Senior DevOps Engineer – Service Layer / QTC Cloud Platform

Role Details

- Role: Senior DevOps Engineer

- Experience: 7+ years
- AWS Experience: 4+ years hands-on
- Primary Skills: AWS, Terraform, CI/CD, DevSecOps, Kafka / MSK, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS Networking, Cloud Security, Observability
- Platform Exposure: AWS Serverless, EKS/ECS, API Gateway, ALB/NLB, CloudFront, Route53, RDS/Aurora PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, SQS/SNS, EventBridge
- Domain Exposure: Quote-to-Cash, Customer Lifecycle, Enterprise Integrations preferred

- Location /Mode: Bengaluru/Hybrid

Role Overview

We are looking for a strong, hands-on, and highly motivated Senior DevOps Engineer to design, build, secure, and operate the cloud platform powering the Service Layer (SL-QTC) ecosystem supporting Quote-to-Cash (QTC), customer lifecycle, and enterprise integration workloads. The role involves building and operating a cloud-native, event-driven platform based on AWS, Kafka / AWS MSK, serverless technologies, databases, observability platforms, and DevSecOps toolchains.

The ideal candidate should have strong expertise in AWS cloud infrastructure, Infrastructure-as-Code, CI/CD, networking, security, observability, platform engineering, and production operations for mission-critical distributed systems.

Key Responsibilities

AWS Cloud Platform Engineering

- Design, build, and maintain AWS cloud infrastructure supporting highly available event-driven workloads.
- Work across AWS services including Lambda, API Gateway, EC2, EKS/ECS, S3, RDS/Aurora PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, SQS, SNS, EventBridge, IAM, CloudWatch, and VPC.
- Ensure cloud infrastructure is reliable, scalable, secure, resilient, and cost-efficient.
- Support business-critical workloads across APIs, databases, messaging platforms, serverless applications, and enterprise integrations.

Infrastructure-as-Code & Automation

- Design and implement Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) using Terraform.
- Build reusable automation frameworks for repeatable, secure, and scalable platform provisioning.
- Standardize infrastructure deployment practices across environments.
- Maintain infrastructure modules, templates, automation scripts, and configuration standards.

CI/CD & DevSecOps

- Build and maintain secure CI/CD pipelines for application, infrastructure, and platform deployments.
- Implement deployment automation, release strategies, automated testing, quality checks, and environment management.
- Drive DevSecOps practices by integrating:
- Security scanning

- Policy enforcement

- Infrastructure validation

- Container security

- Dependency management

- Compliance checks

- Work with tools such as GitLab CI, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or similar platforms.

AWS Networking & Traffic Management

- Design, implement, and manage AWS networking architecture including:
- VPCs

- Subnets

- Route tables

- NAT Gateways

- Transit Gateway

- PrivateLink

- Security Groups

- VPNs

- Hybrid connectivity

- Manage application ingress, routing, and content delivery using:

- Route53

- API Gateway

- Application Load Balancers





- Network Load Balancers

- CloudFront

Cloud Security & Identity Management

- Implement cloud security controls using:
- AWS WAF

- AWS Shield

- IAM

- Encryption

- Secrets management

- Vulnerability management

- Audit logging

- Compliance frameworks

- Configure and support enterprise identity integrations using:

- Microsoft Entra ID / Azure AD

- SAML

- OAuth2

- OpenID Connect
- Single Sign-On

- Ensure secure-by-design practices across infrastructure, deployment, networking, and application layers.

Kafka / MSK Platform Operations

- Support Kafka / AWS MSK platform operations including:
- Topic management

- Access controls

- Capacity planning

- Monitoring

- Scaling

- Disaster recovery

- Partner with engineering teams to improve event-driven workload reliability, availability, and operational supportability.

Observability, Monitoring & Operations

- Implement and manage observability solutions covering:
- Monitoring

- Centralized logging

- Distributed tracing

- Alerting

- Dashboarding

- Operational analytics

- Work with tools such as:

- CloudWatch

- Grafana

- Datadog

- Prometheus

- OpenTelemetry

- ClickHouse

- Create operational dashboards and alerts to support real-time platform visibility.

