Dev Ops Engineer (Cloud Infrastructure)

About the Role:

● This position is responsible for end to end management of Shopalyst's cloud infrastructure platform (AWS and Google Cloud).

● Candidate should have a bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Engineering (or equivalent) plus minimum 3+ years of experience in managing AWS cloud infrastructure.

Core responsibilities:

Infra management

● Review infrastructure change requests, suggest & implement optimal solution in terms

of performance, maintainability & cost

● Keep the infrastructure updated/upgraded. This includes servers, operating system,

packages and application software

● Maintain all infrastructure configuration as IaC (Infrastructure as Code)

Infra monitoring and site reliability

● Continuous monitoring of infrastructure and ensuring 24x7 availability

● Implement/maintain automated alerting mechanisms for handling infra outages

● Document and maintain infra recovery procedures, ensure successful backup of critical

data

● Continuously monitor infra utilization and alert on when to scale up/scale down

instances

Infra Security, Compliance & Certifications

● Infrastructure access management - ensure least privilege as the default policy. Review

infra access periodically. Manage access to critical systems like AWS/Open VPN

● Adherence to CIS/AWS security benchmarks on AWS Security Hub

● Implement controls required for different attestations/certifications like SOC 2 Type 2,

ISO 27xxx, PCI DSS etc

DevOps

● Enable CI/CD process for application deployment

Infra cost monitoring and optimisation

● Services-wise infrastructure cost monitoring analysis and optimisation

Infra trends and new services

● Evaluate new cloud services, analyse feasibility of adoption

Required Skills and Experience:

● AWS: 8+ years experience with using a broad range of AWS technologies (e.g. EC2,S3, ELB, VPC,Route 53, IAM, CloudWatch, CloudFront, RDS, Lambda, Glacier) to develop and maintain an Amazon AWS based cloud solution

● DevOps: Solid experience as a DevOps Engineer in a 24x7 uptime Amazon AWS environment, including automation experience with configuration management tools.

● Infra automation: Experience in Terraform/Ansible

● Scripting Skills: Strong scripting (e.g. Python) and automation skills.

● Operating Systems: Linux system administration and strong shell scripting skills

● Monitoring Tools: Experience with web servers (e.g. Nginx).

● Problem Solving: Ability to analyze and resolve complex infrastructure resource and

application deployment issues.

Requirements

Desired Skills (Not essential but beneficial to have):

● DB Skills: Basic DB administration experience - Cassandra, RDS, MySQL

● Search engines: Experience with search engines such as Apache Solr/Elastic Search

● Version Control: Experience administrating version control systems such as Git