DevOps Engineer

Overview

Senior AWS DevOps Engineer providing technical leadership in architecting and scaling cloud-native automation, observability, and performance engineering frameworks across mission-critical payment platforms. The role drives cloud modernization initiatives and mentors engineering teams in advanced DevOps and AWS best practices.

What you'll do

• Design and develop AWS-based deployment and test automation frameworks using services such as AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild, Lambda, CloudFormation, and ECS/EKS.
• Lead the creation and optimization of load, regression, and performance test suites, integrating them into cloud-native CI/CD systems.
• Guide and mentor teams in performance testing, automation, and best practices using modern AWS and DevOps tooling.
• Collaborate with development, operations, and support teams to troubleshoot and resolve complex issues, including Level-3 customer escalations in cloud environments.
• Review and enhance test plans, automation scripts, and infrastructure definitions, ensuring quality, reliability, and security alignment.
• Design and manage containerized workloads leveraging Amazon ECS, EKS, Fargate, and ECR; implement blue/green and canary deployment strategies.
• Implement enterprise-grade observability using CloudWatch, AWS X-Ray, CloudTrail, OpenTelemetry, AWS Health Dashboard, and centralized logging with Amazon OpenSearch and Kinesis Data Firehose.
• Manage secure, compliant environments leveraging AWS IAM, IAM Identity Center, KMS, Secrets Manager, Systems Manager, GuardDuty, Security Hub, WAF, Shield, and VPC security controls.
• Lead troubleshooting and root-cause analysis of complex distributed applications, analyzing logs, traces, and metrics across VPCs, ALB/NLB, Route 53, and multi-account AWS organizations.
• Optimize cloud costs and performance using AWS Compute Optimizer, Cost Explorer, Trusted Advisor, Auto Scaling groups, and serverless optimization patterns.
• Work within Agile/Scrum teams, driving continuous improvement, reliability engineering, and DevOps culture adoption across Systems Test and SRE teams.

What you'll need

• A bachelor degree in Engineering or equivalent.
• 10+ years of DevOps and Test Engineering experience, including 4+ years in technical leadership roles.
• Strong expertise with AWS services, cloud automation, and IaC (CloudFormation, Terraform, CDK).
• Solid understanding of relational databases such as MySQL, MariaDB, and MS SQL.
• Hands-on experience with GitLab, CI/CD implementation, and AWS/other cloud services.
• Scrum, Agile, and Kanban development models.

Nice to have

• Demonstrated experience validating high-throughput, resilient, cloud-native web applications and APIs.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills suitable for cross-functional technical leadership.
• Ability to rapidly learn new AWS services, DevOps tools, and best practices, and to coach others to adopt them.
• Payment industry experience highly desired.

Details

• Location: Bangalore, India.
• Education: Computer science degree or equivalent work experience within a professional software environment.