DevOps Automation Engineer

Experience: 3.00 + years

Salary: Confidential (based on experience)

Expected Notice Period: 7 Days

Shift: (GMT+05:30) Asia/Kolkata (IST)

Opportunity Type: Remote

Placement Type: Full Time Indefinite Contract(40 hrs a week/160 hrs a month)

(*Note: This is a requirement for one of Uplers client - Strategic Transformation Through Digital & Physical Innovation)

What do you need for this opportunity

Must have skills required:

Grafana, Kubernetes tools, Monitoring tools, Promotheus, Scripting, CI/CD, CockroachDB, Terraforms, AWS, Docker, GCP, Github, Kubernetes

Strategic Transformation Through Digital & Physical Innovation is Looking for:

DevOps Automation Engineer

Dual-Cloud Infrastructure - AWS, Google Cloud, CockroachDB & Tailscale

About The Role

This role spans:

• Dual-cloud infrastructure (AWS + GCP)
• Developer workstation management
• Security automation
• Incident response
• CI/CD pipeline operations
  
  

The platform is scaling to serve millions of consumers across 20,000+ veterinary clinics in 100+ countries, with tens of millions of projected concurrent sessions.

You must have real-world experience operating infrastructure at this scale, including:

• Massive server loads
• Database replication and failover at scale
• Disaster recovery
• Performance optimization under heavy concurrent traffic
  
  

The current production stack runs on ECS Fargate with RDS PostgreSQL, with CockroachDB planned for distributed workloads.

You will manage:

• Tailscale VPN infrastructure
• 20+ EC2 dev boxes
• Cloudflare for 23 zones
• PagerDuty alerting
• A robust security automation layer
  
  

This is a hands-on role with real operational ownership.

What You'll Do

Cloud Infrastructure (AWS + GCP)

• Design, build, and manage dual-cloud infrastructure across AWS and Google Cloud Platform
• Manage ECS Fargate deployments — task definitions, service discovery, ALB target groups, and blue/green deployments
• Automate infrastructure provisioning using Terraform with modular, reusable configurations
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI and GitHub Actions
• Manage containerized applications using Docker, ECS, and Kubernetes (EKS/GKE for planned workloads)
• Support multi-tenant and multi-region application architectures across 6+ global regions
• Implement and maintain CockroachDB clusters for distributed, geo-partitioned data (planned migration from RDS PostgreSQL)
• Implement infrastructure cost optimization through:
• Auto-scaling
• Reserved capacity
• Right-sizing
• Spot instances
• Savings Plans
• Continuously monitor and reduce cloud spend across AWS and GCP
• Optimize database costs through:
• Right-sizing instances
• Storage tiering
• Reserved capacity
• Query performance tuning
  
  

Developer Workstation Infrastructure

• Provision and manage 20+ EC2 dev boxes across 3 AWS regions
• Build custom AMIs using Packer for dev boxes and DERP relays
• Deploy and maintain:
• Memory watchdog
• noVNC
• CloudWatch agent configurations
• Run fleet management commands across dev boxes via AWS Systems Manager (SSM)
• Monitor dev box health and performance
  
  

Tailscale VPN Administration

• Manage Tailscale ACL policies and user access
• Operate custom DERP relays in 3 regions
• Configure app connectors for SaaS IP lockdown
• Maintain Mullvad VPN integration for egress control
  
  

Security Automation

• Own GuardDuty, Security Hub, and AWS Config across all regions
• Manage EventBridge rules for security alert routing
• Build and manage:
• IAM policies
• Secrets management
• WAF
• Zero-trust networking
• Administer GitHub Enterprise security, including:
• Org management
• IP allowlists
• Secret scanning policies
• Runner management
  
  

