Role Summary

As a DevOps Engineer at our client, you will play a crucial role in bridging the gap between development and operations, ensuring seamless integration, deployment, and delivery of our software solutions. Your responsibilities will encompass building, maintaining, and optimizing our infrastructure, implementing automation, and fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Infrastructure Management: Design, build, and manage scalable and resilient infrastructure on AWS, ensuring high availability and performance.
• Automation: Implement and maintain automation tools and processes to streamline deployment, configuration management, and monitoring.
• Continuous Integration and Deployment (CI/CD): Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate software delivery, enabling faster release cycles and reliable deployments.
• Monitoring and Alerting: Set up monitoring systems and configure alerts to proactively identify and resolve issues, ensuring optimal system performance and availability.
• Security: Implement best practices for infrastructure and application security, including access control, data encryption, and vulnerability management.
• Collaboration: Work closely with the development team to understand their requirements and provide DevOps support throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Documentation: Create and maintain comprehensive documentation for infrastructure, processes, and procedures to facilitate knowledge sharing and onboarding.
• Troubleshooting: Investigate and resolve infrastructure and deployment issues, collaborating with cross-functional teams as needed to ensure timely resolution.
• Capacity Planning: Monitor resource utilization and plan for capacity scaling to accommodate growth and changes in demand.
• Incident Response: Participate in incident response and recovery efforts, contributing to post-incident reviews and implementing preventive measures.
• Continuous Learning: Stay updated on emerging technologies and industry trends in DevOps and cloud computing, applying new knowledge to enhance our practices and tools.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Certifications in relevant areas such as AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), or Certified Docker Associate (CDA).
• Experience with serverless computing, microservices architecture, or big data technologies.
• Understanding of Agile development methodologies and practices.
• Proven experience as a DevOps Engineer or similar role, with a strong background in infrastructure management, automation, and CI/CD.
• Proficiency in AWS, including experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools like Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Hands-on experience with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, and Docker Swarm.
• Familiarity with configuration management tools like Ansible, Puppet, or Chef.
• Solid understanding of networking concepts, security principles, and best practices for cloud environments.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to troubleshoot complex issues in distributed systems.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a cross-functional team environment.