DevOps Engineering Lead

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.