DevOps Engineer

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