Senior DevOps Engineer Position

This is a senior DevOps position that requires in-depth experience with monitoring and infrastructure management.

• Key Responsibilities:
• Monitoring and Alerting:
• Design, implement, and maintain monitoring systems to track infrastructure, application, and service performance. Utilize tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Nagios, and Datadog for proactive issue detection and resolution.
• Develop real-time monitoring and alerting systems to promptly identify and address performance, availability, and security issues.
• Establish and enforce system and application performance thresholds to minimize downtime and disruptions.
• Continuously monitor the health and availability of critical services and infrastructure components to ensure optimal performance.
• Incident and Issue Management:
• Collaborate with engineering teams to investigate and resolve production incidents, performance bottlenecks, and security vulnerabilities.
• Provide timely and accurate incident response for issues arising, including conducting root cause analysis (RCA) and offering post-mortem reports.
• Oversee 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 (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform), 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],