Senior DevOps Engineer (SRE Focus)

Hilabs; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Hilabs in Bengaluru (Manyata Tech Park) seeks a Senior DevOps Engineer with SRE focus to design, implement and scale cloud-native infrastructure. You will own automation, monitoring and incident response for production systems.

The role emphasizes AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, CloudFormation, Jenkins CI/CD, and strong Linux/bash/python skills. Experience with observability and cost optimization is a plus, as is a startup or product-focused background.

Qualifications

• 4 to 7 years of DevOps / SRE experience.
• Hands-on experience with AWS.
• Production-grade Kubernetes (K8s) experience.
• Terraform and CloudFormation expertise.
• Jenkins pipeline creation and administration.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and manage highly available cloud infrastructure on AWS.
• Build and maintain scalable Kubernetes environments.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and CloudFormation.
• Develop and manage CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins.
• Drive automation across provisioning, deployments, monitoring, and incident management.
• Work with engineering teams to improve system reliability, performance, and scalability.
• Manage production incidents, root cause analysis, and postmortems.
• Implement monