AWS Cloud Engineer

Job Description - Responsibilities

Job Summary:

Responsible for delivering automation and operational support for AWS as part of a global team distributed across the USA, India, and Mexico. This role supports Cummins IT product teams in effectively leveraging AWS platform services.

Stakeholders: All IT - Enterprise Platform Team, Security Team, Architecture team, IT Product and Application Team

• Strong background in AWS service implementation, infrastructure automation , and operational best practice. (Experience AWS infrastructure using Terraform )
• More than 5 years of hands-on experience in AWS platform engineering, automation, operations support, troubleshooting, and deployment using CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions .
• Experience supporting 24x7 environments with L2-L3 incident and problem management responsibilities.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
• Advanced English Level

In this role, you will make an impact in the following ways:

Platform Automation & Deployment

• Design, automate, and deploy AWS infrastructure using Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK, and GitHub Based CI/CD pipelines.
• Develop reusable IaC modules and automated workflows to standardize deployments.
• Collaborate with application teams to translate technical requirements into secure, scalable AWS solutions.

Operations & Troubleshooting

• Provide L2- L3 operational support for incidents and problems, driving root cause analysis and long-term fixes.
• Troubleshoot complex issues across compute, storage, networking, IAM, and security services.
• Improve operational playbooks, runbooks, and incident response processes.

Monitoring, Logging & Observability

• Configure and manage observability tools including, Dynatrace, Splunk, CloudWatch (metrics, logs, alarms), X-Ray, Prometheus, and Grafana.
• Build monitoring dashboards and automated alerts for improved platform visibility and reliability leveraging Splunk and Dynatrace.

Networking & Security

• Design and support AWS networking (VPC, subnets, NACLs, security groups, Transit Gateway, Route 53).
• Implement IAM policies, KMS encryption, Secrets Manager, GuardDuty, and Security Hub.
• Enforce platform governance, tagging standards, and SCPs.

Cost Optimization & Governance

• Utilize AWS Budgets, Cost Explorer, and Trusted Advisor for spend analysis and optimization.
• Implement tagging governance, resource hygiene, and right-sizing strategies.
• Support ongoing management of platform cost efficiency and operational governance.
• Knowledge on Cloudability, Turbonomics, ProsperOps Cloud Cost Optimization platforms

Containers & Orchestration

• Support containerized workloads using ECS, Fargate, EKS, Docker, and Helm.
• Assist in implementing scalable, secure deployment patterns for container ecosystems.

CI/CD & Automation

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild, Jenkins, or GitLab CI.
• Use AWS CLI and SDKs (Boto3) for automation and scripting tasks.
• Continuously improve deployment pipelines and developer self-service automation.

Collaboration & Documentation

• Work in Agile methodologies using Jira for backlog management and sprint planning.
• Maintain documentation, architecture diagrams, operational runbooks, and best practices.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Cloud Ops, Security, Network, and Application teams.