<p><p><b>Senior DevOps Engineer</b> <br/><br/>We are hiring an experienced DevOps Engineer to drive end-to-end infrastructure automation, scalable deployment pipelines, and platform resiliency for enterprise-grade, AWS-hosted systems.
This individual contributor role is ideal for candidates with a deep hands-on background in Kubernetes (EKS), CI/CD, Terraform, GitOps, observability, and cloud-native DevOps practices.
You will work closely with developers, SREs, and platform teams to ensure infrastructure reliability, performance, and security.<br/><br/><b>Mode : </b> Hybrid (3 days/week from : </b> US-based multinational banking institution</p><p><br/><b>Key Responsibilities : </b></p></p><p><br/></p><p>- Architect and manage CI/CD pipelines across Bitbucket, Jenkins, or equivalent tools.<br/><br/></p><p>- Provision, monitor, and maintain AWS cloud environments, with a focus on automation, tagging standards, IAM roles, VPC networking, and cost controls.<br/><br/></p><p>- Manage Kubernetes clusters (EKS) with Helm, pod autoscaling, ingress configuration, probes, and RBAC.<br/><br/></p><p>- Implement GitOps workflows using Argo CD or similar tools for deployment automation and rollback strategies.<br/><br/></p><p>- Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform, Ansible, and AWS SAM for infrastructure consistency and scalability.<br/><br/></p><p>- Write and optimize Bash or Python scripts for system tasks, monitoring, and deployment automation.<br/><br/></p><p>- Ensure systems are secure, observable, and compliant, integrating DevSecOps checks and telemetry pipelines.<br/><br/></p><p>- Collaborate in incident management, participate in on-call rotations, and contribute to post-incident RCAs.<br/><br/></p><p>- Build monitoring, logging, and alerting systems using CloudWatch, Prometheus, or other observability stacks.<br/><br/></p><p>- Support datastore integrations (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis) for backend systems including backup and performance tuning.<br/><br/></p><p>- Coordinate with stakeholders across environments on deployment strategy, environment config, and DR planning.<br/><br/><b>Required Technical Skills : </b></p><p><br/></p><p>- Strong hands-on experience with EC2, VPC, S3, Lambda, RDS, ECR, IAM, and CloudWatch.<br/><br/></p><p>- Skilled in deploying and managing workloads on Amazon EKS, Helm chart authoring, resource quotas, health probes, and service </p><p>discovery.<br/><br/></p><p>- Expertise with Terraform (modular, stateful), Ansible playbooks, and AWS SAM for serverless.<br/><br/></p><p>- Experience building and managing YAML-based pipelines in Jenkins, Bitbucket Pipelines, or similar.<br/><br/></p><p>- Experience configuring GitOps sync policies, access control, and automated deployments.<br/><br/></p><p>- Proficient in Bash or Python for task automation, system ops, and custom deployment logic.<br/><br/></p><p>- Strong command of Linux OS administration (Ubuntu/CentOS), NGINX/Apache configuration, performance tuning.<br/><br/></p><p>- Built and maintained dashboards and alerts using CloudWatch, Prometheus, or similar tools.<br/><br/></p><p>- Operational understanding of MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis for integration, optimization, and backup.<br/><br/></p><p>- Familiarity with DR planning, RPO/RTO concepts, and tools like Veeam or Commvault.<br/><br/></p><p>- Active experience in handling incidents, triaging issues, and conducting RCAs.<br/><br/><b>Nice-to-Have Skills : </b></p><p><br/></p><p>- Exposure to declarative deployment strategies.<br/><br/></p><p>- Basic experience with Kafka configuration and integration in distributed systems.<br/><br/></p><p>- Experience with Datadog for real-time observability and custom dashboards.<br/><br/></p><p>- Familiarity with fault injection tools or resilience testing.<br/><br/></p><p>- Integrated security scanning and compliance readiness into CI/CD workflows.<br/><br/></p><p>- Experience with Maven, Gradle, or NPM in CI environments.<br/><br/></p><p>- AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Developer Associate, or HashiCorp Certified Terraform Associate preferred.</p><br/></p> (ref:hirist.tech)