Senior Devops Engineer

Role: Senior Devops Engineer

Location: New York, NY

Mode of Hire: Full Time

Job Description:

We are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer with deep expertise in Terraform and Cloud Infrastructure to design, automate, and manage highly available, scalable, and secure cloud environments.

The ideal candidate will play a key role in infrastructure as code (IaC), CI/CD automation, cloud security, and production reliability, while mentoring junior engineers and collaborating with development and architecture teams.

Key Responsibilities Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)

·       Design, develop, and maintain Terraform modules and reusable patterns for cloud infrastructure.

·       Implement remote state management, state locking, and workspaces.

·       Enforce IaC best practices including versioning, code reviews, tagging, and modular design.

·       Integrate Terraform with CI/CD pipelines for automated deployments.

·       Cloud Engineering

·       Architect and manage cloud infrastructure on AWS / Azure / Google Cloud Platform:

·       Compute, networking, storage, and managed services

·       Design high availability, disaster recovery, and cost optimized architectures.

·       Implement multi environment setups (dev, QA, staging, prod). CI/CD & Automation.

·       Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, or Bitbucket Pipelines.

·       Automate infrastructure provisioning, application deployment, and rollback strategies.

·       Improve deployment reliability using blue green, canary, or rolling deployments. Containerization & Orchestration

·       Strong experience with Docker and Kubernetes.

·       Manage and automate EKS / AKS / GKE clusters.

·       Implement scaling, monitoring, and security best practices for containerized workloads.

·       Use Helm or Kustomize for Kubernetes configurations. Cloud Security & Compliance

·       Implement IAM best practices (least privilege, role based access).

·       Secure infrastructure using Secrets Manager / Key Vault / Secret Manager.

·       Enforce security policies using tools like OPA, Sentinel, Checkov, tfsec.

·       Support compliance requirements (ISO, SOC2, PCI DSS – if applicable). Monitoring & Reliability

·       Implement monitoring and alerting using Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, Stackdriver.

·       Handle production incidents, root cause analysis (RCA), and post mortems.

·       Improve system reliability and performance through automation. Collaboration & Leadership

·       Work closely with developers, architects, and QA teams.

·       Mentor junior DevOps engineers and review IaC and pipeline code.

·       Contribute to DevOps standards