We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer / Cloud Architect will own the full infrastructure, CI/CD, environment management, observability, and deployment automation This is a permanent role required to stabilize the platform lon-term, improve reliability, reduce deployment risks, and relieve the CTO from operational DevOps tasks. You will mainatin and improve a scalable DevOps foundation, ensure mature SDLC practices, and prevent the accumulation of further technical debt.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Daily Infrastructure & Environment Management

Maintain Dev, QA, Staging, Production environments.
Monitor performance, stability, resources, scaling.
Ensure no environment drift.

2. CI/CD Pipeline Maintenance & Enhancement

Support and improve pipelines created by the contract DevOps.
Ensure fast build times, safe deployments, consistent quality.
Keep all pipelines updated with new services/features.

3. Developer Support & Collaboration

Help devs with environment issues, logs, debugging.
Coordinate with QA for test environment readiness.
Support new integrations & feature rollout.

4. Release Management

Own release execution in coordination with PM/BA/QA.
Ensure deployments are:
predictable
safe
rollback-tested
compliant with versioning
Maintain release calendars & documentation.

5. Monitoring, Alerting & Incident Response

Operate monitoring systems installed by the contract DevOps.
Respond to alerts and incidents quickly.
Investigate root causes and implement permanent fixes.

6. Security & Compliance Maintenance

Ensure secure configuration of environments.
Maintain IAM policies, secrets, certificates, firewalls.
Continuously patch and update infrastructure.

7. Continuous Improvement

Scale infrastructure based on product growth.
Evaluate new tools and improvements.
Keep documentation up-to-date and comprehensive.

8. Prevent New Technical Debt

Maintain strict configuration management.
Ensure new features have appropriate infrastructure.
Enforce consistent DevOps standards across the team.

9. Disaster Recovery & Backup Strategy

Create automated backups.
Build rollback plans and environment restoration procedures.

10. Documentation & Knowledge Base

Standardize documentation for:
DevOps processes
Env setup
Pipeline structure
Deployment steps
Tech stack
Eliminate undocumented configs (identified as DevOps technical debt).

11. Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Implement IaC (Terraform, Pulumi, or CloudFormation) to eliminate manual configs.
Standardize infrastructure across environments.

12. Collaboration with Developers, QA, and PM

Work closely with backend/frontend teams to ensure smooth deployments.
Collaborate with QA to automate test environments.
Support PM with release planning and capacity forecasting.

Requirements

4–7+ years DevOps experience in cloud-based environments (Azure/AWS/GCP).
Hands-on CI/CD pipeline creation.
Experience with Kubernetes or Docker Swarm.
IaC experience (Terraform preferred).
Knowledge of microservices deployment patterns.
Experience solving DevOps technical debt in mid-size SaaS products.
C1 English level.

Technical Competencies

CI/CD tools: GitHub Actions / GitLab CI / Azure DevOps
Containers: Docker, Kubernetes
IaC: Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation
Monitoring: ELK, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog
Cloud services: AWS / Azure
Security: IAM, firewalls, secrets management
Scripting: Bash, Python

Soft Skills

High ownership
Proactive problem-solving
Ability to work under pressure
Structured communicator
Team collaboration
Ability to bring order to a chaotic infrastructure

Sr. DevOps Engineer / Cloud Architect