DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Develop a deep understanding of the end-to-end configurations, dependencies, customer requirements, and overall characteristics of the production services as the accountable owner for overall service operations.
• Implementing best practices, challenging the status quo, and tracking industry and technical trends, changes, and developments to ensure the team is always striving for best-in-class work.
• Lead incident response efforts, working closely with cross-functional teams to resolve issues quickly and minimise downtime.
• Implement effective incident management processes and post-incident reviews.
• Participate in on-call rotation responsibilities, ensuring timely identification and resolution of infrastructure issues.
• Possess expertise in designing and implementing capacity plans, accurately estimating costs and efforts for infrastructure needs.
• Systems and Infrastructure maintenance and ownership for production environments, with a continued focus on improving efficiencies, availability, and supportability through automation and well-defined runbooks.
• Provide mentorship and guidance to a team of DevOps engineers, fostering a collaborative and high-performing work environment.
• Mentor team members in best practices, technologies, and methodologies.
• Design for Reliability - Architect and implement solutions that keep the infrastructure running with Always On availability and ensure high uptime SLA for the Infrastructure.
• Manage individual project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables related to your technical expertise and assigned domains.
• Collaborate with Product and Information Security teams to ensure the integrity and security of the infrastructure and applications.
• Implement security best practices and compliance standards.

Requirements:

• 5-7 years of experience as Devops / SRE / Platform Engineer.
• Strong expertise in automating Infrastructure provisioning and configuration using tools like Ansible, Packer, Terraform, Docker, Helm Charts, etc.
• Strong skills in network services such as DNS, TLS/SSL, HTTP, etc.
• Expertise in managing large-scale cloud infrastructure (preferably AWS and Oracle).
• Expertise in managing production-grade Kubernetes clusters.
• Experience in scripting using programming languages like Bash, Python, etc.
• Expertise in skill sets for centralised logging systems, metrics, and tooling frameworks such as ELK, Prometheus/VictoriaMetrics, and Grafana, etc.
• Experience in managing and building high-scale API Gateway, Service Mesh, etc.
• Systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with strong communication skills and a sense of ownership and drive.
• Have a working knowledge of a backend programming language.
• Deep knowledge and experience with Unix / Linux operating systems internals (Eg, filesystems, user management, etc)
• A working knowledge and deep understanding of cloud security concepts.
• Proven track record of driving results and delivering high-quality solutions in a fast-paced environment.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical project stakeholders, with the ability to work effectively in a cross-functional team environment.