Senior DevOps Engineer

Role Overview

Senior DevOps Engineer

You will be responsible for architecting, implementing, and optimizing scalable, secure, and cost-efficient cloud environments that support high-velocity engineering teams.

This role demands strong technical ownership, problem-solving ability, and a mindset geared toward automation, reliability, and operational excellence.

Key Responsibilities

1.Cloud Infrastructure (AWS)

● Architect, deploy, and manage highly scalable and secure infrastructure on AWS.

● Hands-on experience with key AWS services: EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, RDS, DynamoDB, S3,

VPC, CloudFront, IAM, CloudWatch etc.

● Implement and manage Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform/CloudFormation/CDK.

● Design multi-AZ and multi-region architectures supporting HA/DR needs.

2.CI/CD, Automation & Developer Productivity

● Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or AWS CodePipeline).

● Automate deployments, environment provisioning, and release workflows.

● Reduce deployment time, increase reliability, and streamline developer workflows.

● Implement automated patching, log rotation, scaling, and cleanup jobs.

3. Containers & Orchestration

● Manage Docker-based environments and containerized applications.

● Deploy and optimize workloads using Kubernetes (EKS) or ECS/Fargate.

● Maintain cluster health, autoscaling, resource management, and cost-efficiency.

4. Monitoring, Observability & Incident Response

● Implement robust observability stacks using: CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog, New Relic.

● Build actionable alerting and monitoring dashboards.

● Define SLIs/SLOs/SLAs for critical services.

● Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and blameless postmortems.

5. FinOps & Cost Optimization

● Continuously monitor cloud costs and optimize usage across services.

● Implement rightsizing, autoscaling, lifecycle policies, caching strategies, and reservation

plans.

● Use AWS Cost Explorer, Budgets, Trusted Advisor, CloudHealth for visibility.

● Work with engineering teams to design cost-efficient cloud architectures.

6. Security, Governance & Compliance

● Implement AWS security best practices for IAM, VPC, security groups, NACLs, and encryption.

● Manage secret management using KMS, SSM Parameter Store, or Vault.

● Ensure compliance with frameworks like ISO 27001, SOC2, GDPR (where applicable).

● Build secure CI/CD pipelines and enforce least-privilege access.

7. Collaboration, Culture & Leadership

● Work closely with development, QA, and product teams to ensure smooth release cycles.

● Mentor junior DevOps engineers and guide teams on AWS usage and DevOps best practices.

● Create technical documentation, runbooks, and architecture diagrams.

● Promote DevOps culture, GitOps practices, and automation-first mindset.

What We’re Looking For

Must-Have

● 7+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or Cloud Engineering.

● Strong expertise in AWS cloud architecture and services.

● Proficiency in Terraform / CloudFormation / CDK.

● Solid experience with Docker, Kubernetes (EKS), or AWS ECS.

● Strong grasp of Linux administration, networking, DNS, routing, load balancing.

● Expertise in CI/CD pipeline design and automation tools.

● Scripting experience with Python, Bash, or similar.

● Experience with observability stacks (CloudWatch, Prometheus/Grafana, ELK, Datadog).

Nice to Have

● AWS Certifications (Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, SysOps Administrator).

● Experience with GitOps (ArgoCD / Flux).

● Knowledge of distributed systems, caching, queues (Kafka, Redis, SQS).

● Hands-on with server less computing and event-driven architectures.

● Experience with cost governance tools and FinOps practices.

Here are answers to some questions you may have

Where is your office?

Chennai (Perungudi)

Work Model

Work from Office – because great stories are built in person!

Do you have an online presence?

https://amura.ai (we are @AmuraHealth on all social media)

For better insights:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/11UHgXqYc7XSJ3IAdFyEm-EurgOzqsmzA/view?usp=sharing