AWS Cloud Engineer – Release Engineering

NexGen Media

Part-time · Remote · Flexible hours

About the role

NexGen Media is expanding its data pipeline and analytics capabilities for operations teams. We need an AWS Cloud Engineer to design, implement, and optimize cloud‑native solutions that feed real‑time insights to stakeholders.

Key responsibilities

• Architect and deploy scalable data ingestion pipelines on AWS services (Kinesis, S3, Glue)
• Containerize processing workloads with Docker and orchestrate via ECS/EKS
• Implement CI/CD for infrastructure using IaC tools (CloudFormation, Terraform)
• Monitor performance, cost, and security, tuning resources as needed
• Collaborate with data analysts to ensure pipeline reliability and data quality

Must-have skills

• Strong experience with AWS core services (EC2, Lambda, RDS)
• Proficiency in Docker containerization
• Solid DevOps practices and automation
• Linux system administration

Nice to have

• Experience with streaming analytics (Kinesis Data Analytics, Spark)
• Knowledge of Terraform or CloudFormation
• Familiarity with data warehousing solutions (Redshift, Snowflake)