About the role
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.
Requirements
- 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, Datadog, Splunk, or the ELK Stack.
- Understanding of secrets management, identity and access management, and cloud security principles.
- Strong troubleshooting, communication, and collaboration skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- 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
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