Cloud Engineer

Experience: 3-8 Years

1. Cloud Platforms – AWS Solid hands‑on experience in core AWS services: Compute: EC2, Lambda, ECS (Fargate) Storage: S3, EFS Networking basics: VPC, Security Groups, IAM Serverless architecture fundamentals Monitoring & logging: CloudWatch, log forwarding to Splunk

2. Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Working‑level proficiency in: Terraform AWS CloudFormation Writing reusable modules & templates Managing infrastructure lifecycle through IaC

3. CI/CD Engineering Practical experience designing and maintaining pipelines using: AWS CodePipeline CodeBuild / CodeDeploy GitHub Actions Integrating testing, build, deployment stages Understanding of Blue/Green deployment basics

4. Containerization & Orchestration Knowledge and hands‑on use of: Docker Kubernetes fundamentals ECS Fargate deployments Building container images & optimizing Dockerfiles

5. Automation & Scripting Ability to automate tasks using: Python (Boto3) Shell scripting Writing scripts for operational automation, cost optimization, environment management

6. DevOps & Cloud Operations Experience with: Cloud infrastructure management Deployment automation Environment provisioning Implementing monitoring & logging solutions Supporting application teams in performance tuning

7. Cloud Security Basics Understanding of: IAM roles, policies & permission boundaries Secure configuration practices Logging & monitoring for security events

8. Version Control & Collaboration Git & GitHub Code review participation Working in Agile (Scrum/Kanban) environments Using tools such as JIRA, Crucible, Fisheye

9. Problem Solving & Maintenance Troubleshooting cloud infra issues Debugging applications & deployments Improving system reliability and efficiency