DevOps & Application Engineer

Role Mission:

The DevOps & Application Engineer will design automate and optimize the build-and-release ecosystem while ensuring the reliability scalability and security of StarHubs cloud-native platforms. They will manage Kubernetes operations infrastructure provisioning CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows while contributing production-grade application code across multiple languages. This role accelerates engineering velocity by driving DevOps best practices strengthening observability and enabling consistent high-quality deployments across the IS Division.

Key Responsibilities

Define and enforce DevOps policies and best practices with a strong focus on trunk-based development (short-lived feature branches continuous integration gates automated code-quality checks).
Design develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins using Pipeline-as-Code (shared libraries scripted & declarative).
Write and manage build scripts and infrastructure tooling (Shell Python Groovy) to automate the software-delivery lifecycle.
Administer multi-cluster Kubernetes environments (EKS & OCP) including Helm chart development RBAC network policies and autoscaling.
Implement GitOps workflows (Argo CD or Flux) to promote reproducible auditable deployments.
Provision and manage AWS resources (EKS RDS/PostgreSQL EC2 S3 IAM).
Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or CloudFormation).
Contribute application code in Python Go or TypeScript participating in design reviews and performance profiling.
Establish observability with Splunk Prometheus Grafana CloudWatch and incident-response workflows (PagerDuty).
Author technical documentation and provide knowledge transfer to internal teams.

Maintain Internal Developer Portal - Backstage

Requirements

Bachelors degree in Computer Science Software Engineering or related field (Masters a plus).
4 years of combined experience in DevOps SRE or Software Engineering.
Expertise with containerized environments Kubernetes internals and Helm.
Hands-on production experience with Jenkins and CI/CD best practices.
Proficiency in at least one programming language (Python Go or JavaScript/TypeScript).
Strong SQL skills and proven PostgreSQL administration experience.
Solid understanding of AWS core services IAM security and cost-optimization practices.
Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform CloudFormation).
Comfortable with Linux internals networking fundamentals and shell scripting.
Agile mindset with experience working in Scrum teams.
Excellent communication documentation and collaboration skills.

Preferred Certifications

Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)
AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Associate or Professional)