Website:
tekgrove.com
Job details:
CloudOps / Cloud Services Contractor – Required Skills
We are looking for a hands-on CloudOps engineer with strong experience supporting production environments across AWS and GCP.
1. Cloud Platforms (AWS & GCP)
Must have hands-on operational experience with:
- AWS (strong): EC2, ECS/Fargate
- AWS (working knowledge): RDS (Postgres/MySQL)
- GCP (strong): GCE (VMs)
- GCP (working knowledge): CloudSQL, AlloyDB
Expected capabilities:
- Troubleshoot performance, availability, and connectivity issues
- Support upgrades, patching coordination, and lifecycle management
- Work across dev, QA, and production environments with strong awareness of production impact
2. Networking (Practical Knowledge)
Strong working understanding of:
- VPCs, subnets, routing tables
- Security groups and firewall rules
- DNS (internal and external)
- Basic connectivity patterns (peering, private endpoints / PSC)
Ability to:
- Troubleshoot cross-service connectivity issues
- Collaborate effectively with networking teams (clear understanding of ownership boundaries)
3. IAM, Security & Access Governance (Critical)
Required experience with:
- AWS IAM roles and policies
- GCP IAM (projects, folders, service accounts)
Must understand:
- Least privilege access model
- PAM / temporary elevation concepts
- Service account usage and restrictions
4. Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
Required:
Strong plus:
Expectation:
- Comfortable working in environments where all changes go through pipelines (no manual console changes)
5. Monitoring, Logging & Observability
Experience with:
- AWS CloudWatch
- GCP Monitoring and Logging
- Splunk or similar tools
Ability to:
- Troubleshoot incidents using logs and metrics
- Tune alerts and reduce noise
6. DevOps Tooling Support
Must have experience supporting:
- Artifactory
- Terraform pipelines
Familiarity with:
- GitHub / repository management
- Docker / Kubernetes (basic understanding)
7. Incident Management & Operations
Required experience with:
- On-call support model
- Incident triage, escalation, and ownership
Expectations:
- Own issues end-to-end (triage → resolution → handoff if needed)
- Communicate clearly during incidents
- Work across Cloud Engineering, application teams, and vendors
8. Documentation & Runbooks
Strong expectation for:
- Writing and maintaining runbooks
- Keeping documentation accurate and up to date
Ability to:
- Convert informal knowledge into structured, usable documentation
9. Automation & Continuous Improvement
Experience with:
- Scripting (Python or Bash)
- Automating operational tasks and workflows
Mindset:
- Focus on reducing manual effort and improving operational efficiency
10. Cloud Lifecycle Management
Experience with:
- Provisioning, upgrades, and decommissioning
- OS / image management (e.g., AMIs, VM images)
Understanding of:
- Patching responsibilities (shared vs application-owned)
- Version upgrades (e.g., database upgrades)
✅ Summary (Quick Screening)
- Strong CloudOps experience in AWS and GCP
- Terraform and IaC-driven operations (required)
- Solid IAM/security knowledge (critical)
- Production support and incident management experience
- Monitoring/logging (CloudWatch, GCP Monitoring, Splunk)
- Experience with DevOps tooling (Artifactory, pipelines)
- Strong documentation and automation mindset
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