Role & Responsibilities :

- Design, implement, and govern scalable, highly available, and secure DevOps/cloud architectures across development, testing, and production environments.

- Define and drive CI/CD strategies using tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Azure DevOps, or similar platforms.

- Architect and manage cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure, or GCP, with a focus on scalability, reliability, security, and cost optimization.

- Design and manage containerized and orchestration platforms, primarily Docker and Kubernetes.

- Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, or equivalent technologies.

- Establish DevOps standards, reusable frameworks, automation patterns, and engineering best practices across teams.

- Implement observability and monitoring using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch, Datadog, CloudWatch, or equivalent platforms.

- Collaborate with application, engineering, security, QA, and infrastructure teams to integrate DevSecOps practices into the software development lifecycle.

- Design solutions for high availability, disaster recovery, backup, business continuity, and resilience.

- Identify and resolve complex infrastructure, deployment, performance, and production issues.

- Establish and improve security controls, secrets management, vulnerability management, access controls, and compliance practices.

- Drive cloud cost optimization and infrastructure efficiency initiatives.

- Conduct architecture reviews and provide technical guidance to DevOps, SRE, cloud, and development teams.

- Mentor engineers and promote automation, reliability, and continuous improvement.

- Evaluate emerging cloud-native technologies and recommend solutions aligned with business and technical requirements.

- Create and maintain architecture diagrams, technical documentation, operational procedures, and standards.

Preferred Candidate Profile :

- 8-10 years of experience in DevOps, Cloud Infrastructure, SRE, Platform Engineering, or related roles.

- Proven experience designing and implementing enterprise-scale DevOps and cloud architectures.

- Strong hands-on experience with at least one major cloud platform : AWS, Azure, or GCP.

- Strong knowledge of Kubernetes and Docker/containerization.

- Hands-on expertise with Terraform or other Infrastructure-as-Code technologies.

- Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines, Git, branching strategies, automated testing, and release management.

- Experience with Linux/Unix administration, networking, DNS, load balancing, and security fundamentals.

- Knowledge of DevSecOps, including IAM, secrets management, vulnerability scanning, container security, and security automation.

- Experience with monitoring, logging, alerting, observability, and production incident management.

- Strong scripting/programming skills in Python, Bash, PowerShell, or similar languages.

- Understanding of microservices, API-based architectures, distributed systems, and cloud-native application design.

- Experience implementing high availability, disaster recovery, scalability, and resilience strategies.

- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities with experience troubleshooting complex production environments.

- Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to work with both technical and business teams.

- Demonstrated ability to lead technical initiatives and mentor engineers.

- Relevant certifications such as AWS/Azure/GCP, Kubernetes (CKA/CKAD), Terraform, or DevOps certifications would be an advantage.