Zensar Technologies - SRE/DevOps Engineer - Configuration Management

SRE / DevOps Engineer AWS

Role : Full-Time

Experience : 10 16 Years

Location : Pan India (Remote)

Notice Period : Immediate to 15 Days

Role Overview

We are seeking a highly experienced Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) / DevOps Engineer AWS to drive infrastructure automation, reliability engineering, CI/CD pipeline management, and cloud-native operations across large-scale distributed systems.

The ideal candidate will have deep AWS expertise, strong DevOps mindset, and hands-on experience in scaling mission-critical production systems with high availability, resiliency, and performance.

Key Responsibilities :

- Design, build, and maintain scalable, secure, and resilient cloud infrastructure on AWS.

- Own and optimize CI/CD pipelines for faster, reliable, and secure delivery of applications and services.

- Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, CloudFormation, or CDK.

- Drive observability and monitoring strategy using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK, CloudWatch, Datadog, or New Relic.

- Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and deployment processes.

- Enhance system reliability, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery strategies.

- Define and monitor SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs, ensuring systems meet business uptime and performance expectations.

- Perform root cause analysis (RCA), capacity planning, and proactive issue resolution.

- Collaborate with development teams to design cloud-native, microservices-based architectures.

- Drive security, compliance, and cost optimization initiatives across AWS workloads.

- Lead incident response, on-call support, and operational readiness for production systems.

- Mentor junior DevOps/SRE engineers and promote DevOps culture across teams.

Required Skills & Experience :

- Expert-level proficiency in AWS services : EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, S3, VPC, IAM, CloudFront, RDS/Aurora, DynamoDB, CloudWatch, Route 53, API Gateway.

- Strong experience in CI/CD tools : Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or AWS CodePipeline.

- Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) : Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or AWS CDK.

- Hands-on with containerization and orchestration : Docker, Kubernetes (EKS preferred), Helm.

- Expertise in monitoring, logging, and observability : ELK/EFK, Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, Splunk, Datadog.

- Strong background in Linux/Unix administration and shell scripting.

- Experience with automation/configuration management : Ansible, Chef, or Puppet.

- Strong knowledge of networking, load balancing, security, and firewalls in cloud environments.

- Hands-on experience in incident response, RCA, performance tuning, and high-availability architecture.

- Programming/scripting experience in Python, Go, or Bash.

- Strong problem-solving, analytical, and troubleshooting skills.

Good to Have :

- Knowledge of Service Mesh (Istio/Linkerd) and API gateways.

- Exposure to FinOps and cloud cost optimization strategies.

- Experience with DevSecOps practices, vulnerability scanning, and compliance automation.

- Certifications : AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional, or equivalent.