AWS Cloud Engineer

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Growth potential, flexibility and material impact on the success and quality of a next-gen, enterprise software product make CDK an excellent choice for those who thrive in challenging, fast-paced engineering environments. The possibilities for impact are endless. We have exceptional opportunities to evolve our industry by driving change through new technology.

If you're ready for high-impact, you're ready for CDK.

Location:

• Hyderbad, India

Role:

• Define/Maintain/Implement CDK's Public Clould standards including secrets management, storage, compute, networking, account management, database and operations.
• Leverage tools like AWS Trusted Advisor, 3rd party Cloud Cost Management tools and scripting to identify and drive cost optimization. This will include working with Application owners to achieve the cost savings.
• Design and implement Cloud Security Controls that creates guard rails for application teams to work within ensuring proper platform security for applications deployed within the CDK cloud environments.
• Design/Develop/Implement cloud solutions. Leveraging cloud native services, wrap the appropriate security, automation and service levels to support CDK business needs. Examples of solutions this role will be responsible for developing and supporting are Business Continuity/Backup and Recovery, Identity and Access Management, data services including long term archival, DNS, etc.
• Develop/maintain/implement cloud platform standards (User Access & Roles, tagging, security/compliance controls, operations management, performance management and configuration management)
• Responsible for writing and eventual automation of operational run-books for operations.
• Assist application teams with automating their production support run-books (automate everywhere)
• Assist application teams when they have issues using AWS services where they are not are fully up to speed in their use. Hands on development of automation solutions to support application teams.
• Define and maintain minimum application deployment standards (governance, cost management and tech debt)
• Optimizing and tuning designs based on performance and root cause analysis
• Analysis of existing solutions alignment to infrastructure standards and providing feedback to both evolve and mature the product solutions and CDK public cloud standards.

Essential Duties & Skills:

• This is a hands-on role where the candidate will take on technical tasks where in depth knowledge on usage and public cloud best practices. Some of the areas within AWS where you will be working include:
  • Compute: EC2, EKS. RDS, Lambda
  • Networking: Load Balancing (ALB/ELB), VPN, Transit Gateways, VPC's, Availablity Zones/Regions
  • Storage: EBS, S3, Archive Services, AWS Backup
  • Security: AWS Config, Cloud Watch, Cloud Trail, Route53, Guard Duty, Detective, Inspector, Security Hub, Secrets Server, KMS, AWS Shield, Security Groups,.AWS Identity and Access Management, etc.
  • Cloud Cost Optimization: Cost Optimizer, Trusted Advisor, Cost Explorer, Harness Cloud Clost Management or equivalent cost management tools.
  • Preferred: Experience with 3rd party SaaS solutions like DataBricks, Snowflake, Confluent Kafka
• Broad understanding/experience across full stack infrastructure technologies
  • Site Reliablity Engineering practices
  • Github/Artifactory/Bamboo/Terraform
  • Database solutions (SQL/NoSQL)
  • Containerization Solutions (Docker, Kubernetes)
  • DevOps processes and tooling
  • Message queuing, data streaming and caching solutions
  • Networking principles and concepts
  • Scripting and development; preferred Python & Java languages
  • Server based operating systems (Windows/Linux) and Web Services (IIS, Apache)
• Experience of designing, optimizing and troubleshooting public cloud platforms associated with large, complex application stacks
• Have clear and concise communication and be comfortable working with at all levels in the organization
• Capable of managing and prioritize multiple projects with competing resource requirements and timelines

• Years of Experience:
  • 4-5 yrs+ working in the AWS public cloud environment
• AWS Solution Architect Professional certification preferred
• Experience with Infrastructure as code (CloudFormation, Terraform)