DevOps Engineer

Senior Cloud Engineer Job Description

Position Title: Senior Cloud Engineer -- AWS [LONG TERM-CONTRACT POSITION]

Location: Remote [REQUIRES WORKING IN CST TIME ZONE]

Position Overview

The Senior Cloud Engineer will play a critical role in designing, deploying, and managing scalable, secure, and highly available cloud infrastructure across multiple platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud). This role requires deep technical expertise, leadership in cloud

strategy, and hands-on experience with automation, DevOps practices, and cloud-native technologies. The ideal candidate will work collaboratively with cross-functional teams to deliver robust cloud solutions, drive best practices, and support business objectives

through innovative cloud engineering.

Key Responsibilities

Design, implement, and maintain cloud infrastructure and services, ensuring high availability, performance, and security across multi-cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP)

Develop and manage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, and Ansible for automated provisioning and configuration

Lead the adoption and optimization of DevOps methodologies, including CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and deployment processes

Collaborate with software engineers, architects, and stakeholders to architect cloud-native solutions that meet business and technical requirements

Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize cloud systems for cost, performance, and reliability, using cloud monitoring and logging tools

Ensure cloud environments adhere to security best practices, compliance standards, and governance policies, including identity and access management, encryption, and vulnerability management

Mentor and guide junior engineers, sharing knowledge and fostering a culture of continuous improvement and innovation

Participate in on-call rotation and provide escalation support for critical cloud infrastructure issues

Document cloud architectures, processes, and procedures to ensure knowledge transfer and operational excellence

Stay current with emerging cloud technologies, trends, and best practices,

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent work experience
• 6–10 years of experience in cloud engineering or related roles, with a proven track record in large-scale cloud environments
• Deep expertise in at least one major cloud platform (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and experience in multi-cloud environments
• Strong programming and scripting skills (Python, Bash, PowerShell, etc.) for automation and cloud service integration
• Proficiency with DevOps tools and practices, including CI/CD (Jenkins, GitLab CI), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and configuration management (Ansible, Chef)
• Solid understanding of networking concepts (VPC, VPN, DNS, firewalls, load balancers), system administration (Linux/Windows), and cloud storage solutions
• Experience with cloud security, governance, and compliance frameworks
• Excellent analytical, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis skills
• Strong communication and collaboration abilities, with experience working in agile, interdisciplinary teams
• Ability to work independently, manage multiple priorities, and lead complex projects to completion

Preferred Qualifications

• Relevant cloud certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS DevOps Engineer, Microsoft AZ-300/400/500, Google Professional Cloud Architect)
• Experience with cloud cost optimization and FinOps practices
• Familiarity with monitoring/logging tools (CloudWatch, Kibana, Logstash, Datadog, etc.)
• Exposure to cloud database technologies (SQL, NoSQL, managed database services)
• Knowledge of cloud migration strategies and hybrid cloud architectures

●              Work with application development teams to identify and understand their operational pain points.

●              Document these challenges and define goals to be achieved by the infrastructure team.

●              Prototype and evaluate multiple solutions, often by experimenting with various vendors and tools available, to achieve the goals undertaken.

●              Rollout tools and processes with heavy focus on automation.

●              Evangelize and help onboard application development teams on the platforms provided by the infrastructure team.

●              Co-own the responsibility with application development teams to ensure the reliability of services.

●              Design and implement solutions around observability to ensure ease of maintenance and quick debugging of services

●              Establish and implement administrative and operational best practices in the application development teams.

●              Find avenues to reduce infrastructure costs and drive optimization in all services.

●              5+ years of experience as a DevOps / Infrastructure engineer with cloud platforms (preferably AWS)

●              Experience with git, CI / CD, Docker, etc

●              Experience in working with infrastructure as code (Terraform, etc).

●              Strong Linux Shell scripting experience

●              Experience with one of the programming languages like Python, Java, Kotlin, etc.

