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

We’re hiring a DevOps Engineer who’s passionate about automation, reliability, and scaling infrastructure for modern cloud-native applications. If you thrive in dynamic environments and love problem-solving at scale, we’d love to meet you!

🔧 Key Responsibilities

• Manage and support production systems with on-call rotations
• Deploy and maintain scalable infrastructure on AWS (ECS, EC2, EKS, S3, RDS, ELB, IAM, Lambda)
• Build infrastructure using Terraform
• Manage and monitor Kubernetes clusters and Docker containers
• Automate deployment and configuration using Ansible or similar tools
• Ensure systems reliability using robust monitoring and alerting tools
• Work with Linux OS, and network protocols like HTTP, DNS, SMTP, LDAP
• Manage services like Nginx, HAProxy, MySQL, SSH
• Collaborate with development, QA, and product teams
• Document systems and infrastructure best practices

✅ Required Skills

• 4+ years in DevOps, SRE, or Systems Administration
• Hands-on experience with AWS, Kubernetes, Docker
• Proficient with Terraform, Ansible, and Linux systems
• Strong understanding of networking, system logs, and debugging
• Excellent communication and documentation skills

Job Title: DevOps SDE llI

Job Summary

Porter seeks an experienced cloud and DevOps engineer to join our infrastructure platform team. This team is responsible for the organization's cloud platform, CI/CD, and observability infrastructure. As part of this team, you will be responsible for providing a scalable, developer-friendly cloud environment by participating in the design, creation, and implementation of automated processes and architectures to achieve our vision of an ideal cloud platform.

Responsibilities and Duties

In this role, you will

• Own and operate our application stack and AWS infrastructure to orchestrate and manage our applications.
• Support our application teams using AWS by provisioning new infrastructure and contributing to the maintenance and enhancement of existing infrastructure.
• Build out and improve our observability infrastructure.
• Set up automated auditing processes and improve our applications' security posture.
• Participate in troubleshooting infrastructure issues and preparing root cause analysis reports.
• Develop and maintain our internal tooling and automation to manage the lifecycle of our applications, from provisioning to deployment, zero-downtime and canary updates, service discovery, container orchestration, and general operational health.
• Continuously improve our build pipelines, automated deployments, and automated testing.
• Propose, participate in, and document proof of concept projects to improve our infrastructure, security, and observability.

Qualifications and Skills

Hard requirements for this role:

• 5+ years of experience as a DevOps / Infrastructure engineer on AWS.
• Experience with git, CI / CD, and Docker. (We use GitHub, GitHub actions, Jenkins, ECS and Kubernetes).
• Experience in working with infrastructure as code (Terraform/CloudFormation).
• Linux and networking administration experience.
• Strong Linux Shell scripting experience.
• Experience with one programming language and cloud provider SDKs. (Python + boto3 is preferred)
• Experience with configuration management tools like Ansible and Packer.
• Experience with container orchestration tools. (Kubernetes/ECS).
• Database administration experience and the ability to write intermediate-level SQL queries. (We use Postgres)
• AWS SysOps administrator + Developer certification or equivalent knowledge

Good to have:

• Experience working with ELK stack.
• Experience supporting JVM applications.
• Experience working with APM tools is good to have. (We use datadog)
• Experience working in a XaaC environment. (Packer, Ansible/Chef, Terraform/Cloudformation, Helm/Kustomise, Open policy agent/Sentinel)
• Experience working with security tools. (AWS Security Hub/Inspector/GuardDuty)
• Experience with JIRA/Jira help desk.

Type, Location

Full Time @ Anywhere in India

Desired Experience

2+ years

Job Description

What You’ll Do

● Deploy, automate and maintain web-scale infrastructure with leading public cloud vendors such as Amazon Web Services, Digital Ocean & Google Cloud Platform.

● Take charge of DevOps activities for CI/CD with the latest tech stacks.

● Acquire industry-recognized, professional cloud certifications (AWS/Google) in the capacity of developer or architect Devise multi-region technical solutions.

● Implementing the DevOps philosophy and strategy across different domains in organisation.

● Build automation at various levels, including code deployment to streamline release process

● Will be responsible for architecture of cloud services

● 24*7 monitoring of the infrastructure

● Use programming/scripting in your day-to-day work

● Have shell experience - for example Powershell on Windows, or BASH on *nix

● Use a Version Control System, preferably git

● Hands on at least one CLI/SDK/API of at least one public cloud ( GCP, AWS, DO)

● Scalability, HA and troubleshooting of web-scale applications.

● Infrastructure-As-Code tools like Terraform, CloudFormation

● CI/CD systems such as Jenkins, CircleCI

● Container technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift

● Monitoring and alerting systems: e.g. NewRelic, AWS CloudWatch, Google StackDriver, Graphite, Nagios/ICINGA

What you bring to the table

● Hands on experience in Cloud compute services, Cloud Function, Networking, Load balancing, Autoscaling.

● Hands on with GCP/AWS Compute & Networking services i.e. Compute Engine, App Engine, Kubernetes Engine, Cloud Function, Networking (VPC, Firewall, Load Balancer), Cloud SQL, Datastore.

