Sr. DevOps Engineer

Job Title: AWS Cloud / Platform Engineer (DevOps & Backend)

Experience: 7-10 Years

Location: [Delhi]

About the Role

We are seeking a highly motivated and hands-on Cloud / Platform –Engineer with 7-10 years of experience in building and scaling cloud-native applications. The ideal candidate has strong expertise in AWS Administration, CICD Pipeline, Terraform, Monitoring tools like Promethius/Grafana, GitHub/Jenkins and DevOps practices, along with a solid understanding of distributed systems.

This role requires a product mindset someone who not only builds systems but also considers performance, scalability, reliability, cost optimization, and end-user impact.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect, design, and scale cloud-native systems on AWS
• Build scalable infrastructure with auto-scaling, high availability, and disaster recovery (DR) strategies
• Optimize application and infrastructure performance for high throughput and low latency
• Manage infrastructure as code using Terraform
• Containerize and orchestrate applications using Docker and Kubernetes (EKS preferred)
• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines for efficient and reliable deployments
• Implement robust monitoring, logging, and observability solutions (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack)
• Lead incident response, root cause analysis (RCA), and system reliability improvements
• Apply FinOps principles to monitor and optimize cloud costs
• Collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, and DevOps teams to deliver scalable and efficient solutions

Required Skills & Qualifications

• 7-10 years of hands-on experience in backend and cloud engineering
• Strong experience with AWS services, including:
• * Compute: EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda
• * Databases: RDS, DynamoDB
• * Messaging: SQS, SNS, Kafka
• * Caching: Redis / ElastiCache
• * Networking & CDN: CloudFront, VPC
• * AWS Security Services
• Hands-on experience with Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD tools
• Experience working with observability tools like Prometheus/Grafana
• Experience working with high-scale systems (10M+ users or high RPS environments)
• Strong problem-solving skills with a focus on performance and scalability
• Ability to own end-to-end systems and communicate technical decisions and trade-offs effectively

Preferred Qualifications

* Experience scaling platforms from 100K to 100M+ users

* Exposure to microservices architecture and API gateway design

* Familiarity with security best practices in cloud environments (IAM, secrets management, encryption)

* Experience with blue-green / canary deployments

* Knowledge of serverless architecture patterns

* Prior experience in high-growth or product-based environments

What Were Looking For

• Strong understanding of system design and cloud architecture
• Hands-on experience with distributed systems and scalability challenges
• Deep expertise in AWS ecosystem and cloud best practices
• Ownership mindset with the ability to drive solutions end-to-end