Description
We are seeking a DevOps Engineer to design, build, and operate reliable, secure, and cost-efficient infrastructure across AWS and on-premises environments.
This role is hands-on and leadership-oriented, responsible for infrastructure provisioning, system reliability, CI/CD orchestration, container platforms, security controls, and cost optimization.
You will work closely with engineering and product teams to ensure scalable, observable, and resilient systems while mentoring junior DevOps engineers.
Requirements
Infrastructure & Platform Engineering :
- Design, provision, and manage infrastructure across AWS and on-prem environments using Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
- Provision and manage Linux-based servers, virtual machines, and bare-metal systems.
- Configure and manage network components including VPCs, subnets, routing, firewalls, load balancers, VPNs, and network switches (on-prem).
- Lead setup and maintenance of PostgreSQL databases, including backups, replication, performance tuning, and high & Orchestration :
- Design, deploy, and operate Kubernetes clusters (EKS and/or self-managed).
- Build and maintain Docker-based container workflows.
- Manage Kubernetes workloads, namespaces, ingress, secrets, autoscaling, and rolling deployments.
- Establish best practices for container security, image scanning, and runtime hardening.
CI/CD & Automation
- Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines for application and infrastructure code.
- Orchestrate automated builds, tests, deployments, and rollbacks.
- Implement GitOps or pipeline-driven deployment strategies.
- Write and maintain automation scripts using Bash, Python, or similar scripting languages.
Monitoring, Reliability & Operations
- Implement system monitoring, logging, and alerting for infrastructure and applications.
- Define and track SLIs/SLOs and lead incident response and root cause analysis.
- Ensure high availability, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery readiness.
- Lead operational runbooks and on-call best practices.
Security & Compliance
- Implement infrastructure and platform security best practices.
- Manage IAM, secrets, encryption, network security, and access controls.
- Support vulnerability management, patching, and audit readiness.
- Collaborate with security teams to align with compliance and governance requirements.
Cost Optimization & Performance
- Monitor and optimize AWS cloud spend using cost visibility and reporting tools.
- Identify opportunities for rightsizing, reserved instances, autoscaling, and storage optimization.
- Track on-prem infrastructure utilization and capacity planning.
- Balance performance, reliability, and cost trade-offs.
Leadership & Collaboration
- Act as a technical lead and mentor for DevOps engineers.
- Define DevOps standards, best practices, and documentation.
- Partner with engineering teams to improve developer experience and deployment velocity.
- Participate in architecture discussions and infrastructure roadmap planning.
What we Expect from you :
- 3+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering roles.
- Strong experience with AWS (EC2, VPC, IAM, RDS, EKS, S3, CloudWatch, etc.
- Proven experience managing on-prem infrastructure (servers, virtualization, networking).
- Deep Linux system administration experience.
- Hands-on experience with PostgreSQL administration.
- Strong knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes.
- Experience with CI/CD tools and infrastructure automation.
- Proficiency in scripting (Bash, Python, or similar).
- Strong understanding of infrastructure security principles.
What you've got :
- Experience with monitoring, logging, and incident response.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, etc.
- Experience operating hybrid or multi-cloud environments.
- Exposure to GitOps, service meshes, or advanced Kubernetes patterns.
- Prior experience leading or mentoring DevOps engineers.
- Experience supporting regulated or compliance-driven environments.
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