Role overview

DevOps Engineer- Contractor

Requirements and responsibilities

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1. Education & Experience:

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Telecommunications, or a related field.- 3+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, Cloud Operations, or Infrastructure Engineering.

2. Cloud Platform:

  • Proficient with AWS: hands-on experience with core services including EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, RDS, Lambda, EKS/ECS.- Solid understanding of cloud-native principles; familiar with containers (Docker), orchestration (Kubernetes or AWS EKS managed service), service mesh, and serverless technologies.

3. CI/CD:

  • Proficient in designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD).- Familiar with pipeline design principles: multi-environment management, branching strategies, artifact management, blue-green/canary deployments, and rollback mechanisms.

4. Observability:

  • Experience building and optimizing monitoring stacks such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/Loki.

5. Operations Automation & Programming:

  • Strong automation programming skills: proficient in at least one scripting/programming language (e.g., Shell, Python, Go) for writing automation scripts and tools.- Able to design automation solutions for operational scenarios and integrate with existing monitoring, ticketing, and configuration management systems.

6. Infrastructure as Code (IaC):

  • Proficient with Terraform: able to manage AWS resources with modular design and proven hands-on experience.- Familiarity with Ansible for configuration management and batch operations (e.g., system initialization, application deployment, configuration distribution).

7. CDN Operations:

  • Hands-on CDN operations experience: familiar with AWS CloudFront configuration, caching strategies, domain and certificate management.- Able to perform bandwidth/traffic and cost analysis, origin optimization, troubleshooting, and SLA assurance.

8. Soft Skills:

  • Strong documentation habits, communication, collaboration, and ability to drive initiatives across teams.- Solid problem analysis and post-mortem skills; able to participate in or lead root cause analysis and drive improvement actions.
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