
AWS Engineer
Global All Time Zones Remote 3 Years Experience
JynAI is hiring an AWS Engineer to join our dynamic team and drive meaningful impact in a fast-growing industry.
Skills
- 3+ years of hands-on experience managing production workloads on AWS.
- Strong, practical experience with core AWS services, including:
Compute: EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda
Storage: S3, EBS, EFS
Databases: RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB
Networking: VPC, Transit Gateway, Route 53, ALB/NLB, VPN
(Direct Connect is a plus)* - Solid experience in Linux and/or Windows system administration.
- Hands-on expertise with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform and/or CloudFormation for end-to-end environment provisioning.
- Experience working with CI/CD pipelines using tools like CodePipeline, Jenkins, GitLab CI, or GitHub Actions.
- Proven ability to implement and manage:
- High availability and auto-scaling architectures
- Security best practices (IAM, KMS, encryption, network isolation)
- Monitoring and logging solutions (CloudWatch, CloudTrail, centralized logging)
- Proficiency in at least one scripting language such as Python
- Strong troubleshooting skills across networking, operating systems, applications, and AWS services.
Responsibilities
Architecture & Design
- Design and own end-to-end AWS architectures covering applications, data, networking, and security.
- Select appropriate AWS services and design patterns to ensure scalability, performance, and reliability.
- Define and maintain reference architectures, standards, and best practices across the organization.
Infrastructure Provisioning & IaC
- Build and manage all cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
- Design and operate multi-account, multi-VPC environments following AWS best practices.
- Develop and maintain reusable modules, templates, and automation frameworks.
Security, Governance & Compliance
- Own the IAM strategy, including roles, policies, permission boundaries, and least-privilege access.
- Implement network security controls such as security groups, NACLs, VPNs, WAF, and subnet architectures.
- Deploy and manage AWS security services including GuardDuty, Security Hub, KMS, and CloudTrail.
- Partner with leadership and IT teams to support compliance requirements (e.g., SOC 2, ISO, data protection).
Operations, Reliability & Monitoring
- Own monitoring, alerting, and observability using CloudWatch, OpenSearch, or similar tools.
- Maintain centralized logging, metrics, dashboards, and health checks.
- Design and implement backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity strategies.
- Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and long-term remediation for production issues.
DevOps & Automation
- Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for reliable application deployments.
- Automate routine operational tasks such as scaling, patching, backups, and cleanup activities.
- Collaborate closely with development teams to streamline deployments and improve release reliability.
Cost Management & Optimization
- Own AWS cost visibility, monitoring, and optimization.
- Analyze usage and recommend rightsizing, Savings Plans, Reserved Instances, and architectural improvements.
- Prepare monthly cost reports and optimization recommendations for management.
Cross-Team Collaboration & Documentation
- Act as the primary AWS subject-matter expert for engineering, security, operations, and product teams.
- Translate business and non-technical requirements into effective cloud solutions.
- Maintain clear and up-to-date documentation, including architecture diagrams, standards, runbooks, and FAQs.