Senior AWS Terraform Engineer Job Description

Role Overview
The Senior AWS Terraform Engineer is responsible for designing, automating, and managing cloud infrastructure on Amazon Web Services (AWS) using Terraform (Infrastructure as Code – IaC). This role focuses on building scalable, secure, and highly available infrastructure platforms while enforcing DevOps best practices and governance standards.

Experience : 5 to 10 Yrs of Relevant Experience
Location : Chennai / Hyderabad / Kolkata / Bangalore

Key Responsibilities

Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
Design and implement reusable, modular Terraform code for AWS infrastructure
Develop and maintain Terraform modules, state management, and code repositories
Enforce IaC best practices (version control, code reviews, pipelines)

AWS Cloud Architecture & Deployment
Architect and deploy AWS resources:

EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, RDS, Lambda, EKS, CloudFront
Build highly available, fault-tolerant, and scalable infrastructure solutions
Design multi-region and multi-account architectures

Automation & DevOps Integration
Integrate Terraform with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab, Azure DevOps)
Implement automated provisioning, configuration, and deployment workflows




Enable GitOps and DevSecOps practices

State Management & Governance
Manage Terraform state using remote backends (S3, DynamoDB locking)
Implement setting segregation (Dev/Test/Prod)
Ensure compliance with enterprise governance and audit standards

Security & Compliance
Implement secure cloud design:
IAM roles and policies
Encryption (KMS, TLS)
Network isolation (VPC, security groups, NACLs)
Ensure compliance with standards (e.g., PCI-DSS, SOC2, ISO 27001)
Integrate security scanning tools into IaC pipelines

Monitoring & Optimization
Enable monitoring using CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana
Optimize resource utilization and infrastructure costs
Implement auto-scaling and performance tuning

Troubleshooting & Support
Diagnose and resolve infrastructure issues
Perform root cause analysis for production incidents
Maintain DR (Disaster Recovery) and backup strategies

Required Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
5–12+ years of experience in Cloud/DevOps engineering
Robust hands-on experience in Terraform and AWS
Experience managing large-scale, enterprise infrastructures

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