DevOps Engineer

Required Skills: Advanced AWS Infrastructure Expertise, CI/CD Pipeline Automation, Monitoring, Observability & Incident Management, Security, Networking & Risk Management, Infrastructure as Code & Scripting

Criteria:

• 5+ years of DevOps/SRE experience in cloud-native, product-based companies (B2C scale preferred)
• Strong hands-on AWS expertise across core and advanced services (EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, S3, CloudFront, RDS, VPC, IAM, ELB/ALB, Route53)
• Proven experience designing high-availability, fault-tolerant cloud architectures for large-scale traffic
• Strong experience building & maintaining CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins mandatory; GitHub Actions/GitLab CI a plus)
• Prior experience running production-grade microservices deployments and automated rollout strategies (Blue/Green, Canary)
• Hands-on experience with monitoring & observability tools (Grafana, Prometheus, ELK, CloudWatch, New Relic, etc.)
• Solid hands-on experience with MongoDB in production, including performance tuning, indexing & replication
• Strong scripting skills (Bash, Shell, Python) for automation
• Hands-on experience with IaC (Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible)
• Deep understanding of networking fundamentals (VPC, subnets, routing, NAT, security groups)
• Strong experience in incident management, root cause analysis & production firefighting

Description

Role Overview

Company is seeking an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to design, build, and optimize cloud infrastructure on AWS, automate CI/CD pipelines, implement monitoring and security frameworks, and proactively identify scalability challenges. This role requires someone who has hands-on experience running infrastructure at B2C product scale, ideally in media/OTT or high-traffic applications.

 Key Responsibilities

1. Cloud Infrastructure — AWS (Primary Focus)

• Architect, deploy, and manage scalable infrastructure using AWS services such as EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, S3, CloudFront, RDS, ELB/ALB, VPC, IAM, Route53, etc.
• Optimize cloud cost, resource utilization, and performance across environments.
• Design high-availability, fault-tolerant systems for streaming workloads.

2. CI/CD Automation

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI.
• Automate deployments for microservices, mobile apps, and backend APIs.
• Implement blue/green and canary deployments for seamless production rollouts.

3. Observability & Monitoring

• Implement logging, metrics, and alerting using tools like Grafana, Prometheus, ELK, CloudWatch, New Relic, etc.
• Perform proactive performance analysis to minimize downtime and bottlenecks.
• Set up dashboards for real-time visibility into system health and user traffic spikes.

4. Security, Compliance & Risk Highlighting

• Conduct frequent risk assessments and identify vulnerabilities in:

  o Cloud architecture

  o Access policies (IAM)

  o Secrets & key management

  o Data flows & network exposure

• Implement security best practices including VPC isolation, WAF rules, firewall policies, and SSL/TLS management.

5. Scalability & Reliability Engineering

• Analyze traffic patterns for OTT-specific load variations (weekends, new releases, peak hours).
• Identify scalability gaps and propose solutions across:
•   o Microservices
•   o Caching layers
•   o CDN distribution (CloudFront)
•   o Database workloads
• Perform capacity planning and load testing to ensure readiness for 10x traffic growth.

6. Database & Storage Support

• Administer and optimize MongoDB for high-read/low-latency use cases.
• Design backup, recovery, and data replication strategies.
• Work closely with backend teams to tune query performance and indexing.

7. Automation & Infrastructure as Code

• Implement IaC using Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible.
• Automate repetitive infrastructure tasks to ensure consistency across environments.

Required Skills & Experience

Technical Must-Haves

• 5+ years of DevOps/SRE experience in cloud-native, product-based companies.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS (core and advanced services).
• Expertise in Jenkins CI/CD pipelines.
• Solid background working with MongoDB in production environments.
• Good understanding of networking: VPCs, subnets, security groups, NAT, routing.
• Strong scripting experience (Bash, Python, Shell).
• Experience handling risk identification, root cause analysis, and incident management.

