Uniquehire Consulting

Job Title: DevOps Engineer with AWS CDK & Terraform Exp.

Location: Berkeley Heights, NJ (5 days onsite/week)

Skills

Mandatory Skills: DevOps, AWS CDK & Terraform
Good to Have Skills:  AWS CloudFormation, Ansible, Azure DevOps, Git, Jenkins, Shell Scripting

Job Description

Role Summary:

Highly skilled DevOps Engineer with deep AWS CDK & Terraform expertise to support enterprise scale cloud and platform engineering initiatives. The role involves designing automating and managing cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code IaC building robust CICD pipelines and supporting Kubernetes based microservices platforms in highly regulated environments.

Key Responsibilities:

Design develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code IaC using Terraform including reusable modules and environment specific configurations.

Provision and manage AWS cloud infrastructure VPCs EKS EC2 IAM RDS load balancers networking security.

Integrate Terraform with CICD pipelines to enable automated version controlled infrastructure deployments.

Build and support CICD pipelines for application and platform deployments across Dev QA UAT and Production environments.

Manage and support Kubernetes platforms EKS including deployments scaling rollouts and configuration management.

Implement deployment strategies such as Bluegreen and canary releases.

Collaborate with development QA security and operations teams to ensure stable and secure releases.

Support production releases and Level2 and Level3 production issues following enterprise incident change and release management processes.

Ensure infrastructure complies with security compliance and audit standards.

Create and maintain clear documentation for infrastructure designs Terraform modules and operational procedures.

Mandatory Skills:

Terraform IaC

Strong Handson experience writing Terraform code modules variables state management and workspaces.

Experience provisioning AWS infrastructure using Terraform.

Cloud Platforms

Strong experience with AWS EKS EC2 VPC IAM S3 RDS networking security concepts

Containers Orchestration.

Docker.

Kubernetes EKS kubectl deployments services config maps secrets.

CICD DevOps Tools.

GitLab CICD Jenkins or similar tools.

Git branching and release strategies.

Operating Systems Scripting.

Strong Linux or Unix experience.

Shell scripting Bash Python preferred.

Enterprise DevOps Practices.

Experience working with change incident and release management processes.

Good to Have Skills:

Helm charts and Kubernetes packaging.

GitOps tools ArgoCD Flux.

Secrets management Hashi Corp Vault cloud native secrets.

Monitoring and observability tools Splunk Dynatrace CloudWatch Prometheus.

Experience in BFS Payments Financial Services domain.

Exposure to Mult environment multitenant or regulated platforms.

Soft Skills Expectations

Strong communication skills for working with onsite client stakeholders.

Ability to work independently in a fast paced enterprise environment.

Proactive mindset toward automation standardization and reliability.

Comfortable supporting critical production systems.