Senior DevOps Engineer

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, maintain, and optimise highly available multi-cloud infrastructure environments across AWS and supporting cloud platforms
• Manage and scale production workloads across multiple AWS regions with a strong focus on uptime, reliability, and security
• Build, maintain, and improve Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform across Development, Testing, and Production environments
• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and deployment orchestration tools such as Spinnaker, ArgoCD, or Harness
• Implement and manage Blue/Green and Red/Black deployment strategies, including rollback and artifact promotion processes
• Administer and optimise AWS RDS/Aurora MySQL environments, including upgrades, migrations, backups, restores, and performance tuning
• Manage and monitor messaging systems such as RabbitMQ, including scaling consumers and load balancing using HAProxy and Nginx
• Monitor infrastructure health using Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, and related monitoring tools
• Troubleshoot complex production issues, conduct root cause analysis, and lead post-mortem investigations to reduce MTTR
• Perform advanced Linux administration, Bash scripting, networking troubleshooting, and performance optimisation
• Support platform deployments and debugging across PHP, Python, and JavaScript-based services
• Collaborate with software engineers and product teams to ensure smooth deployments and operational excellence
• Contribute to infrastructure architecture, technical strategy, scalability planning, and cost optimisation initiatives
• Participate in on-call rotations and act as an escalation point during production incidents
• Maintain and improve AI/ML infrastructure pipelines, GPU workloads, and distributed processing environments where applicable

Requirements:

• 5+ years’ hands-on DevOps and cloud infrastructure experience
• Advanced AWS experience managing production systems across multiple regions
• Strong expertise with:
  • EC2
  • RDS/Aurora (MySQL)
  • VPC design, routing, peering, and ACLs
  • IAM roles and policies
  • S3 and CloudFront
  • Security Groups
• Extensive Terraform experience, including:
  • Modular infrastructure design
  • Remote state management
  • Environment separation
  • Infrastructure code reviews and refactoring
• Strong Jenkins pipeline creation and CI/CD automation experience
• Experience with deployment orchestration tools such as Spinnaker, ArgoCD, or Harness
• Experience implementing Blue/Green or Red/Black deployment methodologies
• Strong MySQL database administration experience, including:
  • Production upgrades and migrations
  • Backup and restore procedures
  • Performance tuning
• Proven RabbitMQ production support experience
• Experience with HAProxy and Nginx load balancing
• Strong monitoring and logging experience using Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, or equivalent
• Proven production incident response and on-call support experience
• Advanced Linux administration skills (Ubuntu CLI)
• Strong Bash scripting and troubleshooting capabilities
• Solid networking fundamentals
• Comfortable supporting and debugging:
  • PHP applications
  • Python automation and AI integrations
  • JavaScript-based deployment environments
• Experience with Docker or containerised environments
• Exposure to multi-cloud infrastructure environments (AWS and GCP preferred)
• Experience operating high-availability systems with 24/7 uptime requirements
• Exposure to AI/ML infrastructure, GPU workloads, or video/media processing systems (advantageous)
• AWS certifications (advantageous)

Technical & Professional Skills:

• Advanced AWS cloud infrastructure management
• Strong Terraform and Infrastructure-as-Code expertise
• CI/CD pipeline architecture and deployment automation
• Database administration and performance optimisation
• Monitoring, observability, and incident response management
• Linux systems administration and troubleshooting
• Messaging systems and distributed architecture support
• Infrastructure scalability and cost optimisation
• Strong networking and load balancing knowledge
• Experience supporting AI/ML and high-throughput environments
• Multi-cloud platform exposure and operational support

Preferred Qualifications:

• Tertiary qualification in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field
• Relevant AWS, DevOps, or cloud certifications
• Experience working in fast-paced Agile or product-based environments
• Experience operating large-scale, customer-facing production systems

Key Competencies:

• Strong analytical and troubleshooting abilities
• High attention to detail and operational excellence
• Strong communication and collaboration skills
• Ability to work effectively under pressure in high-availability environments
• Strong ownership mentality and accountability
• Proactive, solution-driven mindset
• Ability to lead during critical production incidents
• Passion for automation, scalability, and continuous improvement
• Strong mentoring and knowledge-sharing approach

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