Senior DevOps Engineer

"Please note: This role is being recruited on behalf of our client."

Role - Senior Devops Engineer

Location - Remote, Hybrid (in case candidate is from Islamabad)

What are we looking for?

- Curiosity and Passion to Learn: Demonstrate a strong desire to explore new technologies and methodologies. Open to unlearning and relearning, essential in a rapidly evolving tech landscape

- DevOps Cultural Advocacy: Committed to create an automation first and continuous improvement mindset within the team.

- Mentorship and Coaching: Developing team members through knowledge sharing, training, and constructive feedback.

- Customer-Centric Mindset: Ability to understand and prioritize customer needs,translating them into actionable requirements for the team.

- Long Term Thinking: Ability to align team efforts with project goals, ensuring that DevOps practices contribute to broader business objectives.

- Problem-Solving Mindset: Strong analytical ability to proactively troubleshoot issues and propose innovative solutions to the team lead.

- Collaborative: Excellent interpersonal skills to work effectively within cross-functional teams, fostering a collaborative atmosphere

- Team Lead Experience: Has led teams in customer projects (optional)

Technical Requirements:

- Design and set up highly-available, fault tolerant and scalable applications in public cloud; preferably AWS.

- Experience with optimising cloud infrastructure according to six pillars of Well Architected Framework.

- CI/CD pipelines design for dev, staging and production environments. Preferably in Github CI, ArgoCD, and Jenkins. Experience with AWS Developer tools is a nice to have.

- Container orchestration tool, preferably Amazon EKS.

- Automating and infrastructure provision using Infrastructure as code; preferably Terraform or Amazon CloudFormation.

- Various monitoring and logging tools like Prometheus, ELK, Grafana etc.

- Familiarity with tools like Ansible, Puppet, or Chef for automating server configuration and management tasks.

- Knowledge of security protocols and practices to safeguard applications and

infrastructure.

[Nice to have] Knowledge and/or experience related to AI tooling in DevOps, and LLMOps.

Candidates with Professional Level certifications (Solution Architect Pro, DevOps Pro) in AWS will be preferred.

[Nice to have] Certifications related to Kubernetes (CKA, CKAD) and Terraform (HashiCorp Terraform Associate)

Education

Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.