Senior Cloud Engineer - AWS

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Job Description

We are looking for a highly skilled Cloud Engineer with deep AWS expertise and strong capabilities in automation. This role focuses on delivering secure, scalable, and highly automated AWS cloud platforms, supporting on-premises to AWS migrations, and enabling standardised, repeatable infrastructure deployments across enterprise environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for automated provisioning and configuration.
• Build and manage automated deployment pipelines using CI/CD best practices.
• Support AWS landing zone implementation and platform standardisation (Control Tower / multi-account models).
• Collaborate with application, security, and operations teams for seamless integration and deployment.
• Participate in architecture reviews and contribute to AWS best practices and governance frameworks.
• Support migration of on-premises workloads to AWS, including planning, execution, and optimisation.
• Implement monitoring, logging, and cost optimisation (FinOps) capabilities.
• Maintain documentation for designs, automation scripts, and operational procedures.

Job Description - Grade Specific

Cloud Platform (Primary Focus)

• Deep hands-on expertise in Amazon Web Services (AWS), including:
• Compute & Storage: EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, EKS
• Networking & Security: VPC, IAM
• Monitoring: CloudWatch
• Strong understanding of cloud-native and hybrid architectures
  

Migration & Modernisation

• Proven experience with AWS migration tools:
• AWS Application Migration Service (MGN)
• AWS Database Migration Service (DMS)
• Solid understanding of migration strategies:
• Rehost (“lift and shift”), Replatform, Refactor
• Experience modernising legacy workloads to cloud-native solutions
  

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

• Expertise in Terraform (preferred)
• Working knowledge of AWS CloudFormation and/or AWS CDK
• Strong understanding of modular, reusable IaC design principles
• Experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible
  

Automation & Scripting

• Strong scripting skills in Python, Bash, and/or PowerShell
• Demonstrated ability to automate:
• Infrastructure provisioning
• Environment lifecycle management
  

DevOps & CI/CD

• Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools:
• GitHub Actions, Jenkins, AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild
• Ability to design and implement end-to-end CI/CD pipelines
• Familiarity with GitOps practices and automation-first delivery approaches
  

Networking

• Strong knowledge of AWS VPC architecture and design
• Experience with:
• Security groups, NACLs, and routing
• Hybrid connectivity (VPN, AWS Direct Connect)
• Load balancing (ALB/NLB) and DNS (Route 53)
  

Security & Governance

• Deep understanding of AWS security services:
• IAM roles and policies
• Least privilege access and identity federation
• Experience with governance tools:
• AWS Config, Service Control Policies (SCPs)
• AWS Security Hub
• Strong knowledge of encryption and key management (AWS KMS)
  

Monitoring & Logging

• Experience with:
• AWS CloudWatch, CloudTrail, X-Ray
• Ability to implement centralised logging and observability frameworks
• Strong skills in alerting, monitoring, and performance optimisation
  

Preferred Qualifications

• AWS Certifications:
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Associate or Professional)
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer (preferred)
• Experience building AWS landing zones and multi-account environments
• Strong background in automation-first, IaC-driven delivery models
• Experience working within Agile / DevOps teams
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills
  

What You’ll Love About Working Here

Capgemini is an AI-powered global business and technology transformation partner, delivering tangible business value. We imagine the future of organizations and make it real with AI, technology and people. With our strong heritage of nearly 60 years, we are a responsible and diverse group of 420,000 team members in more than 50 countries. We deliver end-to-end services and solutions with our deep industry expertise and strong partner ecosystem, leveraging our capabilities across strategy, technology, design, engineering and business operations. The Group reported 2024 global revenues of €22.1 billion.

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