Sr DevOps Engineer

Job Title Sr. DevOps Engineer

Experience Level: 5 to 10 years

Work Location Onsite Mohali

5 days working (Mon to Fri). Must be flexible to work in a 24 x 7 work environment.

Education Qualifications: Graduate in Computer Science / Information Security or raelated field

Job Description:

As a Senior DevOps Engineer in a SaaS company the Role will be leading and managing a team of Junior DevOps Engineers overseeing the planning and execution of DevOps strategies and ensuring the smooth operation of the companys cloud infrastructure. The responsibilty also includes for designing building and maintaining the infrastructure that supports SaaS applications and services ensuring security reliability scalability and costeffectiveness.

This role demands strong leadership technical expertise in cloud platforms (AWS GCP Azure OCI) CI/CD pipelines container orchestration (Kubernetes Docker) automation (Terraform Ansible) and proactive monitoring. The Sr. DevOps Engineer will work closely with Software Developers DevOps Engineers and other stakeholders to continuously improve infrastructure performance optimize deployments and enforce security best practices.

Job Responsibilities:

Key Responsibilities

1. Team Leadership & Management

• Lead mentor and manage a team of Junior DevOps Engineers fostering collaboration and technical growth.
• Define DevOps strategies roadmaps and best practices ensuring seamless execution of tasks using JIRA.
• Plan and delegate responsibilities for infrastructure setup automation monitoring and security.
• Conduct performance reviews oneonone coaching and knowledgesharing sessions to enhance team efficiency.

2. Infrastructure Design & Scalability

• Architect deploy and manage cloudbased infrastructure on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) GCP or AWS with a focus on high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR).
• Optimize SaaS application environments for scalability autoscaling load balancing caching and etc..
• Ensure minimal downtime and optimal performance for increasing workloads by achieving SLA.

3. CI/CD Pipeline & Release Automation

• Design maintain and optimize CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins Bitbucket Pipelines and Docker repositories.
• Automate build test and deployment processes improving release velocity while ensuring rollback mechanisms.

4. Containerization & Kubernetes Orchestration

• Deploy and manage Dockerbased applications and Kubernetes clusters (OCI Kubernetes Engine OKE).
• Implement Helm charts ArgoCD Horizontal Pod Autoscaling (HPA) Vertical Pod Autoscaling (VPA) and Cluster Autoscaler.
• Ensure zerodowntime deployments and selfhealing mechanisms for SaaS applications.

5. Cost Optimization & Resource Management

• Monitor OCI AWS or GCP cloud usage and optimize costs through rightsizing and resource utilization.
• Implement FinOps (Cloud Financial Management) best practices to optimize SaaS operational expenses.
• Utilize cost analytics tools (OCI Cost Explorer GCP Billing etc.) to track and reduce cloud spending.

6. Monitoring Logging & Incident Management

• Implement proactive monitoring solutions using Prometheus Grafana New Relic Site24x7 etc.
• Set up centralized logging with ELK stack Loki Fluentd for application and infrastructure logs.
• Participate in incident response conduct Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and ensure rapid resolution of system outages.

7. Security Compliance & DevSecOps

• Integrate security scanning tools (SAST SonarQube DAST OWASP Burp Suite Docker Scout Trivy) into CI/CD pipelines.
• Enforce IAM RBAC secrets management and access control policies to protect sensitive data.
• Ensure compliance with ISO 27001 SOC 2 HIPAA PCI DSS NIST GDPR.
• Perform security audits vulnerability assessments and penetration testing to enhance security posture.

8. Database Administration & Optimization

• Manage and optimize MySQL MariaDB Cloud SQL Oracle DB with replication failover sharding database tunning and caching.
• Implement backup disaster recovery and query optimization strategies for improved performance.

9. Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery (BCDR)

• Develop and maintain disaster recovery (DR) plans ensuring infrastructure resilience against failures.
• Conduct failover testing and disaster recovery drills to validate DR plans.
• Implement multiregion deployments to guarantee business continuity.

Qualifications and Skills:

1. 5 years of experience in DevOps or Cloud Engineering in a SaaS environment.
2. Expertise in cloud platforms (OCI AWS GCP) and cloud cost optimization strategies.
3. Strong experience with CI/CD automation Kubernetes Docker Helm and Terraform.
4. Handson knowledge of monitoring logging and incident response best practices.
5. Proficiency in DevSecOps practices including security scanning IAM and compliance frameworks.
6. Experience with database optimization performance tuning and disaster recovery planning.
7. Excellent leadership communication and collaboration skills to work crossfunctionally with teams.

Kubernates,Docker,AWS,OCI,Azure,CI/CD,Ansible,GITVersion,Bitbucket,Github,Prometheus