DevOps Engineer

Job Description:

We are seeking a seasoned DevOps engineer with expertise in monitoring, infrastructure management, and automation to join our team. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Nagios, Zabbix, or similar.

• Implement real-time monitoring and alerting systems to proactively identify and respond to issues related to performance, availability, and security.
• Set up, configure, and maintain monitoring systems for infrastructure, applications, and services.
• Define and implement alerting thresholds for system and application performance to minimize downtime and service disruptions.
• Continuously monitor the health and availability of key services and infrastructure components to ensure optimal performance.

Key Responsibilities:

• Work closely with engineering teams to investigate and resolve production incidents, performance bottlenecks, and security vulnerabilities.
• Provide timely and accurate incident response for issues that arise, including conducting root cause analysis (RCA) and providing post-mortem reports.
• Lead the effort to ensure the uptime and reliability of applications, managing incidents and ensuring they are resolved within established SLAs.

Automation and Optimization:

• Automate monitoring, alerting, and reporting tasks to reduce manual intervention and improve operational efficiency.
• Work closely with DevOps and Engineering teams to automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and deployment pipelines using tools like Ansible, Terraform, Chef, or Puppet.
• Implement performance tuning and optimization strategies for infrastructure and applications in production environments.

Cloud Infrastructure Management:

• Manage and monitor cloud-based infrastructure, including compute, storage, and network services.
• Integrate cloud monitoring tools to track resource utilization, cost management, and security compliance.
• Manage cloud-based logging and metrics collection to gain insights into cloud system performance and optimize cloud resources.

Collaboration with Development and Operations Teams:

• Work closely with development and operations teams to integrate monitoring and alerting systems with the overall CI/CD pipeline.
• Assist developers in troubleshooting application performance issues and identifying bottlenecks or failures in the deployment pipeline.
• Ensure seamless collaboration between DevOps, development, and IT operations teams for continuous improvement and effective issue resolution.

Reporting and Documentation:

• Produce detailed operational reports and dashboards to provide visibility into system health, performance trends, and incident resolution metrics.
• Develop and maintain runbooks and documentation for monitoring processes, incident management, and response strategies.
• Provide actionable insights into the system and application performance to help leadership make informed decisions.

Security and Compliance:

• Monitor system compliance with security policies, ensuring data protection and secure access controls across cloud environments and applications.
• Collaborate with security teams to detect and mitigate security threats using integrated security monitoring tools.
• Ensure audit logs are maintained, accessible, and compliant with relevant standards and regulations.

Continuous Improvement:

• Stay up-to-date with emerging DevOps practices and monitoring technologies, continuously enhancing the capabilities of the monitoring environment.
• Identify areas for continuous improvement in monitoring systems, processes, and tools to enhance operational efficiency and reduce downtime.
• Propose and implement new tools and technologies to further improve the effectiveness and scalability of the monitoring infrastructure.

Required Skills and Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
• 3-5 years of hands-on experience in DevOps, Monitoring, and Infrastructure Management.
• Strong expertise in monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Nagios, Zabbix, or similar.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
• Proficiency in automation tools like Ansible, Chef, Terraform, Puppet, or SaltStack.
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI, CircleCI, or Travis CI.
• Experience with containerization and orchestration tools like Docker and Kubernetes.
• Strong experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) practices and tools.
• Familiarity with logging tools such as ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana), Splunk, or Fluentd.
• Strong knowledge of Linux and Windows systems administration.
• Solid understanding of networking concepts, firewalls, and load balancing