Contractor Cloud Engineer

Role Summary We are looking for a Cloud Engineer with solid experience in infrastructure automation, continuous delivery pipelines, and integrated security practices. You will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining scalable, secure, and automated cloud environments, supporting our production, development, and testing systems.

Hands-on experience managing Kafka for event streaming and maintaining robust observability with ELK Stack is crucial to ensure system reliability and traceability.

We expect a proactive mindset with a strong focus on process automation and continuous improvement of our infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement secure and efficient CI/CD pipelines.
• Manage infrastructure on AWS and DigitalOcean.
• Manage and maintain Kubernetes clusters, including deployment automation using ArgoCD.
• Set up and maintain Kafka clusters, ensuring high availability, performance tuning, and secure configurations.
• Deploy and maintain monitoring and logging solutions using the ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana).
• Integrate automated security controls throughout the development lifecycle (DevSecOps).
• Configure and manage VPNs to ensure secure environments.
• Continuously monitor infrastructure and applications, applying best practices for observability.
• Contribute to strategies for high availability, scalability, and disaster recovery.
• Automate operational tasks using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools.
• Collaborate with development teams to ensure smooth and secure integrations.

Technical Requirements

• Proven experience with AWS (EC2, ECS, S3, IAM, CloudWatch, Route 53, CloudFront, etc.).
• Experience with DigitalOcean, including droplet and private network management.
• Expertise in managing Kubernetes in production environments.
• Hands-on experience with Kafka: setup, monitoring, performance tuning, and secure configuration (SASL/SSL).
• Strong experience with ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana) for monitoring and observability.
• Proficiency with CI/CD tools like GitHub Actions.
• Experience with ArgoCD for GitOps deployments.
• Knowledge of VPN setup and management.
• Solid understanding of Infrastructure as Code.
• Proficient in scripting and automation: Bash, Python, YAML.
• Familiarity with security tools for CI/CD pipelines: Snyk, Trivy, etc.

Non-Technical

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with great attention to detail.
• Ability to translate business requirements into efficient infrastructure and automation solutions.
• Excellent communication skills to explain technical concepts to non-DevOps or non-infrastructure team members.
• Proactive approach to identifying and resolving potential incidents or bottlenecks in the infrastructure.
• Experience working in Agile development environments.
• Self-motivated and autonomous, with the ability to work independently and also collaborate within cross-functional teams.

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