DevOps Engineer

As a part of our team, you will be responsible for owning and scaling our AWS-based platform with Kubernetes (EKS), Terraform IaC, and GitHub Actions-driven CI/CD. Your main focus will be streamlining container build/deploy, observability, security, and developer workflows, including Slack integrations. By managing and optimizing Kubernetes on AWS, maintaining Terraform-based IaC, and building GitHub Actions pipelines, you will contribute to delivering a reliable, cost-efficient, and secure platform.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage and optimize Kubernetes (EKS) on AWS, including deployments, scaling, ingress, networking, and security.
• Maintain and extend Terraform-based IaC for consistent, repeatable, multi-environment deployments (modules, remote state).
• Build, maintain, and optimize GitHub Actions pipelines for backend, frontend, and infrastructure.
• Manage Docker images and AWS ECR (build, tag/version, cache, and vulnerability scanning).
• Monitor health, performance, and costs across AWS; recommend and implement improvements.
• Implement alerting, logging, and observability using CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana (or equivalents).
• Automate operational tasks via scripting and internal tooling to reduce manual work.
• Partner with developers to ensure environment parity, smooth deployments, and fast incident resolution.
• Integrate Slack with CI/CD, monitoring, and incident workflows.
• Enforce security best practices across AWS, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and container images.

Qualifications Required:

• Must-have skills & experience:
• Cloud (AWS): IAM, VPC, EC2, S3, RDS, CloudWatch, EKS, ECR.
• Kubernetes (EKS): Deployments, autoscaling, ingress, networking, secrets, ConfigMaps, Helm.
• IaC (Terraform): Modular code, remote state, environment patterns.
• Containers: Docker image building/optimization and vulnerability scanning.
• CI/CD (GitHub Actions): Workflows, matrix builds, caching, secrets management.
• Monitoring & Logging: Hands-on with CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK, or Loki.
• Security: Practical knowledge of IAM policies, K8s RBAC, and hardening practices.
• Scripting: Proficiency in Bash.
• Collaboration: Experience wiring Slack for deployments, alerts, and on-call workflows.

Additional Company Details:

At our company, you can expect:

• ESOPs based on performance.
• Health insurance.
• Statutory benefits like PF & Gratuity.
• Remote work options.
• Professional development opportunities.
• Collaborative and inclusive work culture.

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