Equivalent strong experience in another major CI/CD tool (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins) is acceptable if Azure DevOps can be picked up quickly Solid Docker skills - multi-stage builds, image hardening, ECR Infrastructure-as-Code in production: Terraform (preferred) or CloudFormation/CDK Database familiarity - comfortable working with DBA teams on RDS (SQL Server and PostgreSQL), connection strings, secrets rotation, and migration cutover Linux administration (RHEL/Amazon Linux/Ubuntu) and shell scripting (bash) Source control with Git - branching strategies, pull requests, code review discipline Strong written communication - must produce clear runbooks, architecture diagrams, and PR descriptions Preferred Qualifications AWS certifications: AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional or DevOps Engineer - Professional CKA / CKAD (Certified Kubernetes Administrator/Developer) Experience migrating .NET and Java applications from on-premises to AWS Experience operating COTS products in containerized or cloud environments Experience with service mesh (Istio, App Mesh) or API gateways Exposure to HashiCorp Vault, secrets rotation, and certificate management Familiarity with DataDog, New Relic, or Splunk in addition to native AWS observability Experience with blue/green and canary deployment patterns Kind Regards, Arvinder Singh Talent Acquisition Specialist | Syntricate Technologies Inc. Required Qualifications 5–6+ years hands-on experience building and operating production workloads on AWS, with deep knowledge of Elastic Beanstalk, EKS, EC2, RDS, VPC, IAM, S3, CloudWatch, and Secrets Manager 3+ years hands-on with Kubernetes - production EKS preferred, including Helm, kubectl, ingress (ALB/NGINX), HPA, and troubleshooting pods/services/networking Production experience with ArgoCD or Flux - designed app-of-apps structure, managed multi-environment promotion, and resolved GitOps drift in real workloads.