DevOps Engineer

We are looking for a DevOps professional with experience in defining and implementing DevOps strategies, managing cloud infrastructure, leading engineering teams, and ensuring scalable, secure, and highly available production environments.

Responsibilities:

• DevOps Strategy and Leadership: Understand business and technical requirements, define DevOps and infrastructure strategies, plan team priorities, estimate deliverables, and lead, mentor, and train junior DevOps engineers.
• CI/CD and Release Management: Build, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines, manage release processes, implement zero-downtime deployments, and maintain operating environments.
• Cloud Infrastructure and Reliability: Manage AWS infrastructure and ensure high availability, scalability, and reliability of production systems.
• Disaster Recovery and Backup: Design and implement disaster recovery strategies, automate data backups, and manage restoration of production environments and databases.
• Monitoring and Alerting: Establish infrastructure and application monitoring, track system health, identify performance issues, and configure proactive alerts.
• Security and Compliance: Enforce infrastructure access controls, follow security best practices, and ensure compliance across cloud infrastructure and deployment processes.
• Cloud Cost Optimization: Monitor cloud infrastructure spending, identify cost optimization opportunities, and ensure efficient utilization of AWS resources.
• Best Practices: Drive industry-standard DevOps practices, AWS configurations, automation, infrastructure management, and continuous improvement.

Requirements:

• Software Engineer with 6+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure, DevOps, and deployment automation, with strong expertise in AWS cloud services and container orchestration.
• Hands-on experience provisioning, managing, maintaining, and monitoring AWS services, including EKS, MSK, EC2, S3, and RDS.
• Strong understanding of AWS networking concepts, including VPC, API Gateway, Load Balancers, and related infrastructure.
• Experience with CI/CD and deployment automation using Jenkins and Bitbucket Pipelines.
• Proficient in scripting and automation using Bash, Python, JavaScript, and YAML.
• Expertise in containerization using Docker and orchestration using Kubernetes.
• Strong version control and source code management experience with GitHub, Bitbucket, and GitLab.
• Familiarity with code quality and static analysis tools such as SonarQube and JaCoCo.
• Experience with application performance monitoring and observability tools, including Prometheus, Amazon CloudWatch, New Relic, and Dynatrace.
• Strong troubleshooting, analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
• Good verbal and written communication skills with the ability to collaborate across teams.
• Experience working in technology startups or lean engineering environments is preferred. Exposure to backend or frontend development is an added advantage.

Skills

AWS, DevOps, Docker, EC2, EKS, Kubernetes, MSK, RDS, S3