Devops Tech Lead

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

• Experience using AWS (that’s just common sense)
• Experience designing and building web environments on AWS, which includes working with services like EC2, ELB, RDS, and S3
• Experience building and maintaining cloud-native applications
• A solid background in Linux/Unix and Windows server system administration
• Experience using https://www.simplilearn.com/tutorials/devops-tutorial/devops-tools" target="_blank">DevOps tools in a cloud environment, such as Ansible, Artifactory, https://www.simplilearn.com/tutorials/docker-tutorial/what-is-docker-container" target="_blank">Docker, GitHub, https://www.simplilearn.com/tutorials/jenkins-tutorial/what-is-jenkins" target="_blank">Jenkins, https://www.simplilearn.com/tutorials/kubernetes-tutorial/what-is-kubernetes" target="_blank">Kubernetes, Maven, and Sonar Qube
• Experience installing and configuring different application servers such as JBoss, Tomcat, and WebLogic
• Experience using monitoring solutions like CloudWatch, ELK Stack, and Prometheus
• An understanding of writing Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), using tools like CloudFormation or Terraform
• Knowledge of one or more of the most-used programming languages available for today’s cloud computing (i.e., SQL data, XML data, R math, Clojure math, Haskell functional, Erlang functional, Python procedural, and Go procedural languages)
• Experience in troubleshooting distributed systems
• Proficiency in script development and scripting languages
• The ability to be a team player
• The ability and skill to train other people in procedural and technical topics
• Strong communication and collaboration skills

As a special aside, an AWS engineer who works in DevOps should also have experience with:

• The theory, concepts, and real-world application of Continuous Delivery (CD), which requires familiarity with tools like AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodeDeploy, and AWS CodePipeline
• An understanding of automation

Job Summary:

Seeking a seasoned SQL + ETL Developer with 4+ years of experience in managing large-scale datasets and cloud-based data pipelines. The ideal candidate is hands-on with MySQL, PySpark, AWS Glue, and ETL workflows, with proven expertise in AWS migration and performance optimization.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and optimize complex SQL queries and stored procedures to handle large datasets (100+ million records).
• Build and maintain scalable ETL pipelines using AWS Glue and PySpark.
• Work on data migration tasks in AWS environments.
• Monitor and improve database performance; automate key performance indicators and reports.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to support data integration and delivery requirements.
• Write shell scripts for automation and manage ETL jobs efficiently.

Required Skills:

• Strong experience with MySQL, complex SQL queries, and stored procedures.
• Hands-on experience with AWS Glue, PySpark, and ETL processes.
• Good understanding of AWS ecosystem and migration strategies.
• Proficiency in shell scripting.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.

Nice to Have:

• Working knowledge of Python.
• Experience with AWS RDS.

Role Introduction

• This role involves guiding the DevOps team towards successful delivery of Governance and

toolchain initiatives by removing manual tasks.

• Operate toolchain applications to empower engineering teams by providing, reliable, governed

self-service tools and supporting their adoption

• Driving good practice for consumption and utilisation of the engineering toolchain, with a focus

on DevOps practices

• Drive good governance for cloud service consumption

• Involves working in a collaborative environment and focus on leading team and providing

technical leadership to team members.

• Involves setting up process and improvements for teams on supporting various DevOps tooling

and governing the tooling.

• Co-ordinating with multiple teams within organization

• Lead on handovers from architecture teams to support major project rollouts which require the

Toolchain governance DevOps team to operationally support tooling

What you will do

• Identify and implement best practices, process improvement and automation initiatives for

improvement towards quicker delivery by removing manual tasks

• Ensure best practices and process are documented for reusability and keeping up-to date on

good practices and standards.

• Re-usable automation and compliance service, tools and processes

• Support and management of toolchain, toolchain changes and selection

• Identify and implement risk mitigation plans, avoid escalations, resolve blockers for teams.

Toolchain governance will involve operating and responding to alerts, enforcing good tooling

governance by driving automation, remediating technical debt and ensuring the latest tools

are utilised and on the latest versions

• Triage product pipelines, performance issues, SLA/SLO breaches, service unavailable along

with ancillary actions such as providing access to logs, tools, environments.

• Involve in initial / detailed estimates during roadmap planning or feature

estimation/planning of any automation identified for a given toolset.

• Develop, refine, and tune integrations between various tools

• Discuss with Product Owner/team on any challenges from implementation, deployment

perspective and assist in arriving probable solution and escalate any risks to get them

resolved w.r.t DevOps toolchain.

• In consultation with Head of DevOps and other stake holders, prioritization of items, item-

task breakdown; accountable for squad deliverables for sprint

• Involve in reviewing current components and plan for upgrade and ensure its communicated

to wider audience within Organization

• Involve in reviewing access / role and enhance and automate provisioning.

• Identify and encourage areas for growth and improvement within the team e.g conducts

regular 1-2-1’s with squad members to provide support, mentoring and goal setting

• Involve in performance management ,rewards and recognition of team members, Involve in

hiring process.• Plan for upskill of team to know about tools and perform tasks. Ensure quicker onboarding

of new joiners/freshers to team to be productive.

• Review ticket metrics to measure the health of the project including SLAs and plan for

improvement.

• Requirement for on call for critical incidents that happen Out of Hours, based on tooling SLA.

This may include planning standby schedule for squad, carrying out retrospective for every

callout and reviewing SLIs/SLOs.

• Owns the tech/repair debt, risk and compliance for the tooling with respect to

infrastructure, pipelines, access etc

• Track optimum utilization of resources and monitor/track the delivery schedule

• Review solutions designs with the Architects / Principal DevOps Engineers as required

• Provide monthly reporting which align to DevOps Tooling KPIs

What you will have

• Candidate should have 8+ years of experience and Hands-on DevOps experience and

experience in team management.

