DevOps Engineer II

Job Description

Overview We are seeking a DevOps Engineer II to join the Critical Start Technologies Private Ltd. team, operating under the Critical Start umbrella, for our India operations. The ideal candidate brings 3-5 years of hands-on experience in cloud-native infrastructure, CI/CD automation, and Infrastructure as Code. You bring advanced skills in AWS and Terraform, a strong understanding of scalable systems, and a mindset geared toward security, resilience, and automation-first practices. The ideal candidate has worked in complex environments with microservices, container orchestration, and multi-account AWS structures. You take pride in building robust DevOps pipelines and actively contribute to architectural and operational decisions. Experience leading small initiatives or mentoring junior engineers is a plus. Responsibilities As a DevOps Engineer II, you will be a technical contributor and enabler for scalable infrastructure delivery and automation practices. Your role involves: Owning and improving the infrastructure codebase : maintaining reusable and modular Terraform configurations, setting standards for code structure, and contributing to design documentation. Building and evolving CI/CD pipelines : designing resilient and secure build/deploy pipelines using GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline, or equivalent. Monitoring and Observability : developing dashboards and proactive alerting with CloudWatch, Prometheus, or New Relic to ensure high availability and quick recovery. Infrastructure Security and Compliance : implementing IAM best practices, Secrets Manager, least privilege policies, and conducting periodic audits. Optimizing cloud spend and performance through rightsizing, auto-scaling, and cost monitoring strategies. Collaborating closely with development, QA, and security teams to support full software delivery lifecycle from development through production. Participating in incident response and postmortem analysis. Qualifications Required Qualifications: 3-5 years of professional experience in DevOps, SRE, or Cloud Engineering roles. Advanced Terraform experience, including custom module design, remote state management, and backend locking. Deep knowledge of AWS services (VPC, IAM, ECS/Fargate, EC2, RDS, ALB/NLB, S3, CloudWatch, Secrets Manager, etc.). Strong background in Linux systems administration, including networking and performance tuning. Proven expertise in Docker, ECS/EKS, and secure image lifecycle. Strong scripting and automation skills using Bash, Python, or Go. Experience with GitOps, infrastructure promotion strategies, and artifact management. Familiarity with log aggregation and tracing (e.g., Fluentd, Open Telemetry, Sentry). Exposure to infrastructure testing frameworks (e.g., Terratest, InSpec). Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills. Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field. Preferred Qualifications: Additional scripting experience is a strong plus. Knowledge of security and compliance frameworks like SOC2, CIS Benchmarks, or ISO 27001 is a plus. Experience working in regulated environments or with customer-facing infrastructure. Contributions to open-source infrastructure tools or Terraform modules. Exposure to Kubernetes or hybrid cloud platforms. Experience with IaC scanning tools like Checkov, tfsec, or Bridgecrew.