Senior Cloud Engineer

🧩 Key Responsibilities

• AWS Infrastructure Design — Architect, maintain, and optimise cloud environments using services such as RDS, ECS, S3, Lambda, CloudWatch, and VPC.
• Terraform Automation — Build, maintain, and improve Terraform modules; enforce IaC best practices; manage multi‑environment deployments.
• Container & Orchestration — Support and enhance Docker‑based workloads and ECS deployments.
• CI/CD Ownership — Contribute to GitLab CI pipelines and deployment workflows.
• Security & Secrets Management — Manage and improve secret storage and access patterns using HashiCorp Vault.
• Scripting & Automation — Develop automation scripts and tooling, ideally in Python.
• Cross‑Team Collaboration — Work closely with developers, and product teams to support delivery and improve operational excellence.

🧠 Required Skills & Experience

• AWS Expertise with production‑level experience across core services (RDS, ECS, S3, Lambda, IAM, networking).
• Terraform Proficiency including module creation, state management, and complex multi‑environment setups.
• Docker and container lifecycle management.
• Strong understanding of GitLab CI/CD, pipelines, runners, and deployment patterns.
• Experience with HashiCorp Vault for secrets and policy management.
• Strong communication skills and ability to work both collaboratively and independently.

🌟 Nice‑to‑Have

• Knowledge of monitoring/observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, etc.).
• Scripting skills, ideally Python, for automation and tooling.
• Exposure to cost optimisation in AWS.
• Familiarity with infrastructure security and compliance frameworks.

🤝 What We’re Looking For

• A team player who enjoys collaboration but is equally comfortable taking ownership and driving initiatives solo.
• Someone who is curious, proactive, and pragmatic, with a strong sense of responsibility for uptime, performance, and reliability.
• A person who values clean, maintainable infrastructure and automation over manual work.