Senior DevOps Engineer – Contract

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

📋 Description

• Take ownership and continuously enhance cloud infrastructure and platform capabilities that support applications, data systems, and engineering teams.

• Identify and implement enhancements to reliability, scalability, security, performance, cost efficiency, developer experience, and operational effectiveness.

• Design, construct, and maintain secure and scalable cloud infrastructure utilizing infrastructure-as-code and cloud-native methodologies.

• Create automation, self-service capabilities, reusable infrastructure patterns, and platform tooling to reduce repetitive operational tasks.

• Enhance Kubernetes and container-based infrastructure for standardized and reliable deployment, scaling, recovery, and operational procedures.

• Take charge of and advance CI/CD and GitOps workflows.

• Collaborate with Software Engineers, Product Engineers, Analytics Engineers, and Technology teams to develop platform solutions.

• Enhance observability through monitoring, logging, tracing, alerting, dashboards, and actionable service health indicators.

• Lead technical investigations during complex production incidents and drive systemic enhancements.

• Improve resilience, disaster recovery, backup strategies, security controls, access management, and infrastructure risk management.

• Evaluate infrastructure and architecture for cost efficiency and minimize unnecessary expenditures.

• Utilize AI-assisted engineering in infrastructure development, troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, automation, documentation, and operations.

• Contribute to architectural decisions and long-term platform strategy development.

• Define and advocate for engineering standards, operational practices, reusable patterns, and platform capabilities.

• Mentor engineers and elevate standards for infrastructure ownership, automation, reliability, and operational excellence.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven ability to independently identify infrastructure and operational issues, determine root causes, design solutions, and implement improvements yielding measurable outcomes.

• Established experience managing business-critical production infrastructure and complex platform initiatives with minimal supervision.

• Strong judgment in balancing reliability, security, engineering velocity, cost, complexity, and business requirements.

• Ability to operate effectively during production incidents and maintain ownership until resolution and follow-up.

• Demonstrated ability to utilize AI-assisted engineering tools and critically assess AI-generated infrastructure changes before implementation in production.

• Extensive experience in designing, operating, troubleshooting, and enhancing highly available production systems in cloud environments.

• Solid experience with Kubernetes, containerization, and modern cloud-native infrastructure.

• Proficient with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, OpenTofu, or similar technologies.

• Strong understanding of CI/CD, GitOps, automated deployment practices, and contemporary software delivery workflows.

• Familiarity with monitoring, logging, tracing, alerting, and incident management practices.

• Comprehensive understanding of reliability engineering, failure modes, resilience, capacity, recovery, and operational risk.

• Experience with secure infrastructure patterns, access controls, secrets management, system hardening, and cloud security best practices.

• Strong Linux and systems troubleshooting capabilities across applications, containers, networks, infrastructure, and cloud services.

• Significant experience managing production workloads in AWS or a comparable cloud platform.

• Experience with GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, or similar platforms.

• Familiarity with Datadog or analogous observability tools.

• Strong scripting or programming skills in Python, Bash, or another relevant language.

• Basic understanding of networking, DNS, CDN/WAF technologies, load balancing, TLS, and application delivery architecture.

• Experience supporting MySQL, Redis, Redshift, or similar stateful systems.

• Excellent communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Ability to work collaboratively with Software Engineering, Analytics Engineering, Product, Security, and other teams.

• Self-motivated, highly autonomous, and comfortable working in a remote-first environment.

• Ability to constructively challenge existing practices and influence technical direction.

• Proven ability to mentor engineers and raise engineering standards.

• Must be currently authorized to work in India at the time of hire and maintain authorization throughout employment.

• Employer work visa sponsorship and support are not available.

• Pre-employment screening is required.

🏝️ Benefits

• No perks or benefits are offered with this contract role.

• Remote work.

• Opportunities for global team collaboration through company all-hands, team events, Slack communities, learning sessions, and in-person gatherings.