Senior DevOps Engineer

Description

Aligerous is on the lookout for a talented Senior DevOps Engineer to join our Operations team in Noida. This full-time, on-site position provides an excellent opportunity to work in a dynamic environment within the Information Technology industry, where your contributions will significantly impact our operational efficiency and innovation.

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will be at the forefront of our continuous integration and delivery efforts, ensuring that our systems run smoothly and efficiently. You will collaborate closely with development teams to implement best practices in DevOps and play a crucial role in enhancing our cloud infrastructure, automating processes, and fostering a culture of collaboration and quality assurance.

We offer a competitive salary range of ₹2,200,000 - ₹2,500,000 annually, along with a comprehensive benefits package and opportunities for professional development.

Mandatory Criteria (Can't be neglected during screening) :

• 5+ years of DevOps/SRE experience in cloud-native, product-based companies (B2C scale preferred)

• Strong hands-on AWS expertise across core and advanced services (EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, S3, CloudFront, RDS, VPC, IAM, ELB/ALB, Route53)

• Proven experience designing high-availability, fault-tolerant cloud architectures for large-scale traffic

• Strong experience building & maintaining CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins mandatory; GitHub Actions/GitLab CI a plus)

• Prior experience running production-grade microservices deployments and automated rollout strategies (Blue/Green, Canary)

• Hands-on experience with monitoring & observability tools (Grafana, Prometheus, ELK, CloudWatch, New Relic, etc.)

• Solid hands-on experience with MongoDB in production, including performance tuning, indexing & replication

• Strong scripting skills (Bash, Shell, Python) for automation

• Hands-on experience with IaC (Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible)

• Deep understanding of networking fundamentals (VPC, subnets, routing, NAT, security groups)

• Strong experience in incident management, root cause analysis & production firefighting

Role Overview

We Are seeking an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to design, build, and optimize cloud infrastructure on AWS, automate CI/CD pipelines, implement monitoring and security frameworks, and proactively identify scalability challenges. This role requires someone who has hands-on experience running infrastructure at B2C product scale, ideally in media/OTT or high-traffic applications.

Key Responsibilities

1. Cloud Infrastructure — AWS (Primary Focus)

• Architect, deploy, and manage scalable infrastructure using AWS services such as EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, S3, CloudFront, RDS, ELB/ALB, VPC, IAM, Route53, etc.
• Optimize cloud cost, resource utilization, and performance across environments.
• Design high-availability, fault-tolerant systems for streaming workloads.

2. CI/CD Automation

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI.
• Automate deployments for microservices, mobile apps, and backend APIs.
• Implement blue/green and canary deployments for seamless production rollouts.

3. Observability & Monitoring

• Implement logging, metrics, and alerting using tools like Grafana, Prometheus, ELK, CloudWatch, New Relic, etc.
• Perform proactive performance analysis to minimize downtime and bottlenecks.
• Set up dashboards for real-time visibility into system health and user traffic spikes.

4. Security, Compliance & Risk Highlighting

• Conduct frequent risk assessments and identify vulnerabilities in:

• Implement security best practices including VPC isolation, WAF rules, firewall policies, and SSL/TLS management.

5. Scalability & Reliability Engineering

• Analyze traffic patterns for OTT-specific load variations (weekends, new releases, peak hours).
• Identify scalability gaps and propose solutions across:
  o Microservices o Caching layers o CDN distribution (CloudFront) o Database workloads
• Perform capacity planning and load testing to ensure readiness for 10x traffic growth.

6. Database & Storage Support

• Administer and optimize MongoDB for high-read/low-latency use cases.
• Design backup, recovery, and data replication strategies.
• Work closely with backend teams to tune query performance and indexing.

7. Automation & Infrastructure as Code

• Implement IaC using Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible.
• Automate repetitive infrastructure tasks to ensure consistency across environments.

Required Skills & Experience

Technical Must-Haves

• 5+ years of DevOps/SRE experience in cloud-native, product-based companies.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS (core and advanced services).
• Expertise in Jenkins CI/CD pipelines.
• Solid background working with MongoDB in production environments.
• Good understanding of networking: VPCs, subnets, security groups, NAT, routing.
• Strong scripting experience (Bash, Python, Shell).
• Experience handling risk identification, root cause analysis, and incident management.

Nice to Have

• Experience with OTT, video streaming, media, or any content-heavy product environments.
• Familiarity with containers (Docker), orchestration (Kubernetes/EKS), and service mesh.
• Understanding of CDN, caching, and streaming pipelines.

Personality & Mindset

• Strong sense of ownership and urgency—DevOps is mission critical at OTT scale.
• Proactive problem solver with ability to think about long-term scalability.
• Comfortable working with cross-functional engineering teams.