AWS Infra Architect

Position Overview: 

We are seeking a highly motivated and skilled DevOps Engineer with 3-8 years of experience to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will have a strong foundation in Linux, infrastructure automation, containerization, orchestration tools, and cloud platforms. This role offers an opportunity to work on cutting-edge technologies and contribute to the development and maintenance of scalable, secure, and efficient CI/CD pipelines. 

Key Responsibilities: 

● Design, implement, and maintain scalable CI/CD pipelines to streamline software development and deployment. 

● Manage, monitor, and optimize infrastructure using tools like Terraform for Infrastructure as Code (IaC). 

● Deploy, configure, and manage containerized applications using Docker and orchestrate them with Kubernetes. 

● Develop and maintain Helm charts for managing Kubernetes deployments.

● Automate repetitive operational tasks using scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or PowerShell. 

● Collaborate with development teams to ensure seamless integration and delivery of applications. 

● Monitor and troubleshoot system performance, ensuring high availability and reliability of services. 

● Configure and maintain cloud infrastructure on AWS.

● Implement and maintain security best practices in cloud environments and CI/CD pipelines. 

● Manage and optimize system logs and metrics using monitoring tools like Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, or Cloud-native monitoring tools. 

Key Requirements: 

● Experience: 3-8 years in a DevOps or similar role. 

● Linux: Strong proficiency in Linux-based systems, including configuration, troubleshooting, and performance tuning is must

● IaC Tools: Hands-on experience with Terraform for infrastructure provisioning and automation. 

● Containerization: Proficient in using Docker to build, deploy, and manage containers. 

● Kubernetes: Experience with Kubernetes for container orchestration, including knowledge of deployments, services, pv, pvc and ingress controllers.

● Helm Charts: Familiarity with creating and managing Helm charts for Kubernetes applications. 

● CI/CD Tools: Knowledge of tools like Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, or CircleCI for continuous integration and deployment. 

● Cloud Platforms: Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, or GCP). 

● Scripting: Proficiency in automation scripting using Python, Bash, or similar languages. 

● Monitoring: Understanding of monitoring and logging tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or ELK Stack. 

● Version Control: Strong experience with version control tools like Git. 

Preferred Qualifications: 

● Knowledge of networking concepts (e.g., DNS, load balancing, firewalls).

● Familiarity with security practices such as role-based access control (RBAC) and secrets management. 

● Exposure to Agile/Scrum methodologies and tools like Jira. 

● Certification in any of the cloud platforms (AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Azure DevOps Expert, or GCP Professional DevOps Engineer) is a plus. 

Soft Skills: 

● Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills. 

● Ability to work collaboratively in a team-oriented environment. 

● Excellent communication and documentation skills. 

● Proactive approach to learning new tools and technologies. 

Note: Experience over Linux is Must.

Required Skills:

• Experience in systems administration, SRE or DevOps focused role
• Experience in handling production support (on-call)
• Good understanding of the Linux operating system and networking concepts.
• Demonstrated competency with the following AWS services: ECS, EC2, EBS, EKS, S3, RDS, ELB, IAM, Lambda.
• Experience with Docker containers and containerization concepts
• Experience with managing and scaling Kubernetes clusters in a production environment
• Experience building scalable infrastructure in AWS with Terraform.
• Strong knowledge of Protocol-level such as HTTP/HTTPS, SMTP, DNS, and LDAP
• Experience monitoring production systems
• Expertise in leveraging Automation / DevOps principles, experience with operational tools, and able to apply best practices for infrastructure and software deployment (Ansible).
• HAProxy, Nginx, SSH, MySQL configuration and operation experience
• Ability to work seamlessly with software developers, QA, project managers, and business development
• Ability to produce and maintain written documentation

We are looking for a DevOps Engineer (individual contributor) to maintain and build upon our next-generation infrastructure. We aim to ensure that our systems are secure, reliable and high-performing by constantly striving to achieve best-in-class infrastructure and security by:

• Leveraging a variety of tools to ensure all configuration is codified (using tools like Terraform and Flux) and applied in a secure, repeatable way (via CI)
• Routinely identifying new technologies and processes that enable us to streamline our operations and improve overall security
• Holistically monitoring our overall DevOps setup and health to ensure our roadmap constantly delivers high-impact improvements
• Eliminating toil by automating as many operational aspects of our day-to-day work as possible using internally created, third party and/or open-source tools
• Maintain a culture of empowerment and self-service by minimizing friction for developers to understand and use our infrastructure through a combination of innovative tools, excellent documentation and teamwork

Tech stack: Microservices primarily written in JavaScript, Kotlin, Scala, and Python. The majority of our infrastructure sits within EKS on AWS, using Istio. We use Terraform and Helm/Flux when working with AWS and EKS (k8s). Deployments are managed with a combination of Jenkins and Flux. We rely heavily on Kafka, Cassandra, Mongo and Postgres and are increasingly leveraging AWS-managed services (e.g. RDS, lambda).

Responsibilities

● Be a hands-on engineer, ensure frameworks/infrastructure built is well designed,

scalable & are of high quality.

● Build and/or operate platforms that are highly available, elastic, scalable, operable and

observable.

● Build/Adapt and implement tools that empower the TI AI engineering teams to

self-manage the infrastructure and services owned by them.

● You will identify, articulate, and lead various long-term tech vision, strategies,

cross-cutting initiatives and architecture redesigns.

● Design systems and make decisions that will keep pace with the rapid growth of TI AI.

● Document your work and decision-making processes, and lead presentations and

discussions in a way that is easy for others to understand.

● Available for on-call during emergencies to handle and resolve problems in a quick and

efficient manner.

Requirements

● 2+ years of Hands-on experience as a DevOps / Infrastructure engineer with AWS and

Kubernetes or similar infrastructure platforms. (preferably AWS)

● Hands-on with DevOps principles and practices ( Everything-as-a-code, CI/CD, Test

everything, proactive monitoring etc).

● Experience in building and operating distributed systems.

● Understanding of operating systems, virtualization, containerization and networks

preferable

● Hands-on coding on any of the languages like Python or GoLang.

● Familiarity with software engineering practices including unit testing, code reviews, and

design documentation.

● Strong debugging and problem-solving skills Curiosity about how things work and love to

share that knowledge with others.

Benefits :

● Work with a world class team working on a very forward looking problem

● Competitive Pay

● Flat hierarchy

● Health insurance for the family

What you need to have: