Senior AWS Cloud Engineer / Lead Architect (L2/L3)

- - Experience: 10–12 Years

- Type: Full time

Role Overview

Seeking a hands-on Senior AWS Cloud Engineer (L2/L3) with 10–12 years of experience to bridge deep operational execution (L2: incident response, performance tuning, patching) with strategic architecture (L3: landing zones, multi-account governance, high availability, and DR).

Key Responsibilities

L3 Architecture &

- Strategy

- - Landing Zone &
- Governance:
Design secure AWS environments using AWS Control Tower, Organizations, and SCPs per the Well-Architected Framework.

- Migration &

- DR:

Lead cloud migrations (lift-and-shift, re-platforming) and design cross-region DR strategies (Pilot Light, Active-Active).

- Containerization: Architect microservices platforms using Amazon ECS and EKS.

L2 Operations &

- Engineering

- - Incident Escalation &
- RCA:
Serve as final escalation for P1/P2 production incidents; lead Root Cause Analysis (RCA).

- IaC &

- Automation:

Author and maintain Terraform/CloudFormation modules and CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions/CodePipeline).

- Hybrid Networking: Deploy and manage Transit Gateway,



Direct Connect, VPNs, and VPC peering.

- Security &

- Observability:

Enforce security via KMS, GuardDuty, Security Hub, and WAF; set up full-stack observability with CloudWatch and Prometheus/Grafana.

- FinOps: Optimize cost via rightsizing, Reserved Instances, and Savings Plans.

Core Skill Set

Category

Technologies / Tools

Compute &

- Containers

EC2, Lambda, ECS, EKS, Auto Scaling

Storage &

- Databases

S3, EBS, EFS, RDS, DynamoDB, ElastiCache

Networking &

- Security

VPC, Transit Gateway, Route 53, CloudFront, IAM, WAF, KMS

DevOps &

- Scripting

Terraform, Ansible, Docker, Python, Bash, CI/CD

Data Engineering &

- Analytics

S3, Glue, Athena, EMR, Redshift, Kinesis, Lake Formation, Apache Airflow

Monitoring &

- FinOps

CloudWatch, Datadog, GuardDuty, Cost Explorer

Qualifications &

- Certifications

- - Experience: 10 years in IT infrastructure with 7 years dedicated to AWS.

- Certifications: AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional (Preferred)

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