Senior DevOps Engineer – Contractor

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in India.

📋 Description

• Grasp infrastructure strategies, cloud architecture, and operations within high-impact environments.

• Work collaboratively with global teams.

• Contribute to the development of DevOps practices across various portfolio companies.

• Maintain a balance between architectural design and practical execution.

• Provision and oversee cloud infrastructure, databases, networking, security, monitoring, CI/CD, and infrastructure-as-code environments.

• Install and set up third-party Windows-based software while troubleshooting service and connectivity issues.

• Document systems and facilitate knowledge transfer or handoff sessions.

• Operate within an Agile, iterative delivery framework.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 7 years of hands-on experience with Production AWS infrastructure, including building environments from scratch and maintaining existing setups.

• In-depth knowledge of AWS networking components: VPC, subnets, NAT/Internet Gateways, routing, Security Groups, and NACLs.

• Familiarity with AWS security services such as IAM, KMS, Secrets Manager, CloudTrail, Config, GuardDuty, and Security Hub.

• Experience in provisioning and managing RDS (MSSQL, PostgreSQL, etc.).

• Proficient with EC2, ALB, ACM, Route 53, and AWS WAF.

• Skills in Windows Server administration, including AD, IIS configuration, licensing, PowerShell scripting, and basic OS hardening.

• Comfortable with installing and configuring third-party Windows-based software and resolving service/connectivity issues.

• Familiarity with .NET and Python runtime environments on Windows.

• Experience with CloudWatch or similar monitoring and alerting setups.

• Strong documentation practices and the ability to conduct effective knowledge transfer or handoff sessions.

• Capability to work in an Agile, iterative delivery model.

• Knowledge and hands-on experience with CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform.

• Experience with monitoring tools such as Datadog, Grafana, or Akamai CDN.

• Familiarity with Azure, CloudFormation, Ansible, Jenkins, or Mux Enterprise.

• Proficient in Python or Go for scripting and automation tasks.

• Experience with GitHub Actions, Helm, or advanced EKS scaling.

• Previous experience in consulting or multi-client environments.

🏝️ Benefits

• Remote working opportunity within a collaborative team culture.

• Exposure to cloud-first environments and contemporary DevOps tools.

• Opportunities for professional growth and cross-functional impact.

• A dynamic and fast-paced engineering environment.