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This role is responsible for writing clean, production-grade code as they are architecting infrastructure, deploying services, or debugging systems. Collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver resilient platforms, streamline operations, and accelerate delivery in hybrid cloud infrastructure setups.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
• Design, build, and maintain infrastructure and platform tooling across hybrid environments—from cloud-native (AWS/GCP) to on-prem systems.
• Develop internal tools and automation to eliminate manual tasks and improve developer experience.
• Implement and evolve CI/CD pipelines, deployment strategies, and GitOps workflows.
• Work closely with software engineers to embed infrastructure and operational thinking early in the SDLC.
• Champion observability, reliability, and performance through metrics, logging, and alerting best practices.
• Lead incident response, postmortems, and ongoing resilience improvements.
• Contribute to a 24×7 on-call rotation for critical systems.
Minimum Required Qualifications
• 5–10 years’ experience in DevOps, SRE, or Software Engineering roles.
• Strong coding ability in languages like Python, Go, or a similar OOP language.
• Hands-on experience managing Kubernetes and containerized workloads at scale.
• Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible) and configuration management.
• Deep experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP)
• Solid grasp of networking, Linux internals, and security best practices.
• Deep understanding of CI/CD tools and practices (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, ArgoCD, etc.).
• Strong observability mindset—experience with tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, etc.
• Experience with hybrid service meshes, multi-cluster Kubernetes, or edge computing, preferred.
• Knowledge of Kafka, Redis, Elasticsearch, or RDBMS (MySQL/Postgres), preferred.
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