Staff Engineer-DevOPs

Position summary:

We are seeking a Staff Engineer – DevOps with 8-12 years of experience in designing, implementing, and optimizing CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and automation frameworks. The ideal candidate will have expertise in Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, Security, Observability, and Cloud Platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP). You will play a key role in scaling and securing our infrastructure, improving developer productivity, and ensuring high availability and performance.

Key Roles & Responsibilities:

  • Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, ArgoCD, and Tekton.
  • Deploy and manage Kubernetes clusters (EKS, AKS, GKE) and containerized workloads.
  • Automate infrastructure provisioning using Terraform, Ansible, Pulumi, or CloudFormation.
  • Implement observability and monitoring solutions using Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, OpenTelemetry, or Datadog.
  • Ensure security best practices in DevOps, including IAM, secrets management, container security, and vulnerability scanning.
  • Optimize cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP) for performance, cost efficiency, and scalability.
  • Develop and manage GitOps workflows and infrastructure-as-code (IaC) automation.
  • Implement zero-downtime deployment strategies, including blue-green deployments, canary releases, and feature flags.
  • Work closely with development teams to optimize build pipelines, reduce deployment time, and improve system reliability.

Basic Qualifications:

  • A bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, electronics engineering or a related field
  • 8-12 years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or Infrastructure Automation.
  • Strong expertise in CI/CD pipelines, version control (Git), and release automation.
  • Hands-on experience with Kubernetes (EKS, AKS, GKE) and container orchestration.
  • Proficiency in Terraform, Ansible for infrastructure automation.
  • Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP services (EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, Lambda, API Gateway, etc.).
  • Expertise in monitoring/logging tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, OpenTelemetry, or Datadog.
  • Strong scripting and automation skills in Python, Bash, or Go.
  • Knowledge of secrets management tools (Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, etc.).
  • Strong troubleshooting and debugging skills in distributed systems and cloud environments.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience in FinOps Cloud Cost Optimization) and Kubernetes cluster scaling.
  • Exposure to serverless architectures and event-driven workflows.
  • Contributions to open-source DevOps projects.