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The ideal candidate combines hands-on experience with managed PaaS platforms and core AWS services (RDS, S3, Lambda) with strong capabilities in Infrastructure as Code, automated CI/CD, and transactional email deliverability. This role will collaborate closely with project leads and software engineers, establish comprehensive observability and security controls, and deliver reliable, automated, and well-documented cloud environments.\n Core Tasks\n1. Cloud architecture and platform\nAssess the current infrastructure - what is running, how it is configured, what is manual, and where the risk sits - and produce a written assessment with prioritized findings.\nDefine and implement the target infrastructure across PaaS platform, e.g., Heroku, Render, Elastic Beanstalk, App Runner and supporting AWS services, with environment separation for dev / staging / production.\nDefine infrastructure as code so environments are reproducible rather than hand-configured. Terraform / CloudFormation / CDK / Pulumi, as agreed.\nImplement IAM roles and least-privilege access, secrets management, and network configuration (VPC, security groups, TLS).\n2. Data and storage layer\nRDS:provision and tune the database - instance sizing, parameter groups, connection pooling, read replicas if warranted - and configure automated backups, point-in-time recovery, and encryption at rest.\nRun and document a restore test. A backup that has never been restored is not a backup.\nS3:configure buckets for uploads / assets / exports / logs with correct access policies, lifecycle rules, versioning, and encryption. No public buckets that should not be public.\nSet up CDN delivery for static and user-uploaded assets where appropriate.\n3.Serverless and background processing\nLambda:build and deploy the functions in scope - e.g., scheduled jobs, event-driven processing, webhook handlers, image or file processing - with appropriate triggers, concurrency limits, and timeouts.\nHandle failure properly: retries, dead-letter queues, idempotency, and alerting on repeated failure.\nBring Lambda deployments into the same CI/CD pipeline and IaC definitions as the rest of the stack, not a separate manual path.\n4.Email and outbound messaging\nSMTP services:configure transactional email through SES / SendGrid / Postmark / other for e.g., account, notification, and system emails.\nSet up domain authentication - SPF, DKIM, DMARC - and manage sending reputation, warmup, and dedicated IP if warranted.\nConfigure bounce, complaint, and suppression handling, plus deliverability monitoring so a drop in inbox placement is visible before users report it.\n5. CI/CD and release engineering\nBuild pipelines in GitHub Actions / GitLab CI / CircleCI / other that run tests, lint, build, and deploy on merge, with environment promotion from staging to production.\nImplement deployment strategy and rollback: blue-green / rolling / canary, as agreed, with a rollback that is a single documented action rather than an improvisation.\nAutomate database migrations as part of deploy, safely and reversibly.\nReduce pipeline runtime so the team is not waiting on it.\n6. Observability, security, and cost\nSet up centralized logging, metrics, and alerting through CloudWatch / Datadog / other, with alerts that page on real problems and stay quiet otherwise.\nDefine and monitor the health indicators that matter for the team: uptime, error rate, latency, queue depth, job failure.\nReview the stack against HIPAA / PCI / SOC 2 / other requirements where applicable, and document what is in place and what is not.\nEstablish cost visibility and tagging; identify and remove waste.\nDeliverables\nInfrastructure assessment with prioritized findings, reviewed with project lead.\nArchitecture diagram of the target infrastructure, with data flow and trust boundaries.\nInfrastructure as code covering all environments, in repository.\nConfigured and hardened RDS, S3, Lambda, and PaaS environments, with a documented and tested restore procedure.\nTransactional email configured and authenticated, with deliverability monitoring in place.\nCI/CD pipelines deploying dev / 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