Position:Senior/Lead DevOps Engineer

Location: Hyderabad

Working Days: Monday to Friday

Experience Required: 5+ years

Client: Digital Adoption Platform

Key Responsibilities

- Cloud Infrastructure & Architecture (AWS)
- Architect, implement, and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure using AWS services such as:
- VPC, Route53, CloudFront, S3, EKS, EC2, ELB/ALB, Lambda, RDS, Elasticache, API Gateway, Kinesis Streams, ClickHouse
- Design and maintain a multi-tenant SaaS architecture supporting millions of active users.
- Optimize and scale high-throughput pipelines for user event tracking and analytics processing.

- DevOps & Automation

- Own and enhance our complete CI/CD ecosystem using GitHub Actions.
- Build automated deployment pipelines for browser extensions, microservices, backend services, and UI applications.
- Implement Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform or CloudFormation.
- Building Docker images

- Monitoring, Security & Reliability

- Set up end-to-end observability: metrics, logs, traces, and alerting.
- Ensure security best practices across infrastructure, networking, and deployments.
- Maintain high availability, auto-scaling, disaster recovery, and backup strategies.
- Lead security hardening efforts, including CVE remediation, container security, and dependency governance.

- On-Prem Deployments

- Design and deliver on-premises deployments replicating our cloud SaaS architecture.
- Work closely with enterprise customers to customize on-prem setups as needed.
- Build automated scripts/tools for installation, upgrade, and maintenance.

- Collaboration & Leadership

- Work with Engineering, QA, and Product teams to ensure smooth and reliable releases.
- Mentor junior DevOps engineers and guide the engineering team on cloud and deployment best practices.




- Participate in architecture discussions and influence key technical decisions.

Education Qualifications

Strictly Bachelor's / Master’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field.

Requirements

- 5+ years of DevOps experience, with at least 3+ years in a senior or lead role.
- Strong expertise in AWS cloud architecture (mandatory).
- Hands-on experience with:
- VPC
- Kubernetes (EKS)
- EC2, RDS, Elasticache
- S3, CloudFront, Route53
- API Gateway, Lambda, Kinesis Streams
- ClickHouse (or similar columnar DBs)
- Docker
- Helm Chart

- Strong CI/CD experience using GitHub Actions.
- Infrastructure-as-Code

- Proficiency with Terraform.

- Programming / Scripting

- Strong scripting experience in Python, Shell, and NodeJS.
- Development experience is a strong advantage.

- Scalability & Performance

- Experience with scaling distributed systems for millions of users.
- Deep understanding of caching, load balancing, and high-throughput event pipelines.

- On-Prem Setup Experience

- Proven experience building SaaS-to-on-prem replicas.
- Ability to automate containerized and non-containerized deployments.

- Other Requirements

- Solid problem-solving and debugging skills.
- Ownership mindset , capable of independently driving end-to-end solutions.
- Excellent communication and ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams.

Nice-to-Have Skills

- Experience with Digital Adoption Platforms (DAPs) or browser-based products.
- Knowledge of Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog or similar monitoring tools.
- Exposure to SOC2, ISO compliance environments.

Benefits

- An opportunity to work with a fast-growing SaaS company impacting millions of users globally.
- A collaborative and inclusive work environment.
- Opportunities for professional growth and skill development.
- Competitive salary and benefits package.

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