Role Overview

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Cloud & DevOps Engineer with 14+ years of IT experience, including 7+ years of deep AWS expertise, to design, build, and operate secure, scalable, and highly available cloud platforms.

This role will focus on Kubernetes (EKS)-based platform engineering, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), CI/CD automation, cloud security, and observability, enabling reliable and efficient delivery of enterprise applications.

The ideal candidate brings strong experience in production-grade cloud environments, DevOps practices, and platform reliability engineering, with a proven track record of improving deployment efficiency, reducing MTTR, and optimizing cloud costs.

Key Responsibilities

Cloud Architecture & Platform Engineering

• Design, implement, and manage large-scale AWS cloud platforms
• Architect and operate Kubernetes (EKS) environments for production workloads
• Ensure high availability, scalability, and fault tolerance across environments
• Design multi-region and multi-account architectures aligned with best practice

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and CloudFormation
• Standardize and automate infrastructure provisioning across environments
• Implement reusable modules and enforce infrastructure governance

 DevOps & CI/CD Enablement

• Design and implement CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI and Jenkins
• Automate build, test, and deployment processes for microservices and containerized applications
• Enable secure multi-stage deployments (dev, test, staging, production)

Containerization & Orchestration

• Build and manage containerized environments using Docker, Kubernetes (EKS), OpenShift, ECS
• Optimize cluster performance, scaling, and resource utilization
• Implement container security best practices

Observability & Reliability Engineering

• Implement and manage monitoring, logging, and tracing solutionsusing:
  • Splunk, Dynatrace
  • Prometheus, Grafana
  • AWS CloudWatch, X-Ray
• Improve system reliability, performance, and availability
• Reduce MTTR through proactive monitoring and incident response

Cloud Security & Compliance

• Implement security best practicesacross cloud environments:
  • IAM, VPC, Security Groups, NACLs
  • WAF, TLS/SSL, encryption
• Integrate security tools and scans (Qualys, SonarQube, Prisma)
• Ensure compliance with enterprise security and regulatory standards

Data & Integration Services

• Work with AWS data services including:
  • S3, RDS, DynamoDB, EFS, Glacier
  • Streaming services (MSK, Kinesis, SNS, SQS)
• Support integration with enterprise databases (Oracle, DB2, PostgreSQL, Snowflake)

Automation & Scripting

• Develop automation scripts using Python, Bash, YAML
• Automate infrastructure, deployments, and operational processes

Collaboration & ITSM

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Developers, Architects, Security, QA)
• Manage incidents, problems, and changes using ServiceNow (ITIL framework)
• Participate in Agile processes and DevOps culture adoption

Required Qualifications

Experience

• 14+ years of experience in Cloud, DevOps, and Infrastructure Engineering
• 7+ years of hands-on experience with AWS cloud platforms
• Proven experience managing production-grade Kubernetes (EKS) environments 
• Experience working with cloud automation and deployment tools (CloudFormation, Ansible, Terraform). 
• Experience with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes, AWS EKS, AWS ECS, Fargate).
• Experience with Git and version control workflows.
• Knowledge of CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab).
• Scripting ability in Bash, Python, or similar languages.
• Strong experience in SQL, data modeling and performance tuning within Snowflake.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with AI, GenAI and ML workflows.
• AWS and HashiCorp Terraform certifications are preferrable.
• Knowledge of data integration solutions using Glue, Lambda and other AWS services.