Role & responsibilities

Platform & Cloud Engineering
Design and operate cloud-native platforms that abstract complexity and improve developer productivity
Build reusable, opinionated infrastructure using Infrastructure-as-Code
Own Kubernetes clusters, networking, service orchestration, and workload reliability

Reliability Engineering
Define and drive SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets for business-critical services
Participate in on-call rotations, lead incident response, and write clear, blameless RCAs
Continuously reduce operational toil through automation and engineering solutions

CI/CD & DevOps
Build and evolve secure, automated CI/CD pipelines using GitOps principles
Enable protected, frequent production deployments with robust rollback and observability
Partner with application teams to embed reliability and operational excellence early in the lifecycle

Observability & Operations
Implement best-in-class logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting
Ensure alerts are actionable and aligned with service health not noise
Build dashboards, runbooks, and self-healing mechanisms to improve MTTR.

Architecture & Collaboration
Work closely with software engineers, architects, and security teams to influence system design




Review infrastructure and architecture through the lens of scale, resilience, and cost efficiency
Champion DevOps, SRE, and cloud-native best practices across the organization.

Preferred candidate profile

Core Engineering
Robust foundations in Linux, networking (DNS, TCP/IP), and distributed systems
Proficiency in Python or Go for automation and tooling
Clean Git practices and strong software-engineering discipline

Cloud & Containers
Hands-on experience with AWS (primary); exposure to GCP or Azure is a plus
Required solid experience operating Kubernetes in production environments
Required experience with Helm and containerized workloads at scale.

Infrastructure & Tooling
Required Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform
Preferred configuration and automation using Chef / Ansible
CI/CD & GitOps: ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or GitLab CI.

Observability & Reliability
Metrics and alerting: Prometheus, Grafana, Alertmanager
Tracing / APM: Datadog, New Relic, OpenTelemetry
Incident management experience (PagerDuty or equivalent)

Data & Messaging (Working Knowledge)
Datastores: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB
Streaming and search: Kafka, Elasticsearch
Caching: Redis.

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