AWS DevOps Engineer- Kubernetes Expertise

Cloudelligent is looking for experienced candidates for the position of AWS DevOps Engineer-Kubernetes Expertise (C2-425124).

Position Title: AWS DevOps Engineer- Kubernetes Expertise (C2-425124)
Job Timings: 8am-5pm Central Time (US) (6pm-3am PKT)
Location: Karachi

About Cloudelligent

Cloudelligent is a cloud-native consultancy and AWS Advanced consulting partner We specialize in providing bespoke cloud solutions to the Startups, SMB & enterprise segment. Being a next-gen cloud service provider, Cloudelligent helps businesses to make the most out of their cloud investment. We have an international footprint with a diverse team of domain experts, and we are customer obsessed.

Job Objective

As an experienced DevOps engineer, your primary role would be to build and deploy complex cloud environments for our customers using innovative automation tools and cutting-edge technologies. You will be responsible for setting up, maintaining, and evolving the AWS cloud architecture and supporting infrastructure monitoring and alerting, troubleshooting issues, and developing required automation for our customers.

Responsibilities

1. Work alongside a team of DevOps Engineers to architect, build, and deploy AWS cloud infrastructure that is redundant, resilient, scalable, self-sustaining, and self-healing.
2. Promote infrastructure as code and automation as much as possible. To achieve this, you must have extensive knowledge of the DevOps toolsets like Terraform, CloudFormation, CircleCI, GitLab, Jenkins, Docker, and Kubernetes.
3. Design, build, and maintain our Kubernetes infrastructure, including clusters, namespaces, and deployments.
4. Work on projects independently with customers and stakeholders, gathering their requirements and informing them of new features and enhancements.
5. Create and improve current operational practices and procedures.
6. Ensure the implementation and maintenance of compliance and security practices in operational infrastructure.
7. Responsible for training and mentoring junior DevOps engineers and new team members.

Requirements

1. Bachelor's in software/computer engineering, computer science, or related field.
2. Effective communication skills (proficiency in English language).
3. 4+ years of professional experience in DevOps engineering.
4. 3+ years of using CI/CD tools (Jenkins, CircleCI, GitLab, or similar).
5. Experience in Infrastructure as code (Terraform / CloudFormation / CDK) and using container orchestration tools (Kubernetes / EKS or ECS, Rancher, etc.).
6. Experience using configuration management tools (Puppet, Ansible, etc.) and working with containers (Docker or Docker-Compose, etc.).
7. Experience using scripting when necessary (Bash, Python, Ruby, Go, or JavaScript, etc.).
8. Self-driven, ability to work independently or as part of a project team with limited supervision.

Technical Experience/Expertise

1. Strong hands-on expertise with solution architecting environments in AWS cloud space.
2. Strong hands-on experience with code pipeline design, development, and managing CI/CD workflows and tools.
3. Comprehensive understanding and hands-on experience of core DevOps concepts (CI/CD, Agile & Automation).
4. Extensive experience in designing, deploying, and managing Kubernetes clusters in production environments.
5. Expertise in containerization technologies such as Docker, including creating Docker images, managing Docker registries, and configuring Docker runtime environments.
6. Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools such as Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Grafana, ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana).
7. Extensive knowledge and hands-on experience of IP networking, VPNs, DNS, load balancing, and firewalls.
8. Extensive knowledge and hands-on experience with designing a secure infrastructure using current cloud-native security standards.

Good to have

1. AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate.
2. AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate.
3. Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA).