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DevOps Engineering Lead

DevOps Engineering Lead

Hawk MarTechGurugram, Haryana, India
1 day ago
Job description

DevOps Engineering Lead

  • Location : On-site – Gurgaon (Hybrid)
  • Department : Technology / Engineering
  • Experience Level : 8+ Years
  • Employment Type : Full-Time

ABOUT THE ROLE

We are looking for a highly skilled Lead DevOps Engineer to join our team and help build, scale, and maintain a reliable messaging platform that powers seamless communication for millions of users.

You’ll be responsible for designing cloud-native infrastructure, automating deployments, ensuring high availability, and driving operational excellence in a fast-paced environment.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Infrastructure & Deployment

  • Design, implement, and manage scalable, resilient cloud infrastructure (AWS / GCP / Azure) for messaging workloads.
  • Build CI / CD pipelines to enable automated, reliable, and fast delivery of new features.
  • Containerize applications (Docker / Kubernetes) and optimize orchestration for performance.

    • Reliability & Monitoring

  • Ensure high availability and low latency of the messaging platform with proactive monitoring and alerting (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog, etc.).
  • Troubleshoot production issues, perform root cause analysis, and implement long-term fixes.
  • Define and track SLOs / SLAs / SLIs for messaging services.

    • Automation & Security

  • Automate provisioning, scaling, and failover processes using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible, Helm).
  • Enforce best practices for system security, secrets management, and compliance.
  • Implement disaster recovery, backup strategies, and incident response playbooks.

    • Collaboration & Culture

  • Work closely with developers, SREs, and QA teams to deliver reliable features.
  • Advocate for DevOps culture : CI / CD adoption, monitoring-first mindset, and blameless postmortems.
  • Contribute to documentation and knowledge sharing across teams.

    • Required Skills & Qualifications

  • 8+ years of experience in DevOps / SRE / Cloud Engineering roles.
  • Strong experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and CI / CD pipelines .
  • Hands-on expertise in cloud platforms (AWS / GCP / Azure) and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform / CloudFormation).
  • Solid background in Linux systems, networking, and messaging protocols (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ, MQTT, WebSockets, or similar).
  • Experience with monitoring, logging, and observability stacks.
  • Knowledge of scripting / programming (Python, Bash, Go, etc.).

    • Preferred Skills

  • Experience with real-time, high-throughput systems (messaging, streaming, or event-driven architectures).
  • Exposure to scaling microservices in production .
  • Familiarity with security best practices in distributed systems .

    • Why Join Us?

  • Opportunity to build and scale a mission-critical messaging platform used globally.
  • Work with a passionate, talented team driving innovation in cloud-native communication.
  • Competitive salary.
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