G33 - DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and enhance cloud infrastructure and deployment pipelines supporting web and mobile applications
• Drive infrastructure automation, configuration management, and operational improvements using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and scripting
• Design, implement, and optimise CI/CD pipelines to improve deployment speed, reliability, and consistency
• Set up and manage observability, monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to proactively identify and resolve issues
• Implement and maintain platform security practices including access control, secrets management, vulnerability management, and secure deployments
• Lead incident response, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and post-incident improvements to strengthen system resilience
• Collaborate closely with software engineers, product managers, and stakeholders to support reliable and efficient software delivery
• Improve system scalability, maintainability, operational processes, and cost optimisation
• Develop and maintain operational documentation, runbooks, and technical standards
• Promote DevOps, SRE, observability, and platform engineering best practices across the team
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to technical capability building
• Continuously evaluate and adopt relevant cloud, DevOps, and platform engineering technologies and practices

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field
• 7+ years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or Infrastructure Engineering
• 4+ years of experience leading technical initiatives, projects, or engineering teams
• Proven ability to work independently and drive initiatives end-to-end
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS services including ECS Fargate, Lambda, S3, Aurora, RDS, IAM, CloudWatch, and networking/security components
• Strong experience with containerisation technologies such as Docker and production-scale container deployments
• Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitLab and related DevOps tooling
• Strong Infrastructure as Code (IaC) experience using Terraform and/or CloudFormation
• Solid understanding of observability, monitoring, logging, alerting, and system reliability principles
• Familiarity with modern application stacks such as React, Node.js, and React Native
• Experience managing and supporting MySQL and PostgreSQL databases
• Good understanding of authentication, middleware, API integrations, application security, and distributed systems
• Strong foundation in cloud computing, secure system design, and software engineering principles

Problem Solving & Leadership

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to independently drive solutions
• Comfortable operating in fast-paced and ambiguous environments
• Ability to break down complex technical challenges into actionable solutions
• Experience mentoring and guiding junior engineers

Originally posted on Himalayas