- Builds and manages AWS infrastructure specifically container orchestration (EKS, ECS) and API Gateway
- Automates infrastructure deployment using Terraform and CloudFormation (IaC)
- Sets up monitoring/alerting for uptime and performance
- Builds and maintains CI/CD pipelines
- Works cross-functionally with dev teams for deployments
- Owns security, scalability, cost optimization on AWS
- Documentation of infra/configs
- AWS core services especially EKS, ECS, API Gateway
- Containerization — Docker + Kubernetes (EKS is AWS's managed Kubernetes)
- Infrastructure as Code — Terraform specifically named (CloudFormation is secondary/nice-to-have)
- CI/CD pipelines — building and maintaining them (tool-agnostic in JD — could be Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, CodePipeline)
- Scripting — Python or Bash
- Linux — solid OS fundamentals
- SQL/PSQL — relational DB familiarity (not deep DBA skills, but comfort with databases)