AWS Cloud Engineer

As an AWS Cloud Engineer, you will design, implement and maintain our cloud infrastructure on AWS to ensure high availability, security, performance and observability of our Laravel-based regulatory platform. You will work closely with backend developers, DevOps, and security teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain AWS infrastructure.
• Manage and optimize core AWS services.
• Implement secure, scalable and highly available architectures for real-time transaction processing.
• Set up and maintain monitoring, logging and alerting.
• Collaborate with developers on CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows.
• Perform capacity planning, performance tuning and cost optimization of AWS resources.
• Implement and maintain backup, disaster recovery and high availability strategies (multi-AZ, RDS backups, etc.).
• Contribute to infrastructure as code (Terraform / CloudFormation / CDK or similar).
• Ensure security best practices: IAM least privilege, key management, network security, encryption in transit and at rest.
• Support production incidents, perform root cause analysis, and improve reliability over time.

Required Qualifications & Experience

• Minimum 3 years of hands-on experience managing production workloads on AWS.
• Strong experience with:
• EC2, RDS (MySQL), S3, VPC, Security Groups, Load Balancers, IAM, CloudWatch
• AWS WAF and/or Cloudflare WAF
• Good understanding of networking concepts: VPC, subnets, routing, NAT, VPN, DNS.
• Experience hosting or supporting Laravel applications (Laravel Vapor is a plus).
• Solid knowledge of Linux server administration (Apache/Nginx) in cloud environments.
• Experience with at least one CI/CD tool (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Bitbucket Pipelines, etc.).
• Familiarity with infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or CDK).
• Strong focus on security, reliability and observability in production.
• Good communication skills in English (French is a plus).

Nice to Have

• AWS Certification (e.g. AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate, SysOps, or DevOps).
• Experience in fintech, payments, or other high-volume transactional systems.
• Knowledge of log aggregation tools (ELK / OpenSearch, CloudWatch Logs Insights, etc.).
• Experience with multi-region setups, failover and advanced DR strategies.
• Experience working with regulatory or compliance-driven environments.

What We Offer

• Opportunity to work on a mission-critical national regulatory platform with real impact.
• Modern AWS-based environment with room to design and influence architecture.
• Competitive salary and benefits (to be defined based on profile).
• Collaborative, fast-moving team and international exposure.

How to Apply

If this role aligns with your skills and ambitions, please send your CV and a brief cover letter outlining relevant experience. We look forward to hearing from you.