Senior Cloud Engineer, AWS

Job Description

We’re hiring a Senior Cloud Engineer (AWSOps) to ensure the stability, security, and efficiency of our AWS infrastructure and platform services. This role is hands-on and focused on operational excellence, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement. The engineer will work across a broad cloud environment, supporting service requests, patching, upgrades, release execution, alert triage, project delivery, automation, and security remediation.

Responsibilities

• Perform system patching, upgrades, and maintenance across AWS services (e.g. EC2, RDS, S3, CloudFront, ALBs/NLBs) and container platforms (EKS/ECS).
• Own service desk tickets to agreed targets, keeping requesters informed through to resolution.
• Support release cycles with proper change control, rollback readiness, and post-deployment validation.
• Triage and resolve infrastructure alerts (Datadog), contributing to noise reduction and improved observability.
• Participate in a follow-the-sun on-call rotation and incident response.
• Manage infrastructure as code, primarily Terraform.
• Deliver assigned engineering projects end to end.
• Maintain runbooks, ticket hygiene, and operational documentation for repeatable processes.
• Automate recurring operational tasks to improve consistency and reduce manual effort.
• Apply security best practices and meet governance and audit requirements across IAM, networking, and resource configurations.

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Qualifications

Requirements

• 3–6 years in cloud operations, cloud infrastructure, or similar hands-on roles.
• Proficiency with AWS (EC2, IAM, VPC, RDS, S3, CloudWatch, ALB/NLB).
• Working knowledge of Terraform.
• Working knowledge of container platforms (EKS/ECS).
• Strong Linux and Windows server fundamentals, including Active Directory.
• Experience with infrastructure monitoring and alert tuning (Datadog or similar).
• Experience supporting production environments under ITSM and change control processes.
• Strong troubleshooting, clear communication, and disciplined documentation habits.

Preferred Skills & Experience

• Experience in regulated environments (e.g. financial services, PCI DSS, SOC).
• Exposure to incident management and postmortem practices.
• Understanding of CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience collaborating in multi-team, shared-responsibility environments.

Working Model

• Follow-the-sun support with defined handovers and escalation paths.
• Approximately 1 week on-call every 2 months (after probation).

Additional Information

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MUFG is an equal opportunity employer.