DevOps Engineer - Contractor

Responsibilities

Cloud Infrastructure Design & Operations: Design, build, and optimize highly available and secure cloud architectures on AWS

CI/CD Pipeline Development: Design and maintain end-to-end pipelines from code commit to deployment — including build, test, artifact management, release, and rollback — to improve release frequency and quality

Operations Automation: Reduce manual toil through programming and automation tools (e.g., Ansible, Terraform, custom scripts/platforms) to automate configuration management, change execution, and incident response

Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Manage AWS cloud resources and network configurations using Terraform to ensure environment consistency, auditability, and reproducibility

CDN Operations: Configure, monitor, tune, and troubleshoot AWS CDN services to ensure acceleration and availability of static assets and streaming media

Monitoring, Alerting & Observability: Build and maintain monitoring, logging, and distributed tracing systems to enable rapid issue identification and drive capacity and performance optimization

Requirements

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

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

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

Observability:

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

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

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)

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

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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