AWS DevOps Engineer

<p><p><br/><br/><b>Experience</b> - 10+ Years.<br/><br/><b>Designation name :</b> Cloud Engineer III.<br/><br/><b>Location</b> - Chennai.<br/><br/><b>Shift Timings</b> - 1.30 PM to 10.30 PM - IST - UK based Shift timings.<br/><br/> Looking for Immediate Joiners only.<br/><br/><b>Job Purpose :</b><br/><br/> AWS Engineer with strong technical leadership, hands-on AWS cloud architecture expertise, and a DevOps mindset.<br/><br/> The ideal candidate will have deep knowledge of AWS services, infrastructure automation, networking, and security, as well as a proven track record of customer satisfaction and cloud deployment success.<br/><br/> This role requires excellent communication, leadership, and problem-solving skills in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.<br/><br/><b>Essential Functions :</b><br/><br/> - 40% - Code and develop continuous automation/delivery processes and tools.<br/><br/> - 25% - Design and build a hybrid cloud product to support a Managed Services model.<br/><br/> - 20% - Solution design and architecture in support of customer assessments and sales engagements.<br/><br/> - 15% - Train and educate staff; pursue self-training, professional growth, and continued education.<br/><br/><b>Certifications :</b><br/><br/> - AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional.<br/><br/> - AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional.<br/><br/> - HashiCorp Terraform Associate.<br/><br/><b>Experience :</b></p><p><br/>- 8+ years of overall software engineering experience.<br/><br/> - 5 years focused on AWS (cloud application development and deployment).<br/><br/><b>Special Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities :</b><br/><br/><b>Cloud & DevOps :</b><br/><br/> - 5+ years developing and deploying cloud applications with seamless integration, scalability, and performance tuning.<br/><br/> - Strong DevOps mindset with a customer-first approach.<br/><br/> - Proficiency with Git (Bitbucket), code reviews, branching, tagging, pipelines, and CI/CD (Jenkins).<br/><br/><b>AWS Architecture & Automation :</b><br/><br/> - Active participation in AWS architecture planning (data perimeter, SCPs, legacy account migration, tagging/IAM strategies).<br/><br/> - Automated creation of AWS accounts with base infrastructure (IAM policies, S3 settings, VPC Flow Logs, AWS Config, tagging, EC2 DNS records, backups, metrics onboarding) while ensuring policy compliance.<br/><br/><b>AWS Services :</b><br/><br/> - <b>Networking & Content Delivery :</b> VPC, API Gateway, CloudFront, Route 53, Direct Connect, Transit Gateway, Elastic Load Balancing (ELB).<br/><br/> - <b>Compute :</b> EC2, EC2 Auto Scaling, Lambda.<br/><br/> - <b>Security & Compliance :</b> IAM, GuardDuty, Inspector, Certificate Manager, Firewall Manager, Key Management Service.<br/><br/> - <b>Databases :</b> Aurora, DynamoDB, RDS, Redshift (SQL & NoSQL).<br/><br/> - <b>Storage :</b> S3, EBS.<br/><br/> - <b>Analytics :</b> Glue, Athena, Kinesis.<br/><br/> - <b>Application Integration :</b> Step Functions, EventBridge, SNS, SQS.<br/><br/> - <b>Cloud Financial Management :</b> Cost Explorer, Budgets, Cost & Usage Reports.<br/><br/> - <b>Containers :</b> EKS, ECS, Fargate.<br/><br/> - <b>Management & Governance :</b> Organizations, CloudFormation, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, Service Catalog, CLI, Config, Systems Manager.<br/><br/><b>Infrastructure as Code & Tooling :</b><br/><br/> - Advanced Terraform and Terragrunt for scalable infrastructure automation.<br/><br/> - Logging and monitoring with Splunk and New Relic.<br/><br/> - Security/risk mitigation tools such as Prisma and Wiz.<br/><br/> - Cloud networking tools such as Aviatrix.<br/><br/><b>Development & Programming :</b><br/><br/> - Expert-level Python (cloud automation, infrastructure as code, AI/ML pipelines, API development, data processing).<br/><br/> - Experience with Boto3 (AWS SDK for Python), PowerShell, and shell scripting.<br/><br/> - AI/ML experience : building generative AI solutions for automation, code generation, cost analysis, knowledge retrieval, and designing retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines with enterprise data sources.<br/><br/> - Implementing guardrails for AI systems to enforce content policies and compliance.<br/><br/><b>Agile & Documentation :</b><br/><br/> - ITIL knowledge : incident management, problem resolution, change management.<br/><br/> - Agile practices : PI planning, sprint planning, backlog grooming, stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives.<br/><br/> - Proficient with Jira and Confluence for user story creation and project tracking.<br/><br/> - Code documentation in Bitbucket with clear comments and README files for :</b><br/><br/> - Strong ability to diagnose and resolve infrastructure, networking, and service-related issues to improve performance and reliability.</p><br/></p> (ref:hirist.tech)