Cloud Engineer

AWS Dev Ops Engineer II

Experience:

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced AWS Dev Ops Engineer II with strong technical leadership, hands-on experience in AWS DevOps mindset. The ideal candidate will possess in-depth knowledge of AWS services, infrastructure automation, Kubernetes, along with demonstrated success in customer satisfaction and cloud deployment processes. We are looking for an OpenShift / Kubernetes Engineer with broad expertise in orchestrating, automating, and supporting cloud-native platforms and application ecosystems. You'll ensure the reliability, availability, and security of modern software deployments by managing clusters, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, service discovery, and ITSM workflows.

Responsibilities

Cloud Application Development: Develop, deploy, and manage cloud applications with a focus on scalability, performance, and security in AWS environments.

DevOps: Implement CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Git, Jenkins, and Terraform, ensuring smooth, automated deployments and infrastructure management.

Create and update runbooks, deployment checklists, SOPs, and operational documentation for applications and infrastructure.

Logging & Monitoring: Implement logging and monitoring using tools like Splunk and New Relic to maintain system health and performance.

Incident Management: Apply ITIL concepts in incident, change, and problem management to maintain service reliability and operational excellence.

OpenShift / Kubernetes Cluster Operations

Cluster Management: Administer and tune clustersmanage nodes, pools, scheduling, resource quotas, and platform operators for smooth operations.

Ingress & Routing: Configure routes/ingress controllers to optimize traffic flow and security.

Troubleshooting & Issue Resolution

Diagnose issues such as pod evictions, image pull errors, registry access, DNS and networking faults, and persistent storage challenges.

Release Support & Deployment Patterns

Design and implement blue/green, canary, and rolling deployments for risk-managed releases.

Utilize feature flags and ensure rollback strategies for business continuity.

Security & Compliance

Establish namespaces, RBAC, network policies, and manage secrets to enforce robust security practices and regulatory compliance.

Secrets & Configuration Management

Administer Vault, KMS, and ConfigMaps for secrets and app configuration. Handle leases, renewals, encryption, and rotation.

Monitor and audit access logs, approvals, and enforce dual-control procedures.

API & Messaging Operations

Operate API Gateways (NGINX), Kafka, MQconfigure routing, rate limiting, back-pressure, consumer lag, and DLQ management.

Troubleshoot schemas, contracts, timeouts, retries, and ensure idempotent processing.

Manage backward-compatible deployments, versioning, and traffic shaping.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).

7+ years of experience in software engineering, including 4+ years with AWS.

Strong knowledge of DevOps practices, pipelines, CI/CD, and infrastructure automation.

Strong scripting/automation skills (Python, Bash, Go, etc.).

2 years of experience in AWS Cloud Architecture, Networking, and Security.

Experience with infrastructure as code and policy as code tools.

Good troubleshooting and documentation skills.

Strong communication and teamwork abilities.

Familiarity with agile methodologies and tools such as Jira and Confluence.

ITIL and Agile knowledge for managing incidents and change requests.

Certifications

AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional.

Relevant certifications (CKA, CKAD, OpenShift) or open-source contributions.

Preferred Skills

Experience with cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure), hybrid or multi-cloud architectures.

Familiarity with service mesh (Istio, Linkerd) and regulated environments (PCI, SOC2, HIPAA).

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Thanks,

Geetha

Senior Technical Recruiter