● DBs: Postgresql, MySQL, Elastic Search, Redis, kafka, MongoDB or other NoSQL systems

● Configuration management tools such as Ansible/Chef/Puppet

Bonus if you have…

● Basic understanding of Networking(routing, switching, dns) and Storage

● Basic understanding of Protocol such as UDP/TCP

● Basic understanding of Cloud computing

● Basic understanding of Cloud computing models like SaaS, PaaS

● Basic understanding of git or any other source code repo

● Basic understanding of Databases(sql/no sql)

● Great problem solving skills

● Good in communication

● Adaptive to learning

Description

DevOps Engineer / SRE

• Understanding of maintenance of existing systems (Virtual machines), Linux stack
• Experience running, operating and maintainence of Kubernetes pods
• Strong Scripting skills
• Experience in AWS
• Knowledge of configuring/optimizing open source tools like Kafka, etc.
• Strong automation maintenance - ability to identify opportunities to speed up build and deploy process with strong validation and automation
• Optimizing and standardizing monitoring, alerting.
• Experience in Google cloud platform
• Experience/ Knowledge  in Python will be an added advantage
• Experience on Monitoring Tools like Jenkins, Kubernetes ,Nagios,Terraform  etc

We are looking for a DevOps Engineer for managing the interchange of data between the server and the users. Your primary responsibility will be the development of all server-side logic, definition, and maintenance of the central database, and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to request from the frontend. You will also be responsible for integrating the front-end elements built by your co-workers into the application. Therefore, a basic understanding of frontend technologies is necessary as well.

What we are looking for

• Must have strong knowledge of Kubernetes and Helm3
• Should have previous experience in Dockerizing the applications.
• Should be able to automate manual tasks using Shell or Python
• Should have good working knowledge on AWS and GCP clouds
• Should have previous experience working on Bitbucket, Github, or any other VCS.
• Must be able to write Jenkins Pipelines and have working knowledge on GitOps and ArgoCD.
• Have hands-on experience in Proactive monitoring using tools like NewRelic, Prometheus, Grafana, Fluentbit, etc.
• Should have a good understanding of ELK Stack.
• Exposure on Jira, confluence, and Sprints.

What you will do:

• Mentor junior Devops engineers and improve the team’s bar
• Primary owner of tech best practices, tech processes, DevOps initiatives, and timelines
• Oversight of all server environments, from Dev through Production.
• Responsible for the automation and configuration management
• Provides stable environments for quality delivery
• Assist with day-to-day issue management.
• Take lead in containerising microservices
• Develop deployment strategies that allow DevOps engineers to successfully deploy code in any environment.
• Enables the automation of CI/CD
• Implement dashboard to monitors various
• 1-3 years of experience in DevOps
• Experience in setting up front end best practices
• Working in high growth startups
• Ownership and Be Proactive.
• Mentorship & upskilling mindset.
• systems and applications
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  what you’ll get
  • Health Benefits
  • Innovation-driven culture
  • Smart and fun team to work with
  • Friends for life

Experienced with Azure DevOps, CI/CD and Jenkins.

Experience is needed in Kubernetes (AKS), Ansible, Terraform, Docker.

Good understanding in Azure Networking, Azure Application Gateway, and other Azure components.

Experienced Azure DevOps Engineer ready for a Senior role or already at a Senior level.

Demonstrable experience with the following technologies:

Microsoft Azure Platform As A Service (PaaS) product such as Azure SQL, AppServices, Logic Apps, Functions and other Serverless services.

Understanding of Microsoft Identity and Access Management products such including Azure AD or AD B2C.

Microsoft Azure Operational and Monitoring tools, including Azure Monitor, App Insights and Log Analytics.

Knowledge of PowerShell, GitHub, ARM templates, version controls/hotfix strategy and deployment automation.

Ability and desire to quickly pick up new technologies, languages, and tools

Excellent communication skills and Good team player.

Passionate about code quality and best practices is an absolute must

Must show evidence of your passion for technology and continuous learning

• Degree in Computer Science or related discipline.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect certification required
• 5+ years of architecture, design, implementation, and support of highly complex solutions (i.e. having an architectural sense for ensuring security and compliance, availability, reliability, etc.)
• Deep technical experience in serverless AWS infrastructure
• Understanding of cloud automation and orchestration tools and techniques including git, terraform, ARM or equivalent
• Create Technical Design documents, understand technical designs and translate into the application requirements.
• Exercise independent judgment in evaluating alternative technical solutions
• Participate in code and design review process
• Write unit test cases for quality check of the deliverables
• Ability to work closely with others in a team environment as well as independently
• Proven ability to problem solve and troubleshoot
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to interact professionally with a diverse group, executives, managers, and subject matter experts
• Excellent English communication skills are required

We are looking for a Solution Architect with at least 5 years’ experience working on the following to join our growing team:

• AWS
• Postgresql
• EC2 on AWS
• Cognito
• and most importantly Serverless

You will need a strong technical AWS background focused on architecting on serverless (eg Lambda) AWS infrastructure.