CareerDev4AI

Cloud & DevOps Engineer

Automates cloud infrastructure provisioning, CI/CD deployment pipelines, system observability, and security posture across enterprise environments.

Technology & Software Mid level $105,000 - $160,000 / year

What the role involves

  • Define infrastructure as code using Terraform or CloudFormation
  • Maintain Kubernetes clusters, container registries, and networking
  • Construct automated CI/CD pipelines with security scanning and rollbacks
  • Implement central logging, metrics alerting, and distributed tracing
  • Ensure high availability, disaster recovery, and cloud cost governance

Core skills

  • Cloud Architecture (AWS / GCP / Azure) (level 4/5)
  • Docker & Containerization (level 4/5)
  • Kubernetes (level 3/5)
  • Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) (level 4/5)
  • CI/CD (GitHub Actions / GitLab) (level 4/5)
  • Linux System Administration (level 4/5)
  • Networking & Security (VPC, DNS, TLS) (level 3/5)

Preferred skills

  • Observability (Prometheus / Grafana)
  • Python / Bash Scripting
  • Cost Optimization (FinOps)

Tools

AWSGCPDockerKubernetesTerraformGitHub ActionsPrometheusGrafanaLinuxHelm

Experience expected

2-5 years in infrastructure engineering, sysadmin, or backend development

Projects that prove the role

  • Multi-region high-availability Kubernetes cluster deployed with Terraform
  • Zero-downtime blue/green deployment pipeline with automated canary analysis
  • Unified enterprise telemetry stack with Prometheus, Grafana, and Alertmanager

Evidence to collect

  • A Terraform repository with a documented state and a reviewable plan
  • A pipeline that deploys on merge with automated rollback
  • Before/after infrastructure cost figures

What the interview covers

  • Immutable infrastructure and state management in Terraform
  • Container lifecycle, pod scheduling, and ingress in Kubernetes
  • Incident management post-mortems and site reliability engineering principles
  • Designing zero-trust network topologies and automated secret rotation

How the role progresses

  • Systems Administrator
  • DevOps Engineer
  • Senior Cloud Architect
  • Staff Site Reliability Engineer
  • Director of Infrastructure

Certifications that carry weight

  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate
  • Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
  • HashiCorp Certified Terraform Associate

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  • site-reliability-engineer

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