Nice to Have

• Experience with OTT, video streaming, media, or any content-heavy product environments.
• Familiarity with containers (Docker), orchestration (Kubernetes/EKS), and service mesh.
• Understanding of CDN, caching, and streaming pipelines.

Personality & Mindset

• Strong sense of ownership and urgency—DevOps is mission critical at OTT scale.
• Proactive problem solver with ability to think about long-term scalability.
• Comfortable working with cross-functional engineering teams.

Why Join company?

• Build and operate infrastructure powering millions of monthly users.

• Opportunity to shape DevOps culture and cloud architecture from the ground up.

• High-impact role in a fast-scaling Indian OTT product.

Role : Principal Devops Engineer

About the Client

It is a Product base company that has to build a platform using AI and ML technology for their transportation and logiticsThey also have a presence in the global market

Responsibilities and Requirements

• Experience in designing and maintaining high volume and scalable micro-services architecture on cloud infrastructure

• Knowledge in Linux/Unix Administration and Python/Shell Scripting

• Experience working with cloud platforms like AWS (EC2, ELB, S3, Auto-scaling, VPC, Lambda), GCP, Azure

• Knowledge in deployment automation, Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (Jenkins, Maven, Puppet, Chef, GitLab) and monitoring tools like Zabbix, Cloud Watch Monitoring, Nagios

• Knowledge of Java Virtual Machines, Apache Tomcat, Nginx, Apache Kafka, Microservices architecture, Caching mechanisms

• Experience in enterprise application development, maintenance and operations

• Knowledge of best practices and IT operations in an always-up, always-available service

• Excellent written and oral communication skills, judgment and decision-making skill

• At least 5 year of experience in Cloud technologies-AWS and Azure and developing. 
• Experience in implementing DevOps practices and DevOps-tools in areas like CI/CD using Jenkins environment automation, and release automation, virtualization, infra as a code or metrics tracking.
• Hands on experience in DevOps tools configuration in different environments.
• Strong knowledge of working with DevOps design patterns, processes and best practices
• Hand-on experience in Setting up Build pipelines.
• Prior working experience in system administration or architecture in Windows or Linux.
• Must have experience in GIT (BitBucket, GitHub, GitLab)
• Hands-on experience on Jenkins pipeline scripting.
• Hands-on knowledge in one scripting language (Nant, Perl, Python, Shell or PowerShell)
• Configuration level skills in tools like SonarQube (or similar tools) and Artifactory.
• Expertise on Virtual Infrastructure (VMWare or VirtualBox or QEMU or KVM or Vagrant) and environment automation/provisioning using SaltStack/Ansible/Puppet/Chef
• Deploying, automating, maintaining and managing Azure cloud based production systems including monitoring capacity.
• Good to have experience in migrating code repositories from one source control to another.
• Hands-on experience in Docker container and orchestration based deployments like Kubernetes, Service Fabric, Docker swarm.
• Must have good communication skills and problem solving skills

What we look for:

As a DevOps Developer, you will contribute to a thriving and growing AIGovernance Engineering team. You will work in a Kubernetes-based microservices environment to support our bleeding-edge cloud services. This will include custom solutions, as well as open source DevOps tools (build and deploy automation, monitoring and data gathering for our software delivery pipeline). You will also be contributing to our continuous improvement and continuous delivery while increasing maturity of DevOps and agile adoption practices.

Responsibilities:

• Ability to deploy software using orchestrators /scripts/Automation on Hybrid and Public clouds like AWS
• Ability to write shell/python/ or any unix scripts
• Working Knowledge on Docker & Kubernetes
• Ability to create pipelines using Jenkins or any CI/CD tool and GitOps tool like ArgoCD
• Working knowledge of Git as a source control system and defect tracking system
• Ability to debug and troubleshoot deployment issues
• Ability to use tools for faster resolution of issues
• Excellent communication and soft skills
• Passionate and ability work and deliver in a multi-team environment
• Good team player
• Flexible and quick learner
• Ability to write docker files, Kubernetes yaml files / Helm charts
• Experience with monitoring tools like Nagios, Prometheus and visualisation tools such as Grafana.
• Ability to write Ansible, terraform scripts
• Linux System experience and Administration
• Effective cross-functional leadership skills: working with engineering and operational teams to ensure systems are secure, scalable, and reliable.
• Ability to review deployment and operational environments, i.e., execute initiatives to reduce failure, troubleshoot issues across the entire infrastructure stack, expand monitoring capabilities, and manage technical operations.

