Qualifications
AWS specific (Must have)
Client-specific must-have capabilities
Jenkins administration and Jenkins file/Groovy pipeline development
Bitbucket webhooks, pull-request integration, and source-control workflows
SonarQube administration and CI/CD integration
Polaris or equivalent application-security scanning platform administration
Trino deployment, configuration, access control, and operational support
Observability using CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch, Loki, OpenTelemetry, or equivalent tools
Developer enablement, platform onboarding, runbooks, and production troubleshooting
SSO, IAM, Kubernetes RBAC, read/write permissions, secrets, and auditability
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AWS Organizations & Landing Zones
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IAM, SSO, RBAC
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VPCs, Transit Gateway, networking
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EKS administration
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Terraform
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CloudFormation
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GitOps (ArgoCD/Flux)
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Linux administration
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Kubernetes security
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Cost optimization
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Multi-account governance
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SonarQube
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StrongDM
GCP specific (nice to have)
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GKE
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VPC Service Controls
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IAM
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Organization hierarchy
Azure specific (nice to have)
VNET, subscriptions
Experience You’ll Need
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
- 8+ years of experience in Cloud Engineering, SRE, or DevOps, with deep proficiency in AWS and/or GCP.
- Expert-level experience administering Linux (shell scripting, kernel tuning) and Windows Server (Active Directory, Group Policy, PowerShell).
- Proven track record of running production-grade Kubernetes workloads at scale, including experience with Helm and container security.
- Strong proficiency in Python, Go, or Bash for infrastructure automation and tool development.
- Solid understanding of VPC/VNet design, peering, Transit Gateways, and zero-trust security models.
Client scope note: Requires hands-on ability to install or deploy, configure, integrate, secure, monitor, upgrade, and troubleshoot the listed tools—not only consume pre-provisioned services.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience designing monitoring and observability from foundational infrastructure health through metrics, logs, dashboards, distributed tracing, SLI/SLOs, alerting, incident response, and continuous improvement using Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch, CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry, or equivalent tools.
- Background in migrating legacy Windows/Linux monolithic applications into containerized microservices.
- Relevant certifications: AWS Solutions Architect Professional, Google Professional Cloud Architect, or Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA).