Job Description

As a Cloud DevOps Engineer you will have multiple responsibilities depending on project type. One type of project may involve programming applications to be optimized for the cloud, testing and deploying for production.  Another type of project might involve CI/CD automation, where you take a manual provisioning processes and code them based on a triggered event. From an operational viewpoint, your role may require setting up alarms, event trigger or dashboard to monitor cloud resource workloads on any of the public or private cloud platforms. The key responsibilities may involve some or all of the areas listed below:

• Programming applications to be optimized to work within constructs of an public cloud environments (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
• Developing templates or scripts to automate everyday developer or operations functions
  
   
• Monitor and maintain multiple CI/CD pipeline automation (DevOps) environments based on client requirements
• Setting up or managing backups and patching across the environments
• Identifying new tools and processes to improve the cloud platform and automate processes

Technical Requirements 

• Programming experience with Node.js, SQL, Java or Python, JavaScript OR PERL (or other relevant programming language is a must)
• Understanding of multi-tier application architectures
• Experience with different database types  like RDS and NoSQL
• Ability to develop, test and maintain programming environments and architectural standards
• Experience using configuration management tools such as Ansible, Saltstack, Puppet or Chef
• Foundational understanding of application development lifecycle and using tools like ANT, Maven, Gradle and Version control (SVN OR GIT OR BitBucket)
• Strong understanding and experience configuring, managing and supporting applications using tools such as OpsWorks, Datadog and CloudWatch on AWS,
• Experience with working in an agile development lifecycle and continuous integration processes using tools such as Jenkins or Jama
• Experience in creation of CI/CD automation using either of these tools -  Jenkins OR Hudson OR Bamboo
• Experience of developing automations with YML, Groovy, Shell
• Exposure or the foundational understanding of Docker /Swarm / Kubernetes / Containers
• Experience or exposure to Test Driven Development Experience (Junit / TestNG)
• Experience or exposure to Behavior Driven Development Experience (Cucumber / Selenium)
• Experience of working with mixed onshore/offshore development teams
• Experience of working with the Scrum Agile development methodology

 
Consulting Requirements 

• 4+ years of relevant consulting, industry or technology experience
• Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills
• Strong communicator

 
Preferred 

• Public Cloud certification – Associate/Professional (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
• Active Directory administration
• Experience with VMware products like vRealize
• Experience with cloud automation and container tools like bash scripting, Ansible, Docker, Chef or Puppet
• Working knowledge of ITIL and/or agile methodologies