DevOps Engineer II

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.

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.

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.