Senior QA Engineer

Company Description

Appiness Interactive Pvt. Ltd. is a Bangalore-based product development and UX firm that specializes in digital services for startups to fortune-500s. We work closely with our clients to create a comprehensive soul for their brand in the online world, engaged through multiple platforms of digital media. Our team is young, passionate, and aggressive, not afraid to think out of the box or tread the un-trodden path in order to deliver the best results for our clients. We pride ourselves on Practical Creativity where the idea is only as good as the returns it fetches for our clients.

Role Overview

We are looking for an experienced Senior Cloud Security Engineer with 7+ years of experience, including strong hands-on expertise in AWS Cloud Security. The candidate will be responsible for designing, implementing, assessing, and continuously improving security across AWS cloud environments. The role requires strong knowledge of cloud security architecture, IAM, network security, threat detection, vulnerability management, incident response, security monitoring, encryption, and DevSecOps.

This is a highly technical position. Hands-on technical expertise will be given significantly more importance than communication skills. Good written and verbal communication is sufficient.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement secure AWS cloud architectures.
• Establish and maintain AWS security best practices and security controls.
• Implement IAM, RBAC, least-privilege access, MFA, federation and privileged access controls.
• Secure AWS networking including VPCs, Security Groups, NACLs, routing, private/public subnets and VPC endpoints.
• Implement and manage AWS security services including:
• AWS IAM
• AWS KMS
• AWS CloudTrail
• Amazon GuardDuty
• AWS Security Hub
• AWS Config
• AWS WAF
• AWS Secrets Manager
• Monitor and investigate security events, threats and suspicious activities.
• Lead or participate in cloud security incident response and root-cause analysis.
• Conduct vulnerability assessments and coordinate remediation.
• Perform AWS security posture reviews and identify misconfigurations.
• Review cloud architectures and provide security recommendations.
• Implement encryption and data protection controls.
• Secure CI/CD pipelines and support DevSecOps practices.
• Review Infrastructure as Code for security risks.
• Implement security automation wherever possible.
• Work with engineering, DevOps and infrastructure teams to embed security into the development lifecycle.
• Establish security standards, policies and controls for AWS environments.
• Support compliance requirements and security audits.
• Mentor junior engineers and provide technical guidance.

Mandatory Technical Skills

Must Have

• 7+ years of overall IT/Security/Cloud experience
• Strong AWS Cloud Security experience
• Hands-on AWS security architecture
• AWS IAM
• IAM policies, roles, permissions and least privilege
• AWS networking security
• VPC, Security Groups and NACLs
• CloudTrail and security logging
• GuardDuty
• Security Hub
• KMS and encryption
• Vulnerability management
• Cloud security monitoring
• Incident response
• Security hardening
• Security architecture/design

Good to Have

• AWS Organizations / SCP
• Terraform / CloudFormation
• DevSecOps
• CI/CD security
• Docker/Kubernetes security
• SAST/DAST/SCA
• SIEM tools
• Python/Bash/PowerShell scripting
• CIS Benchmarks
• NIST
• ISO 27001
• SOC 2
• AWS security certifications

Job Summary

We are looking for an experienced AWS Cloud Engineer with strong expertise in AWS infrastructure, deployment, migration, and cloud operations. The candidate should have hands-on experience managing AWS services such as EC2, EBS, S3, EFS, and FSx, along with infrastructure provisioning, migration, troubleshooting, and optimization.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, configure, and manage AWS infrastructure environments.
• Perform application and infrastructure migration to AWS.
• Provision and manage EC2 instances, including configuration, scaling, patching, and troubleshooting.
• Manage EBS volumes, snapshots, backups, and storage performance.
• Configure and administer S3 buckets, storage policies, lifecycle management, and access controls.
• Manage EFS for scalable shared file storage.
• Implement and manage Amazon FSx file systems based on application requirements.
• Monitor AWS infrastructure performance, availability, and capacity.
• Troubleshoot infrastructure, networking, storage, and deployment-related issues.
• Implement security best practices including IAM, security groups, encryption, and access controls.
• Support backup, disaster recovery, high availability, and business continuity requirements.
• Optimize AWS resources for performance, scalability, reliability, and cost.

