Cloud Dev Ops Engineer (Microservices Application Development)

About

We are looking for a Cloud Dev Ops Engineer to own the end-to-end delivery and operations of microservices-based applications on cloud platforms.

The role combines Dev Ops practices, cloud infrastructure, and hands-on programming (Java/.NET/Python/Node.js) to enable secure, reliable, and high-velocity releases.

Key Responsibilities

1. Cloud Infrastructure Platform (AWS / Azure / GCP)

• Design and provision cloud resources:
  • Compute, networking, storage, IAM
• Implement Infrastructure as Code using:
  • Terraform, Cloud Formation, ARM, Bicep
• Set up Kubernetes clusters:
  • AKS, EKS, GKE
• Configure autoscaling, node pools, pod disruption budgets
• Implement secure networking:
  • VNet/VPC, subnets, security groups
  • Private endpoints, ingress/egress
• Manage:
  • Secrets and KMS / Key Vault integration
  • Least-privilege access controls

2. CI/CD | Release Engineering & Automation

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using:
  • Azure Dev Ops, Git Hub Actions, Jenkins, Git Lab CI
• Implement deployment strategies:
  • Blue-Green
  • Canary
  • Rolling deployments with rollback
• Integrate quality gates:
  • Unit & integration tests
  • SAST / DAST
  • License scans
• Package and manage:
  • Docker images
  • Helm charts
  • Versioning and SBOMs

3. Microservices Architecture & Runtime

• Design and develop microservices:
  • REST / gRPC
  • Event-driven architecture
• Containerize and orchestrate:
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes (Helm, Kustomize)
• Manage:
  • Service discovery
  • API Gateway
  • Configuration and circuit breakers (Istio, Linkerd, Envoy)
• Implement resilience patterns:
  • Retries, timeouts, bulkheads
  • Idempotency and backpressure

4. Programming & Application Engineering

Common Responsibilities

• Build scalable and testable services using clean architecture and SOLID principles
• Write automated tests:
  • Unit, contract, integration
• Implement:
  • Observability (logs, metrics, traces)
  • Feature flags
• Integrate with:
  • Databases:
    • PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis
  • Messaging:
    • Kafka, RabbitMQ, Event Hubs

Language-Specific Expectations

Java (Spring Boot / Quarkus / Micronaut)

• Build REST/gRPC services
• Use Spring Cloud Config, Resilience4j, Open Feign
• Maven/Gradle builds, JUnit, Mockito, Rest Assured, OpenAPI/Swagger

Python (FastAPI / Flask / Django REST)

• Use Pydantic models
• Async IO where appropriate
• pytest, tox, black, ruff

5. Security & Compliance (Dev Sec Ops )

• Implement shift-left security:
  • SAST / DAST
  • Dependency and container scanning
  • IaC scans
• Manage secrets:
  • Key Vault, Secrets Manager, Vault
  • Rotation policies
• Implement:
  • OAuth2, OIDC, JWT, mTLS
  • API security best practices
• Enforce policies:
  • OPA, Gatekeeper, Kyverno
• Compliance tagging (CIS benchmarks)
• Support:
  • Audit logging
  • Data classification
  • Encryption (at rest & in transit)

6. Observability | SRE & Operations

• Implement monitoring:
  • Metrics, logs, traces
  • Prometheus, Grafana
  • Cloud Watch, Cloud Logging, Azure Monitor, Open Telemetry
• Define and track:
  • SLIs / SLOs
  • Alerts and on-call runbooks
• Perform:
  • Incident response
  • Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
  • Error budget management
• Optimize:
  • Performance (latency, throughput, CPU, memory)
  • Cloud cost efficiency

Requirements

• 60-70