AWS Cloud Engineer III

Role Overview

The L3 DevOps / Cloud Engineer will act as a senior technical resource responsible for leading complex infrastructure and DevOps activities, driving automation, defining technical standards, and improving platform reliability.

The role requires strong hands-on expertise in AWS, Terraform, AWX/Ansible, ArgoCD, GitOps, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and Disaster Recovery.
Key Responsibilities

- Act as the L3 escalation point for complex Cloud, DevOps, Kubernetes, infrastructure, and deployment issues.

- Lead major technical activities across production and non-production environments.

- Take ownership of complex infrastructure changes, upgrades, migrations, and platform improvements.

- Lead and coordinate Disaster Recovery (DR) activities, including:
- DR planning

- Restore testing

- Failover/failback activities

- Application and infrastructure recovery

- DR validation

- Runbook preparation and improvement

- Design and implement infrastructure using Terraform .

- Develop and maintain reusable Terraform modules .

- Review Terraform code and infrastructure changes implemented by L1/L2 engineers.

- Define Terraform coding standards, repository structure, and implementation best practices.

- Strong hands-on experience with AWX / Ansible .

- Develop reusable Ansible roles, playbooks, and automation workflows.

- Use AWX to automate:
- Server configuration

- Patching

- Application deployment

- Infrastructure operations

- Repetitive BAU activities

- Identify manual operational activities and convert them into automated workflows.

- Design and maintain ArgoCD-based deployments .

- Implement and support GitOps practices for Kubernetes and application deployments.

- Define GitOps repository structures and deployment standards.

- Manage and troubleshoot ArgoCD:
- Applications

- Sync issues

- Configuration drift

- Deployment failures

- Environment promotion

- Rollback activities

- Design and maintain Kubernetes workloads running on Amazon EKS .

- Develop and maintain reusable Helm Charts .

- Define standards for Helm values, templates, and environment-specific configurations.

- Design and improve CI/CD deployment processes.

- Support and improve Jenkins and other CI/CD automation.

- Define deployment strategies and operational standards.

- Lead automation initiatives across Cloud and DevOps platforms.

- Develop automation using:
- Terraform

- Ansible / AWX

- Bash

- Python

- CI/CD pipelines

- Define and enforce technical standards for:
- Infrastructure as Code

- Terraform

- GitOps

- Kubernetes

- Helm

- CI/CD

- Automation

- Cloud operations

- Patching

- Deployment processes

- Establish reusable templates, modules, pipelines, and automation frameworks.

- Perform technical reviews for changes implemented by L1 and L2 engineers.

- Lead complex production incidents and perform Root Cause Analysis.

- Identify recurring issues and implement permanent automated solutions.

- Improve monitoring, logging, alerting, and operational reliability.

- Participate in architecture and technical design discussions.

- Lead production deployments, infrastructure upgrades, patching, and maintenance activities.

- Mentor and provide technical guidance to L1 and L2 engineers.

- Create and maintain:
- SOPs

- Runbooks

- Technical standards

- Architecture documentation

- DR documentation

- Operational procedures

Experience

8–12 years of relevant experience in cloud engineering, infrastructure, DevOps, or a related field is required.
Core Technical Skills
Strong hands-on expertise in:

- AWS

- Amazon EKS

- Kubernetes

- Terraform

- Terragrunt

- AWX

- Ansible

- ArgoCD

- GitOps

- Helm

- Docker

- Jenkins

- CI/CD

- Git

- Linux

- Windows

- Bash / Python

- SSL/TLS

- Infrastructure Automation

- Disaster Recovery

- Monitoring & Logging

- Production Troubleshooting

- Root Cause Analysis

L3 Expectations
An L3 Engineer should be capable of:

- Leading technical activities indepe