Cloud DevOps Engineer

Job Summary:

The DevOPS/Cloud Engineer is responsible for designing, building, and supporting cloud infrastructure and digital products with a strong focus on AWS environments, Infrastructure as Code, configuration management, container platforms, CI/CD pipelines, security, and observability. This role ensures high availability, security, and performance of cloud applications through automation, monitoring, and best practices. Responsibilities:

• Design, provision, and manage AWS infrastructure including VPCs, subnets, security groups, IAM policies, EC2, ECS, EKS, RDS, S3, Route 53, and CloudFront.
• Architect multi-account AWS environments following AWS Well-Architected Framework principles.
• Manage AWS cost optimization strategies such as Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, and rightsizing.
• Develop, maintain, and refactor Terraform modules and configurations for cloud infrastructure.
• Manage Terraform Cloud workspaces, remote state backends, and enforce Infrastructure as Code standards.
• Author and maintain Ansible playbooks, roles, and collections for server configuration, application deployment, and compliance enforcement.
• Operate and administer Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) clusters including upgrades, scaling, and add-on management.
• Define and enforce OpenShift RBAC, NetworkPolicies, and SecurityContextConstraints.
• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI and Azure DevOps Service integrating security scanning and GitOps workflows.
• Embed security controls throughout infrastructure and CI/CD lifecycles, implement secrets management, and support vulnerability management processes.
• Build and maintain observability solutions with AWS CloudWatch, define SLOs/SLIs, lead incident response, and produce runbooks and architectural decision records.

Required Skills & Certifications:

• Extensive experience with AWS cloud services and architecture (VPC, EC2, ECS, EKS, RDS, S3, Route 53, CloudFront).
• Strong proficiency in Terraform for Infrastructure as Code, including module development and Terraform Cloud management.
• Expertise in Ansible for configuration management, playbook authoring, and integration with CI/CD pipelines.
• Hands-on experience operating Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) clusters.
• Proven ability to design and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI or Azure DevOps Service.
• Knowledge of container orchestration, security best practices, and secrets management (e.g., AWS Secrets Manager).
• Experience with scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or similar.
• Familiarity with security compliance, vulnerability management, and incident response procedures.
• Experience with AWS cost optimization and multi-account environment management.

Preferred Skills & Certifications:

• Experience with additional cloud platforms such as Azure or Google Cloud.
• Knowledge of CI/CD tools like Jenkins, Maven, and GitOps tools such as ArgoCD.
• Familiarity with container technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with configuration management tools like Chef or Puppet.
• Understanding of mobile device management and modern web technologies (LAMP, Drupal, Elasticsearch).
• Certification in AWS, Terraform, Ansible, or OpenShift is advantageous.

Special Considerations:

• Must be available for 5 days onsite as required.
• Participation in on-call incident response and post-mortem processes.
• Adherence to strict security and compliance standards in cloud environments.

Scheduling:

• Standard work schedule with potential on-call duties for incident management.
• Shift patterns may include support during critical incidents outside regular hours.