Mandatory Skills

• Strong hands-on experience in AWS Cloud Infrastructure.
• Expertise in EC2, EBS, S3, EFS, and FSx.
• Experience in AWS deployment and migration projects.
• Strong knowledge of AWS networking concepts such as VPC, Subnets, Route Tables, Security Groups, and Load Balancers.
• Experience with IAM and AWS security best practices.
• Good knowledge of AWS monitoring and troubleshooting.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure automation using Terraform or CloudFormation is preferred.
• Strong Linux administration and troubleshooting skills.
• Good understanding of backup, disaster recovery, and high-availability concepts

Location : Mumbai

Big Picture (The Opportunity) :

Are you looking for an opportunity to advance your Career? & If you are able to maintain a positive attitude even when everything goes wrong, if you are detail oriented and self motivated with a passion to learn and improve your skills and knowledge, we have a perfect job for you !

What do we want from you ? (Our Expectations) :

• Zero to 2 years experience in Linux Operating System.
• Flexible working hours - able to support occasional nights, weekends, and call-ins, able to quickly adapt to a constantly changing faced paced environment. Open to travel to sites.
• An ideal person who is excited and motivated about running and supporting a production - grade critical infrastructure and looks for opportunities to improve processes with automation.

What are you required to do ? (Your Responsibilities) :

• Proactively maintain and develop all linux infrastructure technology to maintain a 24*7*365 uptime service.
• Engineering of systems administration-related various solutions for our various SAAS products and projects as well as operational needs.
• Proactively monitoring system performance and capacity planning.
• Providing technical support to customers for Applications, Operating systems, and networking.
• Will also be the first point of contact for our clients, where installations are placed on a permanent basis, for basic troubleshooting and problem solving.
• Fault finding, analysis and logging information for reporting of performance exceptions.
• Maintain best practices on managing systems and services across all environments.

Skills & Qualification Required (Add Value) :

• Graduate - Preferred to have Bachelor‘s Degree in Engineering, Computer Science or related field.
• He / She should be familiar with the installation and configuration of Linux operating systems and setup and operation of TCP/IP networking on Linux systems also familiar with Internet concepts including SMTP, IMAP, POP, HTTP, DNS, LDAP and related protocols.
• You should possess excellent communication skills .
• Knowledge of Email concepts, Helpdesk Concept , VoIP Concept , Cloud computing will be an added advantage.

About the Role

We are looking for an experienced AWS DevOps Engineer with around 4 years of hands-on experience to join our infrastructure/DevOps team. The ideal candidate will independently design, deploy, and maintain cloud infrastructure primarily on AWS, drive automation initiatives, mentor junior engineers, and work closely with cross-functional teams to build scalable, secure, and highly available systems. Exposure to Azure is a strong plus.

Key Responsibilities

·      Design, deploy, and maintain robust, scalable, and secure infrastructure on AWS

·      Architect and manage core AWS services such as EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, RDS, Lambda, ECS/EKS, Route 53, and CloudFront

·      Build, own, and optimize CI/CD pipelines (e.g., CodePipeline, Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions) to enable fast and reliable deployments

·      Design and implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform / AWS CloudFormation

·      Set up and manage monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions (CloudWatch, ELK, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, etc.)

·      Implement and enforce security best practices including IAM policies, security groups, NACLs, KMS, Secrets Manager, and compliance standards

·      Lead troubleshooting and root cause analysis for infrastructure, deployment, and production incidents

·      Drive backup, disaster recovery, high-availability, and cost-optimization strategies (Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, right-sizing)

·      Containerize applications and manage orchestration using Docker, ECS, and/or Kubernetes (EKS)

·      Automate repetitive operational tasks through scripting and tooling

·      Support any hybrid or multi-cloud initiatives involving Azure services, where applicable

·      Mentor junior engineers and review their work, providing technical guidance

·      Collaborate with development, QA, security, and product teams to support and streamline application deployments

·      Maintain comprehensive documentation of architecture, configurations, processes, and runbooks

·      Participate in on-call rotations and incident response as needed

Required Skills & Qualifications

·      Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience)

·      4+ years of hands-on experience working with AWS cloud services in a production environment

·      Strong expertise in core AWS services: EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, RDS, Lambda, CloudWatch, ECS/EKS, Route 53, ELB/ALB, Auto Scaling

·      Solid understanding of networking concepts (subnets, routing, security groups, load balancers, VPNs, VPC peering, Direct Connect)

·      Strong scripting/programming skills in Python, Bash, or PowerShell for automation

·      Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or AWS CloudFormation

·      Proven experience with Linux and/or Windows server administration

·      Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines, Git-based version control, and branching strategies

·      Solid experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, ECS, or EKS/Kubernetes)

·      Experience with configuration management tools (Ansible, Chef, or Puppet) is a plus

·      Application Server Management — strong knowledge of networking, firewalls, load balancers, Nginx, Apache, etc.

