Senior DevOps Engineer

Job Title : Senior DevOps Engineer - Infrastructure & Platform Specialist

Department : Product and Engineering

Location : Remote/Kolkata, WB (On-site)

Job Summary :

A Senior DevOps Engineer is responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining the operational aspects of cloud infrastructure. Their goal is to ensure high availability, scalability, performance, and security of cloud-based systems.

Key Responsibilities :

- Design and maintain scalable, reliable, and secure cloud infrastructure.Address integration challenges, data consistency.

- Choose appropriate cloud services (e.g., compute, storage, networking) based on business needs.

- Define architectural best practices and patterns (e.g., microservices, serverless, containerization).

- Ensure version control and repeatable deployments of infrastructure.

- Automate cloud operations tasks (e.g., deployments, patching, backups).

- Implement CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, etc

- Design and implement cloud monitoring and alerting systems (e.g., CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, Prometheus, Datadog, manage engine).

- Optimize performance, resource utilization, and cost across environments.

- Capacity planning of resources.

- Resource planning and deployment (HW, SW, Capex). Financial forecasting. Tracking and Management of allotted budget.

- Cost optimization with proper architecture and open source technologies .

- Ensure cloud systems follow security best practices (e.g., encryption, IAM, zero-trust principles,VAPT).

- Implement compliance controls (e.g., HIPAA, GDPR, ISO 27001).

- Conduct regular security audits and assessments .

- Build systems for high availability, failover, disaster recovery, and business continuity.

- Participate in incident response and post-mortems.

- Implement and manage Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and Service Level Indicators (SLIs).

- Work closely with development, security, and IT teams to align cloud operations with business goals.

- Define governance standards for cloud usage, billing, and resource tagging.

- Provide guidance and mentorship to DevOps and engineering teams.

- Keep updating infrastructure/deployment documents .

Interacting with prospective customers in pre-sales meetings to showcase architecture and security layer of the product and answering questions.

Key Skills & qualifications :

Technical Skills :

- VM provisioning and infrastructure ops on AWS, GCP, or Azure. Experience with API gateways (Kong, AWS API Gateway, NGINX).

- Experience managing MySQL and MongoDB on self-hosted infrastructure.

- Operational expertise with Elasticsearch or Solr.

- Proficient with Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar message brokers.

- Hands-on experience with Airflow, Temporal, or other workflow orchestration tools.

- Familiarity with Apache Spark, Flink, confluent/devezium or similar streaming frameworks.

- Strong skills in Docker, Kubernetes, and deployment automation.

- Experience writing IaC with Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation.

- Building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitLab, GitHub Actions, Jenkins).

- Experience with monitoring/logging stacks like Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or Datadog.

- Sound knowledge of networking fundamentals (routing, DNS, VPN, TLS/SSL, firewalls).

- Experience designing and managing HA/DR/BCP infrastructure.

Bonus Skills :

- Prior involvement in SOC 2 / ISO 27001 audits or documentation.

- Hands-on with VAPT processes - especially working directly with clients or security partners.

- Scripting in Go, in addition to Bash/Python.

- Exposure to service mesh tools like Istio or Linkerd.

Experience :

- Must have 7+ years of experience as DevOps Engineer