DevOps Engineer

Here at Master of Code Global, we are expanding our DevOps community of experts and looking for a DevOps specialist to join the team and become a Master!
 

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and evolve scalable, secure, and highly available cloud infrastructure using Terraform.
• Own and continuously improve cloud environments on AWS and/or GCP, ensuring cost efficiency, performance, and security best practices.
• Architect, manage, and optimize Kubernetes clusters (including upgrades, scaling, networking, and security).
• Design and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines, improving deployment speed, reliability, and developer experience.
• Lead the implementation of monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions to ensure high system reliability and fast incident response.
• Drive best practices, including secrets management, access control, vulnerability scanning, and compliance requirements.
• Support and optimize containerized and serverless architectures (e.g., AWS ECS Fargate, Google Cloud Run).
• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure and production issues, acting as an escalation point for critical incidents.
• Participate in architectural discussions and contribute to long-term infrastructure strategy and improvements.
   

Required background and skills

Experience & Expertise

• 5+ years of experience as a DevOps Engineer or in a similar role.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS (required), including production-grade environments. Experience with GCP or Azure is a plus
• Solid experience with Terraform best practices: modules, state management (remote state, state locking), multi-environment configurations, code review practices
• Solid experience with Kubernetes (EKS) in production: cluster setup, operations, scaling, security, upgrades
• Knowledge of Kubernetes ecosystem tools: Helm, Karpenter, ALB controller, Cert Manager, External-DNS, Secrets controller

GitOps & Deployment Practices

• Hands-on experience with GitOps workflows and tools (ArgoCD, Flux, or similar)
• Understanding of declarative infrastructure and application delivery
• Experience with deployment strategies: blue-green, canary, rolling updates

CI/CD & Automation

• Proven experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (AWS CodePipeline, GitHub Actions, or similar)
• Strong scripting skills (Bash, Python) for automation tasks

Infrastructure & Security

• Strong knowledge of Docker and container-based architectures
• Experience with AWS networking: VPC design, security groups, load balancers, Route53
• Understanding of security best practices: IAM policies, secrets management (AWS Secrets Manager), network security, least privilege principle
• Experience with serverless technologies: Lambda, Step Functions, API Gateway

Observability

• Experience with monitoring and observability stack: AWS CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK
• Experience setting up alerting, dashboards, and incident response workflows
• Understanding of SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets is a plus

Soft Skills & Leadership

• Experience with incident management
• Ability to mentor junior-level engineers
• Participation in architecture decisions and technical planning
• Excellent communication skills and ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
• English level: Upper-Intermediate or higher
   

Nice to have skills

• AWS certifications (Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer)
• Experience with cost optimization and FinOps practices
• Knowledge of compliance frameworks (SOC2, ISO27001)