Cloud/DevOps Engineer

Position Overview: We are seeking a talented and experienced Cloud Engineer specialized in AWS cloud services to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in AWS infrastructure and services, including EC2, Elastic Load Balancing (ELB), Auto Scaling, S3, VPC, RDS, CloudFormation, CloudFront, Route 53, AWS Certificate Manager (ACM), and Terraform for Infrastructure as Code (IaC). Experience with other AWS services is a plus.

Responsibilities:

• Design, deploy, and maintain AWS infrastructure solutions, ensuring scalability, reliability, and security.

• Configure and manage EC2 instances to meet application requirements.

• Implement and manage Elastic Load Balancers (ELB) to distribute incoming traffic across multiple instances.

• Set up and manage AWS Auto Scaling to dynamically adjust resources based on demand.

• Configure and maintain VPCs, including subnets, route tables, and security groups, to control network traffic.

• Deploy and manage AWS CloudFormation and Terraform templates to automate infrastructure provisioning using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles.

• Implement and monitor S3 storage solutions for secure and scalable data storage

• Set up and manage CloudFront distributions for content delivery with low latency and high transfer speeds.

• Configure Route 53 for domain management, DNS routing, and failover configurations.

• Manage AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) for provisioning, managing, and deploying SSL/TLS certificates.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements and provide effective cloud solutions.

• Stay updated with the latest AWS technologies and best practices to drive continuous improvement.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field.

• Minimum of 2 years of relevant experience in designing, deploying, and managing AWS cloud solutions.

• Strong proficiency in AWS services such as EC2, ELB, Auto Scaling, VPC, S3, RDS, and CloudFormation.

• Experience with other AWS services such as Lambda, ECS, EKS, and DynamoDB is a plus.

• Solid understanding of cloud computing principles, including IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS.

• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to troubleshoot complex issues in a cloud environment.

• Strong communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.

• Relevant AWS certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, etc.) are highly desirable.

Additional Information:

• We value creativity, innovation, and a proactive approach to problem-solving.

• We offer a collaborative and supportive work environment where your ideas and contributions are valued.

• Opportunities for professional growth and development. Someshwara Software Pvt Ltd is an equal opportunity employer.

We celebrate diversity and are dedicated to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

DESIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

 Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

 Ability to work independently, learn quickly and be proactive

 3-5 years overall and at least 1-2 years of hands-on experience in designing and managing DevOps Cloud infrastructure

 Experience must include a combination of:

o Experience working with configuration management tools – Ansible, Chef, Puppet, SaltStack (expertise in at least one tool is a must)

o Ability to write and maintain code in at least one scripting language (Python preferred)

o Practical knowledge of shell scripting

o Cloud knowledge – AWS, VMware vSphere o Good understanding and familiarity with Linux

o Networking knowledge – Firewalls, VPNs, Load Balancers

o Web/Application servers, Nginx, JVM environments

o Virtualization and containers - Xen, KVM, Qemu, Docker, Kubernetes, etc.

o Familiarity with logging systems - Logstash, Elasticsearch, Kibana

o Git, Jenkins, Jira

Intuitive is the fastest growing top-tier Cloud Solutions and Services company supporting Global Enterprise Customer across Americas, Europe and Middle East.

Intuitive is looking for highly talented hands-on Cloud Infrastructure Architects to help accelerate our growing Professional Services consulting Cloud & DevOps practice. This is an excellent opportunity to join Intuitive’ s global world class technology teams, working with some of the best and brightest engineers while also developing your skills and furthering your career working with some of the largest customers.

Lead the pre-sales (25%) to post-sales (75%) efforts building Public/Hybrid Cloud solutions working collaboratively with Intuitive and client technical and business stakeholders

Be a customer advocate with obsession for excellence delivering measurable success for Intuitive’s customers with secure, scalable, highly available cloud architecture that leverage AWS Cloud services

Experience in analyzing customer's business and technical requirements, assessing existing environment for Cloud enablement, advising on Cloud models, technologies, and risk management strategies

Apply creative thinking/approach to determine technical solutions that further business goals and align with corporate technology strategies

