DevOps Engineer - AWS Platform (6-10 yrs)

Qualifications :

- 7+ years of hands-on DevOps experience with proven expertise in AWS; involvement in SRE or Platform Engineering roles is desirable.

- Experience handling high-throughput workloads with occasional spikes. Prior industry experience with live sports and media streaming.

- Deep knowledge of Kubernetes architecture, managing workloads, networking, RBAC and autoscaling is required.

- Expertise in AWS Platform with hands-on VCP, IAM, EC2, Lambda, RDS, EKS and S3 experience is required; the ability to learn GCP with GKE is desired.

- Experience with Terraform for automated cloud provisioning; Helm is desired.

- Experience with FinOps principles for cost-optimization in cloud environments is required.

- Hands-on experience building highly automated CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, ArgoCD, and GitHub Actions.

- Hands-on experience with service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd, Consul) is required.

- Knowledge of monitoring tools such as CloudWatch, Google Logging, and distributed tracing tools like Jaeger; experience with Prometheus and Grafana is desirable.

- Proficiency in Python and/or Go for automation, infrastructure tooling, and performance tuning is highly desirable.

- Strong knowledge of DNS, routing, load balancing, VPN, firewalls, WAF, TLS, and IAM.

- Experience managing MongoDB, Kafka or Pulsar for large-scale data processing is desirable.

- Proven ability to troubleshoot production issues, optimize system performance, and prevent downtime.

- Knowledge of multi-region disaster recovery and high-availability architectures.

Desired :

- Contributions to open-source DevOps projects or strong technical blogging presence.

- Experience with KEDA-based autoscaling in Kubernetes.