AWS Devops Engineer

Overview  
As a DevOps engineer, you are a highly skilled & experienced subject matter expert with a deep 
understanding of public, private and hybrid cloud platforms. Reporting to the DevOps Architect, 
the lead will play a key technical role in the life cycle of projects, with significant interaction with 
Architects, Tech leads and project managers. Your in-depth knowledge of DevOps best practices, 
concepts and tooling coupled with a practical experience in DevOps, SecOps, and NetOps are 
the key qualifying attributes for this position. 
What does success look like?  
A successful DevOps Engineer, Infrastructure & Platforms will have mastered the arts of: 

• Implement solutions provided by Cloud Architects, Solution Architects  

• Bridged the gap between Development teams, Infrastructure SME's and other teams to 
understand business requirements and deliver high quality outcomes  

• Maintain & improve stability, integrity and efficiency of Material's DevOps tools and 
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) platforms through 
monitoring, optimization and proactive maintenance. .  

• Successful incident and problem resolution by direction and coordination during business
critical incidents or outages. 
Responsibilities  
Implementation 

• Deploy & manage highly scalable, secure, and reliable cloud-based infrastructure using 
AWS, Azure cloud, and GCP  

• Use Infrastructure as a Code to define & deploy cloud infrastructure. 

• Translate logical designs into physical designs. You can produce detailed designs and 
document all work using required standards, methods, and tools, including prototyping 
tools where appropriate.  

• Implement & manage automation and containerization technologies like Docker and 
Kubernetes to streamline application deployment and scaling. 

• Implement cloud-based network infrastructure, ensuring high availability, security, and 
performance. 

• Review and optimize cloud environments to ensure adherence to Information Security 
policies and industry best practices. 

• Contribute to Business Continuity Plan by implementing or improving DR, HA and SRE 
for critical cloud workloads. 

• Deploy and manage on-premises and SaaS source code repositories including Azure 
DevOps, Gitlab, GitHub, Bitbucket. 

• Implement systems characterized by managed levels of risk, manageable business, 
technical complexity, and meaningful impact with well-understood technology design 
patterns. 

• Manage availability of different service components to ensure they meet business needs 
and performance targets. 

• Create and interpret automation scripts for cloud-based CI/CD pipeline to 
deploy/upgrade/patch web applications. 

• Deploy & promote applications across environments (e.g., Dev, Quality, Staging, 
Production)  

• Deliver tasks based on project objectives; technically support projects to completion.  

• Ensure deliverables are completed within target timeframes with consistently high-quality 

• Prepare documentation and support transition of operational activities 
Collaboration 

• Collaborate with in Material IT groups (DWT, INF, EA) to implement base lines for IaaS 
and PaaS platforms, adopting best practices and policies that support and optimize their 
respective environments  

• Collaborate with DevOps architect to support development teams with a full set of 
DevOps ALM tools by leading the establishment of the right tooling and processes that will 
result in a fully automated release management pipeline to include: the Automated build 
process, environment setups, testing scripts, deployments, and production operational 
metrics/debugging information (to target developers). 

• Influential and effective advisor and contributor to change management, minimizing risks 
that could be introduced to new or existing environments 

• Safely execute changes in an interruption-free manner using secure modern infrastructure 
capabilities 

• Promote quality work by bringing multidisciplinary skillset to help connect the dots with IT 
service owners, partners and vendors. 

• Work closely with developers to ensure that applications are deployed, monitored, and 
supported in a highly scalable and automated fashion. 

• Document the process and tasks being taught so it can be standardized and cross trained 
across the team 
Operations 

• Streamline DevOps processes throughout the organization, decreasing deployment time, 
optimizing monitoring and reducing interruptions. 

• Monitor & optimize costs with stakeholders to ensure IaaS & PaaS operations are within 
budget. 

• Participate in incident response activities on private and public cloud platforms. 

• Innovate in the automation & reliability engineering space, making new solutions available 
for use by our development community 

• Optimize resource utilization on existing cloud workloads. 

• Estimate costs for future cloud workloads based on project requirements. 

• Assist with cloud ops for existing workloads (scaling, migration, decommission). 

• Troubleshoot and identify problems across systems: including computing, storage, 
networking, software, COTS and open-source packages and solutions, and cloud 
computing, including IaaS, PaaS, SaaS.  

• Bring an automation mindset to eliminate mundane or repetitive tasks by providing 
objective, practical and relevant ideas, insights and advice on DevOps initiatives. 

