Cloud / Deployment Engineer (Nigeria)-Contract

Job Overview We’re looking for a Cloud & Infrastructure Engineer to build, secure, and maintain scalable platform infrastructure and delivery pipelines. 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. Core Tasks 1. Cloud architecture and platform Assess 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. Define 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. Define infrastructure as code so environments are reproducible rather than hand-configured. Terraform / CloudFormation / CDK / Pulumi, as agreed. Implement IAM roles and least…