DevOps Engineer

Job description

**Location: Bangalore** **Experience: 8–10 years** **Role Summary:** As a Sr. DevOps Engineer / SRE, you will own CI/CD pipelines, multi-cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes/EKS operations, and production reliability across multiple high-throughput product pods. This is a hands-on and leadership role you will design automation, reduce operational toil, enforce security/compliance, lead incident response, mentor junior engineers, and oversee complex release management. **Key Responsibilities** CI/CD & Release Management Design, implement, and maintain Jenkins declarative pipelines for 5–10 microservice pods. Lead release management across multiple environments, including production; target <10 mins deployment and fast rollback. Architect blue/green, canary, and rolling deployment strategies for high-availability systems. Infrastructure & IaC Author and maintain reusable Terraform/Terragrunt modules. Provision and manage AWS cloud infrastructure: VPC, ALB/NLB, Route53, S3, RDS/EFS, EC2, and EKS. Implement infrastructure automation and enforce IaC best practices. Kubernetes & Containerization Operate and scale EKS/Kubernetes clusters; manage upgrades, Helm charts, service mesh, and resource tuning. Ensure containerized applications follow best practices for reliability and performance. Observability, SLA & Reliability Implement monitoring and alerting (Datadog, ELK, Prometheus/Grafana). Define SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, and proactively drive reliability improvements. Security & Compliance Integrate SAST/DAST into CI pipelines (SonarQube, Checkmarx). Enforce IAM, secrets management, and cloud security best practices. Cost & Performance Run FinOps initiatives: optimize instance types, reserved vs. spot usage, and propose measurable cost savings. Conduct load/stress testing and tuning to maximize performance. Support & On-call Lead P0/P1 incidents; mentor L1/L2 engineers during incident response. Own escalation processes and post-mortems; track MTTR improvements. **Must-Haves** ● 8–10 years experience in production AWS environments (EKS/ECS, networking, VPC, ALB/NLB). ● Hands-on Jenkins (declarative pipelines) and Terraform/Terragrunt. ● Kubernetes operational expertise (cluster upgrades, Helm, service mesh, troubleshooting). ● Strong Linux system administration and scripting (Bash, Python, Perl). ● Experience with monitoring/observability tools (Datadog, ELK, Prometheus/Grafana). ● Proven history of on-call ownership and incident leadership. ● CI/CD implementation experience and release management across multiple environments.