Location: Gurugram / Noida / Hyderabad / Bangalore / Mohali / Panchkula / Navi Mumbai
Experience: 7+ Years
Job Description
We are seeking an experienced
AWS Cost Optimization Engineer with a strong engineering background and deep expertise in cloud architecture, infrastructure optimization, and distributed systems. The ideal candidate should be capable of driving cloud cost optimization initiatives while contributing hands-on to implementation across infrastructure and application layers.
The role requires someone who can balance cost, performance, scalability, and reliability while enabling engineering teams to adopt cost-efficient practices across AWS environments.
Roles & Responsibilities Architecture & Cost Optimization
- Drive cloud cost optimization strategies across AWS environments.
- Design scalable and cost-efficient architectures for distributed systems.
- Evaluate trade-offs between performance, scalability, and infrastructure cost.
- Identify opportunities to reduce overall cloud infrastructure footprint.
Hands-on Engineering Contribution
- Contribute to optimization implementations using Terraform, AWS CDK, and application-level changes.
- Collaborate with engineering teams to implement cost-efficient solutions.
- Review and recommend improvements for existing infrastructure and workloads.
AWS Service Optimization
- Optimize AWS services including RDS, Aurora PostgreSQL, Lambda, DynamoDB, EC2, and ML workloads.
- Perform workload right-sizing and redesign initiatives.
- Improve utilization efficiency and reduce unnecessary resource consumption.
Database & Storage Optimization
- Improve PostgreSQL query performance, indexing, and database efficiency.
- Recommend storage lifecycle policies and cost-efficient storage strategies.
- Optimize database architecture for both performance and operational cost.
System Design & Architecture
- Work on event-driven and asynchronous system architectures.
- Guide teams on serverless vs serverful architecture decisions.
- Support modernization and optimization of distributed applications.
Observability & Monitoring Optimization
- Optimize CloudWatch and New Relic usage to reduce monitoring costs.
- Eliminate excessive logging, metrics, and alerting overhead.
- Improve observability practices while maintaining operational visibility.
Cost Governance & Enablement
- Implement cloud cost governance and engineering guardrails.
- Promote cost awareness across the software development lifecycle.
- Support development of cost visibility dashboards and tooling.
Collaboration
- Work closely with cross-functional engineering and platform teams.
- Drive adoption of cloud cost optimization best practices organization-wide.
- Mentor teams on sustainable and efficient cloud engineering practices.
Required Skills
- Strong experience in AWS cloud architecture and distributed systems.
- Hands-on expertise with Terraform and AWS CDK.
- Deep understanding of RDS, Aurora PostgreSQL, and database optimization.
- Experience with Lambda, DynamoDB, EC2, and serverless architectures.
- Knowledge of event-driven and asynchronous systems.
- Exposure to FinOps concepts and cloud cost optimization frameworks.
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