·      Ability to independently read, interpret AWS documentation, and troubleshoot complex issues

·      Experience with cost optimization, security audits, and compliance frameworks (e.g., ISO, SOC2) is a plus

·      AWS certification (Solutions Architect Associate/Professional, DevOps Engineer Professional) preferred

Good to Have

·      Working knowledge of Microsoft Azure services (Virtual Machines, VNets, Azure DevOps, Azure Storage, Azure AD/Entra ID, AKS)

·      Experience with multi-cloud or hybrid-cloud environments

·      Familiarity with Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates or Bicep

·      Any Azure certification (AZ-104, AZ-400, etc.)

Soft Skills

·      Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making ability

·      Excellent verbal and written communication skills

·      Ability to mentor and guide junior team members

·      Proactive, ownership-driven approach to infrastructure and incident management

·      Strong collaboration skills in a cross-functional, team-oriented environment

·      High attention to detail with a focus on reliability and scalability

Job Title: AWS Cloud Engineer (Terraform & Monitoring Tools)

Experience: 8–10 Years

Location: Bangalore / Hyderabad

Joining: Immediate Joiners Preferred - 20 day serving

Job Description:

We are looking for an experienced AWS Cloud Engineer with 8+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure, automation, and monitoring. The ideal candidate should have strong expertise in AWS, Terraform, and at least one monitoring/observability tool such as Splunk, AppDynamics, or Grafana.

Required Skills:

• 8–10 years of IT experience with strong AWS cloud expertise
• Hands-on experience with Terraform for Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Experience with Splunk, AppDynamics, or Grafana (any one mandatory)
• Knowledge of cloud monitoring, logging, and performance optimization
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and cloud infrastructure automation
• Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and communication skills

Location: Bangalore preferred / Hybrid as applicable

Experience: 3+ years

Education: B.E/B.Tech in Computer Science, Engineering or a related technical discipline

Salary: Above market standards, flexible for the right candidate

Career growth: Long-term opportunity with potential to lead DevOps architecture and cloud platform operations

About FrontM

FrontM builds software platforms for frontline workforces operating in remote and low-connectivity environments, with a strong focus on the maritime industry. The platform supports communication, collaboration, healthcare, learning, welfare and operational workflows across mobile, web, kiosk and connected device environments.

The platform runs across cloud infrastructure, constrained networks and specialised customer environments, requiring reliable DevOps practices, strong observability, secure architecture and careful operational discipline.

Role Summary

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will take ownership of FrontM’s AWS cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, platform reliability and technical operations. You will work closely with the VP of Delivery, CTO and CEO to maintain secure, scalable and high-availability infrastructure for FrontM’s production systems.

This role requires strong hands-on DevOps experience, broad AWS knowledge, Kubernetes experience and the ability to troubleshoot complex networking and production issues across multi-domain SaaS environments.

Key Responsibilities

Cloud Infrastructure & DevOps Architecture (≈45%)

· Own, maintain and improve AWS cloud infrastructure for FrontM platforms

· Create and maintain Terraform scripts for infrastructure deployment and management

· Manage Kubernetes workloads deployed within AWS EKS

· Support multi-zone AWS infrastructure design for availability, resilience and scale

· Maintain AWS services including Route 53, EC2, API Gateway, VPC, VPN, AWS Cognito, ElastiCache, DynamoDB and Lambda

· Contribute to DevOps architecture planning in line with FrontM’s platform roadmap

CI/CD, Operations & Platform Reliability (≈35%)

· Build, maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines for backend and platform services

· Oversee technical operations with hands-on administration, monitoring and release support

· Ensure continuous server uptime, stability, performance and maintainability

· Debug, respond to and restore system outages in production and staging environments

· Improve observability across infrastructure and applications, including migration from Elastic stack to logz.io

· Support backend stability, scale and performance across Node.js, Java and related services

Security, Networking & Production Support (≈20%)

· Maintain AWS security configurations, access controls and monitoring practices

· Support complex networking requirements across multi-domain SaaS implementations

· Troubleshoot network, infrastructure and access issues with internal teams and customer-side users

· Work with backend teams to support API integrations and infrastructure abstractions for complex requirements

· Document operational procedures, incident findings and technical support steps clearly

