Senior DevOps Engineer

Summary

Join our team as a Senior DevOps Engineer and contribute to building highly available, fault-tolerant, and scalable applications in a public cloud environment, preferably AWS. You will design and set up CI/CD pipelines, utilize container orchestration tools (Amazon EKS preferred), and employ Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or CloudFormation preferred). The role requires a strong problem-solving mindset, collaboration skills, and a commitment to continuous improvement. Mentorship and coaching of team members are also key aspects of this position. A customer-centric approach and alignment with broader business objectives are essential. This is a remote position with a hybrid option for candidates in Islamabad.

Requirements

• Experience with optimising cloud infrastructure according to six pillars of Well Architected Framework
• Familiarity with tools like Ansible, Puppet, or Chef for automating server configuration and management tasks
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field
• More than 4 years of experience is required
• Curiosity and Passion to Learn: Demonstrate a strong desire to explore new technologies and methodologies. Open to unlearning and relearning, essential in a rapidly evolving tech landscape
• DevOps Cultural Advocacy: Committed to create an automation first and continuous improvement mindset within the team
• Customer-Centric Mindset: Ability to understand and prioritize customer needs, translating them into actionable requirements for the team
• Long Term Thinking: Ability to align team efforts with project goals, ensuring that DevOps practices contribute to broader business objectives
• Problem-Solving Mindset: Strong analytical ability to proactively troubleshoot issues and propose innovative solutions to the team lead
• Collaborative: Excellent interpersonal skills to work effectively within cross-functional teams, fostering a collaborative atmosphere

Responsibilities

• Design and set up highly-available, fault tolerant and scalable applications in public cloud; preferably AWS
• CI/CD pipelines design for dev, staging and production environments. Preferably in Github CI, ArgoCD, and Jenkins. Experience with AWS Developer tools is a nice to have
• Container orchestration tool, preferably Amazon EKS
• Automating and infrastructure provision using Infrastructure as code; preferably Terraform or Amazon CloudFormation
• Various monitoring and logging tools like Prometheus, ELK, Grafana etc
• Mentorship and Coaching: Developing team members through knowledge sharing, training, and constructive feedback

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of security protocols and practices to safeguard applications and infrastructure
• Knowledge and/or experience related to AI tooling in DevOps, and LLMOps
• Candidates with Professional Level certifications (Solution Architect Pro, DevOps Pro) in AWS will be preferred
• Certifications related to Kubernetes (CKA, CKAD) and Terraform (HashiCorp Terraform Associate)
• Team Lead Experience: Has led teams in customer projects (optional)