Application Designer Project Role
Application Designer Project Role : Application Designer Project Role Description : Assist in defining requirements and designing applications to meet business process and application requirements. Must have skills : DevOps Good to have skills : Amazon Web Services (AWS), DevOps Architecture Minimum 3 year(s) of experience is required Educational Qualification : 15 years full time education
Job Summary
As a DevOps Engineer, you will design, build, automate, deploy, and support scalable cloud-native platforms across enterprise environments. A typical day involves collaborating with development, operations, security, and architecture teams to deliver secure, resilient, and highly available solutions. You will leverage Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD pipelines, containerization, and cloud technologies to enhance platform reliability, deployment efficiency, operational excellence, and automation while driving continuous improvement initiatives.
Roles & Responsibilities
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver project objectives and platform initiatives.
- Design, develop, and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions using Terraform.
- Implement configuration management and automation solutions using Ansible.
- Build, optimize, and support CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and Git-based repositories.
- Deploy, manage, and troubleshoot containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes.
- Configure and support Kubernetes clusters, including Amazon EKS environments.
- Implement deployment strategies such as Rolling, Blue-Green, and Canary deployments.
- Automate infrastructure provisioning, application deployments, and operational workflows.
- Monitor platform health, identify performance bottlenecks, and conduct root cause analysis.
- Ensure compliance with security, governance, and operational best practices.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives focused on platform modernization, reliability, and automation.
- Participate in technical discussions and contribute to architecture and design decisions.
Professional & Technical Skills
- Minimum of 4 to 6 years of experience in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, Platform Engineering, or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE).
- Strong hands‑on experience with Terraform, including module development, remote state management, workspaces, and Infrastructure as Code best practices.
- Experience with Ansible playbooks, roles, dynamic inventory, configuration management, and automation.
- Proficiency in Jenkins CI/CD pipeline development using Declarative Pipelines and Jenkinsfiles.
- Experience with GitHub or GitLab, including branching strategies, pull requests, webhooks, and repository management.
- Strong expertise in Docker containerization, image creation, optimization, and registry management.
- Hands‑on experience with Kubernetes, including cluster administration, troubleshooting, Helm Charts, Kustomize, RBAC, and namespace management.
- Strong knowledge of AWS cloud services, including VPC, Networking, Security Groups, IAM Roles and Policies, EC2, Auto Scaling, EKS/ECS, ECR, S3, CloudWatch, RDS, and DynamoDB.
- Experience implementing enterprise‑scale CI/CD and infrastructure automation solutions.
- Strong Linux administration skills with Bash scripting and working knowledge of Python.
- Proficiency in Git, including rebasing, merge conflict resolution, and repository management.
- Understanding of Agile delivery methodologies and DevOps best practices.
- Experience implementing deployment strategies such as Rolling, Blue‑Green, and Canary deployments.
- Strong troubleshooting, monitoring, and production support experience.
Additional Information
- Experience with GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, or Azure DevOps Pipelines is preferred.
- Exposure to Git Ops tools such as Argo CD and Flux CD is desirable.
- Knowledge of and Open Tofu will be an added advantage.
- Experience with advanced Kubernetes ecosystem tools, including Cluster Auto scaler, Cert-Manager, AWS Load Balancer Controller, Network Policies, and Ingress Controllers.
- Familiarity with observability and monitoring platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, Splunk, Datadog, and Open Telemetry.
- Experience with security and compliance tools, including Trivy, Checkov, tf sec, and image‑signing solutions.
- Exposure to AWS Systems Manager and service mesh technologies such as Istio and Linked.
- Experience working on OTT, Media, Streaming, or high‑traffic digital platforms is preferred.
- Familiarity with AWS Media Services, including Media Live, Media Package, Media Convert, and CloudFront.
- Knowledge of ITSM tools such as ServiceNow and Jira Service Management.
Qualification & Certifications
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field. Preferred certifications include: AWS Solutions Architect Associate AWS Sys Ops Administrator Associate Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) Terraform Associate. The candidate should have 4 to 6 years of relevant experience in DevOps, Cloud, and Platform Engineering.