About the role
The candidate will have responsibilities across the following functions:
Infrastructure and Cloud Architecture:
- Design, build, and operate scalable cloud infrastructure.
- Own infrastructure architecture with high availability, security, and cost efficiency.
- Drive infrastructure standardisation and automation.
CI/CD and Developer Productivity:
- Build and maintain fast, reliable CI/CD pipelines.
- Enable safe deployments through automation, rollbacks, and environment isolation.
- Reduce friction for developers through tooling and self-service workflows.
Reliability and Observability:
- Implement and evolve monitoring, logging, and alerting systems.
- Define SLOs/SLIs and improve system reliability.
- Lead incident response, root-cause analysis, and preventive improvements.
Automation and Infrastructure as Code:
- Automate provisioning and configuration using Infrastructure as Code.
- Eliminate manual operational tasks through scripting and tooling.
- Maintain versioned, reviewable, and auditable infrastructure changes.
Security and Compliance:
- Implement security best practices across infrastructure and CI/CD.
- Manage secrets, access control, and environment isolation.
- Partner with engineering and security teams on compliance requirements.
Collaboration and Leadership:
- Work closely with backend and frontend teams to improve runtime and deployment reliability.
- Mentor engineers on operational best practices.
- Influence platform and reliability standards across teams.
Requirements:
- 5+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering roles.
- Hands-on experience operating production systems at scale.
- Cloud and Infrastructure: Strong experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure). Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, or similar).
- CI/CD and Automation: Experience with CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or similar). Strong scripting skills (Bash, Python, or similar).
- Observability and Reliability: Experience with monitoring, logging, and alerting tools. Understanding of distributed systems, failure modes, and reliability trade-offs.
- Infrastructure as Code: Experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar IaC tools. Strong Git-based workflows for infrastructure changes.
- Mindset and Communication: Strong ownership and bias for automation. Ability to debug complex production issues calmly and systematically.