DevOps Engineer - Contractor

**Responsibilities:** 1\. Cloud Infrastructure Design & Operations: Design, build, and optimize highly available and secure cloud architectures on AWS. 2\. 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. 3\. 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. 4\. Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Manage AWS cloud resources and network configurations using Terraform to ensure environment consistency, auditability, and reproducibility. 5\. CDN Operations: Configure, monitor, tune, and troubleshoot AWS CDN services to ensure acceleration and availability of static assets and streaming media. 6\. Monitoring, Alerting & Observability: Build and maintain monitoring, logging, and distributed tracing systems to enable rapid issue identification and drive capacity and performance optimization. **Requirements:** 1\. 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. 2\. 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. 3\. 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. 4\. Observability: \- Experience building and optimizing monitoring stacks such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/Loki. 5\. 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. 6\. 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). 7\. 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. 8\. 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.