DevOps Engineering Lead

As a highly skilled Lead DevOps Engineer, you will be responsible for designing cloud-native infrastructure, automating deployments, ensuring high availability, and driving operational excellence in a fast-paced environment. You will work on a reliable messaging platform that powers seamless communication for millions of users. **Key Responsibilities:** - **Infrastructure & Deployment** - Design, implement, and manage scalable, resilient cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP/Azure) for messaging workloads. - Build CI/CD pipelines to enable automated, reliable, and fast delivery of new features. - Containerize applications (Docker/Kubernetes) and optimize orchestration for performance. - **Reliability & Monitoring** - Ensure high availability and low latency of the messaging platform with proactive monitoring and alerting (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog, etc.). - Troubleshoot production issues, perform root cause analysis, and implement long-term fixes. - Define and track SLOs/SLAs/SLIs for messaging services. - **Automation & Security** - Automate provisioning, scaling, and failover processes using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible, Helm). - Enforce best practices for system security, secrets management, and compliance. - Implement disaster recovery, backup strategies, and incident response playbooks. - **Collaboration & Culture** - Work closely with developers, SREs, and QA teams to deliver reliable features. - Advocate for DevOps culture: CI/CD adoption, monitoring-first mindset, and blameless postmortems. - Contribute to documentation and knowledge sharing across teams. **Qualifications Required:** - 8+ years of experience in DevOps/SRE/Cloud Engineering roles. - Strong experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and CI/CD pipelines. - Hands-on expertise in cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure) and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/CloudFormation). - Solid background in Linux systems, networking, and messaging protocols (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ, MQTT, WebSockets, or similar). - Experience with monitoring, logging, and observability stacks. - Knowledge of scripting/programming (Python, Bash, Go, etc.). If you join us, you will have the opportunity to build and scale a mission-critical messaging platform used globally. You will work with a passionate, talented team driving innovation in cloud-native communication while enjoying a competitive salary.,