RQ11363 - DevOPS/Cloud Engineer - Senior

Responsibilities:

• Design, build and support cloud environments to create digital products
  
• Monitor and assess the performance of applications in a cloud environment to ensure solutions are available
  
• Create, test and implement safeguards to maintain data integrity and protect against unauthorized access
  

General Skills:

• Experience in one of the leading cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure or Google Cloud, etc
  
• Experience in maintaining complex Linux cloud environments, like CentOS, Ubuntu, or CoreOS, to support modern web technologies: LAMP, Drupal and Elasticsearch / Elasticloud
  
• Experience setting up development environments and mechanism using tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Maven and Jenkins or similar tools
  
• Experience in scripting languages like Python, Bash, PHP, Java, JavaScript, Node, etc.
  
• Experience in build tools like Git, Ansible, Chef, Puppet etc. for continuous integration
  
• Knowledge of container-based virtualization technology like Docker or Kubernetes
  
• Integration experience in building and using APIs
  
• Experience applying industry web, architectural and security standards and best practices
  
• Experience in mobile device management for various versions of cellular and tablets
  

Requirements

Experience and Skill Set Requirements:

Must Haves:

• Design, provision, and manage AWS infrastructure including VPCs, subnets, security groups, IAM policies, EC2, ECS, EKS, RDS, S3, Route 53, and CloudFront.
  
• Architect multi-account AWS environments following AWS Well-Architected Framework principles.
  
• Manage AWS cost optimization strategies including Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, and rightsizing.
  
• Develop, maintain, and refactor Terraform modules and configurations for all cloud infrastructure.
  
• Author and maintain Ansible playbooks, roles, and collections for server configuration, application deployment, and compliance enforcement.
  
• Operate and administer Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) clusters, including cluster upgrades, node scaling, and add-on management.
  
• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI, Azure DevOps Service) for infrastructure and application delivery.
  

Skill Set Requirements:

Cloud Infrastructure & AWS:

• Design, provision, and manage AWS infrastructure including VPCs, subnets, security groups, IAM policies, EC2, ECS, EKS, RDS, S3, Route 53, and CloudFront.
  
• Architect multi-account AWS environments following AWS Well-Architected Framework principles.
  
• Manage AWS cost optimization strategies including Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, and rightsizing.
  
• Implement and maintain CloudTrail, Config, GuardDuty, Security Hub, and AWS Organizations SCPs.
  

Infrastructure as Code — Terraform/Terraform Cloud:

• Develop, maintain, and refactor Terraform modules and configurations for all cloud infrastructure.
  
• Manage Terraform Cloud workspaces, remote state backends, variable sets, and team access policies.
  
• Enforce IaC standards including module versioning, input/output conventions, and documentation.
  
• Implement drift detection and remediation workflows using Terraform Cloud run tasks and policy-as-code (Sentinel or OPA).
  
• Lead Terraform code review processes and mentor junior team members on best practices.
  

Configuration Management — Ansible:

• Author and maintain Ansible playbooks, roles, and collections for server configuration, application deployment, and compliance enforcement.
  
• Manage Ansible inventories across dynamic cloud environments using AWS dynamic inventory plugins.
  
• Integrate Ansible automation with CI/CD pipelines for repeatable and auditable deployments.
  
• Use Ansible Vault for secrets management and always ensure secure handling of credentials.
  
• Develop idempotent, well-tested automation that reduces manual toil and configuration drift.
  

Container Platform — OpenShift ROSA:

• Operate and administer Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) clusters, including cluster upgrades, node scaling, and add-on management.
  
• Define and enforce OpenShift RBAC, NetworkPolicies, and SecurityContextConstraints (SCCs).
  
• Manage Operators, Helm charts, and Kustomize overlays for workload deployment on ROSA.
  
• Ensure cluster hardening against CIS benchmarks and organizational security policies.
  

CI/CD Pipelines:

• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI, Azure DevOps Service) for infrastructure and application delivery.
  
• Implement GitOps workflows using ArgoCD for declarative, auditable deployments to OpenShift ROSA.
  
• Integrate security scanning tooling (SAST, container scanning, dependency auditing) into pipeline gates.
  
• Champion shift-left testing principles, ensuring infrastructure changes are validated before promotion to production.
  
• Maintain pipeline-as-code standards with versioned, peer-reviewed pipeline definitions.
  

Security & Compliance:

• Serve as a key contributor to the team's security posture, embedding security controls throughout the infrastructure and CI/CD lifecycle.
  
• Implement secrets management solutions (AWS Secrets Manager) and enforce least-privilege access.
  
• Support vulnerability management processes by triaging findings from infrastructure and container scanning tools.
  
• Participate in incident response and post-mortem processes, ensuring remediation actions are tracked and resolved.
  

Observability & Reliability:

• Build and maintain end-to-end observability solutions using AWS CloudWatch.
  
• Define and track SLOs and SLIs for critical platform services and workloads.
  
• Lead on-call incident response for platform-level issues, conducting RCAs and driving permanent fixes.
  
• Produce and maintain runbooks and architectural decision records (ADRs).