Devops Engineer

Position Overview

We are looking for an experienced Technical Lead – DevOps to lead and drive DevOps engineering, automation, CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, and platform engineering initiatives. The candidate should have strong hands-on experience across the complete DevOps lifecycle and be capable of designing, implementing, troubleshooting, and optimizing enterprise-grade DevOps platforms.

The role requires advanced expertise in AWS Cloud, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, configuration management, automation, monitoring, security, and release management, AWS expertise along with the ability to provide technical leadership to the DevOps team.

Key Responsibilities

• DevOps & CI/CD:
• Own and drive the complete DevOps lifecycle, from source-code management through build, testing, security scanning, deployment, monitoring, and release.
• Design, implement, and maintain enterprise-grade CI/CD pipelines.
• Develop reusable pipeline frameworks and automation for multiple applications and environments.
• Implement CI/CD best practices including automated testing, quality gates, artifact management, approvals, rollback, and release strategies.
• Integrate tools such as Jenkins, GitLab, Git, SonarQube, Fortify, Trivy and artifact repositories.
• Troubleshoot complex pipeline, build, deployment, and release issues.
• Establish DevOps standards, processes, branching strategies, and deployment methodologies.
• AWS Cloud – Advanced:

Strong hands-on and architectural knowledge of AWS services is required, including:

• VPC – subnets, route tables, NAT Gateway, Internet Gateway, VPC peering, Transit Gateway, security groups, NACLs and VPC endpoints.
• EKS – cluster architecture, node groups, networking, IAM/RBAC, autoscaling, ingress, upgrades, troubleshooting and production operations.
• EC2 – instance sizing, AMIs, autoscaling, lifecycle management and troubleshooting.
• IAM – roles, policies, permissions, least-privilege access and service accounts.
• CloudWatch – metrics, logs, dashboards, alarms, monitoring and alerting.
• ELB/ALB/NLB – load balancing, target groups, health checks and integrations with Kubernetes.
• S3 – storage, lifecycle policies, encryption and access control.
• Route 53 – DNS management, routing policies and health checks.
• EBS/EFS – storage provisioning, performance and lifecycle management.
• CloudFormation/Terraform – infrastructure provisioning and automation.
• AWS security, networking, monitoring, cost optimization and high-availability architecture.
• Kubernetes & Containerization:
• Design, deploy, and manage production-grade Kubernetes/EKS clusters.
• Strong knowledge of Kubernetes architecture, networking, storage, RBAC, scheduling, autoscaling and security.
• Hands-on experience with:
• Deployments and StatefulSets
• Services and Ingress
• ConfigMaps and Secrets
• Persistent Volumes/PVCs
• HPA/VPA
• PodDisruptionBudgets
• Affinity/anti-affinity
• Taints and tolerations
• Network policies
• Helm
• Containerization using Docker/OCI standards.
• Troubleshoot application, networking, resource, storage, and cluster-level issues.
• Plan and execute Kubernetes version upgrades with minimal production impact.
• Ansible & Automation:
• Advanced hands-on experience with Ansible.
• Develop reusable Ansible roles, playbooks, inventories, templates, and automation frameworks.
• Infrastructure as Code:
• Strong experience with Terraform and/or CloudFormation.
• Design reusable infrastructure modules.
• Manage infrastructure lifecycle through version-controlled IaC.
• Implement remote state management, state locking, workspaces, variables, modules, and environment-specific configurations.
• Establish Infrastructure-as-Code standards across development, QA, staging, and production environments.
• Monitoring & Observability:
• Design and implement enterprise monitoring and observability solutions.
• Strong knowledge of:
• AWS CloudWatch
• Prometheus
• Grafana
• ELK/EFK
• Fluent Bit/Fluentd
• Define application and infrastructure KPIs, dashboards, alerts, and operational thresholds.
• Implement proactive monitoring and automated alerting.
• Analyze logs, metrics, and performance trends to identify bottlenecks and production issues.
• DevSecOps & Security:
• Integrate security into the CI/CD lifecycle.
• Implement SAST, DAST, container scanning, dependency scanning, and vulnerability management.
• Experience with tools such as Trivy, SonarQube, Fortify, Snyk, or equivalent.
• Implement secure secrets management and IAM best practices.
• Ensure container, Kubernetes, AWS, and pipeline security best practices.
• Promote shift-left security practices across development and DevOps teams.
• Production Operations & Troubleshooting:
• Provide technical leadership for critical production incidents.
• Perform root-cause analysis and implement permanent corrective actions.
• Troubleshoot complex issues across: AWS, kubernetes, networking
• Participate in incident management, problem management, capacity planning, and disaster recovery activities.
• Drive automation to eliminate repetitive operational activities.

Mandatory Technical Skills

| Area | Required Expertise |

| ------------------------ | -------------------------------------------------------------------- |

| DevOps | Advanced |

| CI/CD | Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD |

| Cloud | AWS – Advanced |

| AWS Networking | VPC, Subnets, Route Tables, NAT, IGW, TGW, Security Groups, NACL |

| Kubernetes | Advanced / EKS |

| Configuration Management | Ansible – Advanced |

| IaC | Terraform |

| Containers | Docker / Kubernetes |

| Monitoring | CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana |

| SCM | Git / GitLab |

| Security | Trivy, SonarQube, Fortify/Snyk |

| OS | Linux / RHEL |

| Scripting | Shell/Bash, Python |

| Packaging | Helm |

| Networking | TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, Load Balancing |

| Observability | Logs, Metrics, Alerts, Dashboards |

| Miscelleneous | kafka, hashicorp, secretmanager, vault, clickhouse, mongoDB |

Required Experience

• 5+ years of overall IT experience, with significant experience in DevOps/Cloud/Platform Engineering.
• Strong production experience with AWS and Kubernetes/EKS.
• Strong hands-on experience with Jenkins and Ansible.
• Experience designing and supporting enterprise-scale CI/CD platforms.
• Experience working with distributed systems and production environments.
• Experience leading technical teams and mentoring engineers.
• Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills.

Key Competencies

• Strong technical ownership and accountability
• Architecture and solution-design capability
• Automation-first mindset
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
• Production-focused engineering approach
• Security-conscious engineering practices
• Ability to work across Development, QA, Security, Architecture, and Operations
• Ability to mentor and technically guide engineers
• Strong documentation and communication skills

Preferred Certifications (Good To Have)

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate/Professional
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
• Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)