DevOps Engineer

About the job Role Overview We are seeking a DevOps Engineer to build, secure, and scale our cloud infrastructure. You will own our CI/CD pipelines, manage containerized workloads, and design our AWS architecture, working closely with the engineering team to keep environments reliable, automated, and cost-efficient. To ensure seamless alignment with our product and leadership teams, this role requires a daily 4-hour overlap with US working hours. Key Responsibilities AWS Infrastructure & Architecture Design, build, and maintain scalable, fault-tolerant, and highly available infrastructure on AWS.Champion Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform or CloudFormation to ensure environments are reproducible and secure by design.Optimize cloud spend, performance, and resource utilization.DevOps & Automation Own and optimize CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Jenkins), integrating automated testing into the deployment workflow.Manage and scale containerized workloads using Docker and Kubernetes (EKS).Enhance system visibility by building robust logging, metrics, and alerting frameworks (DataDog, Prometheus, AWS CloudWatch).Collaboration Act as a technical point of contact for US stakeholders, translating business requirements into actionable technical tasks.Maintain availability for a minimum 4-hour daily overlap with US business hours for synchronous collaboration and standups.Required Qualifications and Skills Experience: 3+ years in a DevOps/SRE role.Cloud Platform: Strong expertise in AWS core services (EC2, VPC, S3, RDS, EKS, Route53).Infrastructure as Code: Strong proficiency with Terraform (preferred) or CloudFormation.Containers & Orchestration: Deep understanding of Docker and Kubernetes (EKS).Timezone & Communication: Exceptional English communication skills, with the ability to commit to a consistent daily schedule providing at least 4 hours of overlap with US business hours (e.g., EST/PST).Preferred & Bonus Skills Experience integrating automated security testing (SAST/DAST) into CI/CD pipelines.Familiarity with IAM and least-privilege access models on AWS.Certifications: AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional, or equivalent. What Success Looks Like in the First 90 Days Day 30: Review our current AWS footprint, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure backlog.Day 60: Identify infrastructure gaps and improvements, take ownership of infrastructure sprint planning, and improve CI/CD reliability.Day 90: Streamline deployment automation, improve monitoring and alerting coverage, and introduce cost and scaling optimizations.