Devops Engineer

Below are the must have points for a Lateral Devops engineer :-

1. Kubernetes & Containers:

Deploying and managing workloads in Kubernetes

Working with Helm for application deployments

Troubleshooting Kubernetes networking pods and storage issues

2. AWS Cloud & Infrastructure:

Setting up and managing EC2 VPC IAM and S3

Implementing security best practices (Security Groups IAM policies etc.

Configuring and troubleshooting AWS ALB NLB and Route 53

3. Terraform & Infrastructure as Code IaC:

Writing reusable Terraform modules

Managing infrastructure state and remote backends

Using Terraform with AWS and Kubernetes

4. CI/CD & DevOps Tools:

Setting up and managing Jenkins pipelines

Integrating CI/CD with Kubernetes and AWS

Experience with GitHub Actions GitOps (ArgoCD or Flux)

5. Monitoring & Logging:

Setting up monitoring using Prometheus Grafana or CloudWatch

Implementing log aggregation using Fluent Bit ELK or Sumologic

6. Security & Compliance:

Implementing security best practices in AWS and Kubernetes

Managing secrets securely (AWS Secrets Manager HashiCorp Vault)

7. Linux Administration & Networking:

Managing Linux servers (user management process monitoring system logs)

Understanding and troubleshooting network configurations (DNS DHCP NAT IP routing)

Configuring and securing SSH access

Troubleshooting firewall rules (iptables firewalld security groups in AWS)

Automating system maintenance tasks using Bash or Ansible

8. Database & Redis Connectivity & High Availability (HA) / Disaster Recovery (DR):

Understanding how a server connects to a database (PostgreSQL/MySQL)

Managing DB connections troubleshooting network/firewall issues

Connection pooling and performance tuning (PgBouncer MySQL Proxy)

Understanding how a server connects to Redis

Configuring Redis clients and authentication

Managing Redis connection limits and latency issues

Setting up HA and DR for databases

Implementing read replicas and failover mechanisms

Backup and restore strategies (AWS RDS snapshots PITR WAL shipping)

Setting up HA and DR for Redis

Redis Sentinel for automatic failover

Clustering for scalability and high availability

Persistent storage and backup strategies

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