Job Description

The AWS Infrastructure Engineer is responsible for designing, building, deploying, and maintaining secure, scalable, and reliable cloud infrastructure on Amazon Web Services (AWS). This role involves supporting application teams, automating infrastructure, ensuring high availability, and enforcing best practices for cloud operations, security, and performance. Key responsibilities include designing and implementing cloud solutions using AWS services such as EC2, VPC, S3, IAM, RDS, Lambda, and ECS/EKS, as well as building secure network architectures with VPCs, subnets, routing, load balancers, and security groups. The engineer develops and manages Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, CloudFormation, or AWS CDK, automates provisioning and deployments through CI/CD pipelines, and optimizes infrastructure for scalability and cost efficiency. Additional duties include implementing monitoring and alerting with tools like CloudWatch, CloudTrail, ELK, and Prometheus/Grafana, maintaining high availability and disaster recovery strategies, and troubleshooting performance issues. Security responsibilities include enforcing IAM policies, KMS, WAF, GuardDuty, and Secrets Manager, conducting audits, and ensuring compliance with standards such as SOC2, ISO, or HIPAA. Collaboration with DevOps, SRE, and development teams is essential to support cloud-native applications and provide guidance on AWS governance and cost optimization. Required qualifications include 3-7+ years of AWS infrastructure experience, proficiency with core AWS services, IaC tools, Linux administration, networking fundamentals, CI/CD tools, and a strong understanding of cloud security best practice

About Virtusa

Teamwork, quality of life, professional and personal development: values that Virtusa is proud to embody. When you join us, you join a team of 27,000 people globally that cares about your growth -- one that seeks to provide you with exciting projects, opportunities and work with state of the art technologies throughout your career with us.


Great minds, great potential: it all comes together at Virtusa. We value collaboration and the team environment of our company, and seek to provide great minds with a dynamic place to nurture new ideas and foster excellence.


Virtusa was founded on principles of equal opportunity for all, and so does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.