DevOps Engineer II

About the role

You ll be part of a high-performing DevOps team responsible for evolving our cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and observability frameworks across environments. You ll have the autonomy to design, build, and optimise our infrastructure systems while enabling developer productivity at scale.

What you ll do

• Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for all HackerRank environments from development to production.


• Automate infrastructure using Terraform, Docker, and Kubernetes (EKS), ensuring scalability and reproducibility.


• Lead and evangelise DevOps best practices across engineering teams, CI/CD hygiene, observability, and cost-efficient architectures.


• Implement and maintain monitoring, alerting, and incident response systems using tools like OpsGenie, New Relic, and ELK.


• Optimise the performance and utilisation of key systems such as Redis, RDS, Redshift, ElasticSearch, and Kafka.


• Partner with security and platform teams to ensure compliance, resilience, and threat protection across cloud environments.


• Contribute to cloud cost optimisation initiatives and infrastructure efficiency projects.

Who you are

• Bring 3+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or Cloud Infrastructure Engineering roles.


• Deep expertise with AWS (and ideally some exposure to GCP), including EKS, EC2, S3, SQS, and IAM.


• Strong experience with Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, and Linux (Ubuntu)


• Hands-on scripting or coding skills in Python or Java.


• Solid grasp of monitoring, alerting, and performance tuning principles.


• Strong collaborator who can partner with developers, QA, and leadership teams to drive platform improvements.

Even better if you have

• Experience implementing ArgoCD, Jenkins, or other CI/CD orchestration tools.


• Background in security engineering, threat modelling, or penetration testing.


• Knowledge of observability frameworks and modern APM tools (New Relic, Prometheus, Grafana).


• Proven track record in cost optimisation and infrastructure scaling for high-traffic systems.


• Experience working with multi-cloud or hybrid environments.

You will thrive in this role if

• Bring a builder s mindset to automate processes, simplify workflows, and empower others through effective tools.


• Being passionate about reliability, scalability, and developer experience.


• Enjoying owning systems end-to-end and solving production challenges hands-on.


• Balances technical depth with empathy, understanding that infrastructure is successful only when developers can move faster and safer.


• Take pride in creating calm out of complexity and designing systems that just work.