DevOps & Cloud Automation Engineer

Devitechs; Town of Texas (WI); On-site; Full time

Job description

✔️ Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Azure DevOps to automate build, test, and deployment workflows.

✔️ Manage cloud infrastructure on AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud, ensuring high availability, scalability, and cost-efficient cloud operations.

✔️ Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible for consistent, repeatable environment setups.

✔️ Monitor system performance and logs using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, Datadog, or CloudWatch.

✔️ Build and manage containerized applications using Docker and orchestrate deployments with Kubernetes (EKS, AKS, or GKE).

✔️ Configure automated backups, disaster recovery strategies, and failover mechanisms for critical applications.

✔️ Work closely with development teams to streamline deployments, reduce downtime, and improve overall release cycles.

✔️ Implement robust security practices, including IAM roles, secrets management, KMS encryption, and compliance checks.

✔️ Optimize CI/CD pipelines to reduce deployment time, improve success rates, and eliminate manual intervention.

✔️ Automate repetitive operational tasks such as environment provisioning, cluster updates, and package installs.

✔️ Build monitoring dashboards, alerts, and on-call notifications for rapid issue detection and response.

✔️ Set up log aggregation, performance monitoring, and tracing for distributed microservices environments.

✔️ Maintain configuration management tools like Ansible, Chef, or Puppet to support scalable infrastructure.

✔️ Collaborate with developers and QA teams to ensure production readiness of applications through testing automation.

✔️ Manage version control workflows using Git, branching strategies, and pull request reviews.

✔️ Conduct root cause analysis (RCA) and implement long-term fixes for recurring issues or outages.

✔️ Support zero-downtime deployments using blue-green, canary, and rolling update strategies.

✔️ Document infrastructure design, processes, runbooks, and deployment procedures thoroughly.

✔️ Participate in Agile/Scrum processes, contributing to sprint planning, architecture discussions, and standups.

✔️ Stay updated with emerging DevOps tools, cloud technologies, and automation best practices to continuously improve environments.