1. Cloud Platforms (AWS & GCP)
Must have hands-on operational experience with:
AWS (solid): EC2, ECS/Fargate
AWS (working knowledge): RDS (Postgres/MySQL)
GCP (strong): GCE (VMs)
GCP (working knowledge): Cloud SQL, Alloy DB
Expected capabilities:
Troubleshoot performance, availability, and connectivity issues
Support upgrades, patching coordination, and lifecycle management
Work across dev, QA, and production environments with strong awareness of production impact
2. Networking (Practical Knowledge)
Strong working understanding of:
VPCs, subnets, routing tables
Security groups and firewall rules
DNS (internal and external)
Basic connectivity patterns (peering, private endpoints / PSC)
Ability to:
Troubleshoot cross-service connectivity issues
Collaborate effectively with networking teams (clear understanding of ownership boundaries)
3. IAM, Security & Access Governance (Critical)
Required experience with:
AWS IAM roles and policies
GCP IAM (projects, folders, service accounts)
Must understand:
Least privilege access model
PAM / temporary elevation concepts




Service account usage and restrictions
4. Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
Required:
Terraform (hands-on)
Strong plus:
AWS CloudFormation
Expectation:
5. Monitoring, Logging & Observability
Experience with:
AWS CloudWatch
GCP Monitoring and Logging
Splunk or similar tools
Ability to:
Troubleshoot incidents using logs and metrics
Tune alerts and reduce noise
6. DevOps Tooling Support
Must have experience supporting:
Artifactory
Terraform pipelines
Familiarity with:
GitHub / repository management
Docker / Kubernetes (basic understanding)
7. Incident Management & Operations
Required experience with:
On-call support model
Incident triage, escalation, and ownership
Expectations:
Own issues end-to-end (triage ? resolution ? handoff if needed)
Communicate clearly during incidents
Work across Cloud Engineering, application teams, and vendors
8. Documentation & Runbooks
Strong expectation for:
Writing and maintaining runbooks

📌 CloudOps engineer (Mumbai)
🏢 Prophecy Technologies
📍 Mumbai