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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.

We are looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer with strong hands-on expertise in cloud infrastructure, CI/CD automation, infrastructure as code, Kubernetes, observability, disaster recovery, and security compliance. The candidate will be responsible for independently managing DevOps requirements across multiple projects, ensuring reliable, secure, and scalable production environments.

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.

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