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You will own the infrastructure and deployment pipelines that engineering teams depend on. The work covers cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, container orchestration, monitoring, and the kind of automation that lets a team ship confidently on a Friday afternoon.\nWhat You Will Work On\nDesign and maintain cloud infrastructure on AWS, GCP, or Azure\nBuild and optimise CI/CD pipelines for automated testing, building, and deployment\nManage Kubernetes clusters and container orchestration for production workloads\nImplement infrastructure-as-code using Terraform, Pulumi, or CloudFormation\nSet up monitoring, alerting, and observability tooling (Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, or CloudWatch)\nImprove deployment reliability through blue-green deployments, canary releases, and rollback automation\nWhat We Look For\n5+ years of DevOps or site reliability engineering experience\nStrong experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS preferred, GCP or Azure accepted)\nHands-on Kubernetes experience in production environments\nInfrastructure-as-code proficiency (Terraform preferred)\nScripting skills in Bash, Python, or Go for automation\nExperience with incident response, post-mortems, and production reliability practices\nWhy Scrums.com\nScrums.com is not a job board. 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