DevOps Engineer III

Location: Bengaluru, India

Department: Engineering

Experience: 6 - 9 Years

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

Cloud Infrastructure & Architecture

• Design, provision, and manage cloud infrastructure on AWS, with a strong focus on services including EKS, IAM, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC, CloudWatch, ECR, Route53, SQS, SNS, MSK, MongoDB, ElasticCache, API Gateway(Kong) and related services.
• Manage and optimize Amazon EKS clusters including node groups, autoscaling, namespaces, RBAC, and workload deployments.
• Architect and enforce IAM policies, roles, and permission boundaries following the principle of least privilege.
• Manage RDS instances (MySQL/PostgreSQL) including backups, parameter groups, replication, and failover configurations.
• Design and maintain S3 bucket policies, lifecycle rules, versioning, and cross-account access patterns.
• Build and maintain Lambda-based serverless workflows and event-driven architectures.

Cost Optimization & FinOps

• Own and drive cloud cost optimization across all infrastructure — continuously monitor, analyze, and reduce AWS spend without compromising reliability or performance.
• Implement FinOps practices including tagging strategies, cost allocation, chargeback/showback models, and budget alerting using AWS Cost Explorer, Budgets, and Trusted Advisor.
• Identify and act on cost-saving opportunities such as Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, Spot Instances, and right-sizing of compute, storage, and database resources.
• Optimize EKS workloads through efficient bin-packing, autoscaling (Cluster Autoscaler / KEDA), and node group rightsizing.
• Audit and eliminate idle or underutilized resources — unused EBS volumes, unattached EIPs, over-provisioned RDS instances, and stale snapshots.
• Enforce cost-aware engineering practices within the team — reviewing infrastructure PRs for cost impact and promoting efficient architecture patterns.
• Publish regular cost dashboards and savings reports to engineering and leadership stakeholders.
• Evaluate and adopt cost-efficient architectural patterns such as serverless, event-driven, and managed services where applicable.

Infrastructure Automation & IaC

• Own and drive end-to-end infrastructure lifecycle management using Terraform — from module development, state management, and workspace strategy to plan/apply pipelines.
• Maintain Terraform codebase with best practices: modularization, remote backends (S3 + DynamoDB), locking, and environment-based variable management.
• Automate provisioning, scaling, patching, and decommissioning of infrastructure components.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or GitLab CI for application and infrastructure deployments.

Logging, Monitoring & Incident Management

• Implement and manage observability stacks covering metrics, logs, and distributed tracing.
• Work with Datadog for infrastructure and application monitoring — dashboards, APM, log management, synthetic monitoring, and alerting.
• Configure and manage Zenduty for on-call schedules, escalation policies, and incident routing.
• Define and track SLOs/SLAs, set up anomaly detection, and drive incident postmortems.
• Manage centralized logging pipelines using tools such as ELK/OpenSearch, Fluent Bit, or CloudWatch Logs Insights.

Team Leadership & Collaboration

• Act as a technical lead for the DevOps team — facilitating sprint planning, task prioritization, and workload balancing.
• Mentor junior and mid-level DevOps engineers through code reviews, pair programming, and knowledge-sharing sessions.
• Collaborate with development teams on architecture decisions, deployment strategies, and capacity planning.
• Maintain and improve runbooks, SOPs, and infrastructure documentation.
• Drive adoption of DevOps best practices across engineering teams.

Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery

• Hands-on experience in planning, executing, and documenting Business Continuity Plan (BCP) and Disaster Recovery (DR) drills.
• Define and maintain RTO (Recovery Time Objective) and RPO (Recovery Point Objective) targets for critical systems and services.
• Design and implement DR strategies including multi-region failover, database replication, automated backups, and infrastructure redundancy on AWS.
• Conduct periodic DR drills and tabletop exercises — simulating failure scenarios such as region outages, data corruption, or service degradation — and document outcomes and action items.
• Maintain and continuously improve runbooks and playbooks for disaster recovery and business continuity scenarios.
• Collaborate with business and product stakeholders to identify critical systems and define recovery priorities.
• Ensure DR readiness is validated through automated testing and regular review cycles.

Security, Compliance & Audits

• Play an active role in security audits and compliance programs, including but not limited to:
  • ISO 27001
  • PCI-DSS
  • SOC 2 (Type I & II)
  • External Audits & Assessments
  • ASV (Approved Scanning Vendor) Scans
  • VAPT (Vulnerability Assessment & Penetration Testing)
• Implement and track remediation of findings from security assessments and audit reports.
• Ensure infrastructure compliance through policy-as-code, automated scanning (e.g., Checkov, tfsec, AWS Config, GuardDuty, SecurityHub).
• Manage secrets and sensitive configurations using AWS Secrets Manager or

• Participate in audit evidence collection, documentation, and liaison with auditors.

AI Adoption & AI-First Engineering

• Champion an AI-first mindset across DevOps and infrastructure engineering — proactively identifying opportunities to integrate AI/ML tools into workflows, pipelines, and operations.
• Leverage AI-powered tools to enhance developer productivity, incident response, and infrastructure management — including AI coding assistants, AIOps platforms, and intelligent alerting systems.
• Explore and implement AWS AI/ML services (e.g., Amazon Bedrock, SageMaker, CodeWhisperer) to automate repetitive operational tasks and improve system intelligence.
• Drive adoption of AI-driven observability and anomaly detection within Datadog or equivalent platforms to proactively surface issues before they impact users.
• Collaborate with product and data engineering teams to support the infrastructure needs of AI/ML workloads — including GPU instances, high-throughput storage, and model serving infrastructure.
• Stay current with the rapidly evolving AI tooling landscape and bring relevant innovations back to the team through demos, POCs, and knowledge-sharing sessions.
• Promote the use of AI-assisted automation in areas such as auto-remediation, predictive scaling, intelligent log analysis, and security threat detection.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• 6–9 years of overall experience in DevOps / Cloud / Infrastructure engineering.
• Strong hands-on expertise in AWS — EKS, IAM, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC, CloudWatch, and other core services.
• Deep proficiency in Terraform — modules, workspaces, remote state, and E2E infrastructure lifecycle management.
• Solid experience with Kubernetes — cluster administration, Helm charts, ingress controllers, and workload management.
• Proven experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions / Jenkins / GitLab CI or equivalent).
• Hands-on experience with Datadog and Zenduty (or equivalent monitoring and incident management platforms).
• Experience participating in or leading security compliance programs (ISO, PCI-DSS, SOC2, VAPT, ASV).
• Demonstrated experience in BCP/DR planning and drill execution, with the ability to present findings and remediation plans to stakeholders.
• Strong scripting skills in Python, Bash, or equivalent.
• Comfortable working with Linux environments, networking fundamentals, and container technologies (Docker).
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work cross-functionally.

Good to Have

• Experience with GitOps workflows (ArgoCD / Flux).
• Exposure to cost optimization strategies in AWS (Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, right-sizing).
• Familiarity with service mesh tools like Istio or Linkerd.
• Knowledge of chaos engineering practices.
• Experience with multi-account AWS Organizations and landing zone setups.
• AWS certifications (Solutions Architect, DevOps Professional, Security Specialty).