Scale, Performance & Disaster Recovery

• Design and operate infrastructure capable of handling millions of concurrent users and tens of millions of sessions across global regions
• Implement and manage auto-scaling policies, including:
• ECS service auto-scaling
• EC2 ASGs
• RDS read replicas
• Conduct load testing and capacity planning
• Design and maintain database scaling strategies:
• Read replicas
• Connection pooling
• Query optimization
• Sharding for high-throughput workloads
• Own disaster recovery (DR) planning and execution:
• Multi-region failover
• RTO/RPO targets
• Automated recovery runbooks
• Regular DR drills
• Implement and manage database backup strategies:
• Point-in-time recovery
• Cross-region replication
• Automated restore testing
• Optimize CDN and edge caching (Cloudflare) for global traffic at scale
• Monitor and resolve performance bottlenecks across:
• Application servers
• Databases
• Caches
• Network layers
• Build runbooks for incident response during:
• High-traffic events
• Database failovers
• Regional outages
  
  

Monitoring, Alerting & Incident Response

• Configure and maintain PagerDuty
• Monitor system performance using:
• Prometheus
• Grafana
• CloudWatch
• Cloud Monitoring
• Manage EBS backup automation, including:
• Daily backups
• 30-day retention
• Cross-region copy
• Vault lock
  
  

CI/CD & Repository Operations

• Manage GitLab mirroring from GitHub
• Maintain 45+ cron jobs on the admin box
• Manage Cloudflare across 23 zones, including:
• CDN
• DNS
• WAF configuration
• Collaborate with developers to improve deployment workflows and reduce lead time
  
  

AI/ML Infrastructure & Tooling

• Use Claude Code / Cursor for:
• Terraform authoring
• Script generation
• Infrastructure debugging
• Support AI/ML infrastructure, including:
• GPU instance management
• Model deployment pipelines
• Maintain and improve AI-assisted monitoring and alerting
• Support infrastructure requirements for AI-enabled platform capabilities
  
  

Must-Have Skills

• 3–5+ years of experience in DevOps / Cloud / Infrastructure Automation at scale
• High-Scale Production Experience (Critical) — must have operated infrastructure serving millions of users with high concurrency
• Experience with:
• Server load management
• Database scaling (read replicas, connection pooling, sharding)
• Auto-scaling policies
• Performance optimization under heavy traffic
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS, including:
• ECS Fargate
• EKS
• Lambda
• S3
• RDS
• CloudFront
• SQS
• IAM
• SSM
• GuardDuty
• Security Hub
• Config
• Working experience with Google Cloud Platform, including:
• GKE
• Cloud Run
• BigQuery
• Cloud Functions
• IAM
• ECS Fargate production experience
• Terraform (Infrastructure as Code) with multi-environment, modular patterns
• Tailscale VPN administration — ACLs, DERP relays, app connectors
• Packer for AMI builds
• Docker and container orchestration in production
• Experience with GitLab CI/CD and/or GitHub Actions
• GitHub Enterprise administration
• Cloudflare CDN/DNS/WAF management
• PagerDuty or equivalent incident response configuration
• Production experience with CockroachDB or distributed SQL databases (or strong willingness to learn)
• Disaster recovery planning and execution, including:
• Multi-region failover
• Backup automation
• RTO/RPO targets
• Recovery runbooks
• Database performance optimization at scale, including:
• Replication
• Connection pooling
• Query tuning
• Capacity planning
• Cost Optimization (Critical) — proven track record of reducing cloud infrastructure costs through:
• Right-sizing
• Reserved capacity
• Spot instances
• Storage tiering
• Waste reduction
• Good understanding of Linux systems, networking, and security fundamentals
• Strong communication skills and ability to work in a remote, globally distributed team
  
  

Nice-to-Have Skills

• Experience with Kubernetes tools:
• Helm
• ArgoCD
• Flux
• Experience with monitoring stacks:
• Prometheus
• Grafana
• ELK
• Loki
• AWS Systems Manager fleet management at scale
• Experience working in startup or fast-paced product environments
• Scripting experience:
• Bash
• Python
• Go
• Experience supporting AI/ML workloads and GPU infrastructure
• Experience with chaos engineering tools (Gremlin, Litmus) for resilience testing
• FinOps certification or formal cloud cost management framework experience
  
  

What We're Looking For (Mindset)

• Strong ownership and problem-solving mindset
• Comfort working in a fast-growing, evolving environment
• Ability to balance speed with stability and security
• Willingness to learn and adapt to new tools and technologies
• Clear, proactive communicator who surfaces issues early
  
  

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