Mid-senior Aws DevOps Engineer - Fully Remote!

Metantz works with a curated network of innovative product startups and tech companies across Bangalore, helping them place senior engineering talent that can make an immediate impact. We are currently sourcing experienced Senior DevOps Engineers for multiple high-growth startups building in SaaS, fintech, deeptech, and enterprise software spaces.

If you're someone who doesn't just manage infrastructure but architects it, mentors teams, and drives engineering culture - we want to talk to you.

Architect and own end-to-end cloud infrastructure strategy across AWS, GCP, Azure - including multi-region, multi-account setups

Lead the design and implementation of scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant systems

Own platform engineering initiatives - building internal developer platforms (IDPs) that improve engineering velocity across teams

Drive cloud cost optimization strategies with measurable impact on burn rate

Define and enforce release management standards, branching strategies, and deployment patterns

Lead migration of legacy deployment workflows to modern GitOps-based delivery (ArgoCD, FluxCD)

Define access control policies, network segmentation, and zero-trust architecture

Define SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets across services in collaboration with engineering leads

Build and own the full observability stack - metrics, logs, traces (Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry)

Mentor junior and mid-level DevOps engineers - code reviews, architecture walkthroughs, and growth planning

Partner with CTOs and Engineering Heads at startup clients to align infrastructure roadmap with product goals

Represent DevOps in cross-functional planning - sprint reviews, architecture councils, and hiring decisions

Document infrastructure decisions via ADRs (Architecture Decision Records) and runbooks

5–8 years of hands-on DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering experience in product companies or startups

• Deep expertise in at least one major cloud platform (AWS strongly preferred) - including VPC design, IAM, networking, and managed services
• Production-grade Kubernetes experience - cluster management, autoscaling, RBAC, network policies
• Strong Infrastructure as Code skills - Terraform at scale, including modules, remote state, and multi-environment management
• Demonstrated experience owning reliability and on-call for production systems at meaningful traffic scale
• Solid programming, scripting ability in Python, Go, or Bash for tooling and automation

Experience building or contributing to an Internal Developer Platform (Backstage, Port, or custom)

Multi-cloud or hybrid cloud exposure

FinOps experience — cloud cost attribution, rightsizing, reserved instance strategy

Contributions to open-source DevOps tooling or active community presence

Startup experience where you've set up infrastructure from scratch (greenfield)

You write clear documentation — runbooks, RCAs, and ADRs that teams actually use

You have a product mindset — you think about developer experience as a product you own

Competitive compensation with equity upside at many client companies

Direct visibility with CTOs and founding engineering teams

Opportunity to shape DevOps culture and practices from the ground up