Extensive experience building Well Architected solutions in-line with AWS cloud adoption framework (DevOps/DevSecOps, Database/Data Warehouse/Data Lake, App Modernization/Containers, Security, Governance, Risk, Compliance, Cost Management and Operational Excellence)

Experience with application discovery prefera bly with tools like Cloudscape, to discover application configurations , databases, filesystems, and application dependencies

Experience with Well Architected Review, Cloud Readiness Assessments and defining migration patterns (MRA/MRP) for application migration e.g. Re-host, Re-platform, Re-architect etc

Experience in architecting and deploying AWS Landing Zone architecture with CI/CD pipeline

Experience on architecture, design of AWS cloud services to address scalability, performance, HA, security, availability, compliance, backup and DR, automation, alerting and monitoring and cost

Hands-on experience in migrating applications to AWS leveraging proven tools and processes including migration, implementation, cutover and rollback plans and execution

Hands-on experience in deploying various AWS services e.g. EC2, S3, VPC, RDS, Security Groups etc. using either manual or IaC, IaC is preferred

Hands-on Experience in writing cloud automation scripts/code such as Ansible, Terraform, CloudFormation Template (AWS CFT) etc.

Hands-on Experience with application build/release processes CI/CD pipelines

Deep understanding of Agile processes (planning/stand-ups/retros etc), and interact with cross-functional teams i.e. Development, Infrastructure, Security, Performance Engineering, and QA

Additional Requirements:

Work with Technology leadership to grow the Cloud & DevOps practice. Create cloud practice collateral

Work directly with sales teams to improve and help them drive the sales for Cloud & DevOps practice

Assist Sales and Marketing team in creating sales and marketing collateral

Write whitepapers and technology blogs to be published on social media and Intuitive website

Create case studies for projects successfully executed by Intuitive delivery team

Conduct sales enablement sessions to coach sales team on new offerings

Flexibility with work hours supporting customer’s requirement and collaboration with global delivery teams

Flexibility with Travel as required for Pre-sales/Post-sales, Design workshops, War-room Migration events and customer meetings

Strong passion for modern technology exploration and development

Excellent written, verbal communication skills, presentation, and collaboration skills - Team leadership skills

Experience with Multi-cloud (Azure, GCP, OCI) is a big plus

Experience with VMware Cloud Foundation as well as Advanced Windows and Linux Engineering is a big plus

Experience with On-prem Data Engineering (Database, Data Warehouse, Data Lake) is a big plus

Required qualifications and must have skills  

• 5+ years of experience managing a team of 5+ infrastructure software engineers 

• 5+ years of experience in building and scaling technical infrastructure 

• 5+ years of experience in delivering software 

• Experience leading by influence in multi-team, cross-functional projects 

• Demonstrated experience recruiting and managing technical teams, including performance management and managing engineers 

• Experience with cloud service providers such as AWS, GCP, or Azure 

• Experience with containerization technologies such as Kubernetes and Docker 

Nice to have Skills   

• Experience with Hadoop, Hive and Presto 

• Application/infrastructure benchmarking and optimization 

• Familiarity with modern CI/CD practices 

• Familiarity with reliability best practices 

1. Bachelor’s and/or master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related technical discipline
2. About 5 years of professional experience supporting AWS cloud environments
3. Certified Amazon Architect Associate or Architect
4. Experience serving as lead (shift management, reporting) will be a plus
5. AWS Architect Certified Solution Architect Professional (Must have)
6. Minimum 4yrs experience, maximum 8 years’ experience.

1. 100% work from office in Hyderabad
2. Very fluent in English

You will make an ideal candidate if you have: 

• Experience of building a range of Services in a Cloud Service provider

• Expert understanding of DevOps principles and Infrastructure as a Code concepts and techniques

• Strong understanding of CI/CD tools (Jenkins, Ansible, GitHub)

• Managed an infrastructure that involved 50+ hosts/network 

• 3+ years of Kubernetes experience & 5+ years of experience in Native services such as Compute (virtual machines), Containers (AKS), Databases, DevOps, Identity, Storage & Security

• Experience in engineering solutions on cloud foundation platform using Infrastructure As Code methods (eg. Terraform)

• Security and Compliance, e.g. IAM and cloud compliance/auditing/monitoring tools

