AWS Engineer

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced AWS Engineer to join Terex's Global Infrastructure & Operations organization, based within our India Centre of Excellence. This role is hands-on and operationally focused, responsible for building, securing, operating, and optimizing AWS environments that support Terex's global digital platforms and enterprise workloads. The engineer will work closely with our Centre of Excellence in Northern Ireland, operating as part of a globally integrated cloud and infrastructure team.

This role is hands-on and operationally focused, responsible for building, securing, operating, and optimizing AWS environments that support Terex's global digital platforms and enterprise workloads.

The ideal candidate brings strong depth across AWS compute, storage, networking, and security, with proven experience operating multi-account AWS environments at scale. You will work closely with platform teams, application owners, security, and service partners to ensure AWS platforms are secure, compliant, resilient, and financially governed.

Key Responsibilities

AWS Platform Engineering & Operations

• Design, deploy, and operate AWS environments using core services such as EC2, ECS/EKS, Auto Scaling, S3, EBS, RDS, and Lambda.
• Support highly available, resilient workloads across multiple AWS regions and environments.
• Execute platform changes safely through structured change execution, validation, and post-change monitoring.
• Provide operational support for AWS-hosted platforms, including incident response and service restoration.

Networking & Connectivity

• Design, operate, and troubleshoot AWS networking components including VPCs, subnets, route tables, security groups, NACLs, Transit Gateway, and VPN/Direct Connect.
• Partner with network teams to integrate AWS environments with on-premises and hybrid networks.
• Ensure network designs meet security, performance, and availability requirements.

Security & Identity

• Implement and enforce AWS security best practices across accounts and workloads.
• Manage IAM roles, policies, and least-privilege access models.
• Partner with security teams to remediate findings from security reviews, vulnerability scans, and audits.
• Support logging, monitoring, and alerting using CloudTrail, CloudWatch, and AWS Config.

Account Lifecycle & Governance

• Manage the AWS account lifecycle including provisioning, baselining, access models, and decommissioning.
• Apply and enforce tagging standards to support cost allocation, financial governance, and compliance.
• Support financial compliance through cost visibility, chargeback/showback models, and optimization efforts.
• Ensure alignment with enterprise governance, risk, and compliance requirements.

Operational Excellence & RCA

• Participate in incident management activities, including root cause analysis (RCA) and corrective action planning.
• Identify recurring issues and drive automation or design improvements to reduce operational risk.
• Maintain operational runbooks, standards, and documentation.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of platform reliability and support processes.

Automation & Scripting

• Develop scripts and automation using Python, Bash, or PowerShell to improve operational efficiency.
• Automate common operational tasks such as provisioning, validation, and compliance checks.
• Support infrastructure as code practices using Terraform and/or AWS CloudFormation.

Required Qualifications

Experience

• 8 to 12 years of overall infrastructure or cloud engineering experience.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience operating AWS in enterprise environments.
• Proven experience supporting production platforms with strong operational rigor.

Technical Skills

• Strong expertise in AWS Compute, Storage, Networking, and Security services.
• Hands-on experience managing multi-account AWS environments.
• Solid understanding of AWS financial management, including cost allocation, tagging, and optimization.
• Experience executing changes in controlled, production environments.
• Proven experience conducting incident response and root cause analysis (RCA).
• Scripting and automation skills (Python, Bash, PowerShell).
• Familiarity with Terraform and/or CloudFormation.
• Experience with monitoring and logging tools such as CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and AWS Config.

Education

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related discipline.

Preferred Qualifications

• AWS Certifications (Solutions Architect, SysOps Administrator, or DevOps Engineer).
• Experience supporting regulated or compliance-driven environments.
• Exposure to hybrid cloud or multi-cloud architectures.
• Experience working in a global, follow-the-sun support model.
• Familiarity with ITIL-based operational processes.