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Senior AssociateJob Description & Summary
At PwC our people in infrastructure focus on designing and implementing robust secure IT systems that support business operations. They enable the smooth functioning of networks servers and data centres to optimise performance and minimise downtime.Focused on relationships you are building meaningful client connections and learning how to manage and inspire others. Navigating increasingly complex situations you are growing your personal brand deepening technical expertise and awareness of your strengths. You are expected to anticipate the needs of your teams and clients and to deliver quality. Embracing increased ambiguity you are comfortable when the path forward isnt clear you ask questions and you use these moments as opportunities to grow.
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Senior Associate Cloud Administrator & DevOps (47 Years)
A highly skilled engineer responsible for designing implementing optimizing and supporting cloud infrastructure and DevOps toolchains across AWS environments. This role is expected to function as a technical SME leading complex cloud builds automation frameworks CI/CD enhancements security integrations and performance engineering activities. The Senior Associate independently handles L3 issues collaborates closely with applications security and network teams and plays a key role in enforcing enterprise ITSM and operational reliability standards.
Minimum Degree Required: Bachelors Degree
Degree Preferred: Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Engineering or related field.
Minimum Years of Experience: 4-7 year(s)
Certifications Required: None
Certifications Preferred: AWS Solutions Architect Associate/Professional Terraform Associate CKA/CKAD DevOps Certifications
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1. Advanced Cloud Engineering & Architecture Support
Design and build scalable AWS infrastructure using best practices for compute network storage and identity.
Implement advanced VPC architectures including transit gateways hybrid connectivity private link integrations and multi-account security patterns.
Own environment hardening IAM baselines trusted access key rotation secrets management OS/VM hardening.
Implement and tune autoscaling caching (Redis/ElastiCache) load balancers and distributed system patterns.
2. DevOps Engineering & Platform Automation
Architect end-to-end CI/CD pipelines with automated tests security scans artifact reuse environment promotion and canary/blue-green deployments.
Build advanced IaC modules (Terraform/CloudFormation) with reusable patterns modules and guardrails.
Implement GitOps workflows using ArgoCD/Flux (if in use).
Automate cloud operations using Python PowerShell or Shell reducing manual tasks by 5070%.
3. Kubernetes & Container Platform Ownership
Manage EKS clusters node groups cluster upgrades CNI networking RBAC PSP/SCC equivalents pod security and logging integrations.
Implement traffic routing strategies ingress service meshes sidecar proxies.
Troubleshoot container performance: CPU throttling OOM kills DNS issues scaling patterns.
4. Observability Reliability and Operational Excellence
Own dashboards covering SI/SLI/SLO metrics across availability latency failure rate system saturation and error budgets.
Optimize monitoring thresholds reduce alert noise and define actionable health checks.
Lead L3 incident response post-incident analysis and recurring failure elimination.
Conduct capacity planning and chargeback modeling based on resource growth.
5. Security & Compliance
Integrate AWS services with enterprise security tooling (GuardDuty Inspector CloudTrail KMS WAF).
Conduct cloud vulnerability remediations certificate renewals and encryption compliance.
Ensure CI/CD pipelines enforce code quality dependency scanning and secrets management.
6. ITSM Responsibilities (Elevated Expectations)
Own end-to-end change design documentation and peer reviews for major deployments.
Lead RCAs and present findings to leadership.
Enforce SLAs/KPIs for platform availability deployment frequency change success rate and incident turnaround.
Maintain and continuously enhance runbooks architectural diagrams and automation playbooks.
7. Cross-Functional Collaboration
Serve as SME to Developers Data Teams Security and Infrastructure.
Mentor Associates on cloud engineering pipelines automation and troubleshooting.
Participate in roadmap planning architecture discussions and environment modernization.
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