Cloud DevOps Engineer

Job Description

AHEAD builds platforms for digital business. By weaving together advances in cloud infrastructure, automation and analytics, and software delivery, we help enterprises deliver on the promise of digital transformation. At AHEAD, we prioritize creating a culture of belonging, where all perspectives and voices are represented, valued, respected, and heard. We create spaces to empower everyone to speak up, make change, and drive the culture at AHEAD. We are an equal opportunity employer, and do not discriminate based on an individual's race, national origin, color, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, marital status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law, whether actual or perceived. We embrace all candidates that will contribute to the diversification and enrichment of ideas and perspectives at AHEAD. The Cloud/DevOps Engineer delivers platform capabilities and automation that speed up development while improving reliability and security. You?ll own GitHub Actions workflows, Helm/Kubernetes deployments, and cloud primitives in Azure or AWS, partnering with app engineers to design scalable, observable, and cost-effective environments. Skills Required Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions; implement reusable workflows and environment strategies. Author and manage Helm charts; define Kubernetes manifests and deployment patterns for microservices. Implement infrastructure-as-code with Terraform and maintain environment consistency across Azure or AWS. Configure ingress/egress, gateways/ALBs,DNS, routing, and SSL/TLS; ensure secure networking topologies. Implement observability (logs, metrics, traces), secrets management, and runtime policy controls. Optimize container images, build caching, rollouts/rollbacks, and zero-downtime deployments. Implement infrastructure-as-code and environment consistency across Azure or AWS. Partner with engineers on API reliability, scalability, and performance; support load and resilience testing. Contribute to SRE practices: incident response, on-call runbooks, error budgets, and SLIs/SL Education And Experience Minimum Required ? Bachelor's in CS/Engineering or equivalent experience. 4+ years in DevOps/SRE/Platform Engineering. Skills Required Deep experience with GitHub Actions, Kubernetes, Helm, and Terraform. Strong Azure or AWS knowledge; security groups, IAM, VNET/VPC, container runtimes. Networking fundamentals: DNS, routing, SSL/TLS, proxies, ALBs/Gateways. Proficiency with Python and/or scripting for platform automation. Familiarity with REST services and API gateways; understanding of service meshes is a plus. Experience with Postgres/Snowflake connectivity, secrets, and performance considerations. Solid unit testing and CI quality practices; IaC experience is a plus. Exposure to AI-serving patterns (vector search, RAG services) is a plus. Why AHEAD: Through our daily work and internal groups like Moving Women AHEAD and RISE AHEAD, we value and benefit from diversity of people, ideas, experience, and everything in between. We fuel growth by stacking our office with top-notch technologies in a multi-million-dollar lab, by encouraging cross department training and development, sponsoring certifications and credentials for continued learning.