Description

Key Responsibilities

AWS & Cloud Infrastructure

• Design and manage scalable AWS infrastructure (EC2, EKS, RDS, S3, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch, Lambda)

• Own AWS account governance — cost optimisation, security posture, multi-account strategies

• Implement and maintain cloud networking, load balancing, and DNS configurations

• Enforce AWS security best practices: IAM policies, secrets management, compliance controls

Kubernetes & Container Orchestration

• Lead design, deployment, and operations of Kubernetes clusters on Amazon EKS

• Manage workload scheduling, autoscaling (HPA/VPA/KEDA), resource quotas, and namespace strategies

• Troubleshoot cluster and pod-level issues including networking (CNI), ingress, and storage

Infrastructure as Code

• Build and maintain modular Terraform codebases for AWS and EKS provisioning

• Manage Terraform state, modules, and workspaces across a team environment

• Enforce IaC code review standards and GitOps workflows

CI/CD & Automation

• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines (Bitbucket Actions, Jenkins, ArgoCD)

• Automate operational tasks and toil reduction using Python scripting

• Build tooling to improve developer experience and deployment velocity

Monitoring & Reliability

• Implement observability stacks (New Relic, CloudWatch, Elastic)

• Participate in on-call rotations, incident response, and post-mortems

• Drive SLO/SLA definitions and reliability improvements

Required Skills

• 5+ years in a DevOps, SRE, or Cloud Engineering role

• Deep AWS expertise across compute, networking, storage, and security

• Expert-level Kubernetes — cluster admin, workload management, networking, troubleshooting

• Strong Terraform skills — production-grade IaC, modules, remote state

• Hands-on Amazon EKS experience (managed node groups, Fargate, add-ons, upgrades)

• Solid Python scripting for automation and operational tooling

• Strong networking fundamentals — VPCs, subnets, security groups, VPNs, DNS

Certifications (Advantageous)

• CKA — Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CNCF)

• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional

•  AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate or Professional

• CKAD — Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CNCF)

Nice to Have

• Helm, Istio/Linkerd, ArgoCD/Flux, HashiCorp Vault

• SRE practices and chaos engineering experience

• Open source contributions

Key Skills

Education

Bachelor's degree