CloudOps engineer with SALT

• 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): Cloud SQL, Alloy DB

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

• 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)

• 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

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Required

Terraform (hands-on)

Strong plus

AWS CloudFormation

Expectation

• 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

• DevOps Tooling Support

Must have experience supporting

Artifactory

Terraform pipelines

Familiarity with

GitHub / repository management

Docker / Kubernetes (basic understanding)

• 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

• 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

• Automation & Continuous Improvement

Experience with

Scripting (Python or Bash)

Automating operational tasks and workflows

Mindset

Focus on reducing manual effort and improving operational efficiency

• 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)