Senior DevOps Engineer

Project description

We are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our engineering team and play a key role in shaping the foundation of our cloud-native platforms. You will be responsible for driving DevOps best practices, designing scalable and secure infrastructure, and enabling high-velocity software delivery across multiple environments. As a senior technical leader, you'll work closely with engineering, security, and operations teams to deliver resilient platforms for mission-critical financial applications.

Responsibilities

  • Platform Engineering & Automation:
  • Design and maintain Kubernetes-based environments with blue-green/multi-cluster strategies.
  • Build scalable CI/CD pipelines leveraging ArgoCD, Jenkins, and GitOps practices.
  • Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration with Terraform, Helm, and kubectl. Infrastructure & Cloud:
  • Architect and operate AWS infrastructure (VPC, EKS, Transit Gateway, RDS, S3, ECR, IAM, etc.).
  • Design highly available, multi-tier network architectures with secure connectivity to on-prem.
  • Optimize cost, performance, and scalability across compute, storage, and networking layers.
  • Lead adoption of infrastructure security best practices (guardrails, detective/preventive controls, encryption). Observability & Reliability:
  • Establish monitoring, logging, and alerting with Prometheus, OpenSearch, and Grafana.
  • Define and enforce SLOs/SLIs, champion reliability engineering practices.
  • Lead incident management processes and support blameless postmortems. Security & SaaS Integration:
  • Implement Zero Trust principles with service mesh, OAuth2 proxies, and ZTNA integrations.
  • Manage IAM roles, secrets, and access control across hybrid infra and SaaS services.
  • Integrate and operationalize security and productivity SaaS platforms (e.g., Zscaler, SentinelOne, Twingate, Atlassian stack).
  • Ensure compliance with PCI DSS, ISO 27001, MAS TRM, and other regulatory frameworks. Collaboration & Leadership:
  • Partner with product and engineering teams to improve developer experience and platform efficiency.
  • Mentor engineers on cloud architecture, automation, and SaaS adoption.
  • Evaluate emerging tools, SaaS offerings, and practices, aligning them with business needs.

SKILLS

Must have

  • 8+ years of DevOps/SRE/Platform engineering experience, with 2+ years in a Staff or Lead role.
  • Deep expertise in Kubernetes, AWS, and container orchestration patterns.
  • At least 3-4 years of production Kubernetes experience.
  • Actively working on production EKS clusters in their current role.
  • Strong background in CI/CD, GitOps, and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Helm).
  • Proven track record with monitoring and observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenSearch/ELK).
  • Experience managing hybrid infrastructure and SaaS platforms at scale.
  • Knowledge of distributed systems (PostgreSQL, Cassandra, Kafka, MinIO, Solace).
  • Strong communication, mentoring, and leadership skills.

Nice to have

N/A