AWS DevOps Engineer

Role Overview

As an AWS DevOps Engineer you will design implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines automate cloud infrastructure using IaC (Infrastructure as Code) and ensure high availability scalability and security of applications running in AWS. Youll work closely with development QA and security teams to streamline cloud operations and optimise system performance.

Key Responsibilities

• Design build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions Jenkins GitLab CI or AWS CodePipeline.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform or AWS CloudFormation.
• Manage containeriseddeployments using Docker and Amazon ECS / EKS (Kubernetes).
• Configure and maintain AWS services such as EC2 S3 Lambda CloudWatch RDS Route53 and VPCs.
• Set up and maintain monitoring alerting and logging using CloudWatch Prometheus Grafana or ELK Stack.
• Ensure security and compliance using IAM roles policies secrets management and security best practices.
• Implement automated scaling backup and disaster recovery strategies.
• Collaborate with developers to optimize application deployment runtime performance and cost efficiency.
• Participate in incident management root cause analysis and environment troubleshooting.
• Drive continuous improvement in DevOps processes and tools.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• 3 8 years of hands-on experience in DevOps and cloud automation.
• Strong expertise with AWS core services (EC2 ECS/EKS Lambda VPC S3 CloudWatch etc.).
• Proficiency in CI/CD tools (Jenkins GitHub Actions GitLab AWS CodePipeline).
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or CloudFormation).
• Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python Bash or PowerShell.
• Strong understanding of Linux/Unix administration and networking concepts.
• Experience with container orchestration (Docker Kubernetes).
• Familiarity with security best practices in AWS environments.
• Knowledge of version control systems (Git Bitbucket).
• Excellent problem-solving communication and collaboration skills.

Preferred / Nice-to-Have

• AWS Certification (e.g. AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Solutions Architect Associate/Professional).
• Experience with Serverless architectures (Lambda API Gateway).
• Knowledge of monitoring and observability tools (Datadog New Relic).
• Experience integrating DevSecOps practices and tools (e.g. SonarQube Snyk Trivy).
• Familiarity with multi-cloud environments (Azure GCP).