DevOps Engineer - Cloud Infrastructure
First seen by Alion on Oct 24, 2026.
Total Experience : 4 - 8 years
Key Responsibilities :
1. Cloud Infrastructure :
- AWS Design, provision, configure, and manage AWS cloud infrastructure.
- Work with AWS services including EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, ELB/ALB, Auto Scaling, CloudWatch, ECR, RDS, and EKS.
- Implement cloud security best practices, IAM policies, network segmentation, and access controls.
- Monitor infrastructure performance, availability, and cost optimization.
- Troubleshoot cloud infrastructure, connectivity, and application deployment issues.
2. Containerization and Kubernetes :
- Build, manage, and optimize Docker images and containerized applications.
- Deploy and manage applications on Amazon EKS and Amazon ECS.
- Manage Kubernetes workloads, deployments, services, ingress, ConfigMaps, Secrets, and autoscaling.
- Troubleshoot pod failures, node issues, networking, storage, and cluster performance.
- Perform Kubernetes upgrades, capacity planning, and cluster maintenance.
- Implement container security and resource optimization best practices.
3. CI/CD and Release Automation :
- Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Harness, GitHub Actions Pipelines.
- Automate application build, testing, security scanning, artifact management, and deployment processes.
- Implement deployment strategies such as rolling, blue-green, and canary deployments.
- Integrate automated rollback mechanisms and release validation.
- Manage pipeline configurations, environment variables, credentials, and deployment approvals.
4. Infrastructure as Code (IaC) :
- Develop and maintain infrastructure automation using Terraform.
- Create reusable Terraform modules for cloud infrastructure provisioning.
- Manage remote state, state locking, workspace/environment separation, and infrastructure changes.
- Use Ansible for configuration management and operational automation (optional).
- Follow version control, peer review, and change management practices for infrastructure code.
5. DevSecOps and Security :
- Integrate security controls and automated vulnerability scanning into CI/CD pipelines.
- Work with tools such as Veracode, SonarQube/SonarCloud, OWASP Dependency-Check, and container image scanners.
- Implement secure coding checks, dependency scanning, secrets detection, and container security assessments.
- Remediate vulnerabilities based on severity and defined SLAs.
- Implement IAM least privilege, secrets management, encryption, and cloud security best practices.
- Support security audits, compliance requirements, and remediation activities.
6. Monitoring, Logging, and Observability :
- Implement monitoring and alerting using Amazon CloudWatch and Dynatrace.
- Configure centralized logging and log analysis using OpenSearch, Elasticsearch, or Kibana.
- Develop dashboards, alerts, and operational metrics for applications and infrastructure.
- Troubleshoot performance degradation, application errors, resource bottlenecks, and production incidents.
- Support SLI/SLO definition, availability tracking, root cause analysis, and continuous service improvement.
7. Automation and Operational Support :
- Develop scripts using Python, Bash, or PowerShell to automate repetitive operational tasks.
- Participate in production deployments, incident management, problem management, and change management.
- Create and maintain operational runbooks, troubleshooting guides, and rollback procedures.
- Support disaster recovery testing, backup validation, and high-availability requirements.
- Collaborate with development and application support teams to improve reliability and reduce manual intervention.
Required Technical Skills :
- Strong hands-on experience with AWS cloud infrastructure.
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Amazon EKS, and Amazon ECS.
- Proficiency in Terraform and Infrastructure as Code.
- Practical experience with Harness, GitHub Actions, or other CI/CD tools.
- Knowledge of Git-based version control and branching strategies.
- Experience implementing DevSecOps controls in CI/CD pipelines.
- Familiarity with Veracode, SonarQube, OWASP Dependency-Check, or equivalent security tools.
- Experience with CloudWatch, Dynatrace, OpenSearch, and Kibana.
- Scripting knowledge in Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
- Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
- 4+ years of work experience with Oracle SQL Developer
- 2+ years of work experience with Data Warehousing
- 4+ years of work experience with PL/SQL
- 2+ years of work experience with Technical Architecture
- 1+ years of work experience with Harness Design
Skills
DevOps, AWS, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, Data Warehousing, Python, CI/CD, DynaTrace, Cloud Infrastructure