Lead DevOps Engineer

Requirements:

3-5 years of experience as an SRE, working in cloud-based environments and on-prem environments.

Deep understanding of Linux systems, networking, and systems administration.

Experience with cloud platforms like AWS, with a strong understanding of Kubernetes and container

orchestration tools.

Hands-on experience with observability tools such as Honeycomb, Grafana, Prometheus, Thanos,

ELK (Elastic Stack), or Loki.

Strong skills in at least one programming language (Python, Go) to write production level code.

Strong skills in shell scripting using bash or similar. • Experience with OpenTelemetry or other

distributed tracing systems, including tracing, metrics, and logs integration.

Experience with Chaos Engineering methodologies and tools (Chaos Mesh, chaos monkey, AWS Fault

Injection Simulator, etc.

Responsibilities:

Implement and manage Service Level Objectives (SLOs), Service Level Indicators (SLIs), and error

budgets to drive reliability efforts.

Develop systems that are resilient to failures and ensure 99.9%+ uptime for critical services.

Lead incident response and post-incident reviews (blameless postmortems), ensuring robust root

cause analysis and continuous improvement of systems.

Automate incident detection and response using automated runbooks or predefined workflows.

Write software as needed to support reliability or efficiency needs.

Design and implement full observability across systems using modern tools like Open Telemetry for

tracing, metrics, and logging.

Use capacity planning, forecasting, and performance testing to ensure that the systems scale

effectively as the user base and load grow.

Collaborate with development and operations teams on building reliable, scalable, and

high-performance services.

Ensure best practices are followed across infrastructure design, deployment, and maintenance using

tools like AWS, Kubernetes, EKS, Fargate, etc.

Champion Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to provision, manage, and scale infrastructure using tools like

Terraform, Pulumi, or similar.

Get involved in chaos engineering initiatives.

Participate on our on-call rotation.

Drive advanced alerting and anomaly detection applied to metrics