Senior DevOps Engineer
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to join our cloud platform engineering team. This role demands hands-on expertise in AWS, deep knowledge of infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, observability, cost optimization, and DevOps practices, while also providing technical leadership and mentoring to the team. You will play a critical role in shaping our cloud architecture, infrastructure automation, deployment pipelines, and overall platform reliability — ensuring our DevOps standards are scalable and secure
Experience: 7+ Years
Location: Hyderabad/Remote
Key Responsibilities:
AWS Cloud Infrastructure Ownership - Architect, implement, and manage scalable, secure, and cost-efficient infrastructure on AWS using services like EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, RDS/Aurora, CloudFront, S3, VPC, Transit Gateway, WAF, and more.
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) - Design and maintain modular, reusable IaC using CloudFormation and CDK with GitOps principles.
CI/CD & Automation - Build, enhance, and maintain highly reliable and secure CI/CD pipelines using tools like GitHub Actions, CodePipeline, Jenkins etc., enabling faster and safer deployments.
Security & Governance - Integrate DevSecOps practices by automated compliance checks, vulnerability scanning and IAM policy management using least privilege principle.
Monitoring & Observability - Lead efforts in observability setup using CloudWatch ensuring high availability and proactive incident detection.
Disaster Recovery & Resilience - Design and validate backup/restore and DR strategies using cross-region replication, snapshots, and multi-AZ/multi-region deployments.
Cost Management - Optimize AWS usage and control cloud spend through rightsizing, savings plans, and usage analysis using tools like AWS Cost Explorer, CloudHealth, or custom dashboards.
Team Mentoring & Collaboration - Provide technical guidance to DevOps engineers, review infrastructure PRs, enforce architectural standards, and work closely with Engineering and Security teams.
Compliance & Auditing - Assist in audits and ensure infrastructure and DevOps pipelines are compliant with ISO, SOC2, GDPR or other regulatory standards.
Required Skills & Experience:
- Proven experience leading DevOps initiatives in large-scale AWS environments
- Expertise in AWS services for compute, networking, storage, security, and serverless
- Strong scripting/coding in Python or Bash
- Solid experience with CloudFormation and AWS CDK
- Deep knowledge of CI/CD tools – GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CodeBuild/CodeDeploy
- Hands-on with Docker, ECS, EKS, Fargate, and container orchestration
- Experience implementing zero-downtime deployments, blue/green, and canary releases
- Familiarity with cloud security best practices and IAM policy design
- Experience with monitoring/logging tools and incident response setups
- Strong understanding of VPC, NAT Gateway, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect/VPN
- Excellent communication and documentation skills
