Senior Devops Engineer (Devops Engineer-3)

Role & responsibilities

• Design and develop solutions for deploying highly secure, highly available, performant, and scalable services in elastically provisioned environments
• Design and maintain persistent storage solutions in our infrastructure
• Own all operational aspects of running persistent storage including automation, monitoring, and alerting, reliability, and performance
• Have a direct impact on running a business by thinking about innovative solutions to operational problems
• Drive solutions and communication for production-impacting incidents
• Running technical projects and being responsible for project-level deliveries
• Partner well with engineering and business teams across continents

Mandatory skills-

• Bachelors or advanced degree in Computer Science or a closely related field

• 7+ years of professional experience in DevOps, with at least 1/2 years in Linux / Unix

• Very strong in core CS concepts around operating systems, networks, and systems architecture including web services

• Strong scripting experience in Python and Bash

• Deep experience administering, running, and deploying AWS-based services

• Strong knowledge of PostgreSQL, redis, Elasticache (OpenSearch), Neptune internals, performance tuning, query optimization, and indexing strategies

• Experience with Aurora, redis, Elasticache, Neptune architecture, including replication, failover, and backup/restore mechanisms

• Familiarity with AWS services commonly used with above services (e.g., RDS, CloudWatch, IAM, VPC, Lambda)

• Experience with high availability and disaster recovery solutions like Aurora, OpenSearch, Neptune, Redis

• Experience with database migration tools like AWS DMS

  , pg_dump, or logical replication.
• Solid

  experience with Terraform, Packer, and Docker

  or their equivalents
• Knowledge o

  f security protocols and certificate infrastructure.

• Strong debugging, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills
• Broad experience with cloud-hosted applications including virtualization platforms, relational and non-relational data stores, reverse proxies, and orchestration platforms
• Curiosity, continuous learning, and drive to continually raise the bar
• Strong partnering and communication skills

Great to have Experience and Qualifications

• Past experience as a senior developer or application architect is strongly preferred.

• Experience working with, and preferably designing, a system compliant to any security framework (PCI DSS, ISO 27000, HIPPA, SOC 2, ...

  )

Preferred candidate profile

preferred from product based companies, AI based startups, product startups.