DevOps Engineer

This role is for one of the Weekday's clients

Min Experience: 4 years

Location: Chandigarh, Mohali, Punjab

JobType: full-time

We are looking for a DevOps Engineer with 4+ years of experience to design, build, and operate scalable AWS infrastructure with strong ownership of CI/CD, containerized workloads, and infrastructure as code. The role requires deep hands-on expertise and a production-first mindset.

Requirements

Key Responsibilities:

Design, develop, and maintain reliable CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions across various environments such as development, staging, and production.

Build, deploy, and manage containerized applications on AWS ECS, utilizing Fargate and/or EC2 instances.

Provision, update, and oversee AWS infrastructure through CloudFormation, including managing templates, stacks, and stack sets.

Take ownership of deployment automation, release planning, rollback procedures, and ensure deployments achieve zero or minimal downtime.

Monitor, diagnose, and optimize AWS workloads to enhance performance, reliability, availability, and cost-efficiency.

Implement and uphold security best practices covering IAM, networking, secrets management, and CI/CD pipelines.

Collaborate closely with application engineering teams to refine build, deployment, and operational processes.

Participate actively in incident response, conducting root cause analyses, and preparing post-mortem reports.

Maintain comprehensive documentation, runbooks, and operational guidelines.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

Minimum of 4 years of practical experience in DevOps or Cloud Engineering roles.

Extensive production experience with AWS services including:

ECS, ECR, EC2

VPC, Security Groups, ALB/NLB

S3, RDS

IAM, CloudWatch

Demonstrated expertise in CI/CD processes using GitHub Actions, including creating reusable workflows and managing environment-specific deployments.

Strong proficiency in Docker and containerization best practices.

Hands-on experience with CloudFormation for provisioning and managing infrastructure lifecycle.

Solid understanding of networking principles, load balancing techniques, and AWS security fundamentals.

Experience working with Linux operating systems and shell scripting.

Familiarity with monitoring, logging, and alerting systems within AWS environments.

Excellent troubleshooting abilities focused on maintaining production stability.

Must-have Skills

AWS

DOCKER

DevOps

Preferred Skills

Docker