DevOps Engineer - Contractor

**Responsibilities** * Cloud Infrastructure Design \& Operations: Design, build, and optimize highly available and secure cloud architectures on AWS. * CI/CD Pipeline Development: Design and maintain end\-to\-end pipelines from code commit to deployment — including build, test, artifact management, release, and rollback — to improve release frequency and quality. * Operations Automation: Reduce manual toil through programming and automation tools (e.g., Ansible, Terraform, custom scripts/platforms) to automate configuration management, change execution, and incident response. * Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Manage AWS cloud resources and network configurations using Terraform to ensure environment consistency, auditability, and reproducibility. * CDN Operations: Configure, monitor, tune, and troubleshoot AWS CDN services to ensure acceleration and availability of static assets and streaming media. * Monitoring, Alerting \& Observability: Build and maintain monitoring, logging, and distributed tracing systems to enable rapid issue identification and drive capacity and performance optimization. **Requirements** * Education \& Experience: * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Telecommunications, or a related field. * 3\+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, Cloud Operations, or Infrastructure Engineering. * Cloud Platform: * Proficient with AWS: hands\-on experience with core services including EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, RDS, Lambda, EKS/ECS. * Solid understanding of cloud\-native principles; familiar with containers (Docker), orchestration (Kubernetes or AWS EKS managed service), service mesh, and serverless technologies. * CI/CD: * Proficient in designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD). * Familiar with pipeline design principles: multi\-environment management, branching strategies, artifact management, blue\-green/canary deployments, and rollback mechanisms. * Observability: * Experience building and optimizing monitoring stacks such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/Loki. * Operations Automation \& Programming: * Strong automation programming skills: proficient in at least one scripting/programming language (e.g., Shell, Python, Go) for writing automation scripts and tools. * Able to design automation solutions for operational scenarios and integrate with existing monitoring, ticketing, and configuration management systems. * Infrastructure as Code (IaC): * Proficient with Terraform: able to manage AWS resources with modular design and proven hands\-on experience. * Familiarity with Ansible for configuration management and batch operations (e.g., system initialization, application deployment, configuration distribution). * CDN Operations: * Hands\-on CDN operations experience: familiar with AWS CloudFront configuration, caching strategies, domain and certificate management. * Able to perform bandwidth/traffic and cost analysis, origin optimization, troubleshooting, and SLA assurance. * Soft Skills: * Strong documentation habits, communication, collaboration, and ability to drive initiatives across teams. * Solid problem analysis and post\-mortem skills; able to participate in or lead root cause analysis and drive improvement actions. apply for this job