DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer

About the Role

We are looking for a skilled DevOps Engineer to drive automation, infrastructure reliability, and secure software delivery. You will work closely with development, security, and operations teams to build and maintain scalable cloud-native solutions. Key Responsibilities

Kubernetes & Container Platforms Design, deploy, and manage Kubernetes clusters (EKS, AKS, or self-managed).

Implement container orchestration, scaling, and lifecycle management.

Troubleshoot pod, service, ingress, and storage issues in production.

Cloud Services (AWS / Azure) Provision and manage cloud resources (compute, networking, storage, databases) using Infrastructure as Code.

Optimize cloud costs, performance, and security.

Implement high availability and disaster recovery strategies.

CI/CD Pipelines Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, etc.).

Automate build, test, and deployment processes for multiple environments.

Implement pipeline monitoring and failure handling.

Application Security / DevSecOps Integrate security tools (SAST, DAST, container scanning, dependency checks) into pipelines.

Enforce security policies, secrets management, and compliance controls.

Collaborate with security teams on threat modeling and vulnerability remediation.

Application Release Management Manage release processes, versioning, rollback strategies, and blue/green or canary deployments.

Maintain release documentation and coordinate with stakeholders.

Automate release gates and approval workflows.

Required Skills & Experience

Kubernetes : 3+ years (self-rating 7/10 or higher expected)

Cloud (AWS/Azure) : 3+ years

CI/CD : 3+ years with at least one major tool

DevSecOps : 2+ years with security tool integration

Release Management : Proven experience managing production releases

Tools You May Use

CI/CD: Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Azure Pipelines

Security: SonarQube, Trivy, Snyk, Checkmarx, Aqua, Twistlock

Cloud: AWS (EC2, EKS, S3, RDS, IAM, VPC) or Azure (AKS, VNet, Key Vault)

IAC: Terraform, CloudFormation, Bicep, Pulumi

Monitoring: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog, New Relic

Nice to Have

Certifications: CKA, CKAD, AWS/Azure DevOps Engineer, or Security Specialty

Experience with service mesh (Istio, Linkerd)

GitOps experience (ArgoCD, Flux)

Soft Skills

Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting

Excellent communication and collaboration

Proactive security mindset