Sr Cloud Engineer

Cloudary is a specialized consulting firm that works exclusively with AWS Consulting and Technology Partners, helping them design, optimize, and scale their cloud solutions.

We are seeking a DevOps Engineer to support a Terraform rewrite project, reduce infrastructure drift, and manage AWS infrastructure including EKS, ECR, and CI/CD pipelines. The role involves working on Helm charts deployment and improvements, enhancing observability, and collaborating closely with the customer’s technical team.

Requirements

Responsibilities

• Refactor and manage infrastructure as code (IaC) using Terraform.

• Optimize AWS environments, including EKS, ECR, EC2, RDS, and DynamoDB.

• Manage and improve CI/CD pipelines using GitLab and ArgoCD.

• Enhance observability and monitoring through CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and Dynatrace.

• Develop, maintain, and improve Helm charts for Kubernetes deployments.

• Implement infrastructure security best practices, including IAM policy design and threat detection with GuardDuty and other tools.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure high availability, scalability, and reliability.

• Identify and address performance bottlenecks in cloud infrastructure and CI/CD processes.

Mandatory Requirements

• Strong experience with Terraform (modularization, remote state management, drift reduction).

• Advanced AWS expertise, including EKS, ECR, EC2, RDS, IAM, and networking (VPCs, Route53, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect).

• Hands-on Kubernetes experience, including Helm chart creation and maintenance.

• Proven experience with GitLab CI/CD pipelines and integration with Terraform and ArgoCD.

• Strong observability skills with CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and Dynatrace (or equivalent tools).

• Solid understanding of AWS security practices (GuardDuty, IAM, compliance).

• Fluent English communication (spoken and written).

• Ability to work independently in a fully remote, contractor-based setup.

Nice to Have

• Experience with Karpenter for EKS autoscaling.

• Familiarity with Commvault, Zerto, or AWS Backup solutions.

• Exposure to CyberArk (Conjur) or Azure AD Connect Sync.

• Type: Contractor (Full-Time, Remote)

• Start Date: ASAP