• Analyze current processes, identify and implement opportunities to optimize processes 

• Cultivate a Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery mind set by creating and 
managing release pipelines for next generation application development efforts and 
ongoing production operations. 

• Evaluate and establish requirements for the implementation of changes by setting policy 
and standards. 

• Report on established KPIs to ensure performance is measured against expected 
business outcomes. 
Requirements  
Education & Certifications:   

• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, or Engineering (B.E/B 
Tech/M. E/M Tech), or related field or equivalent experience. 

• Certification on AWS cloud technologies is mandatory  

• Good to have: Certification on GCP, Azure,; Certified Kubernetes administrator 
Functional:  
Done it:  
o 4 to 5 years of relevant experience in cloud-based infrastructure architecture, 
administration and monitoring. 
o In-depth knowledge and hands-on experience of AWS 
o Proven experience as DevOps engineer. 
o Strong understanding of networking, cloud, compute, and storage. 
o Strong knowledge of Cloud Governance, focusing on application security, risk 
management and collaboration. 
o Experience in inter-cloud migration. 
o Experience with scripting languages like Python, Ruby, PowerShell or Bash. 
o Advanced experience with usage and management of Git version control 
technologies (GitHub, Gitlab, AWS Commit etc.) 
o Proven experience applying best practices for frontend and backend 
infrastructure (web engines, relational databases, storage, network, disaster 
recovery, high availability) 
o Experience troubleshooting complex issues ranging from system resources to 
application stack traces 
Know it: 
o Hands on in GCP/Azure  
o Experience with continuous Integration tools (TeamCity, Azure DevOps, Gitlab 
CI/CD, AWS Code Pipeline) 
o Working knowledge of automation service provisioning. 
o Hands on experience with IAC tools such as Ansible, Chef, Terraform, 
CloudFormation, Bicep, Typescript, Azure ARM etc. 
o Hands on in containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, 
AWS Fargate) 
o Strong knowledge of Identity and Access Management 
o Secure systems & networks' management through automation, capacity planning, 
monitoring, performance tuning and testing 
o You are aware of information security at large Networks, Docker security, 
Kubernetes Security. 
o Strong hardware and software diagnostic skills 
Shown it 
o Familiarity with web development experience and setup: Apache, Nginx etc. 
o Familiarity with Agile/Scrum process using platforms like Jira/Confluence 
o Experience with Grafana, Prometheus, ELK/EFK stack  
o Demonstrable experience in converting complex business & security needs into 
fit-for-purpose, straightforward solutions, with well-managed execution and non
interruptive transition to operations, as well as effective troubleshooting & 
escalation handling.   
o Demonstrated competencies in system administration. DevOps or systems 
knowledge, security protocols for client/server environment. 
o Experience supporting at least one of the following databases: MS-SQL server, 
MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL etc. 
o Working knowledge of related technologies including encryption, IPsec, VLANs, 
VPNs, routing, firewalls, proxy services, LAN/WAN connectivity 
Do it  
o Experience on SCM tools like GitHub, Gitlab, Bitbucket, AWS Code Commit, 
Azure Repos etc. 
o Experience in application and systems performance monitoring (Splunk, New 
Relic, Azure Monitor, AWS CloudWatch). 
o Excellent communication, interpersonal, analytical and problem-solving skills. 
o Continuous application of skillsets in, cloud and hybrid environments adding 
resiliency when introducing new and upcoming technologies.  
o Experience with API Gee, Kong, or Kafka from an operational perspective will be a 
good to have. 
o Read and understand release notes and follow the deployment instructions 
precisely to ensure zero defects in the deployment. 
o Experience on open source/Linux will be good to have. 
Competencies:  

• A communicator, humble and patient individual working effectively with distributed 
teams who is equally a mentor and a mentee 

• A creative mindset that brings ideas to life by leveraging technologies in new ways that 
could have high impact in every aspect of operations  

• A technical player who is trusted to identify challenges and define how to overcome 
them. 

• A multi-tasker and flexible towards work timings, working in a fast-paced environment 
without getting overwhelmed easily.  

• Detail-oriented, always ready to put in the extra effort to deliver polished, well-formed 
IT solutions for Material.  

• Mindful of the employee experience - articulate, confident & well-spoken in all forms 
of communication, comfortable to be the voice of our customer to Material IT, and the 
face of Material IT to our customers.