AWS DevOps Engineer

NorthBay Solutions · Islamabad, Islamabad Territory · 3 months ago

Core Responsibilities

Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using AWS CodePipeline and CodeBuild

Manage infrastructure using AWS CDK (Infrastructure as Code)

Build, manage, and debug Docker containers

Deploy and manage services on ECS (Fargate)

Work closely with backend services (Flask APIs, workers, scheduled tasks)

Monitor systems using CloudWatch, Sentry, and alerting tools

Troubleshoot issues across APIs, databases, queues, and infrastructure

Manage and maintain MySQL (RDS) databases and schema changes

Maintain documentation, runbooks, and operational procedures

Collaborate via Git workflows (PRs, code reviews, branching strategies)

Required Skills (Must-Have)

4–6 years of professional software / DevOps / cloud engineering experience

Strong proficiency in Python scripting (comfortable reading and writing production code)

Solid understanding of REST APIs and HTTP

Strong working knowledge of SQL (MySQL preferred) — queries, joins, indexes

Hands-on experience with Git workflows (branching, PRs, merge conflicts)

Experience with CI/CD tools — AWS CodeBuild and CodePipeline

Strong experience with Docker (Dockerfile, running containers, debugging issues)

Hands-on experience with AWS services: EC2, ECS, S3, RDS, Lambda, Secrets Manager

Experience working with ECS, RDS, and AWS CDK (CLI and deployments)

Strong understanding of Infrastructure as Code (AWS CDK)

Experience with CloudFormation or Terraform

Familiarity with Linux environments and command-line tools

Ability to troubleshoot across API, database, containers, and infrastructure layers

Strong ownership mindset and willingness to learn and take responsibility

Core Responsibilities