monitoring tools, such as Splunk, Grafana, and logging solutions like the ELK stack
- Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work under pressure to troubleshoot and resolve complex issues
- Excellent communication skills, with excellent spoken and written English, for effective collaboration with cross-functional teams
Preferred Qualifications:
- Proven track record of managing large-scale infrastructure in cloud environments like AWS, Google Cloud
- AWS technical certification, such as the AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified Developer, or AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
- Skilled in collaborative projects with distributed teams and working with agile methodologies such as Scrum
- Willingness to stay updated on key AWS technologies and innovations
- Internal drive to learn, improve, and succeed with a keen eagerness to embrace challenges
