DevOps Engineer (AWS & On-Prem)

Job Description:

Responsibilities

• Infrastructure & Platform Engineering
• Design, provision, and manage infrastructure across AWS and on-prem environments using Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Provision and manage Linux-based servers, virtual machines, and bare-metal systems.
• Configure and manage network components including VPCs, subnets, routing, firewalls, load balancers, VPNs, and network switches (on-prem).
• Lead setup and maintenance of PostgreSQL databases, including backups, replication, performance tuning, and high availability.
• Containerization & Orchestration
• Design, deploy, and operate Kubernetes clusters (EKS and/or self-managed).
• Build and maintain Docker-based container workflows.
• Manage Kubernetes workloads, namespaces, ingress, secrets, autoscaling, and rolling deployments.
• Establish best practices for container security, image scanning, and runtime hardening.
• CI/CD & Automation
• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines for application and infrastructure code.
• Orchestrate automated builds, tests, deployments, and rollbacks.
• Implement GitOps or pipeline-driven deployment strategies.
• Write and maintain automation scripts using Bash, Python, or similar scripting languages.
• Monitoring, Reliability & Operations
• Implement system monitoring, logging, and alerting for infrastructure and applications.
• Define and track SLIs/SLOs and lead incident response and root cause analysis.
• Ensure high availability, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery readiness.
• Lead operational runbooks and on-call best practices.
• Security & Compliance
• Implement infrastructure and platform security best practices.
• Manage IAM, secrets, encryption, network security, and access controls.
• Support vulnerability management, patching, and audit readiness.
• Collaborate with security teams to align with compliance and governance requirements.
• Cost Optimization & Performance
• Monitor and optimize AWS cloud spend using cost visibility and reporting tools.
• Identify opportunities for rightsizing, reserved instances, autoscaling, and storage optimization.
• Track on-prem infrastructure utilization and capacity planning.
• Balance performance, reliability, and cost trade-offs.
• Leadership & Collaboration
• Act as a technical lead and mentor for DevOps engineers
• Define DevOps standards, best practices, and documentation.
• Partner with engineering teams to improve developer experience and deployment velocity.
• Participate in architecture discussions and infrastructure roadmap planning.

Qualification & Experience

• 3+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering roles.
• Strong experience with AWS (EC2, VPC, IAM, RDS, EKS, S3, CloudWatch, etc.).
• Proven experience managing on-prem infrastructure (servers, virtualization, networking).
• Deep Linux system administration experience.
• Hands-on experience with PostgreSQL administration.
• Strong knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with CI/CD tools and infrastructure automation.
• Proficiency in scripting (Bash, Python, or similar).
• Strong understanding of infrastructure security principles.