Responsibilities

• Design the architecture, infrastructure setup, deploy and manage applications on AWS Cloud based on customer needs using Infrastructure as code
• Work closely with the development teams to gather system requirements, new service proposals and large system improvements and come up with the infrastructure architecture leading to stable, well-monitored and secure applications
• Identify performance bottlenecks and optimize the application performance using solutions like database indexes, Varnish, Memcache, Redis, CloudFront etc.
• Automate deployments (CI&CD) and other repetitive tasks using Shell/Python scripts or tools like Jenkins, CodeDeploy etc.
• Implement configuration management for development, test, and production environments using tools like Chef, Ansible etc. 
• Control infrastructure costs by continually looking for opportunities to right-size servers and services
• Manage permissions, backup and performance across different databases like MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB, ElasticSearch etc.
• Act as technical and cultural change catalysts, accelerating learning journeys and the progressive adoption of the DevOps best practices and techniques
• Innovate, audit, and monitor application and infrastructure and identify opportunities to improve performance

Requirements

• Hands-on experience setting up AWS Well architected framework recommended setup from scratch using various AWS services like ECS, ASG, ALB, WAF, EC2, S3, RDS, CloudFront, CloudFormation, CloudTrail, etc
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code using technologies like Terraform
• Work on Microservices architectures using technologies such as Kubernetes
• Proficiency in implementing zero downtime deployment on auto scaling infrastructure using CI/CD Tools like Jenkins, CircleCI, Gitlab, CodeDeploy etc
• Experience in a modern software development environment that is Agile and incorporates DevOps practices
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Self-starter and ability to deliver under tight timelines

Good to Have

• Infrastructure management experience for public facing applications
• Prior experience in handling client communications
• Capability in Python scripting
• Familiarity with NoSQL (ElasticSearchDB, MongoDB) and SQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL)