Summary:

The AWS Application Cloud Engineer – Senior Associate is responsible for designing, deploying, and optimizing application platforms on Amazon Web Services (AWS). This role requires strong hands‑on expertise in AWS-native application services, automation, and cloud operational excellence.

The Senior Associate serves as a technical escalation point, leads complex troubleshooting, drives standardization and automation, and partners closely with application development, architecture, and platform teams.

Location: Bangalore/Kolkata, India.

Responsibilities

- Lead deployment and operation of cloud-hosted applications on AWS
- Design and implement application hosting solutions using:
- AWS Elastic Beanstalk
- ECS / EKS
- Lambda and serverless services
- Lead application integration with:
- AWS RDS / DynamoDB
- S3
- Messaging and event-driven services
- Design, build, and optimize CI/CD pipelines using AWS DevOps tools (Codepipeline, Codebuild, etc) and third-party tools
- Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting using CloudWatch and related services
- Perform advanced troubleshooting of application performance, scalability, and availability
- Define and enforce standards for:
- Application configurations
- Deployment models
- Security and IAM integration
- Support application modernization and cloud migration initiatives




- Collaborate with Cloud Architects and DevOps teams on solution design
- Act as escalation point for production incidents and lead root cause analysis
- Mentor Associate-level engineers (as applicable)
- Drive automation and continuous improvement initiatives

Skills/Experience/Qualification:

- 5–7 years of experience in AWS application engineering or DevOps roles
- Strong expertise in AWS application services
- Hands-on experience with:
- EC2,ECS / EKS, Lambda, Elastic Beanstalk
- Se, RDS, DynamoDB
- AWS networking and IAM
- Strong understanding of CI/CD and DevOps practices
- Experience with automation and scripting languages such as Java, Python, Node.js and/or .NET
- Familiarity with RESTful APIs, Microservices architecture
- Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (CloudFormation, Terraform, Ansible)
- Understanding of application security and resiliency patterns
- Skilled Skills
- Strong technical ownership and decision-making ability
- Ability to lead complex problem resolution
- Clear communication with developers, architects, and stakeholders
- Mentoring and knowledge-sharing mindset
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field
- AWS certifications strongly preferred:
- AWS Certified Developer – Associate
- AWS DevOps Engineer – Professional

📌 Senior Associate - AWS Application Cloud Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 Grant Thornton INDUS
📍 Bengaluru