Senior DevOps Engineer

Target in India; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 2,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Target in India is seeking a hands-on Senior DevOps Engineer to design, build, manage, and optimize scalable AWS cloud infrastructure supporting large-scale distributed platforms. The role focuses on production operations and automation for platforms handling web crawling and data collection workloads.

The ideal candidate will have strong experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD automation, and monitoring/observability, with emphasis on security and cost efficiency in a high-volume

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with AWS EC2, EKS/ECS, VPC, IAM, S3, CloudWatch, and autoscaling.
• Containerization and orchestration with Docker and Kubernetes.
• IaC experience using Terraform or equivalent tooling.
• CI/CD pipeline design and maintenance using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or similar.
• Scripting in Python and/or Bash for automation.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, ELK/OpenSearch).
• Strong Linux administration and networking knowledge; cloud networking basics.
• Cloud security best practices and least-privilege concepts.

Responsibilities

• Design, provision, and manage scalable AWS infrastructure for large-scale workloads.
• Build and operate containerized workloads with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Develop Terraform modules for infrastructure automation.
• Create and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines.
• Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting to ensure observability.
• Troubleshoot production issues and drive incident resolution.
• Improve reliability, availability, and performance of the platform.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to improve deployment automation.
• Contribute to disaster recovery and resilience engineering.

Skills

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD automation

Python/Bash scripting

Monitoring/Observability

Linux & Networking

Cloud Security

Tools

Docker

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Prometheus

Grafana

CloudWatch

OpenSearch

ELK Stack

Terraform (IaC)

Job description

We are looking for a hands-on Senior DevOps Engineer to design, build, manage, and optimize scalable AWS cloud infrastructure supporting large-scale distributed platforms. The role involves working on competitive intelligence platforms that support large-scale web crawling and data collection workloads. The ideal candidate should have strong hands-on experience in AWS infrastructure, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD automation, and production operations.

Responsibilities:

• Design, provision, and manage scalable AWS cloud infrastructure.
• Build and manage containerized workloads using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Develop and maintain Terraform-based infrastructure automation.
• Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines.
• Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability solutions.
• Troubleshoot infrastructure issues and drive production incident resolution.
• Improve infrastructure reliability, scalability, availability, and performance.
• Implement cloud security best practices.
• Optimize AWS resource utilization and infrastructure costs.
• Support high-volume distributed workloads.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to improve automation and deployment processes.
• Contribute to high availability, disaster recovery, and resilience engineering.

Requirements:

• AWS Cloud Infrastructure: Strong hands-on experience with EC2, EKS/ECS, VPC, IAM, S3, CloudWatch, Auto Scaling, and Load Balancers.
• Docker and Kubernetes: Experience in containerization, orchestration, cluster management, deployments, and troubleshooting.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Hands-on experience with Terraform or equivalent tools for infrastructure provisioning and automation.
• CI/CD: Experience building and maintaining pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or similar tools.
• Scripting and Automation: Proficiency in Python and/or Bash scripting.
• Monitoring and Observability: Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, ELK, OpenSearch, or equivalent tools.
• Linux and Networking: Strong Linux administration skills and understanding of DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, TCP/IP, and cloud networking.
• Cloud Security: Knowledge of AWS IAM, least-privilege access, secrets management, and infrastructure hardening.
• Production Infrastructure Management: Experience managing production environments, troubleshooting incidents, and improving system reliability, availability, and performance.

Good to Have:

• Experience with large-scale web crawling, scraping, or data collection platforms.
• Exposure to proxy infrastructure and outbound networking.
• Experience managing high-volume, dynamically scaling container workloads.
• Knowledge of Kubernetes autoscaling and workload optimization.
• Experience with cloud cost optimization and FinOps.Exposure to Kafka, RabbitMQ, or AWS SQS.
• Familiarity with PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB, DynamoDB, and OpenSearch.
• Experience with GitOps tools such as ArgoCD or Flux.
• Knowledge of disaster recovery, high availability, and resilience engineering.
• Exposure to Java, Spring, or Kotlin.

Ideal Candidate Profile:

• 7+ years of experience in DevOps, cloud infrastructure, or platform engineering preferred.
• Strong hands-on expertise in AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, and Terraform.
• Experience managing production infrastructure independently.
• Strong understanding of automation, monitoring, networking, and cloud security.
• Proven experience in infrastructure scalability, reliability, and performance optimization.
• Candidates with large-scale web crawling, scraping, or proxy infrastructure experience will have an added advantage.