Role Overview We are looking for an experienced AWS DevOps Engineer with strong hands-on expertise in Terraform, AWS infrastructure provisioning, GitLab CI/CD, and DevSecOps practices. The ideal candidate must have practical experience designing and provisioning AWS infrastructure using Terraform, developing reusable modules, and automating infrastructure deployments through CI/CD pipelines. Responsibilities
• Design, develop, maintain, and troubleshoot Terraform configurations and reusable modules for AWS infrastructure provisioning.
• Provision and manage AWS resources, including VPCs, subnets, route tables, NAT gateways, EC2, Auto Scaling, load balancers, IAM, S3, RDS, and EKS.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) best practices using Terraform variables, outputs, data sources, modules, workspaces, remote backends, and state locking.
• Manage Terraform lifecycle operations, including initialization, validation, planning, deployment, destruction, and state troubleshooting.
• Develop and maintain GitLab CI/CD pipelines using .gitlab-ci.yml and GitLab runners to automate Terraform validation, planning, and infrastructure deployment.
• Integrate Terraform workflows with Git, branching strategies, merge requests, code reviews, approvals, and controlled deployment processes.
• Implement DevSecOps practices, including IaC security scanning, policy validation, vulnerability checks, secrets management, and compliance controls.
• Apply AWS security best practices, including IAM roles and policies, least-privilege access, secure authentication, and network security.




• Troubleshoot Terraform deployment failures, AWS infrastructure issues, state inconsistencies, and CI/CD pipeline failures.
• Collaborate with cloud and platform engineering teams to design secure, scalable, highly available AWS infrastructure.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and operational processes using scripting and CI/CD tools.
• Support containerized environments using Docker and Kubernetes/EKS where required. Requirements
• 6
- 10 years of experience in DevOps, cloud infrastructure, or related engineering roles.
• Expert-level hands-on experience with Terraform for AWS infrastructure provisioning and lifecycle management.
• Strong experience with AWS services, particularly VPC, EC2, IAM, S3, RDS, load balancers, Auto Scaling, CloudWatch, and AWS networking.
• Proven experience developing reusable Terraform modules and managing remote state, state locking, workspaces, and multi-environment deployments.
• Strong hands-on experience creating and maintaining GitLab CI/CD pipelines, including GitLab runners, .gitlab-ci.yml, automated Terraform workflows, and deployment approvals.
• Strong understanding of Infrastructure as Code, Git, CI/CD, and infrastructure change management.
• Knowledge of DevSecOps practices, including IaC scanning tools such as Checkov, tfsec, or TFLint, secrets management, and security compliance.
• Solid understanding of AWS IAM, security groups, network security, and least-privilege access.
• Ability to troubleshoot complex infrastructure and deployment issues independently. (ref:hirist.tech)

📌 RandomTrees - AWS DevOps Engineer (Chennai)
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