Senior DevOps Engineer

Description

Aligerous is on the lookout for a talented Senior DevOps Engineer to join our Operations team in Noida. This full-time on-site position provides an excellent opportunity to work in a dynamic environment within the Information Technology industry where your contributions will significantly impact our operational efficiency and innovation.

As a Senior DevOps Engineer you will be at the forefront of our continuous integration and delivery efforts ensuring that our systems run smoothly and efficiently. You will collaborate closely with development teams to implement best practices in DevOps and play a crucial role in enhancing our cloud infrastructure automating processes and fostering a culture of collaboration and quality assurance.

We offer a competitive salary range of-annually along with a comprehensive benefits package and opportunities for professional development.

Mandatory Criteria (Cant be neglected during screening) :

• 5 years of DevOps/SRE experience in cloud-native product-based companies (B2C scale preferred)

• Strong hands-on AWS expertise across core and advanced services (EC2 ECS/EKS Lambda S3 CloudFront RDS VPC IAM ELB/ALB Route53)

• Proven experience designing high-availability fault-tolerant cloud architectures for large-scale traffic

• Strong experience building & maintaining CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins mandatory; GitHub Actions/GitLab CI a plus)

• Prior experience running production-grade microservices deployments and automated rollout strategies (Blue/Green Canary)

• Hands-on experience with monitoring & observability tools (Grafana Prometheus ELK CloudWatch New Relic etc.)

• Solid hands-on experience with MongoDB in production including performance tuning indexing & replication

• Strong scripting skills (Bash Shell Python) for automation

• Hands-on experience with IaC (Terraform CloudFormation or Ansible)

• Deep understanding of networking fundamentals (VPC subnets routing NAT security groups)

• Strong experience in incident management root cause analysis & production firefighting

Role Overview

We Are seeking an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to design build and optimize cloud infrastructure on AWS automate CI/CD pipelines implement monitoring and security frameworks and proactively identify scalability challenges. This role requires someone who has hands-on experience running infrastructure at B2C product scale ideally in media/OTT or high-traffic applications.

Key Responsibilities

1. Cloud Infrastructure AWS (Primary Focus)

• Architect deploy and manage scalable infrastructure using AWS services such as EC2 ECS/EKS Lambda S3 CloudFront RDS ELB/ALB VPC IAM Route53 etc.
• Optimize cloud cost resource utilization and performance across environments.
• Design high-availability fault-tolerant systems for streaming workloads.

2. CI/CD Automation

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins GitHub Actions or GitLab CI.
• Automate deployments for microservices mobile apps and backend APIs.
• Implement blue/green and canary deployments for seamless production rollouts.

3. Observability & Monitoring

• Implement logging metrics and alerting using tools like Grafana Prometheus ELK CloudWatch New Relic etc.
• Perform proactive performance analysis to minimize downtime and bottlenecks.
• Set up dashboards for real-time visibility into system health and user traffic spikes.

4. Security Compliance & Risk Highlighting

Conduct frequent risk assessments and identify vulnerabilities in:
o Cloud architecture
o Access policies (IAM)
o Secrets & key management
o Data flows & network exposure

Implement security best practices including VPC isolation WAF rules firewall policies and SSL/TLS management.

5. Scalability & Reliability Engineering

• Analyze traffic patterns for OTT-specific load variations (weekends new releases peak hours).
• Identify scalability gaps and propose solutions across:
  o Microservices
  o Caching layers
  o CDN distribution (CloudFront)
  o Database workloads
• Perform capacity planning and load testing to ensure readiness for 10x traffic growth.

6. Database & Storage Support

• Administer and optimize MongoDB for high-read/low-latency use cases.
• Design backup recovery and data replication strategies.
• Work closely with backend teams to tune query performance and indexing.

7. Automation & Infrastructure as Code

• Implement IaC using Terraform CloudFormation or Ansible.
• Automate repetitive infrastructure tasks to ensure consistency across environments.

Required Skills & Experience

Technical Must-Haves

• 5 years of DevOps/SRE experience in cloud-native product-based companies.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS (core and advanced services).
• Expertise in Jenkins CI/CD pipelines.
• Solid background working with MongoDB in production environments.
• Good understanding of networking: VPCs subnets security groups NAT routing.
• Strong scripting experience (Bash Python Shell).
• Experience handling risk identification root cause analysis and incident management.

Nice to Have

• Experience with OTT video streaming media or any content-heavy product environments.
• Familiarity with containers (Docker) orchestration (Kubernetes/EKS) and service mesh.
• Understanding of CDN caching and streaming pipelines.

Personality & Mindset

• Strong sense of ownership and urgencyDevOps is mission critical at OTT scale.
• Proactive problem solver with ability to think about long-term scalability.
• Comfortable working with cross-functional engineering teams.