L1 Cloud Infra Engineer - AWS

REVIEW CRITERIA:

MANDATORY:

• Strong Hands-On AWS Cloud Engineering / DevOps Profile
• Mandatory (Experience 1): Must have 12+ years of experience in AWS Cloud Engineering / Cloud Operations / Application Support
• Mandatory (Experience 2): Must have strong hands-on experience supporting AWS production environments (EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, ALB, CloudWatch)
• Mandatory (Infrastructure as a code): Must have hands-on Infrastructure as Code experience using Terraform in production environments
• Mandatory (AWS Networking): Strong understanding of AWS networking and connectivity (VPC design, routing, NAT, load balancers, hybrid connectivity basics)
• Mandatory (Cost Optimization): Exposure to cost optimization and usage tracking in AWS environments
• Mandatory (Core Skills): Experience handling monitoring, alerts, incident management, and root cause analysis
• Mandatory (Soft Skills): Strong communication skills and stakeholder coordination skills

ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES:

We are looking for a hands-on AWS Cloud Engineer to support day-to-day cloud operations, automation, and reliability of AWS environments. This role works closely with the Cloud Operations Lead, DevOps, Security, and Application teams to ensure stable, secure, and cost-effective cloud platforms.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Operate and support AWS production environments across multiple accounts
• Manage infrastructure using Terraform and support CI/CD pipelines
• Support Amazon EKS clusters, upgrades, scaling, and troubleshooting
• Build and manage Docker images and push to Amazon ECR
• Monitor systems using CloudWatch and third-party tools; respond to incidents
• Support AWS networking (VPCs, NAT, Transit Gateway, VPN/DX)
• Assist with cost optimization, tagging, and governance standards
• Automate operational tasks using Python, Lambda, and Systems Manager

IDEAL CANDIDATE:

• Strong hands-on AWS experience (EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, ALB, CloudWatch)
• Experience with Terraform and Git-based workflows
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes / EKS
• Experience with CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, etc.)
• Scripting experience in Python or Bash
• Understanding of monitoring, incident management, and cloud security basics

NICE TO HAVE:

• AWS Associate-level certifications
• Experience with Karpenter, Prometheus, New Relic
• Exposure to FinOps and cost optimization practices

About the Role:

We are seeking a talented and passionate DevOps Engineer to join our dynamic team. You will be responsible for designing, implementing, and managing scalable and secure infrastructure across multiple cloud platforms. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of DevOps best practices and a proven track record in automating and optimizing complex workflows.

Key Responsibilities:

Cloud Management:

• Design, implement, and manage cloud infrastructure on AWS, Azure, and GCP.
• Ensure high availability, scalability, and security of cloud resources.

Containerization & Orchestration:

• Develop and manage containerized applications using Docker.
• Deploy, scale, and manage Kubernetes clusters.

CI/CD Pipelines:

• Build and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines to automate the software delivery process.
• Implement monitoring and alerting to ensure pipeline efficiency.

Version Control & Collaboration:

• Manage code repositories and workflows using Git.
• Collaborate with development teams to optimize branching strategies and code reviews.

Automation & Scripting:

• Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration using tools like Terraform, Ansible, or similar.
• Write scripts to optimize and maintain workflows.

Monitoring & Logging:

• Implement and maintain monitoring solutions to ensure system health and performance.
• Analyze logs and metrics to troubleshoot and resolve issues.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• 3-5 years of experience with AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Proficiency in containerization tools like Docker and orchestration tools like Kubernetes.
• Hands-on experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines.
• Proficient in using Git for version control.
• Experience with scripting languages such as Bash, Python, or PowerShell.
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Solid understanding of networking, security, and system administration.
• Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
• Strong communication and teamwork skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Certifications such as AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Azure DevOps Engineer, or Google Professional DevOps Engineer.
• Experience with monitoring tools like Prometheus, Grafana, or ELK Stack.
• Familiarity with serverless architectures and microservices.

• At least 5 year of experience in Cloud technologies-AWS and Azure and developing. 
• Experience in implementing DevOps practices and DevOps-tools in areas like CI/CD using Jenkins environment automation, and release automation, virtualization, infra as a code or metrics tracking.
• Hands on experience in DevOps tools configuration in different environments.
• Strong knowledge of working with DevOps design patterns, processes and best practices
• Hand-on experience in Setting up Build pipelines.
• Prior working experience in system administration or architecture in Windows or Linux.
• Must have experience in GIT (BitBucket, GitHub, GitLab)
• Hands-on experience on Jenkins pipeline scripting.
• Hands-on knowledge in one scripting language (Nant, Perl, Python, Shell or PowerShell)
• Configuration level skills in tools like SonarQube (or similar tools) and Artifactory.
• Expertise on Virtual Infrastructure (VMWare or VirtualBox or QEMU or KVM or Vagrant) and environment automation/provisioning using SaltStack/Ansible/Puppet/Chef
• Deploying, automating, maintaining and managing Azure cloud based production systems including monitoring capacity.
• Good to have experience in migrating code repositories from one source control to another.
• Hands-on experience in Docker container and orchestration based deployments like Kubernetes, Service Fabric, Docker swarm.
• Must have good communication skills and problem solving skills

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).

