Job Summary

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will play a crucial role in bridging the gap between development and operations teams, working towards creating a seamless and efficient software development lifecycle. Your responsibilities will revolve around implementing and maintaining the tools, processes, and automation required to support continuous integration, continuous deployment (CI/CD), and overall infrastructure management. You will collaborate closely with software development teams, system administrators, and other stakeholders to ensure the successful delivery and operation of software products.

Key Responsibilities:

1.        Infrastructure Automation: Design, develop, and maintain the infrastructure-as-code (IaC) to automate the provisioning, configuration, and scaling of cloud-based and on-premises infrastructure components. Utilize tools like Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, or similar technologies.

2.        CI/CD Implementation: Establish, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines to automate software builds, testing, and deployment processes. Work with development teams to integrate code repositories, automated testing, and deployment strategies.

3.        Monitoring and Alerting: Implement monitoring and alerting systems to proactively identify and resolve performance bottlenecks, security vulnerabilities, and other issues. Utilize tools like Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, or similar technologies.

4.        Cloud Services Management: Manage cloud environments, such as AWS by optimizing cost, security, and performance. Leverage services like EC2, S3, RDS, VPCs, EKS etc., based on the project's requirements.

5.        Security and Compliance: Collaborate with security teams to implement best practices and industry standards for infrastructure security and compliance. Conduct regular security assessments and vulnerability scans.

6.        Incident Management: Participate in incident response and troubleshooting efforts to identify root causes and implement preventive measures. Ensure high availability and reliability of production systems.

7.        Collaboration and Support: Work closely with development teams, product managers, and other stakeholders to understand project requirements and provide support throughout the software development lifecycle.

8.        Continuous Improvement: Research and recommend emerging technologies, tools, and best practices related to DevOps, cloud computing, and automation to enhance system performance and efficiency.

Requirements:

-         Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field. (or equivalent work experience)

-         Proven experience as a DevOps Engineer or similar role, with at least 4 years in a senior/leadership position.

-         Strong hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform, configuration management tools like Ansible, and version control systems like Git.

-         Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or Ruby for automation tasks.

-         In-depth knowledge of CI/CD concepts and experience with CI/CD tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, CircleCI or GitHub Actions.

-         Extensive experience working with cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or GCP.

-         Solid understanding of containerization technologies such as Docker and container orchestration tools like Kubernetes.

-         Familiarity with monitoring and logging solutions like Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, etc.

-         Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to troubleshoot complex issues across different technology stacks.

-         Strong communication and interpersonal skills to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams.