Senior Cloud Engineer 

Senior Cloud Engineer 

LOCATION: Hanoi/ Ho Chi Minh

JOB DESCRIPTION 

GEM is looking for a Senior Cloud Engineer with strong hands-on AWS experience to design, build, and operate secure, scalable, and highly available cloud platforms.

This role will support cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes/container platforms, security controls, observability, automation, and production operations for application, data, and AI/ML workloads.

  • Design, build, and maintain AWS infrastructure, including networking, compute, storage, database, security, and platform services.
  • Implement Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and/or CloudFormation.
  • Build and operate container platforms using AWS EKS and/or ECS.
  • Configure and manage AWS networking services such as VPC, Transit Gateway, Route 53, Load Balancer, Security Groups, and routing.
  • Implement cloud security and governance controls, including IAM, encryption, logging, monitoring, and access management.
  • Set up and maintain observability using CloudWatch, CloudTrail, logging, alerting, dashboards, and operational runbooks.
  • Support production operations, incident response, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, performance optimization, and cost optimization.
  • Work closely with Cloud Platform Lead, onshore Senior Cloud Engineers, Application, Data, DevOps, and Security teams.
  • Contribute to reusable cloud architecture patterns, automation scripts, and platform best practices.

REQUIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE 

  • 4-6 years of hands-on cloud engineering experience on AWS.
  • Experience designing and operating production-grade AWS infrastructure.
  • Strong knowledge of AWS networking: VPC, Transit Gateway, Route 53, Load Balancers, Security Groups, and routing.
  • Hands-on experience with AWS services: IAM, EC2, EKS/ECS, RDS/DynamoDB, S3, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Systems Manager.
  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code: Terraform and/or CloudFormation.
  • Good Linux administration skills.
  • Experience with Docker and containerised application deployment.
  • Experience with CI/CD tools such as CodePipeline, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar.
  • Scripting experience using Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
  • Good understanding of cloud security, monitoring, logging, incident response, and operational best practices.
  • Ability to work independently and collaborate with distributed technical teams.
  • Fluent proficiency in technical English. 

PREFERRED SKILLS

  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate or Professional.
  • AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate.
  • AWS Certified Security Specialty is a plus.
  • Experience with AWS Well-Architected Framework, cloud governance, cost optimization, or enterprise cloud platform teams.
  • Experience supporting data platforms or AI/ML workloads on AWS is a plus.

BENEFITS 

  • Salary: up to 55M Gross (Open to Nego);
  • Probation salary is 100% of the official salary;
  • 13th-month salary and performance review twice a year;
  • Bonus for special occasions each year (Labor Day, National Day, Solar New year, Lunar New Year);
  • Project bonus; 
  • Employee’s professional certification and training allowances are subject to company regulations;
  • Health Care Insurance;
  • Annual Health Assessment;
  • Social, health and unemployment insurance following government policy;
  • Enjoy company summer trips and other team-building activities held monthly and quarterly;
  • Professional, creative and dynamic working environment; 
  • Work five days per week with a flexible check-in time.

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