DevOps Engineer - Contractor

19 requirements, read out of the advert rather than guessed from the job title:

• AWS
• EC2
• VPC
• IAM
• S3
• RDS
• Lambda
• EKS
• ECS
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• GitLab CI
• GitHub Actions
• ArgoCD
• Prometheus
• Grafana
• ELK
• Loki
• Terraform

Also mentioned, not required: Shell, Python, Go, Ansible, AWS CloudFront. Worth having, but their absence is not what gets a CV filtered out.

See how often each of these is required across open DevOps and platform roles in Europe.

Headquarters: Global / Taipei / Kuala Lumpur / Penang

Responsibilities: 1. Cloud Infrastructure Design & Operations: Design, build, and optimize highly available and secure cloud architectures on AWS. 2. CI/CD Pipeline Development: Design and maintain end-to-end pipelines from code commit to deployment — including build, test, artifact management, release, and rollback — to improve release frequency and quality. 3. Operations Automation: Reduce manual toil through programming and automation tools (e.g., Ansible, Terraform, custom scripts/platforms) to automate configuration management, change execution, and incident response. 4. Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Manage AWS cloud resources and network configurations using Terraform to ensure environment consistency, auditability, and reproducibility. 5. CDN Operations: Configure, monitor, tune, and troubleshoot AWS CDN services to ensure acceleration and availability of static assets and streaming media. 6. Monitoring, Alerting & Observability: Build and maintain monitoring, logging, and distributed tracing systems to enable rapid issue identification and drive capacity and performance optimization. Requirements: 1. Education & Experience: - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Telecommunications, or a related field. - 3+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, Cloud Operations, or Infrastructure Engineering. 2. Cloud Platform: - Proficient with AWS: hands-on experience with core services including EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, RDS, Lambda, EKS/ECS. - Solid understanding of cloud-native principles; familiar with containers (Docker), orchestration (Kubernetes or AWS EKS managed service), service mesh, and serverless technologies. 3. CI/CD: - Proficient in designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD). - Familiar with pipeline design principles: multi-environment management, branching strategies, artifact management, blue-green/canary deployments, and rollback mechanisms. 4. Observability: - Experience building and optimizing monitoring stacks such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/Loki. 5. Operations Automation & Programming: - Strong automation programming skills: proficient in at least one scripting/programming language (e.g., Shell, Python, Go) for writing automation scripts and tools. - Able to design automation solutions for operational scenarios and integrate with existing monitoring, ticketing, and configuration management systems. 6. Infrastructure as Code (IaC): - Proficient with Terraform: able to manage AWS resources with modular design and proven hands-on experience. - Familiarity with Ansible for configuration management and batch operations (e.g., system initialization, application deployment, configuration distribution). 7. CDN Operations: - Hands-on CDN operations experience: familiar with AWS CloudFront configuration, caching strategies, domain and certificate management. - Able to perform bandwidth/traffic and cost analysis, origin optimization, troubleshooting, and SLA assurance. 8. Soft Skills: - Strong documentation habits, communication, collaboration, and ability to drive initiatives across teams. - Solid problem analysis and post-mortem skills; able to participate in or lead root cause analysis and drive improvement actions.

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