Senior DevOps Engineer

Key Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end infrastructure automation and platform reliability initiatives in high-performance environments.
• Design, implement, and manage CI/CD pipelines, IaC frameworks, and container orchestration systems.
• Apply SRE principles to ensure platform resilience, high availability, and continuous improvement.
• Develop and implement strategies for monitoring, observability, and incident response using open-source tools.
• Mentor and guide a small engineering team, fostering collaboration and technical excellence.
• Ensure systems adhere to security, compliance, scalability, and cost optimization best practices.
• Collaborate across product, development, and DevOps teams to define architectural standards and promote automation-first practices.

Required Skills

• Proven hands-on expertise with IaC, cloud platforms, CI/CD pipelines, containerization, orchestration, and SRE principles.
• Strong experience with IaC tools such as Ansible, Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi.
• Deep understanding of resource management frameworks like Kubernetes, Apache Mesos, or Yarn.
• Proficient in Linux administration, with experience in monitoring, logging, and observability using Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK.
• Programming proficiency in Python, Java, or Golang, with strong architectural and system design skills focused on scalability and resilience.
• Practical knowledge of multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud architectures.

Preferred Skills

• Experience in network and infrastructure operations engineering.
• Understanding of network protocols (TCP/IP, UDP, HTTP/HTTPS, DNS, BGP, OSPF, VXLAN, IPSec, etc.).
• Familiarity with network security and automation, including zero-trust frameworks, TLS/SSL, and modern automation protocols such as gNMI/gRPC and RESTCONF.
• Experience with Agile methodologies (Scrum/Kanban) and SRE performance metrics (MTTR, SLO, SLI, deployment frequency).
• Strong Python scripting expertise for network automation (API integrations, structured data, parsing, error handling, packaging).
• Proven hands-on experience with Terraform and Ansible in production environments.
• Practical experience with NETCONF and YANG for model-driven network automation.
• Strong expertise in Jinja templating for configuration generation and standardization.

Soft Skills

• Strong leadership and mentoring abilities.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical thinking.
• Effective communicator across technical and non-technical teams.
• Ability to thrive in fast-paced, evolving technology environments.
• Collaborative and automation-driven mindset.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.
• 5–10 years of experience in Infrastructure, DevOps, or SRE roles within product-focused organizations.
• Hands-on experience in cloud-native platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).

Preferred Certifications

• DevOps or SRE Certification.
• Kubernetes Certification (CKA / CKAD).
• Network or Security Certifications (CCNA, CompTIA, or equivalent).