[Remote] Cloud Engineer
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. XM is seeking a Cloud Engineer to architect and manage scalable, secure, and highly reliable cloud environments. The role focuses on AWS infrastructure, Infrastructure as Code with Terraform, automation, monitoring, troubleshooting, collaboration with developers, and ongoing cloud resource optimization.
Responsibilities
- Design and manage resilient, high-availability cloud infrastructure within AWS, ensuring our systems scale with the business
- Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform ensuring consistency across all environments
- Drive efficiency by automating provisioning, CI/CD pipelines, and routine operational tasks to reduce manual overhead
- Monitor system health, performance, and spend, transforming raw metrics into actionable insights
- Troubleshoot to resolve complex infrastructure and application bottlenecks
- Collaborate closely with developers to architect and support modern, cloud-native applications
- Continuously optimize cloud resources to achieve the perfect balance of peak performance and cost-efficiency
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
- Minimum of 3 years of experience in cloud services, preferably with AWS Cloud environments
- Hands-on experience with Amazon Web Services
- Strong experience with Terraform
- Strong experience with Python
- Experience using CI/CD pipelines with GitLab
- Good understanding of cloud networking (VPC, subnets, routing, security groups)
- Familiarity with monitoring/logging tools (e.g., CloudWatch)
- Understanding of DevOps practices and automation
- Participate in a rotating on-call schedule to ensure system reliability and uptime
- Problem-solving mindset
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team
- Strong communication skills
- Willingness to learn and improve continuously
- Experience with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Strong experience with Cloudformation
- Knowledge of multi-account AWS setups and governance
- Experience with cost optimization and FinOps practices
- Familiarity with security frameworks and compliance
Benefits
- Performance-based reward
- Private health insurance
- Corporate pension fund
- Intellectually stimulating work environment
- Continuous personal development and international training opportunities
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