- Company Name
- The Nationwide Group
- Job Title
- Cloud Engineer
- Job Description
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Job Title: Cloud Engineer
Role Summary: Design, implement, and maintain secure, scalable, and highly available AWS cloud infrastructure supporting fintech applications, ensuring optimal performance, automation, and regulatory compliance.
Expectations: 3+ years of AWS cloud engineering, strong IaC proficiency (Terraform), CI/CD pipeline expertise (GitHub Actions), scripting skills (Python, Bash), deep understanding of cloud security and compliance (SOC 2, PCI DSS), and experience managing containerized workloads (ECS Fargate).
Key Responsibilities
- Architect and deploy AWS infrastructure for high‑availability, low‑latency fintech services.
- Automate infrastructure provisioning with Terraform and maintain IaC best practices.
- Build, test, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions.
- Monitor and optimize cloud performance with Amazon CloudWatch and Datadog.
- Enforce security controls: IAM, KMS, VPC, security groups, AWS Config.
- Ensure design and documentation meet financial regulatory requirements (SOC 2, PCI DSS).
- Collaborate with DevOps, security, and development teams on application deployments and incident response.
- Manage containerized workloads on ECS Fargate and, when applicable, Kubernetes/Orchestration in AWS.
Required Skills
- AWS services architecture (EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, VPC, IAM, KMS).
- Infrastructure‑as‑Code: Terraform, CloudFormation.
- CI/CD tooling: GitHub Actions, build/release automation.
- Monitoring: CloudWatch, Datadog.
- Scripting: Python, Bash.
- Network & security fundamentals (VPC, subnets, SG, NACL, encryption).
- Compliance and governance practices (SOC 2, PCI DSS, audit logging).
- Container orchestration (ECS Fargate, optional Kubernetes).
Required Education & Certifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
- AWS certifications (Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer) preferred.
- Additional certifications or experience in serverless technologies, secure coding, and financial compliance standards are a plus.