DevOps Engineer

Job description

Key Responsibilities • Design, implement, and manage CI/CD pipelines. • Automate infrastructure provisioning using Infrastructure as Code (IaC). • Deploy and maintain applications across cloud and on-premises environments. • Manage containerized workloads using Docker and Kubernetes. • Monitor system availability, performance, security, and capacity. • Identify and resolve infrastructure, application, and deployment issues. • Implement logging, alerting, backup, and disaster-recovery solutions. • Apply security best practices throughout the software development lifecycle. • Manage source-control strategies, release processes, and environment configurations. • Improve platform reliability, scalability, and deployment frequency. • Develop scripts and tools to reduce manual operational tasks. • Maintain technical documentation, runbooks, and architecture diagrams. • Participate in incident response, root-cause analysis, and on-call rotations. • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to promote DevOps practices and continuous improvement. • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience. • Proven experience in DevOps, cloud engineering, site reliability engineering, or systems administration. • Experience with at least one major cloud platform: AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud. • Strong knowledge of Linux administration and networking fundamentals. • Experience with CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, or Azure DevOps. • Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi. • Experience with configuration-management tools such as Ansible, Puppet, or Chef. • Hands-on knowledge of Docker and container-orchestration platforms. • Scripting experience using Python, Bash, or PowerShell. • Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, the employer, Splunk, or the ELK Stack. • Understanding of secrets management, identity and access management, and cloud security principles. • Strong troubleshooting, communication, and collaboration skills

Requirements

• Relevant cloud or Kubernetes certifications.
• Experience managing production Kubernetes environments.
• Familiarity with GitOps tools such as Argo CD or Flux.
• Knowledge of service meshes, serverless platforms, and microservices architecture.
• Experience with database operations, performance tuning, and disaster recovery.
• Understanding of SRE concepts, including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and incident management.
• Experience supporting high-availability and large-scale distributed systems.
• Key Performance Indicators
• Deployment frequency and lead time for changes
• Application and infrastructure availability
• Mean time to detect and recover from incidents
• Change-failure rate
• Percentage of infrastructure managed through automation
• Security and compliance findings
• Reduction in manual operational work

Skills