LEAD DEVOPS ENGINEER

Position Overview

AWS / Kubernetes - Lead DevOps Engr with Amdocs – Client: Amdocs.
Local to Denver Area and Need EX Charter

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain and operate AWS Infrastructure for a tier-one US-based telco supporting the Amdocs network software solution.
• Participate in on-call rotation; upgrade and maintain EKS, S3, EFS, MSK, VPCs, Subnets, WAFs, and Route53.
• Use standardized CI/CD pipelines based in GitLab and Terraform to ensure uptime, performance, and scalability of the infrastructure supporting the application.
• Collaborate with US-based client SMEs, leaders, incident managers, and AWS support personnel during US timezone periods, and respond to critical impacts during on-call rotation hours.
• Partner with a consultant in the Mexico and India regions with similar roles and responsibilities.
• Lead other Gen AI Consultants/Engineers, define and review work from other DevOps Engineers, and provide technical leadership to the team.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience with GitLab (code repository management, pipeline configuration, environment properties, GitLab runners, merge requests).
• 5+ years of experience with Terraform (troubleshooting, property configuration, state file management, module and resource authoring).
• 5+ years of experience with AWS cloud (EKS, S3, EFS, MSK, VPCs, Subnets, Security Groups, WAFs, auto-scaling, and Route53).
• 5+ years of AWS infrastructure support (monitoring, maintenance, upgrades, and troubleshooting).
• Proven excellence in communication, root cause analysis, and consulting skills in English.
• Proven experience in analyzing and troubleshooting production workloads in AWS infrastructure.
• Ability to work during US timezone overlapping hours and participate in on-call rotations for critical issue escalations.
• Ability to interact and work with senior technical resources at the client and AWS support.

Preferred Qualifications

• Understanding of Harness configuration for application deployment to EKS (deploying containers to EKS).
• Experience in application support for production workloads.
• Experience with Kafka configuration, support, and troubleshooting.
• Experience with AWS Direct Connect support and troubleshooting.

Contact Information

For further inquiries, please reach out via email at gauravverma@kanakits.com.