Role description

Working closely with Software Engineers, AI/ML Engineers, Data Teams, and Security stakeholders, you will help transform development workflows into production-ready automated solutions while ensuring enterprise standards for security, availability, performance, compliance, and cost optimization.

This is a contract role within a distributed Agile environment.

Key Responsibilities

- Design, implement, and maintain highly available, secure, and scalable AWS cloud infrastructure.

- Automate infrastructure provisioning using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as:

- Terraform

- AWS CDK

- CloudFormation

- Build, optimize, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using:

- GitHub Actions

- Jenkins

- GitLab CI/CD

- Azure DevOps (or similar)

- Docker

- Amazon ECS

- Amazon EKS

- Kubernetes

- Implement observability solutions using:

- Amazon CloudWatch

- Prometheus

- Grafana

- ELK / OpenSearch

- Automate platform operations and cloud resource lifecycle management.

- Improve deployment reliability, release automation, and platform performance.

- Implement enterprise security best practices including:

- IAM

- Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)

- Secrets Management

- Encryption

- Security Monitoring

- Support AI/ML platform deployments, APIs, data pipelines, and model-serving infrastructure.

- Optimize cloud costs through:

- Resource monitoring

- Capacity planning

- Tagging strategy

- FinOps practices

- Participate in:

- Incident response

- Root cause analysis

- Disaster recovery planning

- Platform resiliency improvements

- Maintain technical documentation and promote DevOps best practices across engineering teams.

Team Overview

Core Technology Areas

- AWS Cloud Infrastructure
- DevOps & Platform Engineering
- CI/CD Automation
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
- Docker & Kubernetes
- Platform Observability & Monitoring
- Cloud Security & Compliance
- AI Platform Deployment & Operations
- Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)




- Cloud Cost Optimization & Governance

Required Experience

- 6+ years of experience in:

- DevOps Engineering

- Cloud Engineering

- Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)

- Infrastructure Engineering

- 3+ years of hands-on experience designing and managing production workloads on AWS.

- Robust scripting skills in:

- Python

- Bash

- PowerShell

- Experience supporting highly available, distributed production environments.

- Strong troubleshooting, incident management, and performance tuning skills.

- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

- Ability to work independently in Agile environments.

Required AWS Services

- Amazon EC2
- Amazon VPC
- AWS IAM
- Amazon S3
- AWS Lambda
- Amazon ECS
- Amazon EKS
- Amazon API Gateway
- Amazon CloudWatch
- Amazon Route 53
- Amazon ECR
- Amazon RDS

Required Technical Skills

Infrastructure as Code :

- Terraform
- AWS CDK
- CloudFormation

CI/CD :

- GitHub Actions
- Jenkins
- GitLab CI/CD
- Azure DevOps

Containers & Orchestration :

- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Amazon ECS
- Amazon EKS

Monitoring & Observability :

- Amazon CloudWatch
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- ELK Stack
- OpenSearch

Security :

- IAM
- RBAC
- Secrets Management
- Encryption
- Security Monitoring

Additional Skills :

- Networking fundamentals
- Cloud architecture best practices
- AI/ML platform operations
- Performance optimization
- FinOps and cloud cost management

Skills

AWS, AWS CloudFormation, Amazon CloudWatch About UST

UST is a global digital transformation solutions provider. For more than 20 years, UST has worked side by side with the world’s best companies to make a real impact through transformation. Powered by technology, inspired by people and led by purpose, UST partners with their clients from design to operation. With deep domain expertise and a future-proof philosophy, UST embeds innovation and agility into their clients’ organizations. With over 30,000 employees in 30 countries, UST builds for boundless impact—touching billions of lives in the process.

📌 Senior DevOps Engineer - Aws & Ai (Kolkata)
🏢 UST
📍 Kolkata