DevOps Lead - Cloud Infrastructure
Summary
DevOps lead owning Linux-based cloud infrastructure on AWS, GCP, or Azure: managing and tuning web, database, app, and media servers for 24x7 high availability. Day to day spans CI/CD (Jenkins), configuration management (Ansible/Puppet), Nginx/Apache/Varnish optimization, monitoring, automation scripting, and guiding development teams.
Position Overview:
We are looking for a skilled DevOps Lead with 4-7 years of experience in Linux systems, cloud infrastructure, automation, CI/CD, web servers, monitoring, and highly available production environments.
Key Responsibility Areas:
- Manage web infrastructure consisting of Linux servers.
- Tune servers according to their roles, including Web Servers, Database Servers, Application Servers, Media Servers, and Load Balancers.
- Ensure high availability of servers and applications using monitoring, automation scripts, and relevant tools.
- Continuously optimize server performance and improve request delivery based on application requirements.
- Maintain configuration and data backups.
- Ensure 24x7 monitoring of servers and take timely action on production incidents.
- Provide technical guidance to product and development teams for developing efficient programs.
- Write scripts for instance procurement, configuration, deployment, and system administration tasks.
- Manage AWS, GCP, or Azure cloud services such as VPC, EC2, ELB, Route53, RDS, S3, ElastiCache, CloudFront, DynamoDB, and related services.
- Manage system resources using Ansible, Puppet, or similar configuration management tools.
- Manage Git repositories and version-control workflows.
- Manage and optimize Nginx, Apache, and Varnish servers.
- Manage Jenkins CI/CD environments and pipelines.
- Design and maintain high-availability and low-latency applications and infrastructure.
- Follow security best practices and support security and compliance activities.
- Work with Red Hat Cluster environments.
Mandatory Skills:
- Minimum 3 years of development, system design, or engineering experience.
- Excellent communication, interpersonal, and technical skills.
- In-depth knowledge of Linux systems.
- Development experience in at least two of the following: PHP, Go, Python, JavaScript, C/C++, or Bash.
- In-depth knowledge of web servers, preferably Apache and Nginx.
- Strong hands-on experience with DevOps tools including Ansible, Jenkins, Docker, and ELK.
- Knowledge of APM tools; New Relic is preferred.
- Hands-on real-world cloud computing experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Strong understanding of resilient systems design.
- Experience in network design and management.
- AI Tools Experience is mandatory (Copilot, ChatGPT, Gemini AI, AIML).
Nice to Have:
- Knowledge of RDBMS and NoSQL databases such as PostgreSQL, Oracle, or Cassandra.
- Knowledge of Nagios, Chef, Puppet, or Terraform.
- Knowledge of distributed systems such as Redis or RabbitMQ.
- Knowledge of Varnish or Nginx as a cache server.
- Experience managing high-traffic, highly scalable systems.