Senior Couchbase DevOps & SRE Engineer

 

 

 

About the Role
We are looking for a Senlor Couchbase DevOps & SRE Engineer to design, operate, and scale highly
available Couchbase database infrastructure. The ideal candidate combines deep Couchbase
administration with strong DevOps, SRE, and automation capabilities.
Key Responsibilities
Infrastructure & Couchbase Operations
· Design, implement, and maintain highly available, scalable Couchbase clusters across multi-
node, multi-zone environments
. Manage cluster operations - rebalancing, failover, scaling, patching, and XDCR configuration
. Perform capacity planning, bucket sizing, memory optimization, and storage management
CI/CD & Infrastructure as Code
. Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines for application and Couchbase infrastructure
deployments
. Implement laC using Terraform or CloudFormation for cluster provisioning and
configuration management
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Automate rolling upgrades, patching, and zero-downtime deployments
Automation & SRE
. Define and implement SRE practices - SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and reliability objectives
. Identify operational toil and build automation to eliminate manual Couchbase and platform
tasks
. Automate backup, restore, XDCR setup, and cluster health validation
Monitoring & Incident Management
. Implement proactive monitoring and alerting for duster health, N1QL performance,
replication lag, and memory pressure using Prometheus, Grafana, or Datadog
. Lead incident response, RCA, and preventive actions for Couchbase production issues
. Develop and maintain operational runbooks and SOPs
Security & Compliance
· Manage Couchbase RBAC, TLS/SSL, audit logging, and encryption at rest
Enforce security hardening standards across all Couchbase environments