Required Technical Skills

Cloud Infrastructure & AWS

· Strong hands-on experience with AWS infrastructure and cloud operations

· Experience with Route 53, EC2, API Gateway, VPC, VPN, AWS Cognito, ElastiCache, DynamoDB and Lambda

· Experience with AWS security setup, monitoring and multi-zone infrastructure

· Ability to manage infrastructure using Terraform

Kubernetes, CI/CD & Observability

· Strong experience with Kubernetes, preferably AWS EKS

· Extensive CI/CD and DevOps experience

· Experience with infrastructure observability and application monitoring tools

· Ability to diagnose production bottlenecks, server failures and performance issues

Backend, Networking & SaaS Operations

· Experience supporting Node.js, Java and backend system procedures for stability and scale

· Good understanding of APIs, integrations and backend service dependencies

· Experience with complex networking and multi-domain SaaS implementations

· Ability to troubleshoot technical issues with non-technical end users

Nice to Have

· Experience with MongoDB clusters in MongoDB Atlas

Personal Attributes

· Strong ownership mindset for uptime, reliability and production stability

· Practical problem-solving approach with the ability to act quickly during incidents

· Clear written and spoken communication in English

· Ability to work independently and coordinate with senior management when required

· Comfortable working in fast-moving engineering teams

· Attention to detail in security, monitoring, documentation and operational processes

Why join FrontM?

Long-Term Career Growth

Opportunity to work on cloud infrastructure used by global maritime and remote workforce customers, with scope to grow into DevOps architecture and platform leadership roles.

Engineering Challenges That Matter

Work on infrastructure that supports applications used in remote, low-bandwidth and operationally demanding environments.

Broad Technical Ownership

Take responsibility across cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, CI/CD, observability, networking, security and production reliability.

Apply now

Join a team focused on building reliable software infrastructure for real-world use cases and contribute to systems used across the global maritime workforce.

Mactores is the agent-native AWS modernization firm. Most modernization work doesn't ship, it stalls in pilots, slips a year, or lands at three times the budget. We exist to ship it: production systems running, legacy retired, outcomes measured. Our delivery is built on Aedeon, the agent platform built by Mactores' founders' sister company, which absorbs the repetitive 60–70% of engagement work, discovery, dependency mapping, validation, test generation, that traditional consulting bills human hours against. Forward-deployed engineers own the rest: architecture, judgment, and cutover, on dates we commit to in the contract.

Legacy infrastructure doesn't retire itself. Someone has to build the pipelines, rehearse the cutover, and carry the release into production  and that's this seat. As a Senior AWS DevOps Engineer, you serve our application and infrastructure modernization work: you own build and release cycles for customer projects, land migrations from legacy hardware to AWS, and make deployments boring in the best sense of the word.

Agents change what this job looks like day to day. Aedeon and automation handle the repetitive discovery, mapping, and validation work that used to eat engineer hours. That leaves you the parts that actually need a senior engineer: infrastructure architecture, risk tradeoffs, release judgment, and the operational standards the whole team ships against. You'll work client-facing, embedded with customer teams, and the delivery commitment is one you carry personally.

What we are looking for?

• 4+ years with Terraform for Infrastructure as Code (IaC) including modules, remote state, state management, imports and multi account providers.
• Experience in designing highly available and secure AWS architecture within strong understanding of RTO/RPO and DR Strategies.
• 4+ years in configuration management and systems engineering, supporting large-scale Agile environments.
• 4+ years of Linux or Windows administration.
• 4+ years working with Git, with a solid grasp of branching and merging strategies.
• 4+ years hands-on with AWS infrastructure and platform services.
• 2+ years with cloud automation tools such as Ansible or Chef.
• 2+ years with container orchestration, Kubernetes (EKS), AWS ECS, and Docker.
• A proactive, solutions-oriented approach and a drive to improve reliability and scalability.

What you will do?

• Automate infrastructure creation with Terraform and AWS CloudFormation — infrastructure as code, not tickets and toil.
• Own application configuration management and drive Infrastructure as Code through deployment tooling.
• Own the build and release cycle for customer projects, end to end.
• Share responsibility for deploying releases and for operations and maintenance work.
• Improve the operations infrastructure we ship with — Jenkins clusters, Bitbucket, monitoring tools (Consul), and metrics tools like Graphite and Grafana.
• Support the engineering team operationally and help migrate legacy infrastructure to the cloud — retiring the old systems, not just standing up new ones.
• Establish and enforce operational best practices, and hold releases to them.
• Help hire culturally aligned engineers and mentor them as they grow.
• Work with the founders on team strategy and long-term technical planning.
• Work across distributed teams in the US and India, and with customer SMEs, to keep the business logic honest through migration.

