Roles and Responsibilities

• Collaborate with software developers, quality assurance engineers to guarantee smooth deployment, automation and management of software infrastructure.

• Cluster Management: deploy, scale and upgrade clusters while ensuring minimal downtime

• Monitoring and Optimization: monitor, troubleshoot and tune clusters for performance.

• Set up and maintain secure VPC architectures and networking within AWS

• Secure CI/CD Pipeline Management.

• Security and compliance focus to embed security within CI/CD pipelines

• Manage and enhance cloud infrastructure such as AWS, Azure

• Automation and scripting to simplify AWS account and OKD cluster management

• Troubleshoot software infrastructure issues and collaborate with the team to resolve them.

• Container image lifecycle management, including building, storing, and securing images in registries.

• Set up disaster recovery mechanisms for OKD clusters and AWS environments. 

Must-Have Technical skills and experience

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, or Information Technology

• 5 or more years of relevant experience in Dev Ops and IT systems management

• Experience in managing, configuring, and maintaining OKD (OpenShift Kubernetes Distribution) clusters in cloud environments, particularly AWS

• Proficiency in managing containerized applications and orchestrating workloads using OpenShift and Kubernetes tools

• Expertise in configuring and managing multiple AWS accounts using AWS Organizations and IAM best practices

• Strong understanding of AWS services, including EC2, S3, VPC, Route 53, and Load Balancers

• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform, AWS CloudFormation or similar to automate infrastructure provisioning

• Proven ability to design, implement, and manage secure CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Tekton, Gitea and ArgoCD

• Proficiency in scripting languages such as Bash, or PowerShell to automate DevOps workflows

• Experience using version control systems (e.g. GIT,  TFS)

• Expertise in working with Podman/Docker for creating and managing containers.

• Automation Frameworks: Hands-on experience with Ansible or Chef for configuration management

• Good knowledge of Python

• Working knowledge of databases and SQL

• Problem-solving attitude 

Nice-to-Have Skills

• Understanding of compliance standards (e.g., SOC 2, GDPR, ISO) and implementation of best practices for secure environments.

• Familiarity with tools like Jira, Confluence, Gitea for project and task management

• Experience in working with Agile delivery frameworks (e.g. Scrum, Kanban)

• Experience with virtualization and containers (e.g. Docker)  

• Serverless Architectures: Familiarity with AWS Lambda and other serverless services for specific use cases