Senior DevOps Engineer

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Senior DevOps Engineer to join our team. The ideal candidate will have 5 years+ of DevOps experience with a strong focus on on-premises or self-managed Kubernetes environments. This role involves deploying, operating, monitoring, and troubleshooting Kubernetes clusters and Linux infrastructure to ensure high availability, reliability, and performance of production systems.

Responsibilities:

• As a DevOps engineer responsible for systems being used by customers across the globe.
• Set the goals for the overall system and divide them into goals for the subsystem.
• Identify the performance bottleneck and come up with the solution to optimize the time and cost taken by the build/test system.
• Be a thought leader to contribute to the capacity planning for software/hardware, spanning internal and public cloud, and solve the trade-off between turnaround time and utilization.

Monitoring and Observability (Must Have):

• Implement and maintain Prometheus and Grafana for infrastructure and application monitoring.
• Create and manage real-time Grafana dashboards for cluster health, application metrics, and alerts.
• Analyze monitoring data to proactively identify and resolve performance and reliability issues.
• Support incident response using observability tools.

Platform / Portal Exposure (Good to Have):

• Gain working knowledge of Horizon/Platform portals used for infrastructure or operational visibility.
• Monitor and track infrastructure health and incidents using internal portals.
• Utilize portals for operational insights and incident management.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, IT, or a related field (or equivalent hands-on experience).
• 5 years+ of experience in a DevOps/SRE/production support role.
• Good experience in OpenStack, Ceph, and Ansible.
• Excellent background in cloud technologies like OpenStack, Docker, Kubernetes, and Ansible.
• Excellent understanding of hybrid, multi-cloud architecture and edge computing concepts.
• An ability to identify the bottleneck and come up with a solution to optimize it.
• Excellent knowledge and working experience with Docker containers and virtual machines.
• Experience with monitoring tools like Grafana and Prometheus is good to have.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines integrated with Kubernetes.
• Exposure to container security, RBAC, and cluster hardening.
• Experience supporting high-availability on-prem infrastructure.