DevOps / Infrastructure Engineering Lead

As a skilled DevOps & Infrastructure Engineering Lead, you will be responsible for designing, scaling, and securing cloud-native infrastructure using AWS, Kubernetes (EKS), Terraform, and modern observability tools. Your role will involve hands-on experience and leadership in building resilient, secure, and automated systems to support high-scale production workloads. **Key Responsibilities:** - **Infrastructure & Platform Engineering** - Architect and manage highly available Kubernetes clusters using AWS EKS with optimized auto-scaling and secure networking. - Utilize Docker for containerization and implement secure CI/CD workflows with tools like Jenkins or Devtron. - Define and manage infrastructure using Terraform, maintaining reusable and version-controlled modules. - Build, monitor, and optimize core AWS services such as ALB/NLB, Security Groups, IAM (Roles & Policies), VPC, Route53, KMS, SSM, Patch Manager, and more. - Ensure infrastructure compliance with high availability, cost-efficiency, and security standards across environments. - **Security, Governance & Compliance** - Enforce CIS Benchmarking standards for Kubernetes, EC2, IAM, and other AWS resources. - Implement container image hardening practices and configure cloud-native security controls to enforce access control and encryption policies. - Collaborate with InfoSec to manage vulnerability scans, incident playbooks, VAPT responses, and compliance posture reporting. - **Observability & Monitoring** - Drive full-stack observability using tools like DataDog, CloudWatch, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry (OTEL) based open-source pipelines. - Build monitoring solutions to track infrastructure health, performance, latency, and alerts with actionable dashboards. - Define and maintain SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and automated alert escalation processes. - **Data Platform Management** - Provision and manage highly available data stores including MongoDB, MySQL/Aurora, Redis, DocumentDB, ClickHouse. - Design and implement backup policies, patching processes, disaster recovery strategies, and scaling strategies for critical data systems. - **Tooling & Automation** - Own end-to-end CI/CD workflows and automate patching, configuration drift detection, resource tagging, and access lifecycle workflows. - Create internal tooling and scripts to manage infrastructure, cost audits, access reviews, and deployment flows. - **Team Leadership** - Lead and mentor a team of DevOps engineers, driving technical architecture decisions and operational improvements. - Conduct RCA for outages/incidents and lead cross-functional response enhancements. **Required Skills:** - 6+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or Infrastructure Engineering roles, with 2+ years in a leadership capacity. - Strong expertise in AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes (EKS), Docker, and Linux internals. - Deep understanding of cloud security, IAM practices, encryption, CIS benchmarks, and image hardening. - Experience with observability tools like DataDog, Grafana, CloudWatch, and OTEL. - Proven experience managing relational and NoSQL databases. - Experience implementing and managing infrastructure under compliance standards. **Preferred Qualifications:** - Certifications in AWS DevOps Professional, AWS Solutions Architect, HashiCorp Terraform Associate. - Experience with automated compliance audits, security event correlation, and incident management tools. - Familiarity with tools like Cloudflare, Devtron, Prometheus, and FluentBit. If you are passionate about platform reliability, automation at scale, and cloud-native security, this role offers you the opportunity to lead platform modernization and observability efforts in a rapidly scaling organization. Join a culture that values automation, security, and system design excellence.,