Job Title : Senior DevOps Engineer - Infrastructure & Platform Specialist
Department : Product and EngineeringLocation : Remote/Kolkata, WB (On-site)
Job Summary
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.
Key Responsibilities
- 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, manage engine).
- 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.
Key Skills & Qualifications
Technical Skills :
- 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/devezium 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.
Bonus Skills
- 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.
Experience
- Must have 7+ years of experience as DevOps Engineer
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