DevOps & Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer to spearhead our infrastructure automation, Kubernetes orchestration, and 99.99% uptime reliability. You will own our multi-region cloud topology on AWS/GCP and build automated deployment pipelines.
Key Roles & Responsibilities
- Manage infrastructure as code (IaC) utilizing Terraform or Pulumi.
- Maintain Kubernetes clusters (EKS/GKE), Helm charts, and container networking.
- Build zero-downtime blue/green or canary CI/CD release pipelines with GitHub Actions or GitLab.
- Monitor application performance and latency using Prometheus, Grafana, and Datadog.
- Enforce cloud security baselines, IAM least-privilege policies, and SOC2/ISO compliance.
Must-Have Requirements
- ✓4+ years of hands-on cloud engineering experience on AWS or Google Cloud Platform.
- ✓Proven mastery of Docker containerization and Kubernetes cluster management in production.
- ✓Solid scripting skills in Bash, Python, or Go for automated operational tooling.
- ✓Experience with VPC peering, DNS routing (Route53), and Cloudflare CDN configuration.
Nice-to-Have Skills
- +Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or AWS Solutions Architect Professional.
- +Experience with service meshes like Istio or Linkerd.
- +Cost optimization and FinOps auditing expertise.
Phone Screening Questions & Evaluation Rubric
Use these questions to vet candidates during initial phone screens before submitting shortlists to clients.
Methodical approach: kubectl logs, kubectl describe pod, checking OOMKilled events, probes, and env secrets.
Immediately suggests restarting the entire node or cluster without checking logs.
Mentions AWS Secrets Manager, HashiCorp Vault, or SealedSecrets/ExternalSecrets rather than raw plaintext.
Admits to committing secrets into git repositories or hardcoding in Dockerfiles.
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