AWSOps Engineer

Job Description

We’re hiring a Cloud Operations Engineer (AWSOps) to ensure the stability, security, and efficiency of our AWS infrastructure and platform services. This role is hands-on and focused on operational excellence, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement. The engineer will work across a broad cloud environment, supporting patching, upgrades, release execution, alert triage, automation, and security remediation.

Responsibilities

• Perform system patching, upgrades, and maintenance across AWS services (e.g., EC2, RDS, S3, CloudFront, ALBs/NLBs).
• Support release cycles with proper change control, rollback readiness, and post-deployment validation.
• Triage and resolve infrastructure alerts (Datadog), contributing to noise reduction and improved observability.
• Participate in a follow-the-sun on-call rotation and incident response.
• Maintain runbooks, ticket hygiene, and operational documentation for repeatable processes.
• Contribute to Terraform-based infrastructure and monitoring resources.
• Automate recurring operational tasks to improve consistency and reduce manual effort.
• Apply security best practices across IAM, networking, and resource configurations.

Qualifications

Requirements

• 3-4 years in cloud operations, platform engineering, or similar.
• Proficiency with AWS (EC2, IAM, VPC, RDS, S3, CloudWatch, ALB/NLB).
• Familiarity with Kubernetes (EKS) operations and troubleshooting.
• Experience with infrastructure monitoring and alert tuning.
• Experience with Linux and Windows server fundamentals.
• Passion for best practices in documentation.
• Exposure to platform operations (e.g., releases, upgrades, observability)

Preferred Skills & Experience

• Experience supporting production workloads in enterprise or highly regulated environments (e.g., financial services, PCI DSS, SOC).
• Exposure to incident management and postmortem practices.
• Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and IaC Terraform.
• Experience collaborating in multi-team shared-responsibility environments.

Working Model

• Follow-the-sun support with defined handovers and escalation paths.
• Approximately 1 week on-call every 2 months (after probation).

Additional Information

What’s in it for you to join MUFG Investor Services? 

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We thank all candidates for applying; however, only those proceeding to the interview stage will be contacted.

MUFG is an equal opportunity employer.