Senior Lead DevOps Engineer (Messaging Platform)

Location : On-site Gurgaon (Hybrid)

Department : Technology / Engineering

Experience Level : 8+ Years

Employment Type : Full-Time

About The Role :

We are looking for a highly skilled Senior DevOps Engineer to join our team and help build, scale, and maintain a reliable messaging platform that powers seamless communication for millions of users.

Youll be responsible for designing cloud-native infrastructure, automating deployments, ensuring high availability, and driving operational excellence in a fast-paced environment.

Key Responsibilities :

Infrastructure & Deployment :

- Design, implement, and manage scalable, resilient cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP/Azure) for messaging workloads.

- Build CI/CD pipelines to enable automated, reliable, and fast delivery of new features.

- Containerize applications (Docker/Kubernetes) and optimize orchestration for performance.

Reliability & Monitoring :

- Ensure high availability and low latency of the messaging platform with proactive monitoring and alerting (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog, etc.)

- Troubleshoot production issues, perform root cause analysis, and implement long-term fixes.

- Define and track SLOs/SLAs/SLIs for messaging services.

Automation & Security :

- Automate provisioning, scaling, and failover processes using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible, Helm).

- Enforce best practices for system security, secrets management, and compliance.

- Implement disaster recovery, backup strategies, and incident response playbooks.

Collaboration & Culture :

- Work closely with developers, SREs, and QA teams to deliver reliable features.

- Advocate for DevOps culture: CI/CD adoption, monitoring-first mindset, and blameless postmortems.

- Contribute to documentation and knowledge sharing across teams.

Required Skills & Qualifications :

- 8+ years of experience in DevOps/SRE/Cloud Engineering roles.

- Strong experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and CI/CD pipelines.

- Hands-on expertise in cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure) and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/CloudFormation).

- Solid background in Linux systems, networking, and messaging protocols (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ, MQTT, WebSockets, or similar).

- Experience with monitoring, logging, and observability stacks.

- Knowledge of scripting/programming (Python, Bash, Go, etc.

Preferred Skills :

- Experience with real-time, high-throughput systems (messaging, streaming, or event-driven architectures).

- Exposure to scaling microservices in production.

- Familiarity with security best practices in distributed systems.

Why Join Us?

- Opportunity to build and scale a mission-critical messaging platform used globally.

- Work with a passionate, talented team driving innovation in cloud-native communication.

- Competitive salary.