Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. AA2IT is seeking an AWS Cloud Engineer to lead the planning and execution of AWS region transfer activities. The role involves assessing current AWS infrastructure, coordinating region transfer activities, and supporting AWS-hosted web application environments.
Responsibilities
- Lead planning and execution of AWS region transfer activities across web platform environments
- Assess the current AWS infrastructure and identify migration dependencies, risks, sequencing needs, and rollback considerations
- Coordinate region transfer activities across development, staging, and production environments
- Validate application functionality, infrastructure performance, DNS behavior, SSL/TLS configuration, security controls, backups, and monitoring after transfer
- Create clear documentation for architecture, dependencies, technical decisions, validation steps, and cutover support
- Partner with vendors and internal stakeholders to minimize downtime, reduce operational risk, and maintain business continuity
- Support AWS-hosted web application environments, including EC2, VPCs, security groups, IAM, Route53, CloudWatch, S3, backups, and load balancers
- Review AWS configurations and recommend improvements for security, maintainability, scalability, monitoring, and cost awareness
- Troubleshoot server performance, connectivity, capacity, availability, and environment consistency issues
- Make proactive AWS infrastructure updates as needed
- Support the Bitbucket migration from external vendors to internal ownership and help standardize repository workflows
- Design, write, and maintain Bitbucket Pipelines for deployment, validation, and operational automation
- Build or improve CI/CD processes for safer and more consistent application deployments
- Write scripts using Bash, Python, or similar tools to automate repeatable operational tasks
- Document deployment processes, pipeline logic, release dependencies, and support procedures
- Administer and troubleshoot Linux-based web hosting environments
- Evaluate server-level recommendations and explain the technical purpose, risks, and implement considerations to non-infrastructure stakeholders
- Support server-hardening efforts, OS patching, vulnerability remediation, SSH configuration, SSL/TLS configuration, and access-control improvements
- Provide guidance on PHP-FPM, Apache, NGINX, memory allocation, CPU utilization, log analysis, and capacity planning
- Review vendor recommendations, challenge assumptions when needed, and advise whether proposed changes are appropriate for the environment
Skills
- 5+ years of experience in AWS infrastructure engineering, DevOps, cloud operations, or a closely related role
- Strong hands-on experience managing AWS production environments
- Experience with EC2, IAM, security groups, VPCs, Route53, CloudWatch, S3, and application load balancers
- Strong Linux system administration experience, including server troubleshooting, patching, log review, access control, and performance tuning
- Experience creating and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, preferably in Bitbucket Pipelines
- Strong Git and repository management experience
- Ability to write practical automation scripts using Bash, Python, or similar scripting languages
- Experience supporting web application hosting environments
- Strong communication skills with the ability to explain infrastructure concepts clearly to web, vendor, security, and business stakeholders
- Experience with AWS region-to-region transfers or cloud migration projects
- Experience supporting PHP-based applications or WordPress hosting environments
- Familiarity with Apache, NGINX, PHP-FPM, SSL/TLS certificates, DNS, and CDN-related infrastructure
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation
- Experience with server hardening, vulnerability remediation, and enterprise security requirements
- Experience working with managed hosting providers, external agencies, and cross-functional enterprise teams
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