Senior DevOps Engineer - Infrastructure

About Inspire Brands:

Inspire Brands is disrupting the restaurant industry through digital transformation and operational efficiencies. The company's technology hub, Inspire Brands Hyderabad Support Center, India, will lead technology innovation and product development for the organization and its portfolio of distinct brands. The Inspire Brands Hyderabad Support Center will focus on developing new capabilities in data science, data analytics, eCommerce, automation, cloud computing, and information security to accelerate the company's business strategy. Inspire Brands Hyderabad Support Center will also host an innovation lab and collaborate with start-ups to develop solutions for productivity optimization, workforce management, loyalty management, payments systems, and more.

You will work across our AWS-based infrastructure, supporting highly available, secure services used by restaurant partners across multiple time zones in Europe and the US. Our platform is built on JVM-based services running in Kubernetes (EKS) alongside serverless workloads, with all infrastructure managed as code.

This is a hands-on senior engineering role with real ownership, spanning day-to-day infrastructure work, CI/CD tooling, monitoring and alerting, and security — with the chance to shape how we build and operate our platform going forward.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Design, build, and maintain highly available and secure cloud infrastructure on AWS using Infrastructure as Code.
• Deploy, manage, and optimize workloads across Kubernetes (EKS) and serverless services (Lambda, API Gateway).
• Support and troubleshoot our JVM-based services in production, including scaling and tuning based on JVM memory and performance characteristics.
• Own and improve CI/CD pipelines, enabling teams to ship changes quickly and safely.
• Improve monitoring, alerting, and incident response to keep our systems reliable and reduce time to resolution.
• Champion security best practices, keeping systems secure and guarding against threats.
• Mentor and support other engineers on the team, raising the bar for DevOps practices.
• Join the on-call rotation supporting restaurant partners across Europe and the US.

REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS or ABILITIES:

• 4+ years experience in a DevOps or similar role
• Strong experience building and managing cloud infrastructure on AWS
• Additional experience with Azure is a bonus
• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code
• Pulumi is a bonus
• Experience deploying and managing containerized workloads in Kubernetes
• Amazon EKS is an advantage
• Experience supporting and operating JVM-based applications
• Understanding how the JVM works and how to scale based on JVM memory is an advantage
• Experience with serverless workloads (AWS Lambda, API Gateway) is an advantage
• Experience with CI/CD tooling (we use CircleCI)
• Strong understanding of monitoring, logging, and alerting best practices
• Experience keeping systems secure and guarding against security threats
• You enjoy taking on new challenges, learning new skills, and helping others on the team grow

Equal Employment Opportunity Policy:

EEO-1 Statement:

It is the policy of Inspire Brands Inc.™ (IRB or the Company) to treat all employees and applicants for employment fairly and to provide equal employment opportunities without regard to race, color, sex, religion, national original or ancestry, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, genetic information, citizenship, military service or veteran status, marital status or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law. This policy applies to all employment practices including recruiting, hiring, placement, pay, promotions, transfers, training, leaves of absence, and termination. Inspire Brands, Inc. expressly prohibits any form of unlawful employment harassment based on race, color, sex, religion, national original or ancestry, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, genetic information, citizenship, military service or veteran status, marital status or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law. Improper interference with the ability of IRB's employees to perform their expected job duties will not be tolerated.