1025 | Senior DevOps Engineer

Role Overview

Senior DevOps Engineer responsible for designing, implementing, and managing cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and ensuring system reliability, security, and cost-efficiency at scale.

Key Responsibilities

Infrastructure as Code & Automation

• Design, implement, and manage AWS infrastructure using Terraform
• Automate provisioning and configuration management with Ansible
• Maintain idempotent and reusable IaC code across dev, staging, and production environments
• Implement infrastructure changes via GitOps workflows with PR approvals
• Optimize cloud resources for cost vs. performance balance

Cloud & Server Management (AWS)

• Set up and maintain EC2, EKS, DynamoDB, RDS (PostgreSQL), S3, VPC, IAM, and Route53
• Design secure networking (VPC, Subnets, Security Groups, VPN)
• Manage IAM roles, permissions, and policies with least privilege principle
• Optimize AWS resources for cost-efficiency (rightsizing, auto-scaling, reserved instances)

CI/CD Pipelines

• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI and/or Jenkins
• Ensure zero-downtime deployments

Database & Messaging Management

• Deploy, configure, and optimize RDS PostgreSQL and DynamoDB
• Implement backups and failover strategies
• Fine-tune database query performance, caching, and connection pooling
• Manage RabbitMQ clusters, queues, and message durability

Monitoring & Observability

• Set up and manage Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki for monitoring and logging
• Create dashboards and alerts for system health and performance
• Use distributed tracing tools (e.g., OpenTelemetry) for debugging

Security & Compliance

• Implement IAM best practices (least privilege, MFA, role-based access control)
• Enforce network security (VPC isolation, security groups, WAF, private endpoints)
• Manage secrets and sensitive data via AWS Secrets Manager
• Ensure automated security patching for OS and dependencies
• Conduct regular security audits, vulnerability scans, and compliance checks

Backup & Disaster Recovery

• Set up automated backups for databases and critical systems
• Implement disaster recovery plans according to RPO and RTO requirements
• Test disaster recovery plans with periodic simulations