Job Summary
Synechron is seeking a Cloud Infrastructure and DevOps Engineer with 5+ years of experience in cloud computing, virtualization, infrastructure automation, database management, and DevOps practices. The role focuses on designing, implementing, maintaining, monitoring, and supporting cloud infrastructure and applications across Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).The successful candidate will work with cross-functional teams to implement cloud-based solutions, manage CI/CD pipelines, automate infrastructure and configuration processes, and support reliable, secure, and scalable technology environments. This position contributes to business objectives by improving cloud availability, operational efficiency, deployment consistency, application performance, and customer support outcomes.
Required
Software Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in cloud computing, virtualization, infrastructure engineering, DevOps, or related technology roles.
- Proficiency with cloud computing platforms, including:
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Microsoft Azure
- Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- Experience with DevOps practices and CI/CD pipeline implementation.
- Experience with Terraform for Infrastructure as Code and infrastructure provisioning.
- Experience with Docker for application containerization.
- Experience with Kubernetes for container orchestration.
- Experience with Jenkins or comparable CI/CD automation tools.
- Familiarity with automation and configuration management tools, including Chef and Puppet.
- Knowledge of database management systems, including MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle.
- Experience with virtualization technologies, including VMware and Hyper-V.
- Strong technical skills in cloud computing, virtualization, database management, automation, and infrastructure operations.
- Ability to design, implement, monitor, troubleshoot, and maintain cloud infrastructure and applications.
- Ability to work with current, supported versions of cloud platforms, infrastructure tools, operating systems, databases, containers, orchestration platforms, and CI/CD tools.
Preferred
- Experience managing multi-cloud or hybrid-cloud environments.
- Experience implementing automated infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, deployment, monitoring, and recovery processes.
- Familiarity with cloud security, identity and access management, networking, backup, disaster recovery, and compliance controls.
- Experience with cloud-native application deployment and operational support.
- Exposure to logging, monitoring, observability, alerting, and performance-management tools.
- Experience optimizing cloud resource usage, infrastructure cost, application performance, and energy efficiency.
- Certifications in cloud computing platforms, such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect or Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate.
- Experience in a relevant industry, such as technology or finance.
Overall Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain cloud infrastructure and applications across AWS, Microsoft Azure, and GCP.
- Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
- Build, manage, and improve CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and comparable automation tools.
- Containerize applications using Docker and support deployments through Kubernetes.
- Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, deployment, monitoring, and operational activities.
- Use configuration management tools such as Chef and Puppet to maintain consistent and reliable environments.
- Manage and support virtualized infrastructure using VMware and Hyper-V.
- Support database environments involving MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle.
- Monitor and manage cloud environments to ensure optimal performance, availability, scalability, security, and resource utilization.
- Troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure, deployment, networking, virtualization, database, container, and application issues.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement cloud-based solutions for clients.
- Provide technical support to clients in the use, operation, troubleshooting, and maintenance of cloud-based solutions.
- Contribute to infrastructure design, technical documentation, implementation plans, operational procedures, and support guidelines.
- Apply DevOps practices to improve delivery speed, deployment consistency, reliability, automation, and service quality.
- Stay current with industry trends, cloud capabilities, DevOps practices, automation methods, security controls, and infrastructure standards.
- Promote sustainable technology practices through efficient resource utilization, automation, right-sized infrastructure, reusable configurations, and reduced manual processing.
Strategic Objectives
- Deliver reliable, scalable, secure, and maintainable cloud infrastructure and applications.
- Improve deployment consistency and operational efficiency through CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, automation, Docker, and Kubernetes.
- Support effective use of AWS, Azure, and GCP based on solution requirements, operational needs, security considerations, and cost objectives.
- Strengthen infrastructure monitoring, availability, performance, troubleshooting, and recovery capabilities.
- Provide responsive and technically accurate support for client cloud-based solutions.
- Improve cloud resource efficiency and support sustainable infrastructure operations.
Performance Outcomes
- Cloud infrastructure and applications meet agreed requirements for availability, performance, scalability, security, and maintainability.
- CI/CD pipelines support repeatable, controlled, and reliable build, test, and deployment processes.
- Terraform configurations and automation scripts are documented, version-controlled, reusable, and maintainable.
- Infrastructure issues are identified, investigated, communicated, and resolved within agreed service expectations.
- Virtualized, containerized, database, and cloud environments are monitored and maintained effectively.
- Clients and internal stakeholders receive timely technical support, clear updates, and practical recommendations.
Technical Skills (By Category)
Programming Languages and Scripting
Essential
- Ability to use scripting for infrastructure automation, deployment, configuration, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
- Ability to interpret configuration files, deployment scripts, pipeline definitions, and infrastructure code.
- Understanding of scripting practices that support repeatability, error handling, logging, and maintainability.
Preferred
- Experience with scripting or programming languages used for cloud automation and DevOps operations.
- Familiarity with reusable automation modules, script testing, version control, and secure handling of configuration data.
Databases/Data Management
Essential
- Knowledge of MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle database management systems.
- Understanding of database availability, connectivity, backup, recovery, monitoring, access, and performance considerations.
- Ability to support database environments used by cloud-based applications.
- Experience troubleshooting database connectivity, deployment, configuration, and infrastructure-related issues.
Preferred
- Experience supporting database migrations, replication, high availability, disaster recovery, and performance optimization.
- Familiarity with managed cloud database services.
- Exposure to automated database deployment, monitoring, backup validation, and recovery testing.
Cloud Technologies
Essential
- Proficiency with AWS, Microsoft Azure, and GCP.
- Ability to design, implement, maintain, and monitor cloud infrastructure and applications.
- Understanding of cloud scalability, availability, networking, identity, access management, storage, monitoring, and resource management.
- Experience supporting cloud-based solutions and providing technical support to clients.
- Ability to evaluate cloud services based on performance, security, availability, operational, and cost requirements.
Preferred
- Experience with hybrid-cloud and multi-cloud architectures.
- Familiarity with cloud-native services, serverless platforms, managed databases, cloud networking, backup, disaster recovery, and monitoring.
- Experience optimizing cloud resources for cost efficiency, performance, and sustainable use.
Frameworks and Libraries
Essential
- Docker for application containerization.
- Kubernetes for container orchestration.
- Understanding of container image management, deployment configuration, service connectivity, scaling, health checks, and troubleshooting.
- Ability to support application deployments across cloud and containerized environments.
Preferred
- Experience with Kubernetes cluster administration, ingress