Senior DevOps Engineer

Job Description

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