Devops Engineer_8+years_Remote

Role: Devops Engineer

Location: Remote (India)

Contract Duration: 12+months, likely long term

Infrastructure as Code engineer to contribute to a large-scale, production AWS/Kubernetes platform supporting AI/ML workloads across multiple environments (dev, int, prod) and 9+ AWS regions.

Must-Have Skills & Experience

**3-4 years** in DevOps/Platform/Infrastructure Engineering roles

Core Technologies (2-3 years minimum)

- **TypeScript/Python**

- Primary language for all IaC

- Experience with Node.js ecosystem and npm, python packaging

- **Containerization**

- multi-stage docker builds, container registry management

- Understanding of key container registry concepts such as layer caching, and pull through cache

- **Pulumi** or **Terraform** (or similar IaC tool) - 2+ years production experience

- Understanding of declarative infrastructure

- Resource dependencies and state management

- **AWS** - 2+ years production experience

- Core services: EKS, VPC, IAM, RDS, SQS, S3, SSM Parameter Store

- Preference for experience with accelerated compute management (NVIDIA, AMD, Inferentia)

- **Kubernetes** - 2+ years production experience

- Preferred AWS EKS experience

- Knowledge of Networking controllers like Cilium, Istio, Envoy Gateway

- Experience with cluster autoscaling technologies, preference for Karpenter

- Basic kubectl proficiency

### Required Knowledge Areas

- **CI/CD** - Experience with automated deployment pipelines

- GitHub Actions (preferred) or similar

- Understanding of deployment strategies (rolling, blue/green)

- Experience with multi-environment promotion workflows

- **Observability** - Experience with common platform observability tooling

- Log aggregation, preference for Loki

- time-series operational metrics, preference for Prometheus

- Open Telemetry based tracing, preference for Tempo

- Grafana dashboard creation

- **Git/Version Control** - Proficient

- Branching strategies, pull requests, code review

- Collaborative development workflows

- **Linux/Bash**

- Comfortable with command line and scripting

- experience working and customizing their terminal experience

- **Security Best Practices**

- Secrets management (not storing credentials in code)

- Principle of least privilege

- Understanding of encryption at rest and in transit

### Soft Skills

- **Self-directed learner** - Can research and understand existing patterns with little direction

- **Communication** - Can document work and explain technical decisions very well written, as much of communication will be async

- **Collaborative** - Experience with Pull Request Code Review processes