Senior DevOps Engineer - AWS & Kubernetes

Senior DevOps Engineer - AWS & KubernetesJob Summary:

We are looking for an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to own the reliability, scalability, security, and automation of production platforms running on AWS and Kubernetes.

The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on experience in AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker, Jenkins, GitOps, Linux, Prometheus, and Grafana, along with proven experience supporting production environments and participating in incident response/on-call rotations.

This is a hands-on engineering role with significant ownership of cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, observability, security, and platform reliability.

Key Responsibilities:Cloud Infrastructure & Platform Operations:

• Own the reliability and availability of production workloads running on AWS and Kubernetes.

• Operate and troubleshoot Kubernetes clusters in production environments.

• Manage and maintain Linux servers, including Amazon Linux and Rocky Linux.

• Perform incident triage, troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and remediation.

• Monitor cloud capacity, performance, and cost optimization.

• Work closely with engineering teams to improve platform scalability and reliability.

CI/CD & Infrastructure as Code :

• Design, maintain, and improve end-to-end CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins.

• Drive the transition toward GitOps-based deployment and automation.

• Work with FluxCD and other GitOps technologies.

• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.

• Manage Kubernetes configurations using Kustomize.

• Improve developer experience by enabling reliable and automated deployment processes.

Monitoring & Observability :

• Maintain and enhance monitoring and observability using Prometheus and Grafana.

• Build dashboards, alerts, metrics, and SLOs.

• Identify performance and reliability issues proactively.

• Establish effective monitoring and alerting for production services.

Incident Management & Reliability :

• Participate in a scheduled on-call rotation.

• Lead production incident response and service restoration.

• Perform RCA (Root Cause Analysis) and drive corrective actions.

• Conduct blameless post-mortems and ensure follow-up actions are completed.

• Develop and maintain operational runbooks and documentation.