Senior DevOps Engineer

Leadership & Strategy :

- Lead and mentor a team of DevOps engineers, fostering a culture of automation, innovation, and continuous improvement.

- Define and implement DevOps strategies aligned with business objectives to enhance scalability, security, and reliability.

- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including software engineering, security, MLOps, and infrastructure teams, to drive DevOps best practices.

- Establish KPIs and performance metrics for DevOps operations, ensuring optimal system performance, cost efficiency, and high availability.

- Advocate for CPU throttling, auto-scaling, and workload optimization strategies to improve system efficiency and reduce costs.

- Drive MLOps adoption, integrating machine learning workflows into CI/CD pipelines and cloud infrastructure.

- Ensure compliance with ISO 27001 standards, implementing security controls and risk management measures.

Infrastructure & Automation :

- Oversee the design, implementation, and management of scalable, secure, and resilient infrastructure on AWS.

- Lead the adoption of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, CloudFormation, and configuration management tools like Ansible or Chef.

- Spearhead automation efforts for infrastructure provisioning, deployment, and monitoring to reduce manual overhead and improve efficiency.

- Ensure high availability and disaster recovery strategies, leveraging multi-region architectures and failover mechanisms.

- Manage Kubernetes (or AWS ECS/EKS) clusters, optimizing container orchestration for large-scale applications.

- Drive cost optimization initiatives, implementing intelligent cloud resource allocation strategies.

CI/CD & Observability :

- Architect and oversee CI/CD pipelines, ensuring seamless automation of application builds, testing, and deployments.

- Enhance observability and monitoring by implementing tools like CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, or Datadog.

- Develop robust logging, alerting, and anomaly detection mechanisms to ensure proactive issue resolution.

Security & Compliance (ISO 27001 Implementation)

- Lead the implementation and enforcement of ISO 27001 security standards, ensuring compliance with information security policies and regulatory requirements.

- Develop and maintain an Information Security Management System (ISMS) to align with ISO 27001 guidelines.

- Implement secure access controls, encryption, IAM policies, and network security measures to safeguard infrastructure.

- Conduct risk assessments, vulnerability management, and security audits to identify and mitigate threats.

- Ensure security best practices are embedded into all DevOps workflows, following DevSecOps principles.

- Work closely with auditors and compliance teams to maintain SOC2, GDPR, and other regulatory frameworks.

REQUIRED SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS:

- 8+ years of experience in DevOps, cloud infrastructure, and automation, with at least 3+ years in a managerial or leadership role.

- Proven experience managing AWS cloud infrastructure at scale, including EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC, IAM, and CloudFormation.

- Expertise in Terraform and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles.

- Strong background in CI/CD pipeline automation with tools like Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or CircleCI.

- Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes (or AWS ECS/EKS) for container orchestration.

- Experience in CPU throttling, auto-scaling, and performance optimization for cloud-based applications.

- Strong knowledge of Linux/Unix systems, shell scripting, and network configurations.

- Proven experience with ISO 27001 implementation, ISMS development, and security risk management.

- Familiarity with MLOps frameworks like Kubeflow, MLflow, or SageMaker, and integrating ML pipelines into DevOps workflows.

- Deep understanding of observability tools such as ELK Stack, Grafana, Prometheus, or Datadog.

- Strong stakeholder management, communication, and ability to collaborate across teams.

- Experience in regulatory compliance, including SOC2, ISO 27001, and GDPR.

PROFESSIONAL ATTRIBUTES :

- Strong interpersonal and communication skills, being an effective team player, being able to work with individuals at all levels within the organization and building remote relationships.

- Excellent prioritization skills, the ability to work well under pressure, and the ability to multi-task.

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION :

- Any Technical Degree - MTech, BTech will be preferred.