devops engineer

The Senior DevOps Engineer is the architect of our cloud-native ecosystem. This role focuses on maximizing engineering velocity through sophisticated automation, impeccable system reliability, and advanced Kubernetes orchestration. As a senior member of the technical team, this individual takes full ownership of the infrastructure roadmap, ensuring that the platform is secure, scalable, and optimized for high-performance critical business applications. What You'll be Doing Expert Kubernetes Orchestration & Management Cluster Architecture: Designs, deploys, and maintains production-grade Kubernetes clusters (EKS, GKE, or self-managed) across multiple environments. Workload Optimization: Manages complex scheduling, resource quotas, and horizontal/vertical scaling to ensure cost-efficiency and performance. Networking & Connectivity: Configures and maintains advanced networking components, including Ingress Controllers, Service Meshes (e.g., Istio, Linkerd), and CNI plugins. Storage & Persistence: Implements and manages persistent storage solutions (CSI) for stateful applications, ensuring data integrity and high availability. Upgrades & Lifecycle: Executes seamless cluster upgrades and maintenance with zero downtime, utilizing blue/green or canary deployment strategies. Infrastructure as Code (IaC) & Automation Foundation as Code: Provisions and manages 100% of the cloud infrastructure through IaC frameworks like Terraform, OpenTofu, or Pulumi. Module Development: Creates reusable, version-controlled infrastructure modules that allow developers to provision resources in a standardized, self-service manner. Configuration Management: Implements automated configuration management to maintain consistency across distributed systems. Advanced CI/CD & Developer Experience Pipeline Engineering: Builds and optimizes sophisticated CI/CD pipelines that automate the entire path to production, integrating automated testing, security scanning, and deployment gates. GitOps Implementation: Drives the adoption of GitOps workflows (e.g., ArgoCD, Flux) to ensure the cluster state is always synchronized with the source of truth in Git. Local Development Flow: Optimizes the "inner loop" of development, providing tools and environments that allow engineers to test Kubernetes-native applications locally or in ephemeral cloud environments. Security, Compliance & Observability Cluster Hardening: Implements rigorous security protocols, including Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Network Policies, and Pod Security Standards. Compliance and Governance: Ensures all infrastructure meets applicable regulatory standards through automated audit logging and encryption at rest/in transit. Full-Stack Visibility: Designs and maintains a comprehensive observability stack (Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger, or similar) to provide deep insights into cluster health and application performance. Incident Response: Serves as a primary technical lead for infrastructure-related incidents, performing deep-dive root cause analysis and implementing automated preventions. Observability, SRE & Performance Analysis Observability Architecture: Designs and scales enterprise observability solutions, leveraging metrics, logging, and tracing to provide comprehensive visibility into platform health, performance, and reliability. SLO/SLI Engineering: Partners with product and engineering teams to define meaningful Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs), establishing error budgets that balance velocity with reliability. Proactive Alerting & Self-Healing: Develops sophisticated, non-fatiguing alerting strategies and implements automated remediation scripts to resolve infrastructure anomalies. Cost Observability: Implements FinOps tooling to provide granular visibility into cluster spend, attributing costs to specific teams, projects, or epics. Chaos