Senior DevOps Engineer

Unico Connect LLP.; Mumbai; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Unico Connect LLP. is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer in Mumbai, India. The role involves architecting multi-region cloud infrastructure and leading Kubernetes design across GCP and AWS. Candidates should have over 5 years of experience in DevOps or SRE roles.

The position requires deep expertise in both GCP and AWS, strong communication skills, and a Bachelor's degree in a relevant field. This is an excellent opportunity for skilled engineers looking to work in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering experience.
• Deep expertise across both GCP and AWS at production scale.
• Hands-on experience with service mesh or API gateways.

Responsibilities

• Architect multi-region cloud infrastructure on GCP and AWS.
• Lead Kubernetes platform design including service mesh.
• Own the observability platform for client products.

Skills

GCP expertise

AWS expertise

Kubernetes production experience

Terraform

Observability concepts

Strong written communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes (GKE, EKS)

PostgreSQL

Job description

Overview

Unico Connect is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to architect and operate the cloud platform across enterprise client engagements on GCP and AWS, with Azure for clients on that stack. The role owns Kubernetes platform design, cloud migrations, observability, and the SRE practices that keep client products reliable at scale. The position is well suited to senior DevOps engineers with hands-on production experience across multiple clouds.

Responsibilities

• Architect multi-region cloud infrastructure on GCP and AWS at production scale
• Lead Kubernetes platform design across GKE, EKS, and AKS including service mesh, autoscaling, and multi-tenancy
• Design load balancing, CDN, and traffic management (GCP Cloud Load Balancing, AWS ALB and CloudFront)
• Lead cloud migrations including on-prem to cloud, cross-cloud, and RDS or Cloud SQL migrations
• Design RDS and Cloud SQL high-availability setups, S3 and GCS data lake patterns, and compute fleet management
• Own the observability platform including SLOs, error budgets, alerting, and on-call runbooks
• Mentor 2-3 DevOps engineers; conduct architecture reviews and code reviews on infrastructure code
• Govern cloud security posture including IAM, secrets management, and compliance frameworks
• Lead cost-optimisation initiatives including spot instance usage, autoscaling tuning, and rightsizing
• Author internal DevOps playbooks and onboarding documentation
• Calibrate the DevOps interview bar and conduct senior interview loops

Qualifications

• 5+ years of DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering
• Deep expertise across both GCP and AWS at production scale
• Kubernetes production experience (GKE, EKS) including operators and Helm
• Strong Terraform, Pulumi, or CDK for infrastructure as code
• Hands-on with service mesh (Istio, Linkerd) or API gateways (Kong, Apigee)
• Production experience with at least 1 of PostgreSQL high availability on RDS or Cloud SQL, or large-scale S3 or GCS data pipelines
• Excellent written communication for design documents and incident post-mortems
• Capacity to lead cloud migrations at six-figure annual spend
• Strong fundamentals in observability concepts including SLOs, error budgets, and tracing
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field