DevOps Engineer

About the Role

We are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer with 7+ years of experience to support and evolve our AWS-based infrastructure. This role requires strong hands-on experience with AWS, Terraform, ECS, EC2, Lambda, CI/CD, networking, security, and observability. You’ll collaborate closely with engineering, product, and data teams to improve the reliability, automation, security, scalability, and performance of our cloud infrastructure.

Candidates must be available to work 2:00 PM - 11:00 PM IST. This is the standard working schedule for this position and is mandatory.

Responsibilities

• Provision, maintain, and improve AWS infrastructure using Terraform, including networking, IAM, compute, databases, and shared services.
• Operate and maintain production workloads across Amazon ECS, EC2, AWS Lambda, and API Gateway.
• Manage CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Bitbucket, and Bitbucket Pipelines, including Jenkins shared libraries.
• Manage monitoring, observability, and alerting using CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, New Relic, PagerDuty, and similar tools.
• Maintain a security-first approach to cloud infrastructure, proactively identifying and remediating security risks and vulnerabilities using tools such as Wiz and AWS-native security services.
• Manage IAM, Secrets Manager, KMS policies, certificates, and secure access controls, following least-privilege and cloud security best practices.
• Lead production troubleshooting, root cause investigations, reliability improvements, and performance optimizations.
• Automate operational workflows using scripting and tools such as Python, Bash, Packer, and Ansible.

Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree, 7+ years of experience in DevOps, Cloud Infrastructure, SRE, or Platform Engineering roles.

Required Skills

• Strong hands-on experience with AWS services including ECS, EC2, Lambda, API Gateway, S3, IAM, Route 53, RDS, ElastiCache, CloudWatch, and Load Balancers.
• Advanced experience with Terraform for Infrastructure-as-Code and managing AWS resources.
• Strong experience with Docker and Amazon ECS for running production containerized workloads.
• Strong CI/CD experience with GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Bitbucket, Bitbucket Pipelines, or similar platforms.
• Strong understanding of AWS networking including VPCs, routing, security groups, load balancers, NAT Gateways, DNS, VPC endpoints, and private connectivity.
• Strong understanding of cloud security fundamentals, including IAM, least-privilege access, secrets management, encryption, vulnerability remediation, and secure infrastructure configuration.
• Experience with cloud security and auditing tools such as Wiz, CloudTrail, GuardDuty, AWS Config, or equivalent platforms.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, and New Relic.
• Strong Linux system administration, troubleshooting, and shell scripting skills.
• Experience supporting production systems, troubleshooting complex infrastructure issues, and leading root cause analysis (RCA).

Preferred Skills

• Familiarity with PHP/Laravel environments, including Laravel workloads running on AWS Lambda using Bref.
• Experience supporting Java-based microservices.
• Experience with Kubernetes/EKS, including operating MongoDB or Elasticsearch workloads.
• Experience with Packer and Ansible for AMI creation and infrastructure automation.
• Relevant AWS or Kubernetes certifications.