Full-Time Lead DevOps Engineer

We are seeking a visionary and hands-on Lead DevOps Engineer to spearhead the evolution of cloud infrastructure for our data product Datapipes. You will lead a talented team of DevOps engineers, driving the strategy for our scalable, secure, and highly available Enterprise SaaS platform.

Key Responsibilities

• Team Leadership & Mentorship: Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of DevOps engineers.
• Infrastructure Architecture: Architect, build, and maintain our scalable and secure infrastructure on AWS, with a strong focus on Kubernetes (EKS).
• Automation & CI/CD: Design, implement, and manage robust GitOps-based CI/CD pipelines using tools like ArgoCD, Tekton, Prow, and Atlantis.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Champion and enforce IaC best practices using Terraform and CloudFormation (CFT).
• Cloud & Kubernetes Management: Oversee and optimize core AWS services, including EKS, EC2 Auto Scaling Groups, VPC Networking, RDS, ElastiCache, and ECR.
• Compliance & Security: Ensure our infrastructure adheres to key compliance standards such as SOC2 and ISO27001.
• Monitoring & Reliability: Develop and manage comprehensive monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions using Prometheus, Grafana, and AWS CloudWatch.
• Collaboration & Communication: Serve as a key technical liaison for leadership, product teams, and customers.

Job Requirements

• Overall Experience: 6+ years in DevOps, SRE, or a related field.
• AWS Experience: A minimum of 5+ years of hands-on experience with AWS.
• Kubernetes Experience: A minimum of 3+ years of deep, hands-on experience managing Kubernetes clusters in a production environment, preferably with EKS.

Technical Proficiency:

• IaC: Strong expertise in Terraform and/or CloudFormation.
• CI/CD: Proven experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines with tools like ArgoCD, Tekton, Prow, or similar.
• Scripting: Excellent scripting skills in Shell and Python for automation.
• AWS Services: In-depth knowledge of EKS, EC2 ASG, VPC, RDS, ElastiCache, and ECR.
• Monitoring: Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, and/or CloudWatch.

Bonus Points if you have

• Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Familiarity with cloud-native tools like Crossplane, Devtron, or Karpenter.
• Compliance experience with IM8.
• Professional certifications such as CKA/CKS, or AWS Certifications.
• Exposure to data engineering pipelines; specifically, managing IAM roles and permissions for services like AWS Glue, or DataBrew.
• Experience in managing Apache Airflow on kubernetes cluster.
• Experience conducting load testing for performance tuning and resource optimization.

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