Role Overview
We are looking for a DevOps / Sr DevOps Engineer with strong expertise in AWS cloud infrastructure, CI/CD automation, and Kubernetes-based application deployments. The role focuses on enabling engineering teams with scalable, secure, and automated DevOps platforms while ensuring smooth application delivery across environments.
The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience building CI/CD pipelines, managing cloud infrastructure using IaC, and supporting containerized application workloads on AWS (EKS).
Key Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain end-to-end CI/CD pipelines for cloud-native applications.
- Build and manage AWS infrastructure using Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform).
- Deploy and manage applications on Kubernetes (EKS) with DevOps best practices.
- Automate build, test, release, and deployment processes across environments.
- Work closely with development teams to standardize build and deployment workflows.
- Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting for applications and platforms.
- Support containerization strategy using Docker and Kubernetes.
- Implement security best practices in CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, and container pipelines.
- Optimize pipelines and cloud workloads for performance, reliability, and cost efficiency.
- Troubleshoot deployment, pipeline, infrastructure, and runtime issues.
- Collaborate with Cloud Ops, SRE, Security, and Development teams.
Required Skills & Expertise
DevOps & CI/CD
- Strong hands-on experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or Azure DevOps.
- Experience implementing pipeline-as-code and reusable CI/CD templates.
- Familiarity with branching strategies, artifact repositories, and release management.
- Experience with DevSecOps practices (SAST, DAST, dependency scanning).
AWS Cloud
- Strong hands-on experience with AWS services, including:
- EC2, VPC, IAM, ELB (ALB/NLB), Auto Scaling
- EKS, S3, RDS, CloudWatch, Route53
- Experience with AWS networking, IAM policies, and security best practices.
- Hands-on with deployment, upgrades, patching, and backups of AWS workloads.
Kubernetes & Containers
- Hands-on experience deploying and managing applications on Kubernetes (EKS).
- Solid understanding of:
- Deployments, StatefulSets, DaemonSets, Jobs
- Services, Ingress, ConfigMaps, Secrets
- Working knowledge of Helm and/or Kustomize.
- Experience supporting GitOps-based deployments (ArgoCD / Flux preferred).
- Understanding of Kubernetes networking, storage, and RBAC (not SRE-depth).
Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
- Strong experience with Terraform for AWS infrastructure provisioning.
- Ability to write reusable Terraform modules and manage remote state.
- Familiarity with Terragrunt is a plus.
Observability & Operations
- Experience with monitoring and logging tools such as CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK.
- Ability to define basic SLIs/SLOs in coordination with SRE teams.
- Hands-on troubleshooting of application and infrastructure issues.
Security & Compliance
- Experience integrating security controls into CI/CD pipelines.
- Knowledge of IAM best practices, secrets management, and container image scanning.
- Familiarity with compliance-driven environments is a plus.
Certifications (Preferred)
- AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional or AWS Solutions Architect
- CKA / CKAD – Good to have (not mandatory for DevOps)
Nice-to-Have Skills
- Experience with service mesh (Istio) from a deployment/configuration perspective.
- Exposure to FinOps / cloud cost optimization.
- Familiarity with multi-account AWS strategies.
- Experience working alongside SRE teams in high-availability environments.