Objectives of this role

•Building and implementing new development tools and infrastructure

•Understanding the needs of stakeholders and conveying them to developers

•Working on ways to automate and improve development and release processes

•Testing and examining code written by others and analysing results

•Ensuring that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats

•Identifying technical problems and developing software updates and fixes

•Working with software developers and software engineers to ensure that development follows established processes and works as intended

•Planning projects and being involved in project management decisions

Responsibilities:

• Set up CI/CD pipelines for automated deployment and delivery

•Setup and management of new and Existing cloud-based Kubernetes cluster services

•Write Ad/Hoc Bash/Python scripts to automate certain operational tasks.

•Designing, maintenance and management of tools for automation of different operational processes.

•Provision of critical system security by leveraging best practices and prolific cloud security solutions.

•System troubleshooting and problem resolution across various application domains and platforms

•Support/maintain development, UAT and production infrastructure.

•Providing recommendations for architecture and process improvements.

•Respond to L2 calls and emails.

•Help administer monitoring systems, alerting, log management, and other IT infrastructure systems.

•Perform root cause analysis of production errors and resolve technical issues

•Design procedures for system troubleshooting and maintenance

Technical Skill Requirements:

•Experience in a DevOps role in AWS/OCI cloud environment.

•Must have experience with CI/CD Pipelines and hands-on experience with DevOps tools such as, Jenkins, Git, Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, etc.

•Strong knowledge in Terraform for multi-stack cloud infrastructure provisioning.

•Strong knowledge in OCI/AWS-based Kubernetes service management.

•Must have experience with Python/Bash as a scripting language.

•Good knowledge in software debugging, web applications and services (Apache, Nginx, HAProxy)

•Must have knowledge in monitoring setup with Prometheus, Alertmanager, Grafana, Thanos, Loki, Fluentbit, etc.

Good To Have Skills

•PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Keycloak.

•Migrating application from one cloud to another; OCI certifications

•Test Driven Development

Soft Skill Requirements:

•Able to learn new skills and technology quickly.

•Energetic with amazing customer service skills and a team-oriented approach.

•Strong verbal and written communication skills

e are looking for a DevOps Architect/Engineer with strong technical expertise and decent years of experience to join our IT firm. You will be responsible for facilitating the development process and operations across our organization. Besides, you should own excellent leadership skills to mentor and guide the team members.

To be successful in this job role, you should be able to streamline all DevOps practices. You should be able to review technical operations and automate the process using the right tools and techniques.

Your knowledge of the latest industry trends will prove beneficial in designing efficient practices. Moreover, you should be able to demonstrate excellent research skills and outstanding problem-solving abilities. If you possess the required skills, knowledge, and experience, then do write to us. We would be happy to meet you.

Responsibilities

• Simplifying the development process and operations
• Analyzing any setbacks or shortcomings in the operations
• Developing appropriate DevOps channels
• Setting up a continuous build environment to boost software development
• Designing and delivering efficient and comprehensive best practices
• Reviewing and managing technical operations
• Analyzing and streamlining the existing DevOps practices
• Monitoring and guiding the development team
• Using the right tools and techniques to automate technical processes
• Handling all deployment processes
• Minimizing failures and troubleshooting any technical issues
• Implementing effective DevOps solutions
• Ensuring all systems are secure and scalable

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or a related discipline
• Previous work experience in the IT industry
• Complete knowledge of DevOps tools like Docker, Git, Puppet, and Jenkins
• Familiarity with the latest industry trends and best practices
• Basic understanding of cloud-based environments
• Know-how of software development, testing, and configuration methodologies
• Knowledge of scripting languages like Python, JavaScript, and HTML
• Excellent analytical and research skills
• Strong leadership skills
• Ability to motivate team members
• Highly innovative individual
• Excellent problem-solving ability
• Ability to organize and manage time effectively
• Ability to work collaboratively and independently
• Good communication skills
• Ability to drive the automation process
• Demonstrating multitasking skills
• Familiarity with deployment process and tools
• Ability to maintain the confidentiality of any sensitive information
• Willingness to work in a competitive environment

Requirements:

• Previously help a DevOps Engineer or System Engineer role

• 4+ years of production Linux system admin experience in high traffic environment

• 1+ years of experience with Amazon AWS and related services (instances, ELB,

   EBS, S3, etc.) and abstractions on top of AWS.

