Required Qualifications & Experience Experience:

6+ years of hands-on experience in cloud systems engineering, with at least 4+ years dedicated to enterprise AWS infrastructure.

Incident Ownership:

2+ years of demonstrable experience participating in or leading technical incident response bridges for high-severity cloud outages.

AWS Core Mastery:

Deep hands-on proficiency in VPC design (subnets, route tables, peering, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect), IAM policies, EC2/ALB architectures, and microservices/containers (EKS/ECS). Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Advanced expertise in Terraform (modular architectures, state management) or AWS CloudFormation/CDK.

Scripting & Automation:

Strong scripting abilities in Python, Bash, or Go for automation, telemetry collection, and incident remediation.

Tooling:

Strong background using PagerDuty/Opsgenie, Jira/ServiceNow ITSM, and enterprise observability platforms (CloudWatch, Datadog, or Splunk).

Communication:

Exceptional verbal and written technical communication skills; capable of producing crisp executive-level incident summaries and technical deep-dive RCAs.

Preferred Qualifications AWS Certifications:

AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional, or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional.

Methodology:

Practical experience operating within ITIL frameworks (Incident, Problem, Change Management) and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles (SLOs/SLIs).

Security:

Prior experience managing regulated environments (SOC 2, PCI-DSS, HIPAA, or

ISO 27001

).