Reliability, Resiliency & FinOps

- Perform platform performance tuning, capacity planning, backup validation, recovery testing, and disaster recovery readiness.
- Drive business continuity and operational resilience activities.
- Lead FinOps initiatives by monitoring cloud usage, optimizing resource utilization, reducing wastage, and improving cost efficiency.
- Implement tagging strategies, budget governance, and cost reporting.

Production Support & Continuous Improvement

- Troubleshoot production issues and perform root-cause analysis for business-critical systems.
- Drive corrective and preventive actions to improve platform stability.
- Contribute to platform standards, operational runbooks, automation initiatives, and engineering best practices.
- Work closely with Engineering, Architecture, Security, Product, and DevOps teams.

Must-Have Skills

AWS Cloud Infrastructure

- Strong experience designing and operating AWS cloud platforms.
- Hands-on experience with:
- Lambda

- API Gateway

- EC2

- EKS / ECS
- S3

- RDS / Aurora PostgreSQL

- DynamoDB

- SQS / SNS

- EventBridge

- IAM

- CloudWatch

- VPC services

AWS Networking

- Strong experience with:
- VPCs

- Subnets

- Route tables

- Security Groups

- NAT Gateways

- Transit Gateway

- PrivateLink

- Route53

- VPNs

- Hybrid connectivity

Traffic Routing & Edge Security

- Strong experience with:
- Route53

- Application Load Balancers





- Network Load Balancers

- CloudFront

- API Gateway

- AWS WAF

- AWS Shield

Infrastructure-as-Code

- Strong hands-on experience with Terraform.
- Experience building infrastructure automation at enterprise scale.
- Ability to manage reusable IaC modules, environment provisioning, and governance controls.

CI/CD & DevSecOps

- Strong experience building and managing CI/CD and DevSecOps pipelines.
- Hands-on exposure to:
- Automated deployments

- Code quality validation

- Security scanning

- Vulnerability management

- Release automation

- Tools: GitLab CI, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or equivalent.

Containers & Kubernetes

- Strong experience with:
- Docker

- Kubernetes

- EKS

- Container orchestration
- Cloud-native operational practices

Event-Driven Platforms

- Strong experience supporting event-driven architecture and messaging platforms such as:
- Kafka

- AWS MSK

- RabbitMQ

- Equivalent messaging technologies

Identity & Access Management

- Strong understanding of:
- IAM

- RBAC

- OAuth2

- OpenID Connect

- SAML

- SSO

- Enterprise federation patterns

Observability & Monitoring

- Experience implementing monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting solutions using:
- CloudWatch

- Grafana

- Datadog

- Prometheus

- OpenTelemetry

- ClickHouse

Security, Compliance & Automation

- Strong understanding of cloud security and compliance frameworks including:
- Encryption at rest and in transit

- Secrets management

- Vulnerability management

- Audit logging

- Security monitoring

- Secure software delivery practices

- Strong scripting and automation experience using:

- Python

- Bash

- PowerShell

- Similar scripting technologies

FinOps

- Experience with FinOps practices including:
- Cloud cost optimization

- Resource utilization analysis

- Tagging strategies

- Budget governance

- Cost reporting

Required Qualifications

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or related discipline.
- 7+ years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, Cloud Infrastructure, or related roles.
- 4+ years of hands-on experience designing and operating AWS-based cloud platforms.
- Experience supporting highly available, secure, and scalable distributed systems in production environments.
- Strong experience working in Agile delivery environments with cross-functional engineering teams.
- Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills with production support experience.

Nice to Have

- Certifications such as:
- AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Qualified

- AWS Solutions Architect

- AWS Security Specialty

- CKA / CKAD
- Equivalent cloud / Kubernetes certifications

- Experience implementing SRE practices, including:

- SLIs

- SLOs

- Error budgets

- Operational excellence frameworks

- Experience with multi-account AWS governance, Control Tower, landing zones, and enterprise cloud operating models.
- Strong exposure to large-scale enterprise integration or Quote-to-Cash platforms.

📌 Senior DevOps Engineer – Service Layer / QTC Cloud Platform (Karnataka)
🏢 TALPRO INDIA PRIVATE
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