DevOps Engineer

Job Title: DevOps lead

Location:Mohali, Punjab

Employment: Full-time

Your Role Will Include:

1. Leading the implementation, optimization, and governance of Azure cloud infrastructure and DevOps practices.

2. Designing scalable, reliable, and high-performing eCommerce solutions.

3. Providing hands-on expertise with Kafka, in-memory databases, Aerospike, MongoDB Atlas, Kubernetes (K8s), and Akamai.

4. Ensuring compliance with security standards and industry best practices.

5. Managing and mentoring a team of DevOps engineers, fostering growth and technical excellence.

6. Driving governance initiatives, including policy development, enforcement, and compliance monitoring.

7. Overseeing release management, CI/CD pipelines, and deployment automation.

8. Leading agile/scrum ceremonies and ensuring effective adoption of agile practices.

9. Building/adapting tools and platforms that empower engineering teams to manage infrastructure autonomously.

10. Defining and executing the long-term cloud & DevOps strategy for the organization.

11. Handling critical incidents (P0 issues) with a strong ownership mindset, including night/weekend support.

12. Documenting solutions, presenting strategies, and leading discussions with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

13. Acting as a hands-on engineer when required, ensuring frameworks and infrastructure are scalable and robust.

14. Implementing DR strategies and ensuring high availability, elasticity, and observability of platforms.

What You Bring:

1. Azure Certified Solutions Architect (mandatory).

2. 10+ years in DevOps, cloud infrastructure, and software development, with leading teams.

3. Proven experience on large-scale eCommerce projects.

4. Hands-on expertise with Kafka, Aerospike, MongoDB Atlas, Kubernetes (K8s), Akamai, and in-memory databases.

5. Strong proficiency in Linux and Python scripting.

6. Expertise in CI/CD pipelines, release management, and deployment automation.

7. Knowledge of infrastructure as code (IaC) tools (Terraform, ARM templates).

8. Experience implementing Disaster Recovery (DR) and monitoring/observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Azure Monitor).

9. Strong understanding of cloud security best practices.

10. Excellent leadership, mentoring, and communication skills to manage large teams and cross-functional collaboration.

11. Bachelor’s and master degree in Engineering or related field.