Role : Senior DevOps Engineer

Role Overview :

We are looking for a hands-on Senior DevOps Engineer with 4+ years of experience to own and improve production infrastructure, cloud operations, automation, and deployment reliability. The ideal candidate will bring strong practical expertise in AWS, Kubernetes/EKS, Terraform, CI/CD, monitoring, and production troubleshooting.

Key Responsibilities :

- Manage, optimise, and maintain production infrastructure and workloads on AWS.

- Deploy, operate, and troubleshoot production applications running on Kubernetes/Amazon EKS.

- Design, maintain, and improve CI/CD pipelines for safe, reliable, and repeatable releases.

- Provision and manage infrastructure using Terraform and infrastructure-as-code best practices.

- Automate deployments, infrastructure provisioning, environment management, and repetitive operational tasks.

- Implement and maintain monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability for infrastructure and applications.

- Lead troubleshooting of production incidents, perform root-cause analysis, and implement preventive measures.

- Manage AWS networking, compute, storage, IAM, security, secrets, and access controls.

- Improve availability, scalability, performance, capacity planning, backups, and disaster recovery.

- Collaborate with developers and other stakeholders to improve deployment workflows and operational standards.

- Maintain technical documentation, runbooks, incident notes, and deployment procedures.

Required Skills:

- 4+ years of hands-on DevOps experience, including significant ownership of production environments.

- Strong practical experience with AWS services and cloud infrastructure.

- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and Amazon EKS, and containerisation using Docker.

- Strong Terraform skills and experience managing infrastructure as code.

- Experience building, operating, and troubleshooting CI/CD pipelines.

- Good understanding of Linux, networking, DNS, load balancing, and production troubleshooting.

- Experience with monitoring and logging tools, alerting, and production observability.

- Understanding of cloud security, IAM, secrets management, and access controls.

- Scripting and automation skills using Bash, Python, or similar languages.

- Strong incident management, root-cause analysis, ownership, and collaboration skills.

Must-Have Production Experience:

- Hands-on ownership of AWS infrastructure and production workloads.

- Production experience with Kubernetes/EKS and Terraform-based provisioning.

- Experience owning or actively contributing to production CI/CD pipelines.

- Ability to troubleshoot live incidents and improve system reliability.

Good to Have:

- Experience with Kafka, including deployment, monitoring, or operational support.

- Exposure to data warehousing infrastructure, platforms, or related cloud data services.

- Experience with Helm and Kubernetes deployment patterns.

- Familiarity with GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or similar CI/CD platforms.

- Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch, CloudWatch, or similar tools.

- Experience with AWS networking (VPC, subnets, security groups, load balancers, Route 53).

- Experience with ArgoCD/GitOps, DevSecOps practices, high availability, and auto-scaling architectures.

Ideal Candidate:

A highly hands-on, production-focused engineer who can independently take ownership of infrastructure, deployment reliability, automation, and incident resolution in a fast-paced product environment.

Key Hiring Preference:

- Candidates with strong hands-on AWS + Kubernetes/EKS + Terraform experience and proven production ownership will be prioritised.

- Candidates should be able to clearly explain their infrastructure responsibilities, CI/CD pipelines, incidents handled, and automation work.