Senior DevOps Engineer

Direct Client Requirement
Job Title: Lead DevOps Engineer
Location: Remote
Job Type: Full-time
Working hours: 2 PM - 11 PM IST
Position Summary
As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and managing scalable DevOps solutions across cloud and on-prem environments. You will lead a team of engineers, drive automation strategies, and ensure high availability, performance, and security of our infrastructure. The ideal candidate has a deep understanding of CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure (AWS/Azure/GCP), infrastructure-as-code (IaC), and container orchestration.

You will play a key role in shaping DevOps best practices, mentoring junior engineers, and collaborating with development and security teams to enhance system reliability and efficiency.

Key Responsibilities

Leadership & Strategy:

• Lead and mentor a team of DevOps engineers, fostering a culture of automation and continuous improvement.
• Collaborate with development, security, and operations teams to define best practices for deployment, monitoring, and system reliability.
• Evaluate and recommend new DevOps tools, technologies, and best practices to optimize infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines.
• Act as a subject matter expert (SME) in DevOps methodologies, driving innovation in cloud-native and on-prem solutions.

Infrastructure & Cloud Management:

• Design and manage cloud-native solutions on AWS/Azure/GCP, ensuring scalability, reliability, and security.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning using Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, or Puppet.
• Implement best practices for cloud cost optimization and performance tuning.
• Monitor and troubleshoot production environments to ensure high availability and minimal downtime.

CI/CD & Automation:

• Architect and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or AWS CodePipeline.
• Automate deployment processes to streamline releases across development, staging, and production environments.
• Improve system observability through robust logging, monitoring, and alerting tools such as New Relic, Prometheus, Grafana, and CloudWatch.
• Implement blue-green deployments, canary releases, and rollbacks for seamless software releases.

Security & Compliance:

• Enforce security best practices including IAM, secrets management, and network security in cloud environments.
• Implement vulnerability scanning, automated security testing, and compliance checks as part of the DevSecOps pipeline.
• Work closely with the InfoSec team to ensure compliance with GDPR, SOC 2, HIPAA, or PCI DSS standards.

Performance Monitoring & Incident Response:

• Establish incident response plans, SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets for system reliability.
• Optimize system performance and scalability by analyzing logs, metrics, and application behavior.
• Ensure 24/7 system availability by implementing proactive monitoring, auto-scaling, and disaster recovery plans.

Qualifications & Skills

Required:

• 7+ years of experience in DevOps, Cloud Infrastructure, or SRE roles.
• Expertise in AWS, Azure, or GCP cloud platforms.
• Hands-on experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, Helm, or Kubernetes for infrastructure automation.
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, ArgoCD, Spinnaker, etc.).
• Proficiency in scripting languages (Python, Bash, Go, or Ruby) for automation.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm for container orchestration.
• Solid understanding of networking, load balancing, and security best practices in cloud environments.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools (New Relic, Prometheus, ELK Stack, Grafana).
• Strong understanding of configuration management tools (Ansible, Puppet, Chef).
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work in a fast-paced environment.

Preferred:

• Experience with GitOps principles using ArgoCD or Flux.
• Experience working in a high-availability SaaS environment.
• Experience with database administration (PostgreSQL, MySQL, DynamoDB).
• Knowledge of incident management frameworks such as ITIL or SRE principles.