Cloud Senior SME (Platform Engineer)

About The Job:

• An experienced AWS Cloud Subject Matter Expert (SME) to provide advanced technical support, administration, monitoring, security and automation for customer’s enterprise AWS cloud environment.
• The successful candidate will be responsible for maintaining the availability, reliability, security, performance and operational efficiency of business-critical AWS infrastructure.
• The role requires strong hands-on technical expertise in AWS infrastructure services, incident and problem management, cloud security, infrastructure automation and operational resilience.

Essential Job Functions:
AWS Cloud Infrastructure Operations

• Administer, monitor, maintain and troubleshoot AWS cloud infrastructure across production, non-production and disaster recovery environments.
• Manage AWS compute, storage, networking, identity and security services.
• Provision, configure, modify and decommission AWS infrastructure resources in accordance with approved operational procedures.
• Perform cloud infrastructure health checks, capacity monitoring, performance tuning and availability management.
• Manage operating system configurations, patching, security updates and standardised cloud machine images.
• Support AWS infrastructure across multiple accounts, regions and environments.
• Identify performance bottlenecks and recommend improvements to infrastructure stability and efficiency.

Incident, Problem and Change Management

• Provide L3 technical support for complex AWS infrastructure incidents and service requests.
• Participate in P1/P2 major incident troubleshooting, technical recovery and service restoration.
• Conduct root cause analysis (RCA) and implement permanent corrective actions.
• Execute approved infrastructure changes, upgrades, patches and configuration modifications.
• Maintain accurate incident, problem and change records using ServiceNow.
• Coordinate with AWS Support and internal technical teams for complex infrastructure issues.
• Participate in rotational on-call support and planned after-hours maintenance activities.

AWS Security and Compliance

• Administer AWS IAM roles, policies, permissions and access controls following least-privilege principles.
• Maintain security configurations, encryption controls and cloud security baselines.
• Monitor security events and configuration compliance using AWS-native security and audit services.
• Identify and remediate vulnerabilities, configuration drift and security compliance gaps.
• Support security audits and compliance requirements, including ISO 27001 and PCI-DSS where applicable.
• Ensure AWS environments comply with customer’s information security and cloud security standards.

Infrastructure Automation and Optimisation

• Develop and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code templates using AWS CloudFormation and preferably Terraform.
• Automate repetitive operational activities using AWS Systems Manager, AWS CLI, Python and scripting.
• Build automation for infrastructure provisioning, patching, monitoring, remediation and configuration management.
• Support integration between AWS monitoring services, ServiceNow and approved enterprise observability platforms.
• Identify opportunities for automated incident remediation and reduced manual intervention.
• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives and measurable operational efficiency improvements.

Monitoring, Reliability and Disaster Recovery

• Configure and maintain monitoring, alerting and logging using Client CloudWatch, CloudTrail and related AWS services.
• Troubleshoot availability, latency, connectivity, resource utilisation and infrastructure performance issues.
• Support AWS backup policies, snapshots, recovery procedures and disaster recovery testing.
• Participate in failover, failback and recovery validation exercises.
• Support capacity forecasting, resource right-sizing and resilience improvements.
• Maintain operational runbooks, technical documentation and recovery procedures.

Cloud Cost and Capacity Optimisation

• Monitor AWS resource utilisation and identify underutilised or oversized infrastructure.
• Recommend rightsizing, storage lifecycle optimisation and removal of unused resources.
• Analyse infrastructure capacity and demand trends.
• Support cost transparency and cloud resource optimisation using AWS Cost Explorer and related tooling.

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About VARITE: VARITE is a global staffing and IT consulting company providing technical consulting and team augmentation services to Fortune 500 Companies in USA, UK, CANADA and INDIA. VARITE is currently a primary and direct vendor to the leading corporations in the verticals of Networking, Cloud Infrastructure, Hardware and Software, Digital Marketing and Media Solutions, Clinical Diagnostics, Utilities, Gaming and Entertainment, and Financial Services.

Equal Opportunity Employer:
VARITE is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.