DevOps / Infrastructure Engineer

Job Summary

The DevOps / Infrastructure Engineer is responsible for building and maintaining cloud infrastructure and deployment pipelines for a modern, AI-enabled platform. This role focuses on environment provisioning, container orchestration, CI/CD automation, and scalable infrastructure to support microservices-based applications. The engineer applies strong judgment to evaluate and implement effective infrastructure solutions.

Key Responsibilities

Infrastructure & Cloud Architecture

• Provision and manage cloud environments across development, staging, and production.
• Deploy and operate containerized services within a microservices architecture.
• Manage container orchestration, including blue-green and canary deployment strategies.
• Support infrastructure for platform dependencies such as search services, caching layers, and databases.
• Evaluate and implement infrastructure tooling and architectural approaches.
• Build and manage cloud infrastructure using services such as compute, container registries, identity/access management, networking, storage, and monitoring tools.

DevOps & CI/CD

• Design, maintain, and enhance CI/CD pipelines for building, testing, and deploying services across environments.
• Collaborate with engineering teams on container optimization, configuration, and environment management.
• Identify gaps across systems and implement solutions that improve scalability and team autonomy.
• Analyze infrastructure trends and recommend improvements based on best practices.

Monitoring, Scaling & Reliability

• Implement monitoring, alerting, and auto-scaling strategies for platform services and workloads.
• Ensure system reliability through capacity planning, performance testing, and incident response.
• Optimize infrastructure performance and cost efficiency.

Quality & Testing

• Develop and maintain automated infrastructure testing (smoke tests, health checks, deployment validation).
• Conduct load testing and performance benchmarking.
• Enforce quality gates in CI/CD pipelines (testing, linting, security scanning).
• Validate infrastructure-as-code changes through automation and peer review.

Mentorship & Collaboration

• Provide guidance on infrastructure best practices and deployment strategies.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to support platform stability and delivery goals.
• Contribute to process improvements and operational excellence initiatives.

Security & Compliance

• Ensure adherence to security policies and best practices.
• Implement secure development and infrastructure practices, particularly for sensitive data.
• Participate in threat modeling and security reviews for systems and APIs.
• Support compliance requirements in regulated or security-conscious environments.