DevOps Engineer

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

Required Skills:

• Experience in systems administration, SRE or DevOps focused role
• Experience in handling production support (on-call)
• Good understanding of the Linux operating system and networking concepts.
• Demonstrated competency with the following AWS services: ECS, EC2, EBS, EKS, S3, RDS, ELB, IAM, Lambda.
• Experience with Docker containers and containerization concepts
• Experience with managing and scaling Kubernetes clusters in a production environment
• Experience building scalable infrastructure in AWS with Terraform.
• Strong knowledge of Protocol-level such as HTTP/HTTPS, SMTP, DNS, and LDAP
• Experience monitoring production systems
• Expertise in leveraging Automation / DevOps principles, experience with operational tools, and able to apply best practices for infrastructure and software deployment (Ansible).
• HAProxy, Nginx, SSH, MySQL configuration and operation experience
• Ability to work seamlessly with software developers, QA, project managers, and business development
• Ability to produce and maintain written documentation

Job Dsecription:

○ Develop best practices for team and also responsible for the architecture

○ solutions and documentation operations in order to meet the engineering departments quality and standards

○ Participate in production outage and handle complex issues and works towards Resolution

○ Develop custom tools and integration with existing tools to increase engineering Productivity

Required Experience and Expertise

○ Having a good knowledge of Terraform + someone who has worked on large TF code bases.

○ Deep understanding of Terraform with best practices & writing TF modules.

○ Hands-on experience of GCP  and AWS and knowledge on AWS Services like VPC and VPC related services like (route tables, vpc endpoints, privatelinks) EKS, S3, IAM. Cost aware mindset towards Cloud services.

○ Deep understanding of Kernel, Networking and OS fundamentals

NOTICE PERIOD - Max - 30 days

DevOps Consultant!! MERN Stack Project Manager – Systems (Enterprise or Solutions) Architect needed!

Hello superstar,

I appreciate you taking time to read this. I have posted a job for developers to work on a start-up, the link is ......

I would need someone with DevOps experience, to ensure that the project is undertaken with the highest standards possible. I have had many experiences where ‘completed’ software after years of development was filled with bugs and it would be more cost-effective to start from scratch than to attempt to find and correct all the bugs.

I have attempted to learn as much as possible, but I now have an opportunity and it would better serve the venture to have someone handle the management of the project to ensure that;

• We choose the most appropriate technology
• We choose competent developers in those technologies
• The architecture and data modeling are clearly defined in a ‘blueprint’ plan
• A DevOps environment and processes are set up and the developers understand what is required
• Proper tests are carried out to ensure everything works as intended
• There are processes for testers to follow and competent testers are selected to follow them
• Accessibility, localization, and internationalization are planned ahead of time
• Security, scalability, and other future probabilities that I may not even be aware of are considered and planned ahead of time
• Documentation and code reviews, refactoring and other quality assurance processes are undertaken
• Working software is produced and systems that enable new developers or teams of people to easily take over and/or contribute new modules or updates in a controlled and organized fashion
• Cost estimates or budgets/projections or use of SaaS, hosting and other 3rd party services and applications

I am more concerned with a professional and world-class organizational system than with any particular type of software been produced as the strong foundation will enable anything to be creating with efficacy and precision.

Again, thank you for reading this, please reply with the word “superstar” anywhere in the second line of your response.  I look forward to hearing from you.

Warm wishes DevOps Evangelist,