Position Summary

Cloud Engineer helps to solutionize, enable, migrate and onboard clients to a secure cloud
platform, which offload the heavy lifting for the clients so that they can focus on their own business
value creation.

Job Description

• Assessing existing customer systems and/or cloud environment to determine the best migration approach and supporting tools used
• Build a secure and compliant cloud environment, with a proven enterprise operating model, on-going cost optimisation, and day-to-day infrastructure management
• Provide and implement cloud solutions to reduce operational overhead and risk, and automates common activities, such as change requests, monitoring, patch management, security, and backup services, and provides full-lifecycle services to provision, run, and support their infrastructure
• Collaborate with internal service teams to meet the clients’ needs for their infrastructure and application deployments
• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure deployments, recreate customer issues, and build proof of concept environments that abide by cloud-best-practices & well architecture frameworks
• Apply advanced troubleshooting techniques to provide unique solutions to our customers’ individual needs
• Work on critical, highly complex customer problems that will span across multiple cloud platforms and services
• Identify and drive improvements on process and technical related issues. Act as an escalation point of contact for the clients
• Drive clients meetings & communication during reviews

Requirement:

• Degree in computer science or a similar field.
• At least 2 year of experience in the field of cloud computing.
• Experience with CI/CD systems.
• Strong in Cloud services
• Exposure to AWS/GCP and other cloud-based infrastructure platforms
• Experience with AWS configuration and management – EC2, S3, EBS, ELB, IAM, VPC, RDS, CloudFront etc
• Exposure in architecting, designing, developing, and implementing cloud solutions on AWS platforms or other cloud server such as Azure, Google Cloud
• Proficient in the use and administration of all versions of MS Windows Server
• Experience with Linux and Windows system administration and web server configuration and monitoring
• Solid programming skills in Python, Java, Perl
• Good understanding of software design principles and best practices
• Good knowledge of REST APIs
• Should have hands-on experience in any deployment orchestration tool (Jenkins, Urbancode, Bamboo, etc.)
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm charts
• Hands on experience in Ansible and Git repositories
• Knowledge in Maven / Gradle
• Azure, AWS, and GCP certifications are preferred.
• Troubleshooting and analytical skills.
• Good communication and collaboration skills.

Key Responsibilities :

Look through the various DevOps Tools/Technologies and identify the strengths and provide direction to the DevOps automation team

Out-of-box thought process on the DevOps Automation Platform implementation

Expose various tools and technologies and do POC on integration of the these tools

Evaluate Backend API's for various DevOps tools

Perform code reviews keep in context of RASUI

Mentor the team on the various E2E integrations

Be Liaison in evangelizing the automation solution currently implemented

Bring in various DevOps best Practices/Principles and participate in adoption with various app teams

Must have:

Should possess Bachelors/Masters in computer science with minimum of 8+ years of experience

Should possess minimum 3 years of strong experience in DevOps

Should possess expertise in using various DevOps tools libraries and API's (Jenkins/JIRA/AWX/Nexus/GitHub/BitBucket/SonarQube)

Should possess expertise in optimizing the DevOps stack ( Containers/Kubernetes/Monitoring )

2+ Experience in creating solutions and translate to the development team

Should have strong understanding of OOPs, SDLC (Agile Safe standards)

Proficient in Python , with a good knowledge of its ecosystems (IDEs and Frameworks)

Proficient in various cloud platforms (Azure/AWS/Google cloud platform)

Proficient in various DevOps offerings (Pivotal/OpenStack/Azure DevOps