Devops Engineer

Role Overview

We are looking for a highly skilled DevOps / Platform Engineer with strong hands-on experience in Golang, Kubernetes, and AWS to design, build, and operate scalable cloud-native platforms. The ideal candidate will be responsible for CI/CD automation, infrastructure provisioning, container orchestration, monitoring, and incident management in production environments.

Key Responsibilities

Platform & Infrastructure

Design, deploy, and manage highly available and scalable infrastructure on AWS

Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform for repeatable and secure deployments

Manage and optimize Kubernetes clusters (EKS preferred), including upgrades, scaling, and security hardening

CI/CD & Automation

Design and implement end-to-end CI/CD pipelines for microservices and cloud-native applications

Automate build, test, security scans, and deployment workflows

Ensure best practices for pipeline reliability, performance, and security

Containerization & Orchestration

Build, optimize, and manage containerized applications using Docker

Implement Kubernetes best practices including deployments, services, ingress, HPA, and resource management

Enforce container security and image lifecycle management

Monitoring, Observability & Reliability

Implement and maintain monitoring and observability solutions (Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, etc.)

Define and monitor SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs

Proactively identify performance bottlenecks and reliability risks

Incident Management & RCA

Participate in on-call rotations and handle production incidents

Lead incident response, troubleshooting, and recovery efforts

Perform Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and implement preventive measures

Collaboration & Best Practices

Work closely with development, security, and architecture teams

Promote DevOps, SRE, and cloud-native best practices across teams

Contribute to platform documentation and operational runbooks

Mandatory Technical Skills

Strong programming experience in Golang

Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes (production environments)

Strong hands-on experience with AWS (EKS, EC2, IAM, VPC, S3, Load Balancers, CloudWatch)

Proven experience designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines

Expertise in Infrastructure as Code, preferably Terraform

Deep understanding of containerization and orchestration best practices

Experience with monitoring, logging, and observability tools

Solid experience in incident management and root cause analysis

Nice to Have

Experience building or supporting cloud-native microservices architectures

Knowledge of cost optimization strategies in AWS

Exposure to Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles

Familiarity with security scanning tools and DevSecOps practices

Experience with GitOps tools (ArgoCD, Flux)

Required Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience

4–8 years of experience in DevOps / Platform / Cloud Engineering

Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills

Excellent communication and collaboration abilities

Originally posted on Himalayas