Senior AWS Cloud Engineer
Position Description
Company Profile:
At CGI, we’re a team of builders. We call our employees members because all who join CGI are building their own company - one that has grown to 72,000 professionals located in 40 countries. Founded in 1976, CGI is a leading IT and business process services firm committed to helping clients succeed. We have the global resources, expertise, stability and dedicated professionals needed to achieve. At CGI, we’re a team of builders. We call our employees members because all who join CGI are building their own company - one that has grown to 72,000 professionals located in 40 countries. Founded in 1976, CGI is a leading IT and business process services firm committed to helping clients succeed. We have the global resources, expertise, stability and dedicated professionals needed to achieve results for our clients - and for our members. Come grow with us. Learn more at www.cgi.com.
This is a great opportunity to join a winning team. CGI offers a competitive compensation package with opportunities for growth and professional development. Benefits for full-time, permanent members start on the first day of employment and include a paid time-off program and profit participation and stock purchase plans. We wish to thank all applicants for their interest and effort in applying for this position, however, only candidates selected for interviews will be contacted. No unsolicited agency referrals please.
Job Title: Senior AWS Cloud Engineer
Position: Senior Systems Engineer
Experience: 6-8yrs
Category: IT Infrastructure
Main location: Bangalore/ Chennai
Position ID: J0426-0549
Employment Type: Full Time
Qualification: Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field or higher with minimum 3 years of relevant experience.
Job Summary:
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior AWS Cloud Engineer responsible for designing, implementing, and managing AWS cloud infrastructure. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in AWS services, infrastructure automation, and DevOps practices, with a strong foundation in cloud security and scalability. This role requires deep technical expertise in AWS services, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, and containerization technologies like ECS and Docker. Experience with creating AWS landing zones and leveraging Amazon Bedrock for generative AI applications is a key component of this role.
Key Responsibilities:
- 7 to 8 years of experience in design and implement secure, scalable, and highly available cloud architecture on AWS.
- Lead cloud migration and modernization initiatives.
- Strong experience in build and manage AWS infrastructure using Terraform
- Strong experience with core AWS services: EC2, EBS, EFS, IAM, S3, SNS, SQS, SSM, Security Groups, Secrets Manager, RDS, Lamda, CloudFormation, CloudWatch, KMS, Route53, and VPC
- Hands-on experience with Amazon Bedrock to build and scale generative AI applications, integrating them with existing services.
- Design, implement, and govern a secure and scalable AWS landing zone
- Deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications using AWS ECS, Fargate, AKS, and Docker
- Define and enforce cloud governance, security, and compliance standards and best practices.
Required Skills:
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and tools such as GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, or CodePipeline.
- Solid understanding of networking, security, and identity management in AWS.
- Work closely with our development and operations teams to support their infrastructure needs and provide expert guidance on cloud best practices
- Experience with monitoring and logging tools like CloudWatch, Datadog, or Splunk.
- Troubleshoot issues across the cloud environment.
- Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.
- AWS Certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate/Professional) is must
Preferred Skills:
- Strong background in Linux system administration is plus
- Experience with SAP/SAP HANA on AWS and familiarity with SAP system refreshes and autoscaling strategies is a plus
- Experience in GCP or Azure is a plus
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineering teams.
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