DevOps Engineer

The Role:

The DevOps Engineer will design and maintain infrastructure, manage cloud migrations, ensure security compliance, and improve CI/CD processes while promoting DevOps best practices

Responsibilities:

• Participate in the design, implementation, and maintenance of our infrastructure, ensuring reliability, scalability, and security.
• Support, monitor, and enhance the live infrastructure and platform solutions, ensuring high availability and performance.
• Participate in the migration of infrastructure from On-prem to GCP/AWS or AWS to Google Cloud Platform (GCP), ensuring a smooth transition and leveraging GCP services effectively.
• Maintain robust CI/CD and IAC pipelines, collaborating closely with development teams to streamline deployment processes.
• Maintain and enhance our security posture, ensuring compliance with industry standards and frameworks (e.g., SOC-2, ISO 27001).
• Diagnose and resolve infrastructure outages and incidents, ensuring timely resolution and root cause analysis.
• Ensure comprehensive documentation of infrastructure, systems, and processes to support onboarding, troubleshooting, and scalability.
• Promote and implement DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) best practices across the organisation.
• Participate in a rotational 24/7 on-call schedule and perform root cause analysis of incidents in the production environment.

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or systems engineering roles supporting high-volume, mission-critical applications in production environments
• Strong Linux systems administration experience, including firewalls and hardening
• Experience in supporting containerized workloads - Docker, EKS, GKE, Kubernetes
• Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools, particularly Terraform.
• Familiarity with configuration management (Ansible) and IT automation tools.
• Experience with network design, administration, and troubleshooting.
• Knowledge of programming languages (e.g., JavaScript, Node.js, PHP, Python)
• Good scripting skills (shell, PowerShell, Python)
• Experience with version control systems, ideally Git
• Web server configuration (Apache, Nginx).
• Database management (MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB), including high availability and backup solutions.
• Hands-on experience managing cloud providers, with significant experience in AWS and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Familiarity with GCP services such as Compute Engine, Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Cloud Storage, BigQuery, Cloud Operations, and IAM.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and tools such as Jenkins, Harness, Bitbucket, Git, jFrog
• Hands-on experience with observability stacks: Prometheus, ELK, Splunk, CloudWatch, StackDriver, and Grafana.
• Familiarity with Agile and ITSM processes (incident/change/problem/configuration management), preferably using BMC Remedy.
• Strong understanding of DevOps and SRE principles.

Preferred:

• AWS/GCP Certifications or relevant Site Reliability/Cloud Solution Architect certifications.
• Jenkins/Harness Certifications
• Kubernetes Certifications

Soft Skills:

• Strong written and verbal communication skills for effective collaboration with global engineering and operations teams.
• High ownership mindset with the ability to work independently and proactively improve system reliability.
• Self-motivated, Organized, analytical, and driven by continuous improvement
• Strong understanding and experience operating in an agile development environment.