Senior Devops Engineer

About the Role
We are looking for a highly skilled Senior DevOps Engineer who can own, design, and scale the DevOps architecture for our complex, distributed, microservices-based product. You will be responsible for both hands-on implementation and strategic infrastructure decisions, ensuring our platform’s reliability, scalability, and security. The ideal candidate should have deep experience in cloud-native architecture, automation, CI/CD, container orchestration, and infrastructure-as-code. About Aries

You will be working on our core products:

• Aries.com – the first open-source brokerage for active traders.

• Finance.dev – developer infrastructure for trading products.

Key Responsibilities
Infrastructure & Cloud

• Design, manage, and scale infrastructure across AWS using Terraform.

• Work extensively with AWS services such as Cognito, SNS, SQS, EC2, ECS/EKS, RDS, Lambda, CloudWatch, etc.

• Design secure and highly available systems using VPC, subnets, load balancers, and networking best practices.

Containerization & Orchestration

• Manage and optimize Docker-based microservices.

• Deploy, monitor, and scale workloads in Kubernetes (EKS preferred).

• Implement and maintain service mesh, ingress, and reverse proxies (Traefik, Nginx, etc.).

• Handle Pod Identity, RBAC, and multi-environment deployments.

CI/CD & Automation

• Build and maintain end-to-end CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Workflows, and ArgoCD.

• Automate environment provisioning, testing, and deployment for multiple services.

• Define and enforce GitOps principles and environment promotion strategies.

Monitoring, Reliability & Security

• Set up observability with tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, ELK stack, or Datadog.

• Define SLOs, SLIs, and alerting strategies for proactive monitoring.

• Ensure infrastructure and data security, implement IAM best practices, secrets management, and compliance policies.

• Establish disaster recovery and backup strategies.

Databases & Messaging Systems

• Manage and optimize Databases like PostgreSQL, Redis, DragonflyDB, and caching layers.

• Handle Kafka clusters and messaging systems to support high-throughput event-driven architectures.

Team Leadership & Strategy

• Mentor junior Devops team members.

• Collaborate closely with backend, frontend, and system teams.

• Handle infrastructure cost optimization, reliability improvements, and security hardening.

• Define DevOps best practices, documentation, and runbooks.

Required Skills & ExperienceCore Technical Expertise

• 4–8+ years of DevOps/SRE experience with complex distributed systems.Strong experience with:

• AWS Cloud Infrastructure

• Terraform / Infrastructure-as-Code

• Kubernetes (EKS preferred)

• Docker, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD

• Kafka, PostgreSQL, Redis/DragonflyDB

• Traefik, Pod Identity, Cloudflare

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  Deep understanding of microservices networking, observability, and scaling.

• Proficient in at least one scripting or backend language (Bash, Python, or Go preferred).

Soft Skills

• Strong leadership, communication, and collaboration abilities.

• Proven experience owning DevOps architecture in fast-paced startups or large-scale systems.

• Excellent problem-solving and incident response skills.

• Passion for automation, reliability, and continuous improvement.

  
  Nice to haves

  • Interest in trading, fintech, or financial infrastructure.

  • Experience with low-latency, high-throughput systems.

  • Exposure to open-source contributions or impactful side projects.

  Who you are

  • You move with urgency, take initiative, and do what it takes to win.

  • You know the difference between excellent and mediocre engineering.

  • You’re highly opinionated yet open to stronger logic and collaboration.

  • You see elegant solutions in code and systems design.

  • You value precision, clarity, and accountability.

  • You thrive in startups and want to help entrepreneurs grow and thrive.

  Benefits overview

  • Competitive base salary depending on experience + equity package.

  • Unlimited PTO with a guaranteed two-week minimum.

  • Internet & equipment reimbursement.

  • Hybrid company model, hiring everywhere.

  • Latest 14” or 16” MacBook Pro.

Compensation Range: ₹20L - ₹35L