About The Role
We are looking for a hands-on Senior DevOps Engineer with a strong foundation in Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, and DevSecOps practices. In this role, you will be responsible for designing, automating, securing, and optimizing our infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines. You will collaborate closely with engineering, security, and QA teams to build highly scalable and secure platforms.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and manage scalable infrastructure on AWS/GCP using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible).
- Build and maintain secure and efficient CI/CD pipelines using tools like GitLab CI, Jenkins, ArgoCD, or similar.
- Lead Kubernetes cluster design, deployment, and day-to-day operations (self-managed or EKS/GKE).
- Enforce DevSecOps practices - integrating security scanning, compliance checks, and secrets management into pipelines.
- Monitor infrastructure and application performance using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, New Relic, CloudWatch, or ELK stack.
- Collaborate with development and QA teams to streamline release cycles and support a shift-left culture.
- Manage and optimize Linux-based systems (Ubuntu/RedHat) and databases such as MySQL and MongoDB.
- Define and maintain robust disaster recovery, backup, and high availability strategies.
- Own cost-efficiency and reliability of infrastructure - applying cloud cost optimization practices.
Required Skills & Experience
- 5+ years in DevOps, SRE, or Infra Engineering roles.
- Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes (deployment, scaling, monitoring, and troubleshooting).
- Solid expertise in DevSecOps tooling : container/image scanning, secrets management (Vault, AWS Secrets Manager), policy enforcement (OPA/Kyverno), etc.
- Proficient in Terraform, Ansible, and shell/Python scripting for automation.
- Experience working with CI/CD platforms : GitLab CI, Jenkins, CircleCI, etc.
- Deep knowledge of AWS or GCP services (IAM, EC2, S3, RDS, EKS/GKE, etc.).
- Experience in monitoring/logging using Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, CloudWatch, or similar tools.
- Comfortable with DNS and CDN configuration (Route 53, CloudFront, Akamai, etc.).
- Strong Linux systems knowledge and understanding of network security principles.
- Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.
Bonus Points
- Exposure to policy-as-code and compliance frameworks (e.g., CIS, SOC2).
- Hands-on experience with service mesh (Istio, Linkerd) or Zero Trust architectures.
- Contributions to open-source projects or DevOps communities.
- Experience with GitOps tools like ArgoCD or FluxCD.
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