Cloud Engineer III

• Act as the L3 escalation point for complex Cloud, DevOps, Kubernetes, infrastructure, and deployment issues
• Lead major technical activities across production and non-production environments
• Own complex infrastructure changes, upgrades, migrations, and platform improvements
• Lead and coordinate Disaster Recovery planning, restore testing, failover/failback, recovery, validation, and runbook improvement
• Design and implement infrastructure using Terraform and maintain reusable Terraform modules
• Review Terraform code and changes implemented by L1/L2 engineers
• Define Terraform coding standards, repository structure, and implementation best practices
• Develop reusable Ansible roles, playbooks, and automation workflows using AWX
• Automate server configuration, patching, application deployment, infrastructure operations, and repetitive BAU activities
• Design and maintain ArgoCD-based deployments and implement GitOps practices for Kubernetes and application deployments
• Manage and troubleshoot ArgoCD applications, sync issues, configuration drift, deployment failures, environment promotion, and rollbacks
• Design and maintain Kubernetes workloads on Amazon EKS
• Develop and maintain reusable Helm charts and define configuration standards
• Design and improve CI/CD deployment processes; support Jenkins and other CI/CD automation
• Lead automation initiatives using Terraform, Ansible/AWX, Bash, Python, and CI/CD pipelines
• Define and enforce standards for IaC, Terraform, GitOps, Kubernetes, Helm, CI/CD, automation, cloud operations, patching, and deployments
• Establish reusable templates, modules, pipelines, and automation frameworks
• Perform technical reviews for L1/L2 changes
• Lead complex production incidents and perform root cause analysis
• Improve monitoring, logging, alerting, and operational reliability
• Participate in architecture and technical design discussions
• Lead production deployments, infrastructure upgrades, patching, and maintenance
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to L1/L2 engineers
• Create and maintain SOPs, runbooks, technical standards, architecture documentation, DR documentation, and operational procedures

• Strong hands-on expertise in AWS, Amazon EKS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Terragrunt, AWX, Ansible, ArgoCD, GitOps, Helm, Docker, Jenkins, CI/CD, Git, Linux, Windows, Bash/Python, SSL/TLS, infrastructure automation, disaster recovery, monitoring and logging, production troubleshooting, and root cause analysis
• Capability to lead technical activities independently
• Capability to own complex Cloud and DevOps changes
• Capability to design and implement automation
• Capability to lead Disaster Recovery activities
• Capability to implement GitOps using ArgoCD
• Capability to build automation using AWX/Ansible
• Capability to develop and review Terraform code
• Capability to define technical standards and best practices
• Capability to drive operational improvements
• Capability to mentor L1/L2 engineers
• Capability to handle complex production incidents and root cause analysis

• Equal employment opportunity without regard to legally protected characteristics
• Disability or special-needs accommodation available upon request