Role overview

Job Summary:

The DevOPS/Cloud Engineer is responsible for designing, building, and supporting cloud infrastructure and digital products with a strong focus on AWS environments, Infrastructure as Code, configuration management, container platforms, CI/CD pipelines, security, and observability. This role ensures high availability, security, and performance of cloud applications through automation, monitoring, and best practices.
Responsibilities:

Design, provision, and manage AWS infrastructure including VPCs, subnets, security groups, IAM policies, EC2, ECS, EKS, RDS, S3, Route 53, and CloudFront.
Architect multi-account AWS environments following AWS Well-Architected Framework principles.
Manage AWS cost optimization strategies such as Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, and rightsizing.
Develop, maintain, and refactor Terraform modules and configurations for cloud infrastructure.
Manage Terraform Cloud workspaces, remote state backends, and enforce Infrastructure as Code standards.
Author and maintain Ansible playbooks, roles, and collections for server configuration, application deployment, and compliance enforcement.
Operate and administer Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) clusters including upgrades, scaling, and add-on management.
Define and enforce OpenShift RBAC, NetworkPolicies, and SecurityContextConstraints.
Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI and Azure DevOps Service integrating security scanning and GitOps workflows.
Embed security controls throughout infrastructure and CI/CD lifecycles, implement secrets management, and support vulnerability management processes.
Build and maintain observability solutions with AWS CloudWatch, define SLOs/SLIs, lead incident response, and produce runbooks and architectural decision records.

Required Skills & Certifications:

Extensive experience with AWS cloud services and architecture (VPC, EC2, ECS, EKS, RDS, S3, Route 53, CloudFront).
Strong proficiency in Terraform for Infrastructure as Code, including module development and Terraform Cloud management.
Expertise in Ansible for configuration management, playbook authoring, and integration with CI/CD pipelines.
Hands-on experience operating Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) clusters.
Proven ability to design and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI or Azure DevOps Service.
Knowledge of container orchestration, security best practices, and secrets management (e.g., AWS Secrets Manager).
Experience with scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or similar.
Familiarity with security compliance, vulnerability management, and incident response procedures.
Experience with AWS cost optimization and multi-account environment management.

Preferred Skills & Certifications:

Experience with additional cloud platforms such as Azure or Google Cloud.
Knowledge of CI/CD tools like Jenkins, Maven, and GitOps tools such as ArgoCD.
Familiarity with container technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.
Experience with configuration management tools like Chef or Puppet.
Understanding of mobile device management and modern web technologies (LAMP, Drupal, Elasticsearch).
Certification in AWS, Terraform, Ansible, or OpenShift is advantageous.

Special Considerations:

Must be available for 5 days onsite as required.
Participation in on-call incident response and post-mortem processes.
Adherence to strict security and compliance standards in cloud environments.

Scheduling:

Standard work schedule with potential on-call duties for incident management.
Shift patterns may include support during critical incidents outside regular hours.