Overview: We are seeking an experienced and highly skilled AWS DevOps Engineer to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience working with Amazon Web Services (AWS), automation tools, CI/CD pipelines, and containerization technologies. You will be responsible for managing, optimizing, and scaling cloud-based infrastructure and supporting software development teams by ensuring smooth deployment processes and systems reliability.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, implement, and maintain AWS-based infrastructure to ensure scalability, high availability, and cost optimization.
- Automate deployment pipelines (CI/CD) using tools like Jenkins, GitLab, AWS CodePipeline, or other similar solutions.
- Configure and maintain cloud environments including EC2, Lambda, S3, VPC, RDS, ECS, EKS, and others.
- Manage infrastructure as code (IaC) using Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar tools.
- Implement monitoring and logging solutions (CloudWatch, Datadog, ELK Stack, etc.) for systems and application monitoring.
- Collaborate with development teams to understand application architecture and ensure smooth deployment processes.
- Perform system and application performance tuning, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis.
- Ensure security best practices are followed, including IAM policies, VPC configurations, and access control.
- Support disaster recovery plans and maintain systems in a highly available and fault-tolerant state.
- Manage version control systems (Git), branching strategies, and code repository management.
- Ensure compliance with industry standards and security regulations.
Required Skills and Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field, or equivalent work experience.
- Proven experience as a DevOps Engineer or in a similar cloud infrastructure role.
- Strong hands-on experience with AWS services such as EC2, Lambda, S3, RDS, VPC, ECS, EKS, and CloudFormation.
- Proficient in using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar.
- Experience with CI/CD pipeline tools like Jenkins, GitLab, AWS CodePipeline, or similar.
- Strong experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and container orchestration platforms (EKS, ECS, or Kubernetes).
- Solid understanding of Linux/Unix systems, system administration, and networking concepts.
- Hands-on experience with monitoring, logging, and alerting systems like CloudWatch, Prometheus, Datadog, ELK, etc.
- Knowledge of security best practices in cloud computing, including IAM, encryption, and secure cloud architectures.
- Familiarity with scripting languages like Python, Bash, or Shell.
- Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate in a team environment.