Senior DevOps Engineer

Job Description

**Job Title:**
Senior DevOps Engineer

**Experience:**
10 15 Years

**Location:**
Remote

**Employment Type:**
Contract

**Visa:**
Any (H1B / / // C2C / W2)

**Job Summary**
We are looking for a highly experienced
**Senior DevOps Engineer**
with strong expertise in
**CI/CD pipelines, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, containerization, automation, and cloud platforms**
. The candidate will lead DevOps architecture, manage large-scale infrastructure, and automate deployments across cloud environments. This role requires deep knowledge of DevOps tools, strong scripting, and the ability to drive end-to-end automation in enterprise environments.

**Key Responsibilities**

– Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, or Azure DevOps.
– Automate build, test, and deployment processes for microservices, APIs, and distributed systems.
– Manage and optimize version control workflows (branching strategy, PR gates, release management).
– Implement infrastructure automation using Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible.
– Build and deploy applications using Docker containers and orchestration platforms like Kubernetes (EKS, AKS, GKE).
– Configure and maintain cloud infrastructure across AWS / Azure / Google Cloud Platform.
– Implement monitoring and logging systems using Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, CloudWatch, Datadog.
– Manage environment provisioning, auto-scaling, and system performance tuning.
– Work closely with development teams to integrate DevOps best practices throughout the SDLC.
– Ensure security compliance with DevSecOps practices, secrets management, and vulnerability scanning.
– Troubleshoot CI/CD failures, deployment issues, and production outages.
– Mentor junior DevOps engineers and lead technical discussions.

**Required Skills & Experience**

– 10 15 years of hands-on experience in DevOps engineering.
– Expert-level experience with CI/CD tools: GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps.
– Strong hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Helm.
– Expertise in infrastructure automation: Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation.
– Strong scripting skills: Python, Bash, Shell, Groovy.
– Cloud expertise in AWS / Azure / Google Cloud Platform (any one required, multi-cloud preferred).
– Experience with observability tools: Prometheus, Grafana, Elastic Stack, Datadog.
– Strong understanding of networking, load balancing, firewalls, security groups.
– Experience with secrets management: Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, Azure Key Vault.
– Strong understanding of Linux, system administration, and server management.
– Experience with blue/green deployments, canary releases, rollout strategies.
– Experience supporting production systems 24/7 with high availability.

**Preferred Qualifications**

– Experience with ArgoCD, Spinnaker, FluxCD (GitOps tools).
– Hands-on experience with service mesh (Istio, Linkerd).
– Kubernetes certification (CKA/CKAD/CKS).
– Experience with FinOps, cost optimization, cloud budgeting.
– Knowledge of microservices architecture and distributed systems.

**Soft Skills**

– Strong communication & documentation skills.
– Excellent problem-solving & troubleshooting abilities.
– Leadership experience in managing DevOps teams.
– Ability to operate in fast-paced, agile environments.