Senior Devops Engineer

We are seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer to join our engineering organization to design, operate, and scale the infrastructure that supports our production services. The successful candidate will combine strong hands-on AWS and Kubernetes experience with a rigorous approach to automation, reliability, security, and operational excellence in a fast-paced, agile environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure production services are highly available and reliable, with proactive monitoring and incident management to support 247 operations.
• Design, implement, and operate secure, resilient AWS infrastructure using EKS, ECS, Lambda, S3, RDS, Route 53, VPC, EC2, CloudFormation, SNS, and Secrets Manager.
• Operate and optimize Kubernetes clusters and containerized workloads; implement best practices for scaling, resource utilization, and upgrades.
• Build, maintain, and improve CI/CD pipelines (preferably GitHub Actions) to automate builds, tests, and deployments with safe rollback strategies.
• Own deployment activities for microservices and distributed applications; collaborate with engineering teams on release coordination and deployment automation.
• Drive infrastructure automation, configuration-as-code, and IaC best practices; maintain and evolve CloudFormation templates and related tooling.
• Implement and maintain observability: logging, metrics, alerting, and dashboards to support SLO/SLI objectives.
• Conduct vulnerability assessments and coordinate remediation with engineering and security teams; participate in incident response and post-incident reviews.
• Enforce and administer access controls; handle onboarding/offboarding and secret management with least-privilege principles.
• Produce and maintain runbooks, operational procedures, and release documentation.
• Support security and compliance initiatives; participation in ISO 20000 or SOC 2 efforts is an advantage.
• Mentor and assist new team members on operational practices, access processes, and onboarding.

Required Qualifications (Must-have)

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a closely related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 4+ years of DevOps experience with hands-on expertise in designing, implementing, and operating secure, resilient AWS infrastructure using AWS services (EKS, ECS, Lambda, S3, RDS, Route53, VPC, CloudFormation, EC2, SNS, Secrets Manager, etc.
• Strong operational experience with Kubernetes (cluster management, networking, storage, upgrades).
• Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions or equivalent tooling.
• Proficiency with shell scripting and experience in at least one programming language (e.g., Python, Go, Java).
• Demonstrated experience supporting deployments for scalable production systems.
• Solid understanding of computer networking fundamentals DNS, domains, firewalls, SSL/TLS certificate management, and encryption.
• Experience working in an Agile development environment.
• Strong documentation and communication skills; ability to produce clear runbooks and release notes.
• Proficiency with Terraform and Ansible for automated deployments

Preferred Qualifications (Good-to-have)

• Well-versed in AI-assisted developer tools (for example: GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, and similar platforms) and experienced using these tools to accelerate code generation, create infrastructure templates, author runbooks, automate repetitive tasks, and support faster troubleshooting.
• Awareness of DDoS mitigation strategies and network protection controls.
• Experience with vulnerability management programs and formal incident management processes.
• Operational experience with Elasticsearch at scale.
• Prior work with microservice deployment patterns and distributed application environments.
• Experience participating in or implementing ISO 20000 / SOC 2 compliance activities.
• Hands-on experience managing distributed application environments at scale.

Personal Attributes

• Strong ownership mentality and pragmatic problem-solver.
• Detail-oriented with a bias for automation and repeatability.
• Effective collaborator who can communicate operational and security concerns to engineering and business stakeholders.

Comfortable working under pressure and participating in on-call rotations

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