Sr. DevOps Engineer || B2B SaaS || Remote || Immediate Joiners
Summary
Senior DevOps/SRE engineer owning production infrastructure on AWS for a B2B SaaS company: tuning PostgreSQL/MySQL, building CI/CD pipelines, managing Terraform-based infrastructure and Docker/Kubernetes, plus monitoring, security, and incident response. Requires an ongoing evening shift overlapping US time zones; roles based in Bengaluru, Delhi/NCR, or Mumbai.
Key Responsibilities:
- Own production infrastructure health and lead incident response during the assigned shift.
- Monitor and optimize PostgreSQL/MySQL databases, including slow-query analysis, indexing, query execution plans, connection pooling, replication, and capacity planning.
- Design, implement, and optimize CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or equivalent tools.
- Automate cloud infrastructure provisioning and management using Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi.
- Manage AWS infrastructure, containers, and orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes.
- Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability using Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog, or similar tools.
- Improve system reliability, availability, scalability, and performance through SLOs, SLIs, capacity planning, and performance testing.
- Strengthen cloud security through IAM policies, secrets management, access reviews, vulnerability scanning, and least-privilege controls.
- Automate configuration management and operational tasks using Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Python, or Bash.
- Lead root-cause analysis and blameless post-incident reviews, ensuring permanent corrective actions.
- Maintain infrastructure documentation, architecture diagrams, runbooks, and on-call procedures.
- Collaborate with engineering, QA, product, and security teams to improve deployment efficiency and infrastructure maturity.
- Support relevant compliance requirements, including SOC 2 and GDPR.
Required Skills & Qualifications:
- 8-12 years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Cloud Infrastructure, or related roles.
- At least 3 years of experience in a senior or technical leadership capacity.
- Strong hands-on expertise in AWS cloud services and production infrastructure management.
- Proven experience with PostgreSQL or MySQL performance tuning and troubleshooting production database issues.
- Strong knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
- Practical experience with Terraform or other Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools.
- Expertise in Docker and Kubernetes, including managed Kubernetes services such as Amazon EKS.
- Strong scripting and automation skills in Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
- Experience with Linux administration, networking, TCP/IP, DNS, firewalls, VPNs, and secure access.
- Hands-on experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or Datadog.
- Strong understanding of cloud security, IAM, secrets management, access governance, and vulnerability management.
- Proven ability to troubleshoot production incidents and drive root-cause resolution.
- Excellent communication, documentation, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Willingness to work an ongoing evening shift with US-time-zone overlap.
Skills
- Ansible
- Automation
- AWS
- Bash
- CI/CD
- Cloud
- Cloud Security
- CloudFormation
- Corrective Action
- Datadog
- DevOps
- DNS
- Docker
- EKS
- ELK
- Firewall
- Gdpr
- GitHub
- GitHub Actions
- GitLab
- Grafana
- IAM
- Infrastructure as Code
- Jenkins
- Kubernetes
- Linux
- MySQL
- Networking
- Observability
- PostgreSQL
- PowerShell
- Prometheus
- Pulumi
- Puppet
- Python
- Root Cause Analysis
- Secrets Management
- SOC 2
- SRE
- TCP/IP
- Terraform
- Vulnerability Management
- Vulnerability Scanning