Devops AWS Engineer

Job Summary

We are looking for a skilled DevOps Engineer with 3–4 years of experience to manage and improve our cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, deployment processes, monitoring, and application reliability.

The ideal candidate should have strong hands-on experience with AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Linux, CI/CD, Git, and infrastructure automation. The candidate will work closely with development, QA, and product teams to ensure reliable, secure, and scalable application deployments.

Key Responsibilities

1. Cloud & Infrastructure

• Manage and maintain AWS infrastructure across development, QA, staging, and production environments.

• Work with services such as:

• EC2

• S3

• RDS

• ECR

• CloudFront

• IAM

• VPC

• Route 53

• CloudWatch

• SES/SNS

• Configure and maintain secure networking, IAM roles, security groups, and access policies.

• Monitor infrastructure capacity, availability, and performance.

• Optimize AWS infrastructure and cloud costs.

2. CI/CD

• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or similar tools.

• Automate:

Build

Unit/integration test execution

Docker image creation

Security scanning

Deployment

Rollback

• Implement deployment strategies such as rolling, blue-green, or canary deployments.

• Maintain separate deployment workflows for Dev, QA, Staging, and Production.

3. Docker & Kubernetes

• Build and maintain optimized Dockerfiles and Docker images.

• Manage containerized applications using Kubernetes.

• Work with:

• Deployments

• Services

• ConfigMaps

• Secrets

• Ingress

• Persistent Volumes

• Liveness/Readiness probes

• Resource limits and requests

• Troubleshoot pod failures, CrashLoopBackOff, image-pull issues, networking problems, and resource-related issues.

• Experience with Helm charts and Kubernetes configuration management is preferred.

4. Infrastructure as Code

• Automate infrastructure provisioning using Terraform or CloudFormation.

• Maintain reusable infrastructure modules and environment-specific configurations.

• Follow Infrastructure-as-Code best practices and maintain infrastructure changes through Git.

5. Monitoring & Logging

• Implement and maintain application and infrastructure monitoring.

• Work with tools such as:

• AWS CloudWatch

• Grafana

• Prometheus

• ELK/OpenSearch

• Configure alerts for:

• CPU/memory utilization

• Disk usage

• Application errors

• Kubernetes failures

• API availability

• Database performance

• Investigate production incidents using logs and monitoring metrics.

6. Security

• Implement DevSecOps practices across CI/CD pipelines.

• Manage secrets securely using AWS Secrets Manager, Parameter Store, Kubernetes Secrets, or equivalent.

• Implement vulnerability scanning for Docker images and dependencies.

• Maintain least-privilege IAM policies.

• Apply security best practices to AWS and Kubernetes environments.

• Assist with SSL/TLS certificate management and security headers.

7. Linux & Troubleshooting

• Strong hands-on experience with Linux systems.

• Troubleshoot:

• CPU/memory issues

• Disk utilization

• Network connectivity

• DNS issues

• Process failures

• Application deployment failures

• Container issues

• Comfortable using shell commands and writing basic Bash scripts.

8. Git & Release Management

• Strong understanding of Git and Git branching strategies.

• Manage release and deployment workflows across multiple environments.

• Support controlled promotion of changes from Dev → QA → Staging → Production.

• Assist development teams with deployment and environment-related issues.

Required Skills

SkillRequirementLinuxStrongAWSStrongDockerStrongKubernetesStrongCI/CDStrongGit/GitHubStrongBash/ScriptingGoodTerraformGoodHelmGoodNetworkingGoodMonitoringGoodSecurity/DevSecOpsGoodJenkins/GitHub ActionsGoodPrometheus/GrafanaGood

Good to Have

• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer / Solutions Architect / Developer certification.

• Experience with Terraform modules.

• Experience with Helm and Kubernetes production deployments.

• Experience with Prometheus and Grafana.

• Experience with SonarQube, Trivy, Snyk, or other security/scanning tools.

• Experience with AWS cost optimization.

• Knowledge of PostgreSQL/RDS administration.

• Experience supporting Node.js/Angular or similar web applications.

• Understanding of high-availability and disaster-recovery architecture.

Requirements

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.

• 3–4 years of hands-on DevOps/Cloud engineering experience.

• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.

• Good understanding of cloud infrastructure and deployment architecture.

• Ability to work closely with developers, QA, and technical leadership.

• Good communication and documentation skills.

Expected Experience

The candidate should be capable of independently handling:

Developer commits → CI pipeline → Build/Test → Docker image → Container registry → Kubernetes deployment → Monitoring → Production support

and should be comfortable troubleshooting the complete deployment lifecycle.