Senior Cloud Engineer

Position Overview

Cloud Kinetics is looking for a Senior Cloud Engineer to join our Proserv PoD (Practice on Demand)

team. In this role, you will be deployed on AWS Professional Services engagements in India,

working hands-on to build, migrate, and optimise cloud infrastructure for enterprise customers on

AWS. You will serve as a key technical executor, translating architecture designs into production-

ready cloud environments with a focus on infrastructure delivery, automation, and operational

excellence. As a Senior Cloud Engineer within Cloud Kinetics’ Proserv PoD, you will be embedded in AWS ProServ engagements, leading infrastructure build activities, executing cloud migration

workstreams, and implementing infrastructure-as-code (IaC) frameworks. You will work closely with

Solutions Architects, Migration Leads, and customer engineering teams to drive technical delivery

that meets AWS best practices and customer success criteria.

Key Responsibilities

Infrastructure Build & Provisioning

• Design and provision AWS infrastructure components including VPCs, subnets, security groups, EC2 instances, EBS volumes, load balancers, and Auto Scaling groups in alignment with solution architecture designs.
• Implement and manage cloud networking components including Transit Gateway, VPC Peering, Direct Connect, Site-to-Site VPN, Route 53, and CloudFront configurations.
• Build and configure managed services including RDS, Aurora, ElastiCache, S3, EFS, and FSx as part of application and data platform migrations.
•  Deploy containerised workloads using Amazon ECS and EKS, configuring cluster infrastructure, node groups, IAM roles, and networking for production-ready environments.
• Collaborate with Solutions Architects to ensure infrastructure implementations match approved
• Design blueprints and AWS Well-Architected best practices.

Cloud Migration Execution

• Execute cloud migration activities including server migrations using AWS Application Migration Service (MGN), database migrations using AWS DMS, and storage migrations using AWS DataSync and Transfer Family.
• Perform pre-migration assessments, replication environment setup, test cutovers, and final migration cutover activities with minimal customer downtime.
• Conduct post-migration validation including application health checks, connectivity testing, performance benchmarking, and DNS cutover management.
• Support lift-and-shift, re-platforming, and re-architecting migration patterns across a diverse range of customer workloads and environments.
• Document migration runbooks, cutover plans, and post-migration configuration records for handover to customer operations teams.

Infrastructure-as-Code & Automation

•  Develop and maintain IaC templates using Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, and/or AWS CDK to provision and manage cloud infrastructure in a repeatable, version-controlled manner.
• Build automation scripts using Python, Bash, or PowerShell to streamline operational tasks, deployment workflows, and infrastructure lifecycle management.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines using AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, or third-party tools (Jenkins, GitLab CI) to automate infrastructure deployment and application release processes.
• Apply GitOps principles and maintain infrastructure repositories with clear branching strategies, peer review processes, and documentation standards.

Monitoring, Security & Compliance

• Configure and implement monitoring and observability solutions using Amazon CloudWatch, AWS CloudTrail, AWS Config, and third-party tools (Datadog, New Relic, Grafana).
• Implement AWS security best practices including IAM roles and policies, SCPs, security groups, NACLs, KMS encryption, Secrets Manager, and GuardDuty.
• Support security and compliance reviews including Well-Architected Framework Security Pillar assessments, CIS benchmarks, and customer-specific compliance requirements.
• Configure AWS Cost Explorer, Budgets, and tagging strategies to enable cost visibility, governance, and optimization across customer environments.

Delivery Collaboration & Documentation

• Work within Agile/Scrum delivery frameworks, participating in sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives as part of AWS ProServ engagement teams.
• Collaborate closely with Solutions Architects, Project Managers, and customer technical teams to ensure infrastructure delivery aligns with project timelines and milestones.
•  Produce technical documentation including infrastructure diagrams, build guides, runbooks, and operational handover documents to support customer knowledge transfer.
• Contribute to the development of reusable accelerators, IaC modules, and delivery templates that improve efficiency across Cloud Kinetics ProServ engagements.
• Proactively identify technical risks and blockers during delivery, escalating to the engagement lead with proposed remediation approaches.

Required Qualifications: 

Education

• • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related
• technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

Experience

• 4+ years of experience in cloud engineering, infrastructure engineering, or DevOps roles.
•  2+ years of hands-on experience building and managing infrastructure on AWS in production environments.
•  Proven experience executing cloud migration projects, including server and database migrations to AWS.
• Demonstrated experience with infrastructure-as-code tooling and configuration management at scale.
• Experience working in professional services, consulting, or managed services delivery environments preferred.

Technical Skills

• Strong hands-on proficiency with core AWS services: EC2, VPC, S3, RDS, IAM, CloudFormation, EKS/ECS, Lambda, Route 53, CloudFront, and related services.
• Deep experience with AWS migration tooling: Application Migration Service (MGN), Database Migration Service (DMS), DataSync, and Server Migration Service.
• Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code tools: Terraform and/or AWS CloudFormation (AWS CDK a strong plus).
• Scripting and automation skills in Python, Bash, and/or PowerShell for operational and deployment workflows.
• Experience with containerisation and orchestration: Docker, Amazon ECS, and/or Amazon EKS.
• Solid understanding of networking fundamentals: TCP/IP, DNS, VPNs, BGP, Direct Connect, load balancing, and CDN.
• Working knowledge of CI/CD tools: AWS CodePipeline, Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or equivalent.
• Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools: Amazon CloudWatch, AWS CloudTrail, and/or third-party APM solutions.
• Understanding of AWS security fundamentals: IAM, KMS, Secrets Manager, Security Groups, GuardDuty, and AWS Config.

Certifications

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (required).
• AWS Certified Developer – Associate or AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate (required or in progress).
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional (preferred).

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced Cloud & DevSecOps Expertise
• Experience with AWS Landing Zone, AWS Control Tower, and multi-account AWS Organizations environments.
• Hands-on experience with DevSecOps practices including infrastructure security scanning (Checkov, tfsec), SAST/DAST tooling integration, and compliance-as-code frameworks.
• Familiarity with observability-as-code patterns and AIOps tooling for proactive infrastructure management.
• Multi-Cloud & Hybrid Environments . Experience migrating workloads from on-premises VMware, physical servers, or competing
• cloud platforms (Azure, GCP) to AWS. Familiarity with hybrid connectivity patterns including AWS Outposts, VMware Cloud on AWS,and on-premises integration architectures.
• Delivery Tooling & Frameworks: Experience with AWS ProServ delivery methodology, engagement tooling, and artefact standards.
• Familiarity with ITSM frameworks (ITIL) and change management processes relevant to enterprise migration projects.