Senior DevOps Engineer

Project Description:

We are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our engineering team and play a key role in shaping the foundation of our cloud-native platforms. You will be responsible for driving DevOps best practices, designing scalable and secure infrastructure, and enabling high-velocity software delivery across multiple environments. As a senior technical leader, you'll work closely with engineering, security, and operations teams to deliver resilient platforms for mission-critical financial applications.

Responsibilities:

Platform Engineering & Automation:

• Design and maintain Kubernetes-based environments with blue-green/multi-cluster strategies.

• Build scalable CI/CD pipelines leveraging ArgoCD, Jenkins, and GitOps practices.

• Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration with Terraform, Helm, and kubectl.

Infrastructure & Cloud:

• Architect and operate AWS infrastructure (VPC, EKS, Transit Gateway, RDS, S3, ECR, IAM, etc.).

• Design highly available, multi-tier network architectures with secure connectivity to on-prem.

• Optimize cost, performance, and scalability across compute, storage, and networking layers.

• Lead adoption of infrastructure security best practices (guardrails, detective/preventive controls, encryption).

Observability & Reliability:

• Establish monitoring, logging, and alerting with Prometheus, OpenSearch, and Grafana.

• Define and enforce SLOs/SLIs, champion reliability engineering practices.

• Lead incident management processes and support blameless postmortems.

Security & SaaS Integration:

• Implement Zero Trust principles with service mesh, OAuth2 proxies, and ZTNA integrations.

• Manage IAM roles, secrets, and access control across hybrid infra and SaaS services.

• Integrate and operationalize security and productivity SaaS platforms (e.g., Zscaler, SentinelOne, Twingate, Atlassian stack).

• Ensure compliance with PCI DSS, ISO 27001, MAS TRM, and other regulatory frameworks.

Collaboration & Leadership:

• Partner with product and engineering teams to improve developer experience and platform efficiency.

• Mentor engineers on cloud architecture, automation, and SaaS adoption.

• Evaluate emerging tools, SaaS offerings, and practices, aligning them with business needs.

Mandatory Skills Description:

• 8+ years of DevOps/SRE/Platform engineering experience, with 2+ years in a Staff or Lead role.

• Deep expertise in Kubernetes, AWS, and container orchestration patterns.

• At least 3-4 years of production Kubernetes experience.

• Actively working on production EKS clusters in their current role.

• Strong background in CI/CD, GitOps, and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Helm).

• Proven track record with monitoring and observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenSearch/ELK).

• Experience managing hybrid infrastructure and SaaS platforms at scale.

• Knowledge of distributed systems (PostgreSQL, Cassandra, Kafka, MinIO, Solace).

• Strong communication, mentoring, and leadership skills.

Languages:

English: C2 Proficient