Lead DevOps Engineer with AWS

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins to enable fast, secure, and repeatable deployments.
• Manage container orchestration and deployment via Kubernetes (EKS) and Helm.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and monitoring to support application reliability and performance.
• Collaborate with SREs to build platform tooling that supports observability, diagnostics, and resiliency.
• Troubleshoot deployment issues and lead root cause analysis for platform-related incidents.
• Support and enhance deployment strategies including canary releases, blue/green deployments, and rollback mechanisms.
• Ensure systems are compliant with security and audit standards using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) best practices.

Required Skills & Experience

• 10+ years of experience in a DevOps, Platform Engineering, or SRE role.
• Proven expertise with Jenkins for building robust and secure CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS EKS Kubernetes.
• Deep understanding of Helm for managing Kubernetes deployments.
• Proficient with scripting languages (e.g., Bash, Python, Groovy) and version control (e.g., Git).
• Familiarity with infrastructure as code tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Solid understanding of monitoring, logging, and alerting practices (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog).
• Experience working in Agile environments with cross-functional teams.

Nice to Have

• Exposure to cloud-native technologies like ArgoCD, Flux, or Kustomize.
• Experience with service mesh technologies (e.g., Istio, Linkerd).
• Background in SRE practices including SLIs/SLOs and error budgets.
• Familiarity with security and compliance automation (e.g., CIS benchmarks, policy-as-code)