Job Description – AWS Cloud Engineer (Unix/Linux/AWS Cloud)
Job Title: AWS Cloud Engineer
Client: State Street
Implementation Partner: Infosys
Location: Boston, MA (Onsite/Hybrid)
Employment Type: Contract / Full-Time
Experience: 7–10+ Years
Job Summary
Infosys is seeking an experienced AWS Cloud Engineer to support infrastructure modernization and cloud transformation initiatives for State Street. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in AWS Cloud, Linux/Unix administration, automation, infrastructure management, and cloud security. The engineer will be responsible for designing, deploying, monitoring, and maintaining highly available cloud environments while ensuring performance, scalability, and compliance.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, deploy, and maintain AWS cloud infrastructure.
- Administer and troubleshoot Linux/Unix servers in production environments.
- Build scalable, secure, and highly available cloud solutions.
- Automate infrastructure provisioning using Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
- Configure and manage EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, RDS, ELB, Auto Scaling, Route 53, CloudWatch, and CloudTrail.
- Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, and performance tuning.
- Work closely with application, DevOps, and security teams.
- Perform OS patching, server hardening, and vulnerability remediation.
- Support disaster recovery and backup strategies.
- Troubleshoot infrastructure, networking, and application issues.
- Participate in production support and on-call rotations.
- Maintain system documentation and operational procedures.
- Ensure cloud infrastructure complies with enterprise security standards.
Required Skills
AWS Cloud
- Amazon EC2
- VPC
- S3
- IAM
- RDS
- EBS
- ELB/ALB
- Auto Scaling
- Route 53
- CloudWatch
- CloudTrail
- Systems Manager (SSM)
- AWS Backup
- AWS KMS
- AWS Secrets Manager
Unix/Linux Administration
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
- CentOS
- Amazon Linux
- Ubuntu
- Shell Scripting (Bash)
- Linux Performance Tuning
- User & Permission Management
- File Systems
- LVM
- Cron Jobs
- Systemd
- Process Management
- Package Management
- SSH
- NFS
Cloud Automation
- Terraform
- AWS CloudFormation
- Ansible
- Python
- Bash
DevOps Tools
- Git
- Jenkins
- GitHub Actions
- Docker
- Kubernetes (EKS preferred)
Monitoring & Logging
- CloudWatch
- Splunk
- ELK Stack
- Grafana
- Prometheus
Networking
- TCP/IP
- DNS
- VPN
- Load Balancers
- Security Groups
- Network ACLs
- Firewalls
- Routing
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.
- 7+ years of Unix/Linux System Administration experience.
- 5+ years of AWS Cloud engineering experience.
- Experience migrating applications from on-premises to AWS.
- Strong scripting skills using Bash or Python.
- Experience with Terraform or CloudFormation.
- Knowledge of networking fundamentals.
- Experience implementing cloud security best practices.
- Excellent troubleshooting and analytical skills.
- Strong communication and documentation abilities.
Preferred Qualifications
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate/Professional
- AWS SysOps Administrator Certification
- AWS DevOps Engineer Certification
- Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA)
- Kubernetes (CKA) Certification
- Financial Services or Banking domain experience
- Experience supporting mission-critical production environments