Senior DevOps Engineer

SUMMARY

We are looking for a highly skilled DevOps Engineer to build, automate, secure, and manage our cloud infrastructure. You will be responsible for designing scalable deployment pipelines, managing Kubernetes clusters, ensuring high availability, implementing monitoring solutions, and maintaining production environments for our microservices platform. The ideal candidate has strong AWS experience, understands containerization deeply, and enjoys automating everything.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

IAM

EC2

VPC

EKS

ECS

S3

RDS

Route53

CloudFront

Lambda

ELB / ALB

ECR

CloudWatch

SNS

SQS

Docker

Docker Compose

Kubernetes

Helm

Kubernetes Networking

Kubernetes Storage

Kubernetes Security

Terraform

CloudFormation (Good to Have)

Ansible

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI/CD

Jenkins

Azure DevOps Pipelines

Grafana

Prometheus

Loki

AlertManager

ELK Stack

OpenTelemetry

Jaeger

Linux Administration

Ubuntu

CentOS/RHEL

Shell Scripting

Bash

Python

Go (Good to Have)

TCP/IP

DNS

HTTP/HTTPS

SSL/TLS

Reverse Proxy

Nginx

Load Balancing

VPN

Firewalls

PostgreSQL

MySQL

Redis

Git

GitHub

Kafka

RabbitMQ

Redis Cluster

ArgoCD

FluxCD

Istio

Linkerd

AWS WAF

HashiCorp Vault

SonarQube

Trivy

OWASP Security Practices

FinOps and AWS Cost Optimization

Multi-region deployment strategies

High Availability (HA) architectures

JOB DESCRIPTION

Position: Senior DevOps Engineer Experience: 3–5 Years Employment Type: Full-Time Location: On-site (Gurugram)

RESPONSIBILITIES

Cloud Infrastructure: - Design, build, and manage highly available AWS infrastructure. - Provision infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC). - Manage VPCs, EC2, ECS/EKS, IAM, Route53, CloudFront, ELB/ALB, RDS, S3, ECR, Lambda, SNS, and SQS. - Implement secure networking, VPNs, NAT Gateways, and private subnets. - Optimize infrastructure costs and resource utilization.

Kubernetes & Docker: - Deploy and manage Kubernetes clusters (EKS preferred). - Containerize applications using Docker. - Write optimized Dockerfiles. - Manage deployments, StatefulSets, ConfigMaps, Secrets, Ingress Controllers, Services, and Autoscaling. - Perform rolling updates, canary deployments, and blue-green deployments. - Troubleshoot Kubernetes networking and storage issues.

CI/CD: - Build automated CI/CD pipelines. - Integrate automated testing, security scanning, and deployments. - Deploy applications with zero downtime. - Automate release management and rollback strategies. - Maintain GitOps workflows where applicable.

Monitoring & Observability: - Configure Grafana dashboards. - Deploy Prometheus for metrics collection. - Configure Loki for centralized logging. - Implement distributed tracing using OpenTelemetry or Jaeger. - Set up alerting using AlertManager. - Monitor infrastructure, applications, databases, and APIs.

Infrastructure Automation: - Automate infrastructure provisioning using Terraform. - Manage Ansible playbooks where required. - Automate repetitive operational tasks using Bash or Python. - Build reusable deployment templates.

Security: - Implement IAM best practices. - Manage SSL/TLS certificates. - Configure WAF, Security Groups, and Network ACLs. - Perform vulnerability assessments and patch management. - Implement secrets management using AWS Secrets Manager or HashiCorp Vault. - Ensure compliance with security best practices.

Database & Storage: - Manage PostgreSQL and MySQL deployments. - Configure automated backups and disaster recovery. - Monitor database performance. - Optimize storage and replication strategies.

Performance & Reliability: - Maintain production uptime. - Conduct root cause analysis for incidents. - Optimize application performance. - Implement auto-scaling strategies. - Create disaster recovery and backup plans. - Participate in production incident response.

Collaboration: - Work closely with backend, frontend, QA, and architecture teams. - Improve developer productivity through automation. - Document infrastructure and deployment processes. - Mentor junior engineers on DevOps best practices.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field. - AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS DevOps Engineer, or Kubernetes (CKA/CKAD) certifications are preferred. - Experience managing production environments with Kubernetes. - Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills. - Experience with scalable microservices architectures.