Lead DevOps Engineer
IndiaFull-TimeLead
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Job Details
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Required Skills
- PostgreSQLKubernetesMongoDBPrometheusRedisCI/CDTerraformDatadog
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering roles at scale.
- Strong hands-on expertise with Kubernetes, container orchestration, and large-scale distributed systems.
- Proven experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform and building CI/CD pipelines.
- Strong knowledge of cloud and hosting environments, ideally including DigitalOcean, Hetzner, or similar infrastructure providers.
- Expertise in monitoring and observability tools (e.g., Datadog, New Relic, Prometheus, ELK stack) with a strong sense of operational excellence.
- Demonstrated experience optimizing infrastructure costs and improving system performance in production environments.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to influence technical stakeholders in a fully remote, async-first setup.
- Proven hands-on use of AI tools to deliver measurable engineering or operational improvements.
- Experience mentoring or leading other engineers in a technical capacity.
- Experience with databases and data systems such as PostgreSQL, Redis, ClickHouse, and MongoDB is a plus.
Responsibilities
- Own and drive the end-to-end platform roadmap, identifying critical improvements, infrastructure gaps, and long-term architectural priorities.
- Lead the consolidation of multiple infrastructure stacks into a unified, scalable, and reliable platform with minimal operational disruption.
- Design and optimize cloud infrastructure for performance, scalability, security, and cost efficiency across large-scale distributed systems.
- Implement robust monitoring, alerting, logging, and disaster recovery strategies to ensure system reliability and resilience.
- Take ownership of infrastructure cost optimization, including high-impact areas such as proxy and compute expenses.
- Strengthen platform security posture by proactively addressing vulnerabilities and defending against evolving threats.
- Collaborate closely with engineering teams, contributing to system design decisions and supporting development workflows.
- Mentor engineers and help elevate overall platform engineering maturity, including tooling, processes, and best practices.
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