• Customer/stakeholder focus. Ability to build strong relationships with Application teams, cross functional IT and global/local IT teams

• Good leadership and teamwork skills - Works collaboratively in an agile environment

• Operational effectiveness - delivers solutions that align to approved design patterns and security standards

• Excellent skills in at least one of following: Python, Ruby, Java, JavaScript, Go, Node.JS

• Experienced in full automation and configuration management

• A track record of constantly looking for ways to do things better and an excellent understanding of the mechanism necessary to successfully implement change

• Set and achieved challenging short, medium and long term goals which exceeded the standards in their field

• Excellent written and spoken communication skills; an ability to communicate with impact, ensuring complex information is articulated in a meaningful way to wide and varied audiences

• Built effective networks across business areas, developing relationships based on mutual trust and encouraging others to do the same

• A successful track record of delivering complex projects and/or programmes, utilizing appropriate techniques and tools to ensure and measure success

• A comprehensive understanding of risk management and proven experience of ensuring own/others' compliance with relevant regulatory processes

Essential Skills :

• Demonstrable Cloud service provider experience - infrastructure build and configurations of a variety of services including compute, devops, databases, storage & security

• Demonstrable experience of Linux administration and scripting preferably Red Hat

• Experience of working with Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD) and continuous testing tools

• Experience working within an Agile environment

• Programming experience in one or more of the following languages: Python, Ruby, Java, JavaScript, Go, Node.JS

• Server administration (either Linux or Windows)

• Automation scripting (using scripting languages such as Terraform, Ansible etc.)

• Ability to quickly acquire new skills and tools

Required Skills :

• Linux & Windows Server Certification

• Cloud and virtualization-based technologies (Amazon Web Services (AWS), VMWare).
• Java Application Server Administration (Weblogic, WidlFfy, JBoss, Tomcat).
• Docker and Kubernetes (EKS)
• Linux/UNIX Administration (Amazon Linux and RedHat).
• Developing and supporting cloud infrastructure designs and implementations and guiding application development teams.
• Configuration Management tools (Chef or Puppet or ansible).
• Log aggregations tools such as Elastic and/or Splunk.
• Automate infrastructure and application deployment-related tasks using terraform.
• Automate repetitive tasks required to maintain a secure and up-to-date operational environment.

Responsibilities

• Build and support always-available private/public cloud-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications.
• Build AWS or other public cloud infrastructure using Terraform.
• Deploy and manage Kubernetes (EKS) based docker applications in AWS.
• Create custom OS images using Packer.
• Create and revise infrastructure and architectural designs and implementation plans and guide the implementation with operations.
• Liaison between application development, infrastructure support, and tools (IT Services) teams.
• Development and documentation of Chef recipes and/or ansible scripts. Support throughout the entire deployment lifecycle (development, quality assurance, and production).
• Help developers leverage infrastructure, application, and cloud platform features and functionality participate in code and design reviews, and support developers by building CI/CD pipelines using Bamboo, Jenkins, or Spinnaker.
• Create knowledge-sharing presentations and documentation to help developers and operations teams understand and leverage the system's capabilities.
• Learn on the job and explore new technologies with little supervision.
• Leverage scripting (BASH, Perl, Ruby, Python) to build required automation and tools on an ad-hoc basis.

Who we have in mind:

• Solid experience in building a solution on AWS or other public cloud services using Terraform.
• Excellent problem-solving skills with a desire to take on responsibility.
• Extensive knowledge in containerized application and deployment in Kubernetes
• Extensive knowledge of the Linux operating system, RHEL preferred.
• Proficiency with shell scripting.
• Experience with Java application servers.
• Experience with GiT and Subversion.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate technical issues to non-technical and technical audiences.
• Experience working in a large-scale operational environment.
• Internet and operating system security fundamentals.
• Extensive knowledge of massively scalable systems. Linux operating system/application development desirable.
• Programming in scripting languages such as Python. Other object-oriented languages (C++, Java) are a plus.
• Experience with Configuration Management Automation tools (chef or puppet).
• Experience with virtualization, preferably on multiple hypervisors.
• BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• Excellent written and verbal skills.

Education or Equivalent Experience:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent education in related fields
• Certificates of training in associated fields/equipment’s