Senior DevOps Engineer

Role Overview

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior DevOps Engineer with deep expertise in AWS cloud

infrastructure, automation, and modern DevOps practices.

You will be responsible for architecting, implementing, and optimizing scalable, secure, and cost

efficient cloud environments that support high-velocity engineering teams.

This role demands strong technical ownership, problem-solving ability, and a mindset geared

toward automation, reliability, and operational excellence.

Key Responsibilities

1.Cloud Infrastructure (AWS)

Architect, deploy, and manage highly scalable and secure infrastructure on AWS.

Hands-on experience with key AWS services: EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, RDS, DynamoDB, S3,

VPC, CloudFront, IAM, CloudWatch etc.

Implement and manage Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform/CloudFormation/CDK.

Design multi-AZ and multi-region architectures supporting HA/DR needs.

2.CI/CD, Automation & Developer Productivity

Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or AWS

CodePipeline).

. Automate deployments, environment provisioning, and release workflows.

Reduce deployment time, increase reliability, and streamline developer workflows.

Implement automated patching, log rotation, scaling, and cleanup jobs.

3. Containers & Orchestration

Manage Docker-based environments and containerized applications.

Deploy and optimize workloads using Kubernetes (EKS) or ECS/Fargate.

Maintain cluster health, autoscaling, resource management, and cost-efficiency.

4. Monitoring, Observability & Incident Response

Implement robust observability stacks using: CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK,Datadog, New Relic.

Build actionable alerting and monitoring dashboards.

Define SLIs/SLOs/SLAs for critical services.

Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and blameless postmortems.

5. FinOps & Cost Optimization

Continuously monitor cloud costs and optimize usage across services.

Implement rightsizing, autoscaling, lifecycle policies, caching strategies, and reservation plans.

Use AWS Cost Explorer, Budgets, Trusted Advisor, CloudHealth for visibility.

Work with engineering teams to design cost-efficient cloud architectures.

6. Security, Governance & Compliance

Implement AWS security best practices for IAM, VPC, security groups, NACLs, and

encryption.

Manage secret management using KMS, SSM Parameter Store, or Vault.

Ensure compliance with frameworks like ISO 27001, SOC2, GDPR (where applicable).

Build secure CI/CD pipelines and enforce least-privilege access.

7. Collaboration, Culture & Leadership

Work closely with development, QA, and product teams to ensure smooth release cycles.

Mentor junior DevOps engineers and guide teams on AWS usage and DevOps best

practices.

Create technical documentation, runbooks, and architecture diagrams.

Promote DevOps culture, GitOps practices, and automation-first mindset.

What We're Looking For

Must-Have

7+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or Cloud Engineering.

Strong expertise in AWS cloud architecture and services.

Proficiency in Terraform / CloudFormation / CDK.

Solid experience with Docker, Kubernetes (EKS), or AWS ECS.

Strong grasp of Linux administration, networking, DNS, routing, load balancing.

Expertise in CI/CD pipeline design and automation tools.

Scripting experience with Python, Bash, or similar.

Experience with observability stacks (CloudWatch, Prometheus/Grafana, ELK, Datadog).