Lead DevOps Engineer

Requirements:

● 3-5 years of experience as an SRE, working in cloud-based environments and on-prem environments.

● Deep understanding of Linux systems, networking, and systems administration.

● Experience with cloud platforms like AWS, with a strong understanding of Kubernetes and container

orchestration tools.

● Hands-on experience with observability tools such as Honeycomb, Grafana, Prometheus, Thanos,

ELK (Elastic Stack), or Loki.

● Strong skills in at least one programming language (Python, Go) to write production level code.

● Strong skills in shell scripting using bash or similar. • Experience with OpenTelemetry or other

distributed tracing systems, including tracing, metrics, and logs integration.

● Experience with Chaos Engineering methodologies and tools (Chaos Mesh, chaos monkey, AWS Fault

Injection Simulator, etc.

Responsibilities:

● Implement and manage Service Level Objectives (SLOs), Service Level Indicators (SLIs), and error

budgets to drive reliability efforts.

● Develop systems that are resilient to failures and ensure 99.9%+ uptime for critical services.

● Lead incident response and post-incident reviews (blameless postmortems), ensuring robust root

cause analysis and continuous improvement of systems.

● Automate incident detection and response using automated runbooks or predefined workflows.

● Write software as needed to support reliability or efficiency needs.

● Design and implement full observability across systems using modern tools like Open Telemetry for

tracing, metrics, and logging.

● Use capacity planning, forecasting, and performance testing to ensure that the systems scale

effectively as the user base and load grow.

● Collaborate with development and operations teams on building reliable, scalable, and

high-performance services.

● Ensure best practices are followed across infrastructure design, deployment, and maintenance using

tools like AWS, Kubernetes, EKS, Fargate, etc.

● Champion Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to provision, manage, and scale infrastructure using tools like

Terraform, Pulumi, or similar.

● Get involved in chaos engineering initiatives.

● Participate on our on-call rotation.

● Drive advanced alerting and anomaly detection applied to metrics