Senior DevOps Engineer

Senior DevOps Engineer Career Opportunity
As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will be at the forefront of managing and enhancing our clients Cloud Infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines. You will have a direct impact on the performance and reliability of their applications by optimizing the way they build, deploy, and manage them. The person in this role will work closely with DevOps team members based in various locations around the globe and form part of a follow-the-sun support escalation model for infrastructure issues.

Senior DevOps Engineer Role and Responsibilities

• Cloud Infrastructure Management: Lead the design, implementation, and maintenance of scalable, highly available, and cost-efficient cloud infrastructure on AWS.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Champion the use of CloudFormation, Terraform and CDK to provision and manage infrastructure resources in a secure, repeatable, and automated manner.
• Containerization & Orchestration: Oversee the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications, ensuring optimal performance and fault tolerance.
• CI/CD Pipeline Development: Own and continuously enhance the CI/CD pipeline, leveraging tools like Jenkins, GitHub Actions, to automate build, test, and deployment workflows.
• Version Control & Collaboration: Manage source code and collaborate efficiently using Git, ensuring best practices and streamlined workflows across teams.
• Scripting & Automation: Develop advanced automation scripts in Python, Groovy, Shell, and JavaScript to improve system efficiency, eliminate manual tasks, and automate complex workflows.
• Monitoring & Logging: Design and implement robust monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK) to ensure system health and performance, proactively identifying and resolving issues.
• Collaboration: Collaborate with R&D teams (developers, architects, and product managers) to ensure smooth integration and continuous delivery of new features and updates.
• Security: Lead the implementation of security best practices, ensuring compliance with internal and external standards, and driving improvements in infrastructure and application security.

Senior DevOps Engineer Required Skill and Experience

• Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or similar.
• 5 years of hands-on experience in DevOps or a related field, with a proven track record in managing cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines at scale.
• In-depth experience with AWS services and a strong understanding of cloud security, cost management, and best practices.
• Strong experience with as Infrastructure-as Code (IaC) tools including CloudFormation and Terraform for provisioning and managing infrastructure. AWS CDK experience is a plus.
• Expertise in containerization technologies such as Docker and orchestration platforms like EKS/ECS.
• Advanced hands-on experience with Jenkins, GitHub Actions, with a deep understanding of pipeline design, optimization, and troubleshooting.
• Advanced proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, Groovy, Shell, and JavaScript, with a focus on automating infrastructure management and application deployment.

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