DevOps Engineer

## Key Responsibilities

### Infrastructure & Platform Management

- Design, implement, and maintain private cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

- Leverage Kubernetes for container orchestration and platform enablement

- Build and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines using frameworks such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or cloud-native tools

- Automate deployment processes across development, QA, and production environments

### Monitoring & Troubleshooting

- Deploy comprehensive monitoring and alerting solutions

- Perform root cause analysis for production incidents

- Investigate and resolve complex technical issues

- Design and implement system troubleshooting and maintenance procedures

### Automation & Optimization

- Develop automation scripts to reduce manual tasks and improve operational efficiency

- Build tools to minimize error occurrences and enhance customer experience

- Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration management

- Create and maintain deployment automation across multiple environments

### Collaboration & Support

- Provide Level 2 and Level 3 technical support

- Collaborate with development teams to understand application architecture and operational requirements

- Document solutions and train operational teams on system supportability

- Participate in project planning and management decisions

## Required Qualifications

### Experience

- 5+ years of DevOps/SRE experience with a Bachelor's degree, OR

- 2+ years with an Advanced degree (Masters, MBA, etc.), OR

- PhD with relevant experience

### Technical Skills

- **CI/CD Expertise:** Strong theoretical knowledge and hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and build automation using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline, GCP Cloud Build, or similar frameworks

- **Containerization:** Extensive experience with Docker containers and Kubernetes orchestration

- **Linux Systems:** Advanced Linux administration and shell scripting (Bash) skills

- **Networking:** Strong understanding of networking concepts, load balancing, and high availability architectures

- **Infrastructure as Code:** Experience with Terraform, Pulumi, or similar IaC tools

- **Private Cloud:** Experience with private cloud deployments and hybrid cloud architectures

### Core Competencies

- Strong scripting and automation skills (Python, Bash, PowerShell)

- Experience with microservices architecture concepts

- Knowledge of security best practices and compliance frameworks

- Ability to troubleshoot complex distributed systems

- Experience supporting mission-critical production applications (3+ years preferred)

## Preferred Qualifications

- Experience with database administration (MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc.)

- Knowledge of big data processing

- Familiarity with ITIL processes and Agile development methodologies

- Cloud platform experience (any of: AWS, GCP, Azure)

- Programming knowledge (any of: Java, Python, Go)

- Experience with configuration management tools (Ansible, Puppet, Chef)