Senior Cloud Specialist - DevOps

Description :

We are looking for a Sr. Cloud Specialist with deep expertise in cloud agnostic services, DevOps

practices, and infrastructure automation to lead our cloud transformation initiatives. This role is

critical in building and scaling our cloud-native travel platform infrastructure for ensuring high availability, security, and operational excellence.

Key Responsibilities :

Cloud Architecture & Design : Design, implement, and manage scalable, secure, and cost-optimized AWS cloud infrastructure supporting microservices architecture and serverless applications.

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) : Develop and maintain infrastructure automation using Terraform, Ansible, AWS CloudFormation, ymal, and CDK. Implement version-controlled infrastructure templates following best practices.

CI / CD Pipeline Management : Build, optimize, and maintain robust CI / CD pipelines using Azure Pipelines, GitHub Actions, and for automated build, test, and deployment workflows.

Container Orchestration : Manage containerized workloads using Docker, Amazon ECS, EKS (Kubernetes), Lambda, and implement service mesh patterns for microservices communication.

Serverless Architecture : Design and deploy serverless solutions using AWS Lambda, API Gateway, Step Functions, SQS, SNS, and EventBridge, Apache Pulser, HashiCorp Vault, Consul for event-driven architectures.

Monitoring & Observability : Implement comprehensive monitoring and alerting using OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, AWS CloudWatch, and Elasticsearch / ELK Stack. Establish SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs.

Security & Compliance : Implement security best practices including IAM policies, security groups, VPC design, encryption (KMS), secrets management (AWS Secrets Manager), and compliance frameworks (SOC2, PCI-DSS).

Database Management : Manage and optimize RDS (PostgreSQL), DynamoDB, MongoDB, Redis / ElastiCache, and QLDB for various application needs.

Performance Optimization : Conduct performance tuning, cost optimization, and capacity planning. Implement auto-scaling, load balancing, and caching strategies.

Disaster Recovery & Backup : Design and implement backup strategies, disaster recovery plans, and business continuity solutions with defined RTOs and RPOs.

Collaboration & Mentorship : Work closely with engineering, product, and QA teams to enable DevOps culture. Mentor junior DevOps engineers and conduct knowledge-sharing sessions.

• Incident Management : Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and implement

post-mortem learnings to improve system reliability.

Required Qualifications :

AWS Expertise :

DevOps & Automation :

Containerization & Orchestration :

Monitoring & Observability :

Security & Compliance :

Methodologies & Tools :

Soft Skills :

Preferred Skills :

DevOps Engineer, or AWS Certified Security Specialty.

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