About the role

What will you do at EXL?

Overview: A Cloud Engineer is responsible for designing, building, and maintaining cloud-based infrastructure and processes to support data and application solutions. The role emphasizes implementing governance, best practices, and security measures while optimizing cloud costs. This individual will leverage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines to ensure scalability, efficiency, and security.

They will work as part of the platform team in close collaboration with various groups, including data governance and data engineering.

Which skills does this role require?

AWSInfrastructure as CodeCI/CDPythonCDKCloudFormationIAMBoto3SQLAgileJIRACloud SecurityData Lake ArchitectureDisaster RecoveryOAuth 2.0AWS Well-Architected FrameworkDevOpsCloud EngineeringAthenaGlueRedshiftEventBridgeMWAASNSSQSEC2LambdaECRECSDynamoDBRDSCodeBuildCodeCommitCodePipelineCloudTrailCloudWatchAPI GatewayVPCKMSSecrets Manager

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