Sr AWS Cloud Engineer (Infra)

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Our Company

We're Hitachi Digital, a company at the forefront of digital transformation and the fastest growing division of Hitachi Group. We're crucial to the company's strategy and ambition to become a premier global player in the massive and fast-moving digital transformation market.

Our group companies, including GlobalLogic, Hitachi Digital Services, Hitachi Vantara and more, offer comprehensive services that span the entire digital lifecycle, from initial idea to full-scale operation and the infrastructure to run it on. Hitachi Digital represents One Hitachi, integrating domain knowledge and digital capabilities, and harnessing the power of the entire portfolio of services, technologies, and partnerships, to accelerate synergy creation and make real-world impact for our customers and society as a whole.

Imagine the sheer breadth of talent it takes to unleash a digital future. We don't expect you to 'fit' every requirement - your life experience, character, perspective, and passion for achieving great things in the world are equally as important to us.

Role: Sr AWS Cloud Engineer (Infra)

Location: New Delhi, Remote, India

About The Role

We are seeking a experienced Senior Cloud Engineer to oversee and manage our AWS infrastructure. In this role, you will be responsible for the day-to-day administration of our cloud environments, including account management, security and permissions, cost optimization, and operational monitoring. You will ensure that our AWS platforms are secure, compliant, cost-efficient, and aligned with industry best practices. This position requires a hands-on professional with a strong technical background and a proactive approach to maintaining and improving our cloud systems.

Key Responsibilities

Manage and maintain our AWS environments, including account setup, IAM policies, security controls.

Implement and enforce cloud governance, cost management, and compliance best practices.

Monitor workloads for availability, performance, and budget alignment; proactively identify and fix inefficiencies.

Collaborate with teams to provision resources and troubleshoot cloud-related issues.

Support application teams with infrastructure needs, deployments, and scaling strategies.

Automate repetitive tasks using Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, CloudFormation) and scripting.

Stay up-to-date with AWS offerings and propose improvements or new services where they make sense.

Required Qualifications

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.

5+ years of hands-on experience managing AWS infrastructure in production environments.

Strong skills with core AWS services: EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, etc.

Solid grasp of networking, security best practices, and access management within AWS.

Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform or CloudFormation) and scripting (Python, Bash, or similar).

Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab, CodePipeline) to support deployment processes.

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills; excellent communicator who enjoys partnering with teams.

Nice To Have (not Required)

AWS Certifications (e.g., Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, Security Specialty).

Experience with cost optimization tools or FinOps practices.

About Us

We're a global, 1000-strong, diverse team of professional experts, promoting and delivering Social Innovation through our One Hitachi initiative (OT x IT x Product) and working on projects that have a real-world impact. We're curious, passionate and empowered, blending our legacy of 110 years of innovation with our shaping our future. Here you're not just another employee; you're part of a tradition of excellence and a community working towards creating a digital future.

Championing diversity, equity, and inclusion

Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) are integral to our culture and identity. Diverse thinking, a commitment to allyship, and a culture of empowerment help us achieve powerful results. We want you to be you, with all the ideas, lived experience, and fresh perspective that brings. We support your uniqueness and encourage people from all backgrounds to apply and realize their full potential as part of our team.

How We Look After You

We help take care of your today and tomorrow with industry-leading benefits, support, and services that look after your holistic health and wellbeing. We're also champions of life balance and offer flexible arrangements that work for you (role and location dependent). We're always looking for new ways of working that bring out our best, which leads to unexpected ideas. So here, you'll experience a sense of belonging, and discover autonomy, freedom, and ownership as you work alongside talented people you enjoy sharing knowledge with.

We're proud to say we're an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, age, disability status or any other protected characteristic. Should you need reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know so that we can do our best to set you up for success.