DevOps / Infrastructure Engineer

Working hours: 6 pm – 3 am PKT (US hours)

Vision: Transforming how the world discovers, assesses, and hires exceptional talent through AI.

Mission: HiddenTalent.ai empowers organizations to identify, evaluate, and hire top talent using AI-driven workforce intelligence, skills assessment, and talent matching solutions.

At Hidden Talent, we are committed to upholding the following core values:

Passion |Respect | Accountability | Innovation | Speed | Execution ( PRAISE )

Overview:

HiddenTalent.ai is an AI-powered talent intelligence platform that helps organizations make smarter hiring decisions through skills-based assessments, workforce analytics, and intelligent talent matching. We leverage modern cloud infrastructure, AI technologies, and scalable engineering practices to deliver secure, reliable, and high-performing solutions for customers worldwide.

The DevOps / Infrastructure Engineer is responsible for designing, implementing, securing, and maintaining the organization's cloud and infrastructure environments. This role will manage CI/CD pipelines, virtualization platforms, cloud infrastructure, containerized applications, automation, and monitoring while ensuring high availability, scalability, and security across production and development environments.

The ideal candidate is highly technical, process-driven, and passionate about automation, infrastructure as code, and cloud-native technologies.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and maintain secure, scalable, and highly available infrastructure across on-premises and cloud environments.
• Administer and support VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization platforms.
• Install, configure, secure, and troubleshoot Linux servers across multiple distributions.
• Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and modern DevOps practices.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform and/or AWS CloudFormation.
• Deploy, manage, and optimize AWS infrastructure, including Landing Zone, EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, CloudWatch, Load Balancers, and related services.
• Build, deploy, and manage containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Monitor infrastructure performance, availability, security, backups, and disaster recovery processes.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning, deployment, configuration management, and operational workflows.
• Collaborate with Engineering, QA, Security, and Product teams to improve deployment efficiency and system reliability.
• Troubleshoot production issues, perform root cause analysis, and implement preventive measures.
• Ensure infrastructure complies with security, governance, and operational best practices.
• Maintain technical documentation, architecture diagrams, operational procedures, and disaster recovery documentation.
• Participate in on-call support and infrastructure maintenance activities as required.

Minimum Qualifications

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or a related field.

Experience

• Minimum 5+ years of experience in DevOps, Cloud Infrastructure, Systems Administration, or Infrastructure Engineering.
• Hands-on experience administering VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V environments.
• Expert-level knowledge of Linux administration across multiple distributions (Ubuntu, CentOS, Red Hat, Amazon Linux, etc.).
• Strong experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins.
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and/or AWS CloudFormation.
• Strong experience with AWS cloud services, including EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, Landing Zone, CloudWatch, Route 53, Auto Scaling, and Load Balancers.
• Practical experience with Docker and Kubernetes in production environments.
• Strong understanding of networking, DNS, firewalls, VPNs, SSL/TLS, and security best practices.
• Experience with monitoring and logging tools such as CloudWatch, Grafana, Prometheus, or ELK is preferred.
• Experience supporting production environments with high availability and disaster recovery.
• AWS, Kubernetes, Linux, VMware, or Terraform certifications are a plus.
• AWS Cloud Infrastructure
• VMware & Microsoft Hyper-V Administration
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform / CloudFormation)
• Cloud Security & Networking
• Problem Solving & Root Cause Analysis
• Process Orientation
• Time Management & Execution Excellence
• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
• Maintain 99.9%+ infrastructure and production environment availability.
• Achieve 95%+ successful CI/CD deployment rate with minimal production issues.
• Reduce deployment time and improve infrastructure automation through Infrastructure as Code.
• Meet infrastructure security, backup, patching, and compliance standards with zero critical vulnerabilities.
• Deliver infrastructure projects and operational support within agreed SLAs while maintaining high stakeholder satisfaction.