Senior devops engineer

Overview

We are seeking an exceptional Senior Dev Ops Engineer with more than 10 years of hands-on experience in automation, cloud infrastructure, and CI/CD pipeline development. This role demands advanced expertise in AWS, Infrastructure as code, and container orchestration. The ideal candidate excels in planning new environments, integrating Docker-based applications, and evolving CI/CD processes to meet business needs. As a Senior Dev Ops Engineer, you will work directly with engineering and cross-functional teams, leveraging deep AWS knowledge to deliver scalable, secure, and efficient cloud-native solutions.

Key Responsibilities

Dev Ops Strategy & Implementation

Lead the adoption and execution of Dev Ops practices across multiple projects, promoting automation, standardization, and continuous improvement. Drive the evolution of Dev Ops culture and processes throughout the organization.

AWS Infrastructure Management

Create and maintain AWS environments using EC2, RDS, S3, IAM, ELB, Cloud Watch, Route53, Systems Manager (SSM), and Secrets Manager. Ensure infrastructure is scalable, reliable, and aligned with business requirements.

Infrastructure as Code (Ia C)

Build and manage AWS infrastructure using Terraform for reproducible, version-controlled deployments. Promote best practices in infrastructure automation and maintainability.

CI/CD Pipeline

Design and optimize CI/CD pipelines leveraging Git Lab, Artifactory, Terraform Cloud and Helm Integrate with SAST/DAST tools for security scans and Code Quality

Containerization & Application Integration

Design and deploy containerized workloads using EKS

Git Ops

Implement Git Ops workflows using Argo CD to drive declarative, Git-based deployment and configuration management for Kubernetes (EKS) workloads. Maintain Git as the single source of truth for infrastructure and application manifests, enabling automated sync, drift detection, and rollback. Define branching and promotion strategies (dev → staging → production) to support safe, auditable, and repeatable releases.

Cost Efficiency

Conduct performance analysis and recommend on AWS cost-saving strategies.

Monitoring & Observability

Implement and maintain monitoring and alerting solutions using Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, New Relic and Cloud Watch. Setup Alerts using Slack and JSM (on call support) Enhance system visibility and maximize uptime across environments. Leverage Grafana Cloud (Managed Prometheus, Loki, and Tempo) for unified metrics, logs, and tracing, reducing self-hosted observability overhead. Build and maintain Grafana Cloud dashboards and SLO-based alerting to provide real-time visibility into service health and performance.

Security & Access Management

Create and manage IAM roles and policies, enforcing secure access control and least-privilege compliance. Ensure adherence to organizational security standards.

Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity

Participate in Quarterly Disaster Recovery drills, creating complete infrastructure replicas in alternate AWS regions. Validate application recovery procedures and ensure business continuity readiness.

On-Call Support & Production Troubleshooting

Participate in on-call rotation to provide 24/7 production support, responding promptly to incidents and escalations via Slack and JSM. Diagnose and troubleshoot production issues across infrastructure, application, and network layers, using Grafana Cloud, Cloud Watch, and logs to identify root cause. Drive incident response and resolution, ensuring timely restoration of service and minimal business impact. Conduct post-incident reviews and root cause analysis, documenting findings and implementing preventive measures to reduce recurrence.

Collaboration & Feature Enablement

Work closely with development teams to plan, deploy, and test new features, while maintaining strong Dev Ops automation and reliability.

Required Skills & Technologies

Infrastructure as Code: Terraform CI/CD Tools: Git Lab Runners, Helm, Artifactory Containerization & Orchestration: EKS, Docker AWS Services: EKS, EC2, RDS, S3, IAM, Elasti Cache, SNS, SQS, Secrets Manager, Systems Manager (SSM), Cloud Watch, Cloud Front, Route53, ELB, API Gateway Secrets & Configuration Management: 1 Password, AWS Secrets Manager Monitoring & Logging: New Relic, Grafana, Prometheus, Loki Git Ops: Argo CD, Flux Observability Platform: Grafana Cloud (Managed Prometheus, Loki, Tempo)

Qualifications

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field. 10+ years of hands-on experience in Dev Ops, Cloud, or Infrastructure Engineering roles. Proven expertise in AWS Cloud, CI/CD pipeline development, infrastructure automation, and container orchestration. Strong proficiency with Terraform, Git Ops and Git Lab CI/CD. Demonstrated success in CI/CD migration projects and AWS cost optimization initiatives. Excellent analytical, troubleshooting, and collaboration skills. Effective communicator and mentor with leadership experience.

Preferred Attributes

AWS Dev Ops Engineer/Terraform/Kubernetes certifications Experience with multi-region, high-availability infrastructure and disaster recovery planning. Proven success leading Dev Ops transformations and toolchain modernizations on a scale.

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