AWS Senior Cloud Engineer

Decskill, founded in 2014 as an IT Consulting Company, places paramount importance on its greatest asset: its people. Our main mission is to deliver value through knowledge and talent, and we achieve this by fostering a culture of excellence and investing in the development and well-being of our people. With over 600 dedicated professionals and offices in Lisbon, Porto, Madrid, and Luxembourg, Decskill operates across three core areas:

• DECSKILL TALENT:
  We believe that our people are key to our success.
• Through Decskill Talent, we empower our team to embrace the digital transformation challenges of our clients. We collaborate with clients to drive innovation, ensuring project success and business growth.
• DECSKILL BOOST:
  Equipping our team with the latest tools and methodologies, we optimize Time-to-Market and deliver innovative solutions exceeding client expectations.
• DECSKILL CONNECT:
  Our team collaborates closely with clients to implement and manage IT infrastructures that generate long-term value.

At Decskill, we believe that by nurturing and empowering our people to confront the challenges of digital transformation, we create value not only for our clients but also for our entire ecosystem, fostering a digital community dedicated to growth and progress.

We are looking for an AWS Senior Cloud Engineer to work closely with the Cloud Centre of Excellence (CCoE), to define and implement best practices for cloud operations.

The successful candidate will support new projects by providing architectural guidance and deploying solutions using Infrastructure as Code (IaC), as well as, leading incident resolution and problem-solving efforts.

Required Skills &

Competencies:

• Deep expertise in AWS services (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, etc.) and cloud-native architectures.

• Strong proficiency in Terraform and Infrastructure as Code practices.

• Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, Git Hub Actions, AWS Code Pipeline).

• Experience with monitoring, observability, and performance tuning in AWS environments.

• Excellent problem-solving and leadership skills in high-pressure situations.

Preferred

Certifications:

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional

• AWS Certified Sys Ops Administrator

• Terraform

Key Responsibilities:

• Partner with CcoE to establish and enforce operational best practices across AWS environments.

• Design and implement cloud architectures aligned with AWS Well-Architected Framework.

• Deploy and manage infrastructure using Terraform and AWS Cloud Formation.

• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines for automated deployments.

• Lead troubleshooting and incident management for critical AWS services.

• Ensure compliance with enterprise security and governance standards.

• Optimize cloud resources for performance, scalability, and cost efficiency.

• Language (level):
Fluent in Portuguese and English

If you're interested in this job please send your CV in English to with reference ("AC / AWS Senior Cloud Engineer")

Decskill is committed to equality and non-discrimination with all our talents. We recruit and promote talent, based on diversity and inclusion, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, race, nationality or any other form of discrimination incompatible with the dignity of the human being.