Rackspace

Cloud Engineer III

Rackspace
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3 days ago
Remote, IndiaSenior

Responsibilities

  • Act as the L3 escalation point for complex cloud, DevOps, Kubernetes, infrastructure, and deployment issues.
  • Lead major technical activities, complex infrastructure changes, upgrades, migrations, platform improvements, deployments, patching, and maintenance.
  • Design, implement, review, and standardize Terraform infrastructure and reusable Terraform modules.
  • Develop Ansible roles, playbooks, AWX workflows, and automation for configuration, patching, deployments, and infrastructure operations.
  • Design and maintain ArgoCD-based deployments and GitOps practices for Kubernetes and application delivery.
  • Design and improve Kubernetes workloads on Amazon EKS and maintain reusable Helm charts and configuration standards.
  • Improve Jenkins and other CI/CD deployment automation and define deployment strategies and operational standards.
  • Lead disaster recovery planning, restore testing, failover/failback, application and infrastructure recovery, validation, and documentation.
  • Lead complex production incidents, conduct root cause analysis, and implement permanent automated solutions.
  • Improve monitoring, logging, alerting, and operational reliability.
  • Define and enforce standards for infrastructure as code, GitOps, Kubernetes, Helm, CI/CD, automation, cloud operations, patching, and deployments.
  • Perform technical reviews, mentor L1/L2 engineers, and create SOPs, runbooks, technical standards, architecture documentation, and operational procedures.

Requirements

  • Strong hands-on expertise with AWS, Amazon EKS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Terragrunt, AWX, Ansible, ArgoCD, GitOps, Helm, Docker, Jenkins, CI/CD, Git, Linux, Windows, Bash, and Python.
  • Experience with infrastructure automation, disaster recovery, monitoring and logging, production troubleshooting, and root cause analysis.
  • Ability to independently lead complex cloud and DevOps activities and own infrastructure changes.
  • Ability to develop and review Terraform code, build AWX/Ansible automation, implement ArgoCD-based GitOps, and define technical standards.
  • Experience leading disaster recovery activities, complex production incidents, reliability improvements, and technical reviews.
  • Ability to mentor L1/L2 engineers and provide technical leadership.

Benefits

  • Rackspace Technology offers equal employment opportunity and accommodations for applicants with disabilities or special needs.
  • The role is with Rackspace Technology, which supports customers in more than 120 countries.

Tech Stack

AnsibleAWSBashDockerGitHelmJenkinsKubernetesLinuxPythonTerraformWindows

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About Rackspace

5,001-10,000 employees

Rackspace provides managed cloud and IT services for enterprises, including multicloud operations, cloud migration, private cloud, managed security, and application/platform management across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and VMware. It operates a services-led business model with consulting and ongoing management for regulated and mission‑critical workloads, including healthcare. Founded in 1998 and headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, Rackspace is majority‑owned by Apollo Global Management.

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