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Job Description - DevOps Engineer

Position Overview

We are seeking a DevOps Engineer to strengthen our software delivery and infrastructure operations capability. This role is responsible for designing implementing and maintaining scalable infrastructure automation frameworks and CI/CD pipelines that enable engineering teams to deliver secure and reliable software at speed.

The ideal candidate operates comfortably at the intersection of software engineering cloud infrastructure and operational reliability with a strong focus on automation observability and continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities

Infrastructure & Platform Engineering

• Design deploy and maintain cloud-native infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices.
• Manage and optimize environments across development staging and production.
• Implement high availability scalability and fault tolerance in platform architecture.
• Support containerized workloads using Docker and Kubernetes.

CI/CD & Automation

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate build testing and deployment workflows.
• Integrate security testing and compliance controls into the pipeline (DevSecOps practices).
• Reduce manual operational work through automation and scripting.

Monitoring & Reliability

• Implement monitoring alerting and observability solutions.
• Maintain platform reliability through incident response root cause analysis and continuous improvement.
• Define and track SLOs SLIs and operational KPIs.

Collaboration & Engineering Enablement

• Work closely with development teams to optimize deployment pipelines and runtime environments.
• Support developers in adopting cloud-native and containerization best practices.
• Contribute to internal documentation and knowledge sharing.

Required Qualifications

Education

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Software Engineering or related field or equivalent practical experience.

Experience

• 3 to 6 years experience in DevOps Site Reliability Engineering or Infrastructure Engineering.

Technical Skills

Strong experience with several of the following:

Cloud Platforms

• Azure and AWS

Infrastructure as Code

• Terraform

Containers & Orchestration

• Docker
• Kubernetes
• Experience operating production Kubernetes clusters

CI/CD Platforms

• Jenkins
• Argo CD
• Azure DevOps

Configuration Management

• Ansible

Monitoring & Observability

• Prometheus
• Grafana
• ELK / OpenSearch
• Datadog or similar tools

Scripting & Development

• Python
• Bash

Version Control

• Git and Git-based workflows

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience implementing DevSecOps pipelines
• Knowledge of zero-trust security models

Soft Skills

• Strong analytical and problem-solving capability
• Clear communication across engineering and operations teams
• Ability to operate in high-availability production environments
• Continuous learning mindset

Success Metrics

Performance in this role will typically be measured by:

• Reduced infrastructure incidents and downtime
• Increased automation coverage
• Improved developer productivity and release velocity

Typical Tech Stack

• Cloud: AWS / Azure
• Containers: Docker Kubernetes
• IaC: Terraform
• CI/CD: Jenkins Argo CD
• Monitoring: Prometheus Grafana
• Logging: ELK Stack and Loki
• Languages: Python Bash