Overview

Senior / Principal DevOps & Platform Engineer

Responsibilities

• Design, provision, and manage cloud infrastructure across development, staging, and production environments.
• Operate and maintain Kubernetes clusters, including node pools, autoscaling, upgrades, maintenance windows, and workload management.
• Manage Kubernetes manifests using Kustomize and Git-based workflows.
• Implement cloud networking, including virtual networks, subnets, private endpoints, DNS, and network security policies.
• Enforce cloud-native identity and access management using managed identities and role-based access control (RBAC).
• Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions.
• Manage release pipelines, environment promotion strategies, and deployment automation.
• Implement container image publishing, scanning, and promotion through enterprise container registries.
• Enforce quality gates, security scanning, and automated deployment standards.
• Maintain development environments that closely mirror production configurations.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, ARM, or Bicep.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning, deployments, and operational workflows.
• Maintain Git-based infrastructure management and version control best practices.
• Develop automation scripts using Python, Bash, YAML, and JSON.
• Manage centralized secrets using enterprise key management solutions.
• Maintain Kubernetes ConfigMaps and Secrets through secure Git-based workflows.
• Implement secure authentication using managed identities.
• Enforce strict environment separation and secure configuration management.
• Build and maintain secure, optimized Docker container images.
• Manage Kubernetes workloads and enterprise container registries.
• Implement image lifecycle management, retention policies, and cleanup processes.
• Optimize container performance using multi-stage builds and caching techniques.
• Manage PostgreSQL production environments, including connection pooling, backups, replication, and schema migrations.
• Configure and optimize Redis for caching and session management.
• Support cloud storage lifecycle management and secure data access.
• Assist with data pipeline orchestration and analytics platform connectivity.
• Build and manage monitoring, logging, and distributed tracing solutions.
• Implement OpenTelemetry for application observability.
• Create dashboards for infrastructure health, application performance, database usage, and deployment metrics.
• Configure proactive alerting and incident response processes.

Qualifications

• Employment Type: Full-Time
• Job Summary
• We are looking for an experienced Senior / Principal DevOps & Platform Engineer to own the complete infrastructure lifecycle for a production-grade, cloud-native platform operating in a highly secure and regulated environment. This is an end-to-end platform ownership role where you will design, build, deploy, and operate scalable cloud infrastructure while ensuring high availability, security, and reliability.
• The ideal candidate will have extensive experience with Kubernetes, Microsoft Azure, Terraform, GitHub Actions, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), cloud security, observability, and production operations. You will work closely with architects and engineering teams to continuously improve platform performance, scalability, and operational excellence.
• Microsoft Azure (Primary)
• AWS (Secondary)
• Kubernetes
• Docker
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, ARM, Bicep)
• Virtual Networking
• Load Balancing
• Identity & Access Management (RBAC)
• GitHub
• GitHub Actions
• CI/CD Pipelines
• Infrastructure Automation
• Container Registry Management
• Release Management
• GitOps Practices
• PostgreSQL
• Redis
• Backup & Recovery
• Database Migrations
• Cloud Storage
• Data Platform Integration
• OpenTelemetry
• Metrics & Logging
• Distributed Tracing
• Monitoring Dashboards
• Incident Management