Job Summary

Senior DevOps Engineer with 5+ years of experience designing, implementing, and operating scalable cloud-native platforms on AWS. Proven expertise in CI/CD automation, infrastructure as code, and containerized workloads using Kubernetes (EKS). Strong background in Cloud Application Administration, including EC2-based deployments, system hardening, patching, and operational support in production environments.

Hands-on experience across deployment, migration, environment refresh, backup/recovery, and troubleshooting. Skilled in governance, audit, compliance, and security best practices, with a strong focus on application reliability and operational excellence.

Responsibilities

- Collaborate with development, QA, and platform teams to integrate code changes into robust CI/CD pipelines
- Design, build, and manage cloud-native platforms on AWS, leveraging EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) and EC2
- Automate application deployment, scaling, and lifecycle management using Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, and Argo CD
- Administer and support EC2-based applications, including provisioning, patching, backup, and performance tuning
- Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform and Ansible for scalable and repeatable environments
- Manage and optimize EKS clusters, including node groups, networking, security policies, and workload scheduling
- Monitor system health and performance using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK stack
- Troubleshoot production issues and ensure high availability, reliability, and disaster recovery readiness
- Implement and enforce security, compliance, and governance controls across AWS environments
- Manage source code and workflows using GitHub and GitHub Actions
- Maintain documentation for architecture, deployments,



and operational runbooks
- Continuously evaluate and adopt best practices in DevOps, cloud automation, and platform engineering

Qualifications

- 5+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or Cloud Engineering roles.
- Strong hands-on experience with AWS services, especially:

- EKS (Kubernetes orchestration)
- EC2 (compute, scaling, and administration)
- IAM, VPC, Auto Scaling, Load Balancers, S3

- Experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines using:

- Jenkins, GitHub Actions

- Expertise in containerization and orchestration:

- Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Argo CD

- Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code:

- Terraform, Ansible

- Strong Linux system administration and troubleshooting experience.

- Experience with scripting:

- Shell, Python (preferred)

- Hands-on experience with monitoring and logging:

- ELK Stack, Prometheus, Grafana

- Experience managing web/app servers:

- Apache HTTPD, Tomcat

- Knowledge of networking fundamentals (DNS, TCP/IP, load balancing).

- Solid troubleshooting and problem-solving skills in production environments.

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience with Cloud Application Administration on AWS, including:

- Application deployments on EC2 and container platforms
- Backup/recovery, patching, and environment refreshes

- Familiarity with:

- SonarQube / Nexus / Nexus IQ
- Database technologies (SQL/NoSQL such as Cassandra)

- Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies

- Exposure to security, compliance, and audit frameworks

Education Certifications

- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering, or related field (preferred)

- AWS Certifications preferred:

- AWS Certified Solutions Architect
- AWS Certified DevOps Engineer

- Kubernetes certifications (CKA/CKAD) are a plus

📌 Senior DevOps Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 Equinix
📍 Bengaluru