Position Summary

Cloud Engineer helps to solutionize, enable, migrate and onboard clients to a secure cloud
platform, which offload the heavy lifting for the clients so that they can focus on their own business
value creation.

Job Description

• Assessing existing customer systems and/or cloud environment to determine the best migration approach and supporting tools used
• Build a secure and compliant cloud environment, with a proven enterprise operating model, on-going cost optimisation, and day-to-day infrastructure management
• Provide and implement cloud solutions to reduce operational overhead and risk, and automates common activities, such as change requests, monitoring, patch management, security, and backup services, and provides full-lifecycle services to provision, run, and support their infrastructure
• Collaborate with internal service teams to meet the clients’ needs for their infrastructure and application deployments
• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure deployments, recreate customer issues, and build proof of concept environments that abide by cloud-best-practices & well architecture frameworks
• Apply advanced troubleshooting techniques to provide unique solutions to our customers’ individual needs
• Work on critical, highly complex customer problems that will span across multiple cloud platforms and services
• Identify and drive improvements on process and technical related issues. Act as an escalation point of contact for the clients
• Drive clients meetings & communication during reviews

Requirement:

• Degree in computer science or a similar field.
• At least 2 year of experience in the field of cloud computing.
• Experience with CI/CD systems.
• Strong in Cloud services
• Exposure to AWS/GCP and other cloud-based infrastructure platforms
• Experience with AWS configuration and management – EC2, S3, EBS, ELB, IAM, VPC, RDS, CloudFront etc
• Exposure in architecting, designing, developing, and implementing cloud solutions on AWS platforms or other cloud server such as Azure, Google Cloud
• Proficient in the use and administration of all versions of MS Windows Server
• Experience with Linux and Windows system administration and web server configuration and monitoring
• Solid programming skills in Python, Java, Perl
• Good understanding of software design principles and best practices
• Good knowledge of REST APIs
• Should have hands-on experience in any deployment orchestration tool (Jenkins, Urbancode, Bamboo, etc.)
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm charts
• Hands on experience in Ansible and Git repositories
• Knowledge in Maven / Gradle
• Azure, AWS, and GCP certifications are preferred.
• Troubleshooting and analytical skills.
• Good communication and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities:

• Writing and maintaining the automation for deployments across various cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP)
• Bring a passion to stay on top of DevOps trends, experiment, and learn new CI/CD technologies.
• Creating the Architecture Diagrams and documentation for various pieces
• Build tools and automation to improve the system's observability, availability, reliability, performance/latency, monitoring, emergency response

Requirements:

• 3 - 5 years of professional experience as a DevOps / System Engineer.
• Strong knowledge in Systems Administration & troubleshooting skills with Linux.
• Experience with CI/CD best practices and tooling, preferably Jenkins, Circle CI.
• Hands-on experience with Cloud platforms such as AWS/Azure/GCP or private cloud environments.
• Experience and understanding of modern container orchestration, Well-versed with the containerised applications (Docker, Docker-compose, Docker-swarm, Kubernetes).
• Experience in Infrastructure as code development using Terraform.
• Basic Networking knowledge VLAN, Subnet, VPC, Webserver like Nginx, Apache.
• Experience in handling different SQL and NoSQL databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Mongo).
• Experience with GIT Version Control Software.
• Proficiency in any programming or scripting language such as Shell Script, Python, Golang.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills; ability to work in a team environment.

• AWS / Kubernetes Certifications: AWS Certified Solutions Architect / CKA.
• Setup and management of a Kubernetes cluster, including writing Docker files.
• Experience working in and advocating for agile environments.
• Knowledge in Microservice architecture.

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.

Minimum 4 years exp 

Skillsets:

1. Build automation/CI: Jenkins
2. Secure repositories: Artifactory, Nexus
3. Build technologies: Maven, Gradle
4. Development Languages: Python, Java, C#, Node, Angular, React/Redux
5. SCM systems: Git, Github, Bitbucket
6. Code Quality: Fisheye, Crucible, SonarQube
7. Configuration Management: Packer, Ansible, Puppet, Chef
8. Deployment: uDeploy, XLDeploy
9. Containerization: Kubernetes, Docker, PCF, OpenShift
10. Automation frameworks: Selenium, TestNG, Robot
11. Work Management: JAMA, Jira
12. Strong problem solving skills, Good verbal and written communication skills
13. Good knowledge of Linux environment: RedHat etc.
14. Good in shell scripting
15. Good to have Cloud Technology : AWS, GCP and Azure