Cloud Infrastructure and DevOps Engineer

About the partner:
Our partner is a digital innovation partner of choice for vehicle manufacturers and large fleet operators, curating connected technology solutions at scale that save lives, reduce emissions, and enhance productivity. Its global team design, manufacture and manage tailored end-to-end solutions for automotive, transport, logistics and other organisations on a digital transformation journey. Founded on deep industry expertise and an engrained culture of customer collaboration, its services span hardware, software, cloud services and business intelligence.

Key Responsibilities and Success Factors:
• Design, develop and maintain fully automated infrastructure and application deployment pipelines that enable rapid, consistent, and secure software releases
• Implement and maintain robust, scalable and future-proof cloud infrastructure that meets the needs of our customer’s growing business
• Optimize cloud resource utilization to balance performance needs with cost efficiency
• Create comprehensive monitoring and alerting systems that identify potential issues before they impact customers
• Demonstrate proactive system monitoring, incident response and resolution,
minimizing system downtime
• Security analysis and response: Implement security best practices across infrastructure, container and application layers
• Build and maintain documentation that enables knowledge sharing and consistent implementation
• Staying on top of industry best practices and trends, as well as changes to
compliance requirements
• Successfully implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles to ensure reproducibility and scalability
• Collaborate effectively with the development teams to improve implementation and deployment processes

Experience:
• 8+ years experience in DevOps, SRE, Operations and/or Development
• Strong background in automating cloud infrastructure deployment and
management
• Extensive experience with containerization technologies, particularly Kubernetes
• Proven track record of implementing and maintaining Infrastructure as Code
• Experience managing AWS cloud environments, particularly EKS and Lambda
• History of implementing and managing robust monitoring and alerting systems
• Background in system and application security hardening
• Experience with database technologies such as MongoDB, SingleStore, and Redis
• Track record of successfully implementing CI/CD pipelines

Technical Skills & Qualifications:
• Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science, Information Technology, or
related field (appreciated but not mandatory)
• Strong coding skills for infrastructure automation
• Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Pulumi, CDK8S, and Helmfile
• Expert knowledge of Kubernetes, particularly Amazon EKS
• Strong understanding of AWS services and architecture
• Experience with monitoring tools like the Grafana stack
• Proficiency with GitLab and GitLab CI/CD
• Working knowledge of messaging systems like Kafka and RabbitMQ
• Familiarity with web servers and proxies such as Nginx and HAProxy
• Understanding of search and analytics platforms like Elasticsearch
• Experience with data processing frameworks such as Spark