Senior DevOps Engineer

Overview

We are seeking an exceptional Senior DevOps Engineer with more than 10 years of hands-on experience in automation, cloud infrastructure, and CI/CD pipeline development. This role demands advanced expertise in AWS, Infrastructure as code, and container orchestration. The ideal candidate excels in planning new environments, integrating Docker-based applications, and evolving CI/CD processes to meet business needs. As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will work directly with engineering and cross-functional teams, leveraging deep AWS knowledge to deliver scalable, secure, and efficient cloud-native solutions.

Key Responsibilities

DevOps Strategy & Implementation

• Lead the adoption and execution of DevOps practices across multiple projects, promoting automation, standardization, and continuous improvement.
• Drive the evolution of DevOps culture and processes throughout the organization.

AWS Infrastructure Management

• Create and maintain AWS environments using EC2, RDS, S3, IAM, ELB, CloudWatch, Route53, Systems Manager (SSM), and Secrets Manager.
• Ensure infrastructure is scalable, reliable, and aligned with business requirements.

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

• Build and manage AWS infrastructure using Terraform for reproducible, version-controlled deployments.
• Promote best practices in infrastructure automation and maintainability.

CI/CD Pipeline

• Design and optimize CI/CD pipelines leveraging GitLab, Artifactory, Terraform Cloud and Helm
• Integrate with SAST/DAST tools for security scans and Code Quality

Containerization & Application Integration

• Design and deploy containerized workloads using EKS

GitOps

• Implement GitOps workflows using ArgoCD to drive declarative, Git-based deployment and configuration management for Kubernetes (EKS) workloads.
• Maintain Git as the single source of truth for infrastructure and application manifests, enabling automated sync, drift detection, and rollback.
• Define branching and promotion strategies (dev → staging → production) to support safe, auditable, and repeatable releases.

Cost Efficiency

• Conduct performance analysis and recommend on AWS cost-saving strategies.

Monitoring & Observability

• Implement and maintain monitoring and alerting solutions using Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, New Relic and CloudWatch.
• Setup Alerts using Slack and JSM (on call support)
• Enhance system visibility and maximize uptime across environments.
• Leverage Grafana Cloud (Managed Prometheus, Loki, and Tempo) for unified metrics, logs, and tracing, reducing self-hosted observability overhead.
• Build and maintain Grafana Cloud dashboards and SLO-based alerting to provide real-time visibility into service health and performance.

Security & Access Management

• Create and manage IAM roles and policies, enforcing secure access control and least-privilege compliance.
• Ensure adherence to organizational security standards.

Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity

• Participate in Quarterly Disaster Recovery drills, creating complete infrastructure replicas in alternate AWS regions.
• Validate application recovery procedures and ensure business continuity readiness.

On-Call Support & Production Troubleshooting

• Participate in on-call rotation to provide 24/7 production support, responding promptly to incidents and escalations via Slack and JSM.
• Diagnose and troubleshoot production issues across infrastructure, application, and network layers, using Grafana Cloud, CloudWatch, and logs to identify root cause.
• Drive incident response and resolution, ensuring timely restoration of service and minimal business impact.
• Conduct post-incident reviews and root cause analysis, documenting findings and implementing preventive measures to reduce recurrence.

Collaboration & Feature Enablement

• Work closely with development teams to plan, deploy, and test new features, while maintaining strong DevOps automation and reliability.

Required Skills & Technologies

• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform
• CI/CD Tools: GitLab Runners, Helm, Artifactory
• Containerization & Orchestration: EKS, Docker
• AWS Services: EKS, EC2, RDS, S3, IAM, ElastiCache, SNS, SQS, Secrets Manager, Systems Manager (SSM), CloudWatch, CloudFront, Route53, ELB, API Gateway
• Secrets & Configuration Management: 1Password, AWS Secrets Manager
• Monitoring & Logging: New Relic, Grafana, Prometheus, Loki
• GitOps: ArgoCD, Flux
• Observability Platform: Grafana Cloud (Managed Prometheus, Loki, Tempo)

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.
• 10+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps, Cloud, or Infrastructure Engineering roles.
• Proven expertise in AWS Cloud, CI/CD pipeline development, infrastructure automation, and container orchestration.
• Strong proficiency with Terraform, GitOps and GitLab CI/CD.
• Demonstrated success in CI/CD migration projects and AWS cost optimization initiatives.
• Excellent analytical, troubleshooting, and collaboration skills.
• Effective communicator and mentor with leadership experience.

Preferred Attributes

• AWS DevOps Engineer/Terraform/Kubernetes certifications
• Experience with multi-region, high-availability infrastructure and disaster recovery planning.
• Proven success leading DevOps transformations and toolchain modernizations on a scale.

If Interested please share your updated resume at svajrala@evoketechnologies.com