Devops Engineer
About the role
We are looking for a hands-on DevOps Engineer who can own and manage production infrastructure, automate deployments, and ensure the reliability, scalability, and security of cloud-native applications. The ideal candidate should have strong experience with Kubernetes, AWS, CI/CD pipelines,
Infrastructure as Code, monitoring, and incident management. This role requires an ownership mindset and the ability to troubleshoot critical production issues independently.
You’ll Do
- Design, deploy, and manage scalable cloud infrastructure on AWS.
- Build, maintain, and optimize Kubernetes (EKS) clusters for production workloads.
- Develop and manage CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar tools.
- Automate infrastructure provisioning using Terraform and configuration management tools.
- Monitor application and infrastructure health using Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, CloudWatch,Datadog, or similar platforms.
- Manage production deployments, rollbacks, and release strategies with minimal downtime.
- Troubleshoot production incidents, perform root cause analysis (RCA), and implement preventive measures.
- Optimize cloud infrastructure for performance, availability, scalability, and cost efficiency.
- Implement security best practices, including IAM, Secrets Management, TLS, RBAC, and network security.
- Collaborate with Engineering and Product teams to improve deployment reliability and operational excellence.
- Participate in production support and on-call rotations when required.
Must Have
- Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes (EKS), Docker, and container orchestration.
- Good knowledge of AWS services including EC2, EKS, IAM, VPC, Route53, ELB/ALB, Auto Scaling, CloudWatch, S3, and ECR.
- Strong understanding of networking concepts such as DNS, VPC, Subnets, Route Tables, NAT Gateway, Security Groups, NACLs, and Load Balancing.
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or equivalent tools.
- Hands-on experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
- Strong Linux administration and shell scripting skills; Python is an added advantage.
- Experience with monitoring, logging, and observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Datadog, or ELK.
- Solid understanding of production troubleshooting, incident response, and root cause analysis.
- Knowledge of cloud security best practices and infrastructure optimization.
Required Skills
- Experience working on high-traffic, cloud-native, microservices-based applications.
- Exposure to CDN, streaming, or OTT platforms is a plus.
- Experience with Blue-Green, Canary deployments, Feature Flags, and Kubernetes autoscaling.
- AWS or Kubernetes certifications are an advantage.