DevOps Engineer
Summary
Senior DevOps Engineer at Cognativ (India, hybrid) who independently runs cloud infrastructure and DevOps across multiple projects: building CI/CD pipelines, provisioning AWS/Azure with Terraform and Ansible, managing Docker/Kubernetes, plus observability, disaster recovery, and SOC 2 compliance support.
Responsibilities
- Independently manage DevOps requirements and infrastructure across multiple projects.
- Design, build, maintain, and troubleshoot CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and other relevant tools.
- Provision, manage, and optimize AWS and Azure cloud infrastructure using Terraform and Ansible.
- Manage Docker containers and Kubernetes workloads, including deployments, scaling, reliability, and troubleshooting.
- Implement and maintain centralized logging, monitoring, metrics, distributed tracing, dashboards, and alerting.
- Troubleshoot production incidents, perform root cause analysis, and implement preventive measures.
- Design, implement, and validate disaster recovery strategies, including backup, restoration, and failover procedures.
- Support SOC 2 compliance activities, including security controls, access reviews, audit logging, and evidence collection.
- Apply DevSecOps practices, strengthen infrastructure security, and manage secrets securely.
- Monitor infrastructure performance, availability, scalability, and costs, identifying opportunities for optimization.
- Collaborate with engineering teams and stakeholders to understand project requirements and deliver reliable solutions.
- Maintain technical documentation, deployment procedures, infrastructure configurations, and operational runbooks.
- Follow best practices for cloud security, automation, scalability, resilience, and production reliability.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in DevOps, Cloud Infrastructure, or Site Reliability Engineering.
- Strong hands-on experience with AWS services, including EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, RDS, CloudFront, Route 53, ECS, EKS, and CloudWatch.
- Experience with Microsoft Azure services, including Azure VMs, VNets, AKS, Storage, and Azure Monitor.
- Mandatory hands-on experience building, maintaining, and troubleshooting production CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions.
- Strong experience with Terraform, including infrastructure provisioning, reusable modules, remote state, and multi-environment management.
- Practical experience with Ansible for configuration management and automation.
- Strong knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, EKS, application deployments, scaling, and production troubleshooting.
- Proficiency in Shell scripting and/or Python for infrastructure automation.
- Strong Linux administration skills, including networking, performance tuning, and production troubleshooting.
- Hands-on experience implementing observability solutions, including centralized logging, metrics, distributed tracing, monitoring dashboards, and alerting using tools such as CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or Datadog.
- Experience implementing disaster recovery solutions, including backup and restore testing, failover procedures, and RTO/RPO planning.
- Experience supporting at least one SOC 2 audit or readiness cycle, including security controls, audit logging, access reviews, and evidence collection.
- Proven experience in production incident management, root cause analysis, debugging, and infrastructure optimization.
- Ability to independently manage at least two concurrent projects with strong ownership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
- Familiarity with DevSecOps tools such as SonarQube, Trivy, Snyk, and secrets management is preferred.
- Knowledge of additional AWS services such as Lambda, API Gateway, SQS, SES, Amplify, and Lightsail is an advantage.
- Experience with OpenTelemetry, AWS X-Ray, APM, SLO/SLI monitoring, and incident response automation is an added advantage.
- Relevant AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, Terraform, or DevOps certifications are a plus.
Benefits
- A hybrid, flexible working policy.
- Professional growth and development opportunities.
- An international team of world-class engineers that brings positive energy.
- A friendly, supportive, and relaxing working environment in our offices.
Skills
- AKS
- Ansible
- API
- API Gateway
- Automation
- AWS
- Azure
- Azure Monitor
- Bash
- CI/CD
- Cloud
- Cloud Security
- CloudFront
- CloudWatch
- Datadog
- DevOps
- DevSecOps
- Docker
- EC2
- ECS
- EKS
- ELK
- GitHub
- GitHub Actions
- Grafana
- IAM
- Infrastructure as Code
- Kubernetes
- Lambda
- Linux
- Networking
- Observability
- OpenTelemetry
- Prometheus
- Python
- RDS
- Root Cause Analysis
- S3
- Secrets Management
- Snyk
- SOC 2
- SonarQube
- SQS
- Stakeholder Management
- Terraform
- VPC