Job Title: Senior DevOps Engineer (Cloud, On-Prem & Open Source Infrastructure)

Experience Required

5+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering roles

Role Overview

We are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer who can design, build, and operate highly available, scalable, and secure infrastructure across cloud and on-prem environments. The role requires deep expertise in automation, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, observability, and open-source ecosystems.

You will be responsible for building end-to-end delivery pipelines, ensuring system reliability, and enabling engineering teams with robust platform capabilities.

Key Responsibilities

1. Infrastructure Design & Management

• Design and implement highly available (HA), fault-tolerant, and scalable architectures
• Manage infrastructure across AWS / GCP / Azure (at least one must be strong hands-on)
• Build and maintain hybrid infrastructure (cloud + on-prem)
• Implement disaster recovery (DR), backup, and failover strategies

2. Infrastructure as Code (IaC) & Automation

• Develop and manage infrastructure using:
• Terraform (mandatory)
• Ansible / Puppet / Chef (any relevant automation tools)
• Create reusable modules and standardized infrastructure patterns
• Automate provisioning, configuration, and environment management

3. CI/CD & Release Engineering

• Build and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines using:
• Jenkins / GitHub Actions / GitLab CI / ArgoCD / Tekton
• Implement:
• Blue-Green deployments
• Canary releases
• Rolling deployments
• Automate build, test, security scanning, and deployment processes

4. Containerization & Orchestration

• Hands-on experience with:
• Docker
• Kubernetes (mandatory)
• Manage production-grade Kubernetes clusters (EKS / GKE / AKS or on-prem clusters like OpenShift / Rancher)
• Helm charts / Kustomize for deployment management
• Service mesh (Istio / Linkerd – preferred)

5. Observability & Monitoring (Full Stack)

Design and implement end-to-end observability stack:

Monitoring & Metrics

• Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, New Relic

Logging

• ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana)
• EFK (Fluentd/Fluentbit)
• Loki (Grafana stack)

Tracing

• Jaeger / OpenTelemetry / Zipkin

Alerting

• Alertmanager, PagerDuty, Opsgenie

6. Cloud & Platform Engineering

Strong hands-on experience in at least one:

• AWS (EC2, VPC, EKS, S3, IAM, RDS, CloudWatch)
• OR GCP (GKE, IAM, Cloud Build, Stackdriver)
• OR Azure (AKS, Azure DevOps, Monitor, VNets)

7. Networking, Security & Reliability

• Deep understanding of:
• Load balancing (Nginx, HAProxy, ALB/NLB)
• DNS, CDN, routing, VPC design
• Security best practices:
• IAM, RBAC, secrets management (Vault, AWS Secrets Manager)
• TLS/SSL, certificate management
• Implement zero-downtime deployments and high availability architectures

8. Open Source Ecosystem

Strong exposure to open-source tools used in production:

• Kubernetes ecosystem tools
• Terraform, Ansible
• Prometheus, Grafana, ELK
• Linux system internals and tooling
• GitOps tools (ArgoCD / FluxCD)

9. Scripting & Programming

• Strong scripting skills in:
• Python / Bash / Go (preferred)
• Ability to build automation tools and internal DevOps utilities

Required Technical Expertise Summary

• One cloud platform (AWS/GCP/Azure) – strong hands-on
• On-prem infrastructure management experience
• Kubernetes at production scale
• Terraform (must-have)
• CI/CD pipelines (end-to-end ownership)
• Observability stack (metrics, logs, traces)
• HA & scalable system design
• Linux system administration
• Open-source-first engineering mindset

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with microservices architecture
• GitOps implementation experience
• Service mesh (Istio/Linkerd)
• FinOps / cost optimization in cloud
• SRE practices (SLI/SLO/SLA)
• Performance tuning and capacity planning

Soft Skills

• Strong ownership and accountability
• Ability to troubleshoot complex distributed systems
• Good collaboration with development and security teams
• Proactive mindset for automation and reliability improvements
• Comfortable working in fast-paced engineering environments

Educational Qualification : BE/ B.tech, MCA