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, Team player

• Good working experience of CI/CD tools like Jenkins, SonarQube, FOSSA, Harness, Jira, JSM,

ServiceNow etc.

• Good hands on knowledge of AWS Services like EC2, ECS, S3, IAM, SNS, SQS, VPC, Lambda,

API Gateway, Cloud Watch, Cloud Formation etc.

• Experience in operating and governing DevOps Toolchain

• Experience in operational monitoring, alerting and identifying and delivering on both repair

and technical debt

• Experience and background in ITIL/ITSM processes. The candidate will ensure development

of the appropriate (ITSM) model and processes, based on the ITIL Service Management

framework. This includes the strategic, design, transition, and operation services and

continuous service improvement

• Provide ITSM leadership experience and coaching processes

• Experience on various tools like Jenkins, Harness, Fossa,

• Experience of hosting and managing applications on AWS/AZURE•

• Experience in CI/CD pipeline (Jenkins build pipelines)

• Experience in containerization (Docker/Kubernetes)

• Experience in any programming language (Node.js or Python is preferred)

• Experience in Architecting and supporting cloud based products will be a plus

• Experience in PowerShell & Bash will be a plus

• Able to self manage multiple concurrent small projects, including managing priorities

between projects

• Able to quickly learn new tools

• Should be able to mentor/drive junior team members to achieve desired outcome of

roadmap-

• Ability to analyse information to identify problems and issues, and make effective decisions

within short span

• Excellent problem solving and critical thinking

• Experience in integrating various components including unit testing / CI/CD configuration.

• Experience to review current toolset and plan for upgrade.

• Experience with Agile framework/Jira/JSM tool.• Good communication skills and ability to communicate/work independently with external

teams.

• Highly motivated, able to work proficiently both independently and in a team environment

Good knowledge and experience with security constructs –

• Good knowledge of at least one language (C#, Java, Python, Go, PHP, Node.js)
• Have enough experience on application and infrastructure architectures
• Design and plan cloud solution architecture
• Design for security, network, and compliances
• Analyze and optimize technical and business processes
• Ensure solution and operational reliability
• Manage and provision cloud infrastructure
• Manage IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS solutions
• Design strategies around cloud governance, migration, Cloud operations and DevOps
• Design highly scalable, available, and reliable cloud applications
• Build and test applications
• Deploy applications on cloud
• Integration with cloud services

Certification:

• Architect level certificate of any cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure)

We are looking for a DevOps Engineer (individual contributor) to maintain and build upon our next-generation infrastructure. We aim to ensure that our systems are secure, reliable and high-performing by constantly striving to achieve best-in-class infrastructure and security by:

• Leveraging a variety of tools to ensure all configuration is codified (using tools like Terraform and Flux) and applied in a secure, repeatable way (via CI)
• Routinely identifying new technologies and processes that enable us to streamline our operations and improve overall security
• Holistically monitoring our overall DevOps setup and health to ensure our roadmap constantly delivers high-impact improvements
• Eliminating toil by automating as many operational aspects of our day-to-day work as possible using internally created, third party and/or open-source tools
• Maintain a culture of empowerment and self-service by minimizing friction for developers to understand and use our infrastructure through a combination of innovative tools, excellent documentation and teamwork

Tech stack: Microservices primarily written in JavaScript, Kotlin, Scala, and Python. The majority of our infrastructure sits within EKS on AWS, using Istio. We use Terraform and Helm/Flux when working with AWS and EKS (k8s). Deployments are managed with a combination of Jenkins and Flux. We rely heavily on Kafka, Cassandra, Mongo and Postgres and are increasingly leveraging AWS-managed services (e.g. RDS, lambda).

Job description

The role requires you to design development pipelines from the ground up, Creation of Docker Files,  design and operate highly available systems in AWS Cloud environments. Also involves Configuration Management, Web Services Architectures, DevOps Implementation, Database management, Backups, and Monitoring.

Key responsibility area
- Ensure reliable operation of CI/CD pipelines
- Orchestrate the provisioning, load balancing, configuration, monitoring and billing of resources in the cloud environment in a highly automated manner
- Logging, metrics and alerting management.
- Creation of Bash/Python scripts for automation
- Performing root cause analysis for production errors.Requirement
- Proficient in Linux Commands line and troubleshooting.
- Proficient in AWS Services. Deployment, Monitoring and troubleshooting applications in AWS.
- Hands-on experience with CI tooling preferably with Jenkins. 
- Proficient in deployment using Ansible.
- Knowledge of infrastructure management tools (Infrastructure as cloud) such as terraform, AWS cloudformation etc.
- Proficient in deployment of applications behind load balancers and proxy servers such as nginx, apache. 
- Scripting languages: Bash, Python, Groovy.
- Experience with Logging, Monitoring, and Alerting tools like ELK(Elastic-search, Logstash, Kibana), Nagios. Graylog, splunk Prometheus, Grafana is a plus.

Must Have:
Linux, CI/CD(Jenkin), AWS, Scripting(Bash,shell Python, Go), Ngnix, Docker.

Good to have
Configuration Management(Ansible or similar tool), Logging tool( ELK or similar), Monitoring tool(Ngios or similar), IaC(Terraform, cloudformation).

Intuitive is the fastest growing top-tier Cloud Solutions and Services company supporting Global Enterprise Customer across Americas, Europe and Middle East. This is an excellent opportunity to join ITP’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. 

Job Description: 

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

Hello superstar,

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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
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• 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,