Senior DevOps Engineer

Project Description: We are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our engineering team and play a key role in shaping the foundation of our cloud-native platforms. You will be responsible for driving DevOps best practices, designing scalable and secure infrastructure, and enabling high-velocity software delivery across multiple environments. As a senior technical leader, you'll work closely with engineering, security, and operations teams to deliver resilient platforms for mission-critical financial applications. Responsibilities: Platform Engineering & Automation: • Design and maintain Kubernetes-based environments with blue-green/multi-cluster strategies. • Build scalable CI/CD pipelines leveraging ArgoCD, Jenkins, and GitOps practices. • Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration with Terraform, Helm, and kubectl. Infrastructure & Cloud: • Architect and operate AWS infrastructure (VPC, EKS, Transit Gateway, RDS, S3, ECR, IAM, etc.). • Design highly available, multi-tier network architectures with secure connectivity to on-prem. • Optimize cost, performance, and scalability across compute, storage, and networking layers. • Lead adoption of infrastructure security best practices (guardrails, detective/preventive controls, encryption). Observability & Reliability: • Establish monitoring, logging, and alerting with Prometheus, OpenSearch, and Grafana. • Define and enforce SLOs/SLIs, champion reliability engineering practices. • Lead incident management processes and support blameless postmortems. Security & SaaS Integration: • Implement Zero Trust principles with service mesh, OAuth2 proxies, and ZTNA integrations. • Manage IAM roles, secrets, and access control across hybrid infra and SaaS services. • Integrate and operationalize security and productivity SaaS platforms (e.g., Zscaler, SentinelOne, Twingate, Atlassian stack). • Ensure compliance with PCI DSS, ISO 27001, MAS TRM, and other regulatory frameworks. Collaboration & Leadership: • Partner with product and engineering teams to improve developer experience and platform efficiency. • Mentor engineers on cloud architecture, automation, and SaaS adoption. • Evaluate emerging tools, SaaS offerings, and practices, aligning them with business needs. Mandatory Skills Description: • 8+ years of DevOps/SRE/Platform engineering experience, with 2+ years in a Staff or Lead role. • Deep expertise in Kubernetes, AWS, and container orchestration patterns. • At least 3-4 years of production Kubernetes experience. • Actively working on production EKS clusters in their current role. • Strong background in CI/CD, GitOps, and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Helm). • Proven track record with monitoring and observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenSearch/ELK). • Experience managing hybrid infrastructure and SaaS platforms at scale. • Knowledge of distributed systems (PostgreSQL, Cassandra, Kafka, MinIO, Solace). • Strong communication, mentoring, and leadership skills. Languages: English: C2 Proficient