Tazapay - Staff DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities (Not exhaustive) :

• Make architectural tradeoffs, design and deliver highly scalable, reliable, secure and fault tolerant cloud infrastructure.

• Be a role model for DevOps and platform engineers, mentor engineers.

• Demonstrate technical leadership and create impact across teams.

• Lead AI strategy and adoption for productivity, infrastructure automation and operational efficiency.

• Drive infrastructure and deployment practices while being secure and compliant (PCI-DSS, SOC2 and others).

• Participate in infrastructure, architecture and security design reviews to maintain our high engineering standards.

• Partner with engineering and product management teams to define and execute the platform roadmap.

• Translate business and engineering requirements into scalable and extensible infrastructure design.

• Proactively manage stakeholder communication related to deliverables, risks, changes and dependencies.

• Coordinate with cross functional teams (Backend, Frontend, Data, Security, QA etc.) on planning and execution.

• Continuously improve platform reliability, developer experience, deployment velocity and operational excellence.

• Engage in capacity and demand planning, system performance analysis, tuning and cost optimization.

• Lead production outages, incident response, post-mortems and drive SRE practices across the engineering organisation.

The Ideal Candidate : Education :

• Degree in Computer Science or equivalent (B.E/B.Tech or higher) with 10+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, Platform or Cloud Engineering roles for large distributed systems in reputed organizations.

Requirements : Must have :

• Hands-on experience in designing, building and operating cloud infrastructure for large scale production systems on AWS.

• Deep knowledge of Linux as a production environment.

• Strong knowledge of distributed systems, networking, systems internals and asynchronous architectures.

• Expert in at least 1 of the following languages for automation and tooling : go, python, shell scripting.

• Extensive experience with AWS services (ECS, EC2, VPC, IAM, RDS, Kinesis, Secrets Manager, SSM, WAF and more).

• Infrastructure as Code expertise with Terraform, CDK or CloudFormation.

• Strong experience with CI/CD tooling such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, and GitOps tools.

• Hands-on experience with observability stacks - Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing and log aggregation.