DevOps & Cloud Security Specialist to architect enterprise-grade AWS networking, implement strict IAM security boundaries (HIPAA/GDPR compliance), automate infrastructure via IaC, and maintain crystal-clear technical documentation.

1. Primary Must-Have Competencies (Core Priorities)

A. AWS Networking & VPC Topology (Top Priority)

• Advanced VPC Architecture: Mastery in designing multi-VPC topologies, isolated subnets, custom Route Tables, NAT Gateways, Transit Gateways, and Cross-Region VPC Peering.
• Private Network Security: Extensive experience using VPC Endpoints (Gateway & Interface/PrivateLink) to keep internal AWS traffic completely off the public internet.
• Traffic Ingestion & Edge Security: Expertise in AWS WAF (custom rules, bot control, rate limiting), API Gateway throttling, ALB configuration, and Route 53 global routing.

B. AWS Security, IAM Architecture & Compliance

• Enterprise IAM Governance: Expertise in AWS Organizations, IAM Identity Center (SSO), Permission Boundaries, Service Control Policies (SCPs), and temporary role assumption across multi-account setups.
• Data Protection & Key Management: Deep knowledge of AWS KMS (customer-managed keys, envelope encryption at rest and in transit) and AWS Secrets Manager.
• Audit & Compliance: Setting up centralized logging pipelines (CloudTrail, GuardDuty, AWS Config, CloudWatch Audit Logs) for strict HIPAA/GDPR compliance.

C. Infrastructure as Code (IaC) & Containerization

• Terraform / AWS CDK: Must write production-grade, modular IaC templates from scratch—enforcing network topology and security guardrails directly in code.
• Container Orchestration: Hands-on setup and management of AWS ECS (Fargate) or EKS (Kubernetes) and automated CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI).

D. Architecture Documentation & Systems Mapping

• Technical Documentation: Ability to author clean, standardized architecture diagrams (e.g., C4 model, Draw.io, Lucidchart) and maintain comprehensive runbooks, incident response plans, and compliance documentation.

2. Secondary Competency (Strong Advantage, Not Mandatory)

• Backend Software Development: Hands-on experience or a background in writing/debugging backend code in Node.js, Python, or Go.
• Note: The primary responsibility is cloud infrastructure, security, and automation. However, the ability to read backend code, debug API bottlenecks, or assist developers with microservice integrations is a major bonus.

Strong Product Security Engineer / Security Engineer / Application Security Engineer / DevSecOps Engineer profiles

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Mandatory (Experience 1) – Must have minimum 4+ years of hands-on Application/Product Security or Security Engineering experience,

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Mandatory (Experience 2) – Strong hands-on experience in AWS Cloud Security, Infrastructure Security, and Application Security, with the ability to identify and address security risks at the application/code level.

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Mandatory (Experience 3) – Must have hands-on experience in secure SDLC/DevSecOps, including code review, API security, CI/CD security automation, vulnerability management, VAPT/penetration testing, and security tooling.

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Mandatory (Experience 4) – Must have hands-on experience with security audits and compliance frameworks, including SOC 2, GDPR, and ISO 27001, preferably having participated in or driven audits.

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Mandatory (Experience 5) – Experience setting up, managing, and tracking security tools such as MDM, endpoint agents, security monitoring/scanning tools, secrets/access management, and related security tooling.

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Mandatory (Experience 6) – Must demonstrate strong coding/development understanding with the ability to read/write code and assess security of APIs, applications, databases, and distributed systems; not just operate security tools.

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Preferred (Experience 1) – Relevant security certifications such as CISSP, CEH, OSCP, or equivalent.

Job Description:

Pre-requisite skills required for a DevOps Engineer role include:

• 6+yrs exp in DevOps
• Experience working on Linux based infrastructure
• knowledge in AWS, docker, CI/CD tools
• Hands on exp in Python/shell scripting language
• hands on exp in AWS and Azure
• Work exp in Docker, Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, LINUX
• Excellent understanding of Ruby, Python, Perl, and Java
• Configuration and managing databases such as MySQL, Mongo
• Excellent troubleshooting
• Working knowledge of various tools, open-source technologies, and cloud services