Cloud Engineer

Role Summary

• We are looking for a Cloud Engineer with solid experience in infrastructure automation, continuous delivery pipelines, and integrated security practices.
• You will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining scalable, secure, and automated cloud environments, supporting our production, development, and testing systems.
• Hands-on experience managing Kafka for event streaming and maintaining robust observability with ELK Stack will be crucial to ensure system reliability and traceability.
• We expect a proactive mindset with a strong focus on process automation and continuous improvement of our infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement secure and efficient CI/CD pipelines.
• Manage infrastructure on AWS and DigitalOcean.
• Manage and maintain Kubernetes clusters, including deployment automation using ArgoCD.
• Set up and maintain Kafka clusters, ensuring high availability, performance tuning, and secure configurations.
• Deploy and maintain monitoring and logging solutions using the ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana).
• Integrate automated security controls throughout the development lifecycle (DevSecOps).
• Configure and manage VPNs to ensure secure environments.
• Continuously monitor infrastructure and applications, applying best practices for observability.
• Contribute to strategies for high availability, scalability, and disaster recovery.
• Automate operational tasks using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools.
• Collaborate with development teams to ensure smooth and secure integrations.

Technical Requirements:

• Proven experience with AWS (EC2, ECS, S3, IAM, CloudWatch, Route 53, CloudFront, etc.).
• Experience with DigitalOcean, including droplet and private network management.
• Expertise in managing Kubernetes in production environments.
• Hands-on experience with Kafka: setup, monitoring, performance tuning, and secure configuration (SASL/SSL).
• Strong experience with ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana) for monitoring and observability.
• Proficiency with CI/CD tools like GitHub Actions.
• Experience with ArgoCD for GitOps deployments.
• Knowledge of VPN setup and management.
• Solid understanding of Infrastructure as Code.
• Proficient in scripting and automation: Bash, Python, YAML.
• Familiarity with security tools for CI/CD pipelines: Snyk, Trivy, etc.

Non-Technical:

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with great attention to detail.
• Ability to translate business requirements into efficient infrastructure and automation solutions.
• Excellent communication skills to explain technical concepts to non-DevOps or non-infrastructure team members.
• Proactive approach to identifying and resolving potential incidents or bottlenecks in the infrastructure.
• Experience working in Agile development environments.
• Self-motivated and autonomous, with the ability to work independently and also collaborate within cross-functional teams.