AWS Cloud Engineer - Assistant Vice President 2

Job Title

AWS Cloud Engineer - AVP

Role Summary & Role Description

A key member AWS Cloud team under our Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE); you will be responsible to drive design and implementation of best-in-class AWS Cloud Infrastructure to support State Street’s security, governance, and workload requirements

We are seeking a highly skilled AWS Cloud Engineer with a strong background in AWS services, platform engineering, infrastructure as code, and security best practices. The ideal candidate has at least 10+ years of experience in cloud engineering, DevOps, or infrastructure automation, with a minimum of 6 years of hands-on experience in AWS environments.

This role requires expertise in AWS native services, Terraform, SDLC best practices, and cloud security while working with AWS Control Tower, AFT, IAM, and networking services to build scalable and secure cloud environments. The AWS Cloud Engineer will collaborate with platform, security, and DevOps teams to ensure best practices are implemented across the cloud ecosystem.

What you’ll do:

As an AWS Cloud Engineer, you will

• Designing, implementing, and optimizing AWS cloud infrastructure using best practices.

• Managing AWS services, including EC2, S3, RDS, IAM, VPC, Route 53, CloudWan, IPAM, Lambda, and Control Tower.

• Automating infrastructure deployment with Terraform.

• Managing AWS Control Tower and AFT to standardize multi-account governance and automation.

• Implementing security best practices, including IAM policies, SCPs, AWS Security Hub, GuardDuty, AWS Config, SSM, SecretManager and AWS KMS.

• Supporting CI/CD pipelines using AWS CodePipeline, Harness, and GitHub.

• Ensuring compliance with AWS Well-Architected Framework and industry security standards.

• Monitoring, troubleshooting, and optimizing AWS environments using CloudWatch, AWS X-Ray, and third-party observability tools.

• Collaborating with DevOps, platform engineering, and security teams to improve cloud automation, governance, and security posture.

What we value

These skills will help you succeed in this role

• Solid working experience on AWS Cloud for enterprise enablement.

• Cloud-Native Expertise – We focus on leveraging AWS native services to build scalable and efficient cloud solutions.

• Security & Compliance – Security is at the core of everything we do, ensuring compliance with SOC2, ISO, NIST, and financial industry standards.

• Automation & Infrastructure as Code – We believe in fully automated, repeatable infrastructure deployments using Terraform and AWS-native tools.

• Collaboration & Ownership – We expect engineers to proactively engage with teams, share knowledge, and drive continuous improvement.

• Scalability & Resilience – Our AWS environment must be highly available, fault-tolerant, and optimized for performance.

• Experience with design and development of solutions across on-prem and the cloud for large enterprises

• Strong understanding of cloud native design patterns and DevOps principles (Infrastructure as Code)

• Openness and ability to learn new skills and technologies in a fast-paced environment.

• Self-motivated and passionate individual Team player; Ability to effectively communicate ideas and escalate issues across teams in a timely manner

Education & Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in any Engineering discipline

• 15+ years of experience in cloud engineering, DevOps, or infrastructure automation.

• 8+ years of hands-on experience working with AWS services and cloud automation.

• Understanding of Agile delivery process is required.

• AWS Certifications (at least one required):

  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate or Professional

  • AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional

  • AWS Certified Security – Specialty

  • AWS Certified Advanced Networking – Specialty (preferred)

• Strong experience with Terraform, AWS Control Tower, and AFT.

• Experience with AWS networking (VPC, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect, Route 53, etc.).

• Familiarity with observability tools such as CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana.

• Strong knowledge of CI/CD, SDLC, and cloud security best practices

Core/Must have skills

• EC2, S3, VPC, Route 53, VMC on Cloud, SDDC, EBS, EFS, Workspaces & Direct Connect, Cloud Front, DynamoDB, RedShift, EKS

• AWS Networking Concepts, App Migrations to AWS Cloud

• AWS High Availability, Landing Zone, Elastic Load Balancing, Virtualization

• VMC on AWS, SDDC, NetApp-OnTap on AWS, AWS & ServiceNow Integration

• Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible

• JIRA, Confluence

Good to have skills

• Team Building Skills

• Excellent Communication Skills

• Excellent Product Management Skills

• Agile Working

Work Schedule

• No Hybrid Working. It is fully Working from Office

• Schedule – 3 pm to 12 am IST

• Location – Bangalore or Hyderabad only (Candidates not willing to relocate need not apply)

Keywords (If any)

#AWS #Terraform #AWSCloudFormation #AWSRoute53 #AWSVPC #AWSLandingZones #AWSVMC #AWSMigration #AWSEKS

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