Almabase - Tech Lead - DevOps & Site Reliability

DevOps & Site Reliability :

- Strong understanding of DevOps and SRE principles, with a focus on reliability, scalability, and automation.

- Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines (build, test, deploy, rollback) using modern tooling.

- Expertise in cloud platforms (AWS / Azure / GCP) and cloud-native architectures.

- Proficiency in infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM templates).

- Experience managing containerized workloads using Docker and orchestration platforms like Kubernetes.

- Deep knowledge of system monitoring, alerting, and observability (metrics, logs, traces).

- Ability to design and maintain high-availability and fault-tolerant systems.

- Strong understanding of Linux systems, networking, and security best practices.

- Experience with incident management, root cause analysis (RCA), and postmortems.

- Ability to collaborate closely with engineering, product, and security teams.

Key Result Areas (KRAs) :

1. Platform Reliability & Availability

- Own and improve system uptime, SLA/SLO adherence, and service health across environments.

- Proactively identify reliability risks and implement preventive measures.

- Reduce P95/P99 latency, error rates, and system bottlenecks.

2. Automation & Efficiency

- Automate infrastructure provisioning, deployments, scaling, and recovery processes.

- Minimize manual intervention through self-healing systems and automation.

- Continuously improve deployment frequency while reducing failure rates.

3. Monitoring, Alerting & Observability

- Build and maintain effective monitoring and alerting frameworks.

- Ensure actionable alerts with low noise and high signal.

- Enable teams with dashboards and insights to understand system behavior.

4. Incident Management & Response

- Lead or support production incident response, ensuring rapid mitigation.

- Drive structured root cause analysis and ensure learnings translate into system improvements.

- Maintain and improve incident runbooks and on-call readiness.

5. Scalability & Performance

- Design systems that scale efficiently with business growth.

- Conduct load testing and capacity planning to support peak traffic.

- Continuously optimize infrastructure cost without compromising reliability.