The Senior Cloud Engineer will design, build, and manage secure and scalable AWS platforms, implement CI/CD, and enhance cloud operations, while ensuring security and compliance across the architecture.
Cprime brings business into a new light—illuminating possibilities that once seemed hidden. For more than two decades, we’ve partnered with 2,500+ organizations worldwide, including over 300 of the Fortune 500, to help leaders see complexity with new clarity and rewire it into intelligent flow. With 800+ experts across 30 countries, we shine a brighter path toward platform modernization, AI-first operating models, and enterprise transformation that scales with confidence. We help organizations adapt and grow by orchestrating systems, teams, and decisions into harmony. Guided by experience, energized by innovation, and backed by Goldman Sachs and Everstone Capital, Cprime is trusted globally to make transformation clearer, faster, and more human.
Role Summary:
We are looking for a Senior Cloud/DevOps Engineer to design, build, and operate secure, scalable, and highly available platforms on Amazon Web Services (AWS).
This role combines cloud architecture, DevOps engineering, and production operations, with a strong focus on automation, reliability, and scalable delivery of enterprise applications.
The ideal candidate brings deep hands-on expertise in AWS, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, and cloud operations, and collaborates effectively with engineering, security, and business teams to deliver resilient and cost-efficient solutions.
Roles & Responsibilities
- Design and implement secure, scalable, and highly available AWS architectures for microservices, APIs, and enterprise systems.
- Translate functional and non-functional requirements (availability, performance, DR, compliance, cost) into robust cloud architecture patterns.
- Define and maintain architecture artefacts (network topology, HA/DR models, scaling strategies).
- Standardize AWS service usage across compute, storage, networking, identity, observability, and security.
- Build and manage CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, or AWS native tools.
- Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform and/or CloudFormation.
- Automate infrastructure provisioning, deployments, and operational workflows.
- Drive DevOps/SRE best practices (automated testing, blue-green/canary deployments, rollback strategies).
- Operate and optimize AWS services (EC2, ECS/EKS, VPC, IAM, RDS, S3, etc.).
- Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting using CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, etc.
- Lead incident management, root cause analysis, and postmortems.
- Design and maintain backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity strategies.
- Drive cost optimization (FinOps) through right-sizing and architectural improvements.
- Embed security-by-design principles across cloud architecture and pipelines.
- Implement IAM, network security, encryption, and secrets management aligned with AWS best practices.
- Contribute to cloud governance, policies, and standards.
- Design and operate container platforms using ECS, EKS, or Kubernetes.
- Build and manage container image pipelines and registry systems.
- Implement runtime security and scaling strategies.
- Partner with engineering, QA, security, and business teams to align solutions with goals.
- Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and best practice guidance.
- Identify opportunities to improve reliability, reduce operational overhead, and accelerate delivery.
Cloud Architecture & Platform Engineering
DevOps, CI/CD & Automation
Cloud Operations, Reliability & Observability
Security, Compliance & Governance
Containerization & Platform Services (Nice to Have / Optional Section)
Stakeholder & Team Collaboration
Qualifications & Skills
- 7+ years in Cloud Engineering / DevOps / SRE roles, with strong AWS exposure.
- Proven experience in designing and operating production-grade AWS environments.
- Experience in enterprise or regulated environments is a plus.
- Strong expertise in AWS services: EC2, EKS/ECS, Lambda, RDS/Aurora, S3, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch.
- Hands-on experience with Terraform and/or CloudFormation.
- Experience with CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, AWS CodePipeline).
- Proficiency in Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
- Solid understanding of networking & cloud security.
- Experience with observability, backup, and disaster recovery.
- Exposure to Docker & Kubernetes is an advantage.
- Strong problem-solving and analytical thinking, especially in production environments.
- Excellent communication skills with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Ability to work independently and in cross-functional teams.
Experience
Technical Skills
Professional Skills
Education & Certifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related discipline (required).
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate or equivalent AWS Associate-level certification (mandatory).
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional and/or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional (preferred).
- Additional AWS Associate/Specialty certifications are an advantage.
What We Believe In
At Cprime we believe in facilitating social justice action internally, in industry, and within our communities. We believe part of our mission is to expand the minds, hearts, and opportunities of our Cprime teammates and within the broader community to include those who have been historically marginalized.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
Cprime is an equal-opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.
Top Skills
AWS
Bash
Ci/Cd
CloudFormation
Docker
Github Actions
Gitlab Ci
Jenkins
Kubernetes
Powershell
Python
Terraform
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