Empresa:

Aptonet

Descrição da Função

? AWS Senior Cloud Engineer

Cloud Centre of Excellence Insurance Sector

Location: Lisbon, Portugal (Hybrid - 3 days onsite)

Seniority: Senior

Experience: 5+ Years

Role Summary

We are seeking an experienced AWS Senior Cloud Engineer to work closely with the Cloud Centre of Excellence (CCoE) in defining, implementing, and enforcing best-in-class cloud operational practices across enterprise AWS environments.

This role plays a critical part in supporting new cloud initiatives, providing architectural guidance, delivering solutions using Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and leading incident resolution in fast-paced, high-availability environments within the Insurance domain.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with the Cloud Centre of Excellence (CCoE) to establish and enforce AWS operational standards and best practices
• Design and implement secure, scalable cloud architectures aligned with the AWS Well-Architected Framework
• Deploy and manage cloud infrastructure using Terraform and AWS CloudFormation
• Build, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines for automated cloud deployments
• Lead incident management, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis for critical AWS services
• Ensure compliance with enterprise security, governance, and regulatory standards
• Optimize cloud environments for performance, scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency
• Act as a senior technical escalation point during high-pressure production incidents

Required Technical Skills

• Deep hands-on expertise across AWS services (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC, IAM, etc.)
• Strong proficiency in Terraform and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) best practices
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and AWS CodePipeline
• Solid experience with monitoring, observability, logging, and performance tuning in AWS
• Excellent problem-solving, leadership, and decision-making skills in production environments

Preferred / Nice-to-Have Skills

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional
• AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
• Terraform certification
• Experience working in regulated industries (Insurance, Banking, Financial Services)

Qualifications & Experience

• 5+ years of professional experience in cloud engineering or related roles
• Proven senior-level experience designing, deploying, and operating enterprise AWS solutions
• Strong ability to collaborate with architecture, security, and operations teams

Observações

Lisboa (Portugal)