• Strong understanding of network fundamentals, IP and related services (DNS, VPN, firewalls, etc.) and    

   security concerns.

• Experience in running Docker and Kubernetes clusters in production.

• Love automating mundane tasks and make developers life easy

• Must be able to code in, at a minimum, Python (or Ruby) and Bash.

• Non-trivial production experience with Saltstack and/or Puppet, Composer,Jenkins, GIT

• Agile software development best practices - continuous integration, releases,branches, etc.

• Experience with modern monitoring tools; capacity planning.

• Some experience with MySQL, PostgreSQL, ElasticSearch, Node.js, and PHP is a plus.

• Self-motivated, fast learner, detail-oriented, team player with a sense of humor

Experience in managing CI/CD using Jenkins.

A network of the world's best developers - full-time, long-term remote software jobs with better compensation and career growth.  We enable our clients to accelerate their Cloud Offering, and Capitalize on Cloud.  We have our own IOT/AI platform and we provide professional services on that platform to build custom clouds for their IOT devices.  We also build mobile apps, run 24x7 devops/site reliability engineering for our clients.

This person MUST have:

• B.E Computer Science or equivalent
• 2+ Years of hands-on experience troubleshooting/setting up of the Linux environment, who can write shell scripts for any given requirement.
• 1+ Years of hands-on experience setting up/configuring AWS or GCP services from SCRATCH and maintaining them.
• 1+ Years of hands-on experience setting up/configuring Kubernetes & EKS and ensuring high availability of container orchestration.
• 1+ Years of hands-on experience setting up CICD from SCRATCH in Jenkins & Gitlab.
• Experience configuring/maintaining one monitoring tool.
• Excellent verbal & written communication skills.
• Candidates with certifications - AWS, GCP, CKA, etc will be preferred
• Hands-on experience with databases (Cassandra, MongoDB, MySQL, RDS).

Experience:

• Min 3 years of experience as SRE automation engineer building, running, and maintaining production sites. Not looking for candidates who have experience only as L1/L2 or Build & Deploy..

Location:

• Remotely, anywhere in India

Timings:

• The person is expected to deliver with both high speed and high quality as well as work for 40 Hours per week (~6.5 hours per day, 6 days per week) in shifts which will rotate every month.

Position:

• Full time/Direct
• We have great benefits such as PF, medical insurance, 12 annual company holidays, 12 PTO leaves per year, annual increments, Diwali bonus, spot bonuses and other incentives etc.
• We dont believe in locking in people with large notice periods.  You will stay here because you love the company.  We have only a 15 days notice period.

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

Requirements:-

• Must have good understanding of  Python and Shell scripting with industry standard coding conventions
• Must possess good coding debugging skills
• Experience in Design & Development of test framework
• Experience in Automation testing
• Good to have experience in Jenkins framework tool
• Good to have exposure to Continuous Integration process
• Experience in Linux and Windows OS
• Desirable to have Build  & Release  Process knowledge
• Experience in  Automating Manual test cases
• Experienced in automating OS / FW related tasks
• Understanding of BIOS / FW QA  is a strong plus
• OpenCV experience is a plus
• Good to have platform exposure
• Must have good Communication skills
• Good Leadership capabilities & collaboration capabilities, as individual will have to work with multiple teams and single handedly maintain the automation framework and enable the Manual validation team

Mandatory Requirement/ Preference:

1.PowerBuild technology experience with minimum 8+ years

1. Excellent command on ASP.NET, Angular5/6/7/any version, MVC, Sql Server.
2. Should have strong debugging skills on Developer Tools of the browser and Working with Cross Browser UI

4.Working knowledge of the Microsoft Windows Platform and Microsoft Office applications.

1. Detailed technical knowledge of Angular any version, C#.Net (Visual Studio) development tools.
2. Experience with DevExpress components desirable.
3. Experience with DATA along with DevOps and GitHub.
4. ANgularJS is different to Angular. AngularJS experience is not relevant to us