Senior DevOps Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in India.

📋 Description

• Transform manual runbooks into event-driven automation solutions.

• Design, create, and implement production-quality software utilizing Python and JavaScript/TypeScript.

• Assess blast radius and establish least-privilege IAM policies.

• Ensure that automated actions are both traceable and auditable.

• Provide support for core database and streaming platforms in a production environment.

• Engage in the team's production on-call rotation.

• Develop event-driven automations leveraging Python/TypeScript and AWS.

• Convert significant operational runbooks into secure, self-service or auto-triggered systems.

• Create standardized deployment patterns.

• Spearhead the adoption of LLM-enhanced development tools with code-review safeguards.

• Take ownership of the automation roadmap for the Data Infrastructure team.

• Collaborate with SRE, Security, and product teams to promote event-driven, self-healing systems.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field, or equivalent professional experience.

• Over 5 years of professional software engineering experience, including significant time spent building or managing production systems at a SaaS or cloud service provider.

• Experience in 24x7 production operations for a highly available SaaS or cloud environment, including on-call duties.

• Proficient programming skills in Python and JavaScript/TypeScript; capable of managing services from design through to production.

• Extensive hands-on experience with AWS infrastructure, particularly Lambda, EventBridge, IAM, CloudWatch, and CloudTrail.

• Proficient in deploying, managing, and troubleshooting production databases and distributed data stores such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, DynamoDB, or Kafka.

• Experience in designing event-driven architectures and automation triggered by monitoring.

• Solid practical knowledge of Kubernetes in a production setting, encompassing deployments, RBAC, controllers, and safe operational practices.

• Experience with Prometheus and alert-driven workflows.

• Strong understanding of security principles, including least-privilege IAM design, secrets management, and blast-radius analysis.

• Proven capability in building for auditability, including structured logs, correlation IDs, and immutable change records.

• Demonstrated experience utilizing LLM-enhanced development tools like Cursor and Claude, with responsible output-review methodologies.

• Familiarity with CI/CD processes such as GitHub Actions or Jenkins.

• Strong foundational knowledge of systems, networking, and troubleshooting distributed systems.

• Excellent written communication skills, with the ability to translate complex operational incidents into clear runbooks and code.

• Ability to work independently across time zones and collaborate effectively with a globally distributed team.

• Preferred: experience in reducing manual toil at scale, resulting in measurable decreases in alerts, tickets, or MTTR.

• Preferred: background in SRE, DevOps, or platform engineering within a large multi-tenant SaaS environment.

• Preferred: familiarity with Terraform and GitOps methodologies.

• Preferred: experience with Apache Airflow and Kafka.

🏝️ Benefits

• Comprehensive medical insurance for employees and their dependents.

• Accident insurance coverage.

• Term life insurance provided.

• All insurance premiums covered by SailPoint.

• Company-sponsored health check-ups for employees.

• Discounted rates for health check-ups for dependents.

• Annual performance-based bonus.

• Restricted stock units available at certain levels.

• 24 vacation days each year.

• 10 public holidays.

• Flexible work hours.