About the role
The core responsibilities for the job include the following:
DevOps Strategy and Team Leadership:
- Understand system requirements and business needs, and define the optimal strategy for DevOps and infrastructure management.
- Plan team priorities and design and feature estimates.
- Lead and mentor the DevOps team; train and enable junior engineers.
- Follow and propagate industry best practices for DevOps and AWS configurations.
CI/CD and Release Engineering:
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines.
- Perform zero-downtime deployments.
- Install and maintain operating environments.
Reliability and Disaster Recovery:
- Plan and implement effective disaster recovery.
- Set up automatic data backups and restoration of production environments and databases.
- Enable effective monitoring to track system health and implement the necessary alerts.
Security, Compliance, and Cost:
- Ensure all security policies are followed for infrastructure access.
- Drive compliance adherence across infrastructure and deployments.
- Review and ensure optimized costs for infrastructure and cloud services.
Requirements:
- Software Engineer with 6+ years of experience.
- Expertise in the AWS cloud platform, provisioning, maintaining, and monitoring EKS, MSK, EC2, S3, and RDS services.
- Knowledge of networking on AWS (VPC, API Gateway, Load Balancers).
- Expertise in deployment tools like Jenkins or Bitbucket Pipelines.
- Proficient in scripting in a popular language like Bash, YAML, JavaScript, or Python.
- Expertise in containerisation using Docker and container orchestration using Kubernetes.
- Excellent command over source configuration management tools like GitHub, Bitbucket, and GitLab.
- Experience with SonarQube, JaCoCo, or similar tools for static code scanning.
- Experience with APM solutions like Prometheus, Amazon CloudWatch, New Relic, or Dynatrace.
- Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and decision-making capabilities.
- Good verbal and written communication, with strong interpersonal skills.