Responsibilities

• Design next-generation application strategy using cloud-native, microservices and serverless architectures
• 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, 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, monitor application, infrastructure and identify opportunities to improve performance
• Manage, mentor and provide technical guidance to the team

Requirements

• Hands-on experience in DevOps and Enterprise Applications deployments on public clouds like AWS, GCP and Azure
• 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
• Must have worked on Infrastructure as Code using technologies like Terraform
• Must have Worked on Microservices architectures using technologies such as Kubernetes
• Must have implemented 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
• Self-starter and ability to deliver under tight timelines
• Comfortable contributing both as a lead as well as an individual contributor

Good to Have

• Prior experience in managing infrastructure for public-facing applications
• Prior experience in handling client communications
• Good to have experience in Python scripting
• Worked on NoSQL (ElasticSearchDB, MongoDB) and SQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL)
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills