Job Description
We are looking for a skilled and passionate DevOps Engineer with 3+ years of hands-on experience to join our engineering team. In this role, you will own and evolve our cloud infrastructure, build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, and ensure the reliability, scalability, and security of our platform. You will work closely with development, security, and operations teams to drive a culture of automation and continuous improvement.
Responsibilities:
CI/CD & Automation:
Design, build, and maintain end-to-end CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI,GitHub Actions, or CircleCI.
Automate build, test, deployment, and release workflows to reduce manual effort and time-to-market.
Implement GitOps practices and manage infrastructure-as-code using Terraform or Pulumi.
Kubernetes & Container Orchestration:
Manage, monitor, and scale Kubernetes clusters (EKS, GKE, or AKS) in production environments.
Define and maintain Helm charts, manifests, and deployment strategies including canary and blue-green releases.
Troubleshoot cluster and application-level issues, ensuring high availability and performance.
Cloud Infrastructure:
Architect and maintain infrastructure across one or more major cloud providers: AWS, GCP, or Azure.
Optimize cloud resource utilization, cost efficiency, and security posture.
Implement networking configurations, VPCs, load balancers, DNS, and CDN setups.
Experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure is a plus familiarity with managed services such as EKS, GKE, AKS, RDS, Cloud Storage, and IAM is highly valued.
Monitoring, Reliability & Security:
Set up and maintain observability stacks using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or ELK.
Define SLOs/SLAs and implement alerting, on-call runbooks, and incident response procedures.
Enforce security best practices: secrets management (Vault, AWS Secrets Manager), RBAC, and vulnerability scanning.
Collaboration & Culture:
Partner with software engineers to improve developer experience and reduce deployment friction.
Mentor junior engineers and contribute to DevOps best practices documentation.
Participate in architecture reviews and contribute to technical roadmap planning.
Requirements
3+ years of professional experience in a DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or Platform Engineering role.
Strong hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or equivalent).
Proficiency with Kubernetes cluster management, networking, storage, RBAC, and troubleshooting.
Experience with at least one major cloud platform: AWS, GCP, or Azure.
Solid experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools: Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi.
Proficiency in scripting languages: Bash, Python, or Go.
Working knowledge of containerization with Docker and container security best practices.
Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or similar).
Strong understanding of networking fundamentals: DNS, HTTP/S, TCP/IP, load balancing.
Preferred Qualifications:
Cloud certifications: AWS Solutions Architect, CKA/CKAD, GCP Professional DevOps Engineer.
Experience with service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd).
Familiarity with GitOps tools such as ArgoCD or Flux.
Experience with database operations and managed DB services (RDS, CloudSQL, Aurora).
Knowledge of security frameworks, compliance standards (SOC 2, ISO 27001), and DevSecOps pipelines.
Experience in a fast-paced startup or high-growth engineering environment.
Core Tech Stack:
Kubernetes (EKS/GKE/AKS) Terraform / Pulumi AWS / GCP / Azure
GitHub Actions / GitLab CI Docker / Helm Prometheus & Grafana
Python / Bash / Go ArgoCD / Flux Vault / Secrets Manager
