Cloud Engineer

Cloud Engineer

Cloud Engineer

Remotive

Remotive

Remote

2 days ago

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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.