DevOps Senior Engineer

Plays a critical role in bridging the gap between development and operations teams, focusing on the automation of software development, testing, deployment, and infrastructure management. Their primary responsibility is to streamline workflows, enhance the CI/CD pipeline, and ensure that the infrastructure is scalable, secure, and reliable.

• Design and Implement CI/CD Pipelines: Set up continuous integration/continuous deployment pipelines to automate software building, testing, and deployment processes.
• Optimize and Automate: Continuously improve the pipeline for efficiency, speed, and reliability. Introduce automation at every possible stage.
• Integrate Tools: Work with version control (Git), build tools (Jenkins, GitLab CI, Travis CI), testing tools, and deployment platforms (Kubernetes, Docker).
• Configuration Management: Implement and manage infrastructure as code using tools like Terraform, Ansible, or AWS CloudFormation to automate the provisioning and configuration of infrastructure.
• Automation of Provisioning: Automate the creation, scaling, and management of environments in development, staging, and production.
• Infrastructure Optimization: Evaluate and optimize the architecture for performance, cost-effectiveness, and scalability.
• Cloud Architecture Design: Design and manage cloud-based infrastructure (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud), ensuring scalability, security, and availability.
• Resource Monitoring: Implement monitoring and alerting systems (Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch) to track infrastructure health and performance.
• Cloud Services Automation: Use scripting (Bash, Python) or tools (Ansible, Puppet) to automate the management of cloud services (compute, storage, networking).
• Implement Security Best Practices: Ensure that security controls are integrated into the CI/CD pipeline, automate security testing, and follow security best practices (SSH key management, SSL, encryption).
• Audits and Compliance: Ensure that the infrastructure adheres to industry standards and compliance regulations (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA, SOC 2).
• Vulnerability Management: Work closely with the security team to identify vulnerabilities in code, applications, and infrastructure, applying patches or mitigation strategies.
• Set Up Monitoring Tools: Implement monitoring solutions for infrastructure and application performance (e.g., Datadog, Prometheus, ELK Stack).
• Logging and Alerting: Manage centralized logging systems (e.g., ELK, Graylog) and implement alerting for critical infrastructure issues.
• Incident Management: Troubleshoot and resolve production issues quickly, perform root cause analysis (RCA), and implement measures to prevent reoccurrence.
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Work closely with developers, system administrators, QA engineers, and other stakeholders to ensure smooth operation across the development and deployment lifecycle.
• Mentor and Guide Junior Engineers: Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior DevOps engineers, helping them adopt best practices and improving their skill sets.
• Bridge Development and Operations: Facilitate communication and collaboration between development and operations teams to optimize product delivery.
• Automate Everything: Automate recurring tasks, such as server provisioning, database backups, and application deployment.
• Select Tools and Frameworks: Choose appropriate tools for automation, monitoring, and infrastructure management, making data-driven decisions for tool selection.
• Capacity Planning: Analyze resource usage and anticipate future scaling needs to ensure infrastructure can handle increasing workloads.
• Application and Infrastructure Tuning: Perform performance tuning of applications and infrastructure for optimal performance (e.g., load balancing, caching strategies).
• Backup and Recovery: Ensure automated backups are in place and periodically tested for disaster recovery. Develop and test failover and recovery strategies.
• Redundancy and Fault Tolerance: Design the infrastructure for high availability and implement redundancy to avoid single points of failure.
• Disaster Recovery Plans: Create and maintain disaster recovery plans and ensure they are regularly tested.
• Container Management: Work with Docker or other container technologies to package applications and their dependencies in a portable, scalable manner.
• Orchestration Platforms: Implement and manage container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes, ensuring efficient container lifecycle management.
• Optimize for Microservices: Build and support microservices architectures and handle their orchestration, scaling, and security.

Educational Requirements: Bachelor’s degree in computer science or computer engineering.

Required Industry Experience: 3+ years in DevOps and infrastructure.

Technological Requirements:

Proficiency in tools like Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or Ansible for automating infrastructure management.

Experience with configuration management tools such as Chef, Puppet, SaltStack, or Ansible.

Expertise in using and managing CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, GitLab CI, CircleCI, or similar tools.

Deep understanding of cloud infrastructure management (AWS, Azure, GCP), including compute, storage, networking, and managed services.

Strong scripting skills in languages such as Python, Bash, or PowerShell for automation and infrastructure tasks.

Experience with Docker for containerization and Kubernetes for container orchestration, managing deployments, and scaling.

Proficient with Git (GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket) for source code management, branching, merging, and collaboration workflows.

Hands-on experience with monitoring tools (e.g., Prometheus, Datadog, New Relic) and centralized logging systems (e.g., ELK Stack, Fluentd, Graylog).

Solid understanding of networking concepts (DNS, VPN, load balancing, firewalls, routing, etc.).

Expertise in Linux/Unix administration (Ubuntu, RedHat, CentOS) and some experience with Windows environments is a plus.

Language Requirements: Fluent in English.