Devops Engineer

Role Overview We are looking for an experienced DevOps / Platform Engineer to own and operate our AWS production environment, working closely with our existing DevOps team to provide near-round-the-clock coverage. You will keep services reliable, secure and cost-efficient, and quickly diagnose and resolve production issues. Key Responsibilities • Own and operate AWS production infrastructure end to end, ensuring availability, performance and security • Troubleshoot and resolve production incidents, lead root cause analysis, and take part in the on-call rotation • Build and mature CI/CD pipelines for reliable, repeatable deployments with clear rollback paths • Automate infrastructure and operational tasks using Infrastructure as Code and scripting • Build monitoring, logging, alerting and incident-response tooling to improve reliability and uptime • Review and tighten access-control policies; support secrets management and dependency scanning • Identify and eliminate cloud waste as part of ongoing cost optimization • Partner with engineering and data teams on deployments and incident response Essential Technical Skills • AWS (5+ years, hands-on): EC2, RDS, VPC, IAM, ALB/ELB, Auto Scaling, CloudFront, CodeBuild/CodeDeploy • Networking: VPC design and routing, public/private subnets, security groups and NACLs, cross-network connectivity, DNS and load balancing • CI/CD: Proven experience building and maintaining pipelines (GitHub Actions or equivalent), including secrets and environment management • Infrastructure as Code: Hands-on experience with safe, repeatable infrastructure changes (CloudFormation preferred) • Monitoring and operations: CloudWatch or equivalent for dashboards, logging, alerting and uptime monitoring; production on-call ownership • Troubleshooting: A structured, demonstrable approach to debugging infrastructure, network and application issues • Edge and DNS: Working knowledge of CDN, DNS and WAF management • Databases: PostgreSQL administration (MySQL familiarity is a plus) • Automation: Python and/or Bash scripting for operational tooling • Application awareness: Understanding of how web applications run in production • Mindset: Ownership, clear communication and a cost-conscious approach Work Arrangement and Shift Requirements • Full-time, reporting to Engineering leadership • US shift: 10 PM to 6 AM IST • Comfortable working in a tightly coupled, follow-the-sun pairing with an offshore counterpart