Senior DevOps Engineer

The candidate will have responsibilities across the following functions:

Cloud and infrastructure:

• Design, implement, and operate scalable, secure, globally distributed infrastructure on AWS/GCP/Azure.
• Build and manage infrastructure as code with Terraform or Crossplane; create reusable modules and optimise for performance, cost, and scale.

Delivery and GitOps:

• Architect, implement, and optimise CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows for fast, reliable, auditable deployments.
• Run declarative, Git-based environment promotion with drift detection and continuous reconciliation (Argo CD / Flux), using blue-green, canary, and rolling strategies.
• Partner with engineering teams to improve developer experience and release cycles.

Containers and Kubernetes:

• Operate production Kubernetes at scale: cluster networking, ingress and API gateways (Kong, NGINX), autoscaling, and capacity planning.

AI-first delivery and automation:

• Build the guardrails and CI quality gates that let engineers and agents ship infrastructure changes safely.
• Develop automation and internal platform tooling in Python, Go, or Bash to reduce operational toil by directing agents through implementation and validating what they produce.

Reliability, on-call and incident response:

• Own observability for the systems you run: monitoring, logging, metrics, alerting, and tracing with SLOs and actionable alerts.
• Participate in the on-call rotation as a senior responder; lead response for high-severity incidents, coordinate across teams, and restore service quickly.
• Drive root-cause analysis and blameless postmortems; turn findings into lasting fixes, better runbooks, and less noisy alerting.

Security and mentoring:

• Implement and enforce cloud security, secrets management, and secure-SDLC practices with a DevSecOps mindset.
• Mentor junior engineers, including on-call readiness and incident handling, and help establish DevOps best practices across the organisation.

Requirements:

• AI-native engineering practice: Uses agentic tooling across the lifecycle and builds the reusable modules, automation, and CI quality gates that make both human and agent-authored infrastructure change safe to ship.
• Systems and infrastructure: Strong Linux/Unix, kernel, networking, and OS fundamentals; deep understanding of distributed systems and microservice patterns across public and private cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure/OpenShift or self-managed).
• CI/CD and GitOps: Extensive hands-on with pipeline-as-code, GitOps delivery (Argo CD / Flux), Git-based environment promotion, and advanced deployment strategies (blue-green, canary, rolling).
• Containers and cloud-native Production Kubernetes; ingress/API gateways (Kong, NGINX, Envoy); service mesh (Istio) a plus; solid on cluster networking and scaling patterns.
• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Crossplane, or CloudFormation, plus configuration management (Ansible).
• Observability and reliability: Strong troubleshooting and performance tuning in complex distributed systems; hands-on with SLOs and SRE methodologies.
• On-call and incident response: Has led incidents end-to-end: triage, mitigation, cross-team communication, and postmortems; improves runbooks, alerting, and escalation paths so the next incident is shorter.
• Security and DevSecOps: Cloud security best practices, access control, secrets management, and secure SDLC; compliance standards a plus.
• Programming and automation: Production-quality Python, Go, or Bash; builds internal tooling, operators, platform services, and testable, reusable infrastructure modules.

Experience and Qualifications:

• 5+ years of relevant experience in DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering, or related roles.
• Software engineers with a bent towards Operations engineering or vice versa.
• Solid fundamentals in Linux/OS internals, networking, and system performance.
• Hands-on experience with public or private cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure, or similar).
• Good understanding of distributed systems and microservices architectures.
• Proven experience with modern CI/CD practices, GitOps workflows, and deployment strategies.
• Strong working knowledge of Kubernetes, Envoy, and API gateways such as Kong and NGINX.
• Familiarity with service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd, or Consul) is a plus.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and configuration management using Terraform, Ansible, or similar tools.
• Practical experience implementing observability practices (metrics, monitoring, logging, alerting, and tracing).
• Programming proficiency in Python, Go, or Ruby.
• Experience implementing cloud security and DevSecOps best practices.
• Has been part of a production on-call rotation and has led incident response and postmortems for high-impact incidents.
• Continuous learner with a strong ownership mindset and effective engineering practices.
• B. Tech / M. Tech in Computer Science or equivalent. A learner for life and an effective engineer.