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.
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