Senior DevOps Engineer – Infrastructure & Platform Specialist

Senior DevOps Engineer Infrastructure & Platform Specialist

Product and Engineering

Remote / Kolkata, WB (On-site)

A Senior DevOps Engineer is responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining the operational aspects of cloud infrastructure. Their goal is to ensure high availability, scalability, performance, and security of cloud-based systems.

• Design and maintain scalable, reliable, and secure cloud infrastructure. Address integration challenges, data consistency.
• Choose appropriate cloud services (e.g., compute, storage, networking) based on business needs.
• Define architectural best practices and patterns (e.g., microservices, serverless, containerization).
• Ensure version control and repeatable deployments of infrastructure.
• Automate cloud operations tasks (e.g., deployments, patching, backups).
• Implement CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, etc.
• Design and implement cloud monitoring and alerting systems (e.g., CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, Prometheus, Datadog, ManageEngine).
• Optimize performance, resource utilization, and cost across environments.
• Capacity planning of resources Resource planning and deployment (HW, SW, Capex). Financial forecasting. Tracking and Management of allotted budget.
• Cost optimization with proper architecture and open-source technologies.
• Ensure cloud systems follow security best practices (e.g., encryption, IAM, zero-trust principles, VAPT).
• Implement compliance controls (e.g., HIPAA, GDPR, ISO 27001).
• Conduct regular security audits and assessments.
• Build systems for high availability, failover, disaster recovery, and business continuity.
• Participate in incident response and post-mortems.
• Implement and manage Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and Service Level Indicators (SLIs).
• Work closely with development, security, and IT teams to align cloud operations with business goals.
• Define governance standards for cloud usage, billing, and resource tagging.
• Provide guidance and mentorship to DevOps and engineering teams.
• Keep updating infrastructure/deployment documents.
• Interacting with prospective customers in pre-sales meetings to showcase architecture and security layer of the product and answering questions.

• VM provisioning and infrastructure ops on AWS, GCP, or Azure. Experience with API gateways (Kong, AWS API Gateway, NGINX).
• Experience managing MySQL and MongoDB on self-hosted infrastructure.
• Operational expertise with Elasticsearch or Solr.
• Proficient with Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar message brokers.
• Hands-on experience with Airflow, Temporal, or other workflow orchestration tools.
• Familiarity with Apache Spark, Flink, Confluent/Debezium or similar streaming frameworks.
• Strong skills in Docker, Kubernetes, and deployment automation.
• Experience writing IaC with Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation.
• Building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitLab, GitHub Actions, Jenkins).
• Experience with monitoring/logging stacks like Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or Datadog.
• Sound knowledge of networking fundamentals (routing, DNS, VPN, TLS/SSL, firewalls).
• Experience designing and managing HA/DR/BCP infrastructure.

• Prior involvement in SOC 2 / ISO 27001 audits or documentation.
• Hands-on with VAPT processes especially working directly with clients or security partners.
• Scripting in Go, in addition to Bash/Python.
• Exposure to service mesh tools like Istio or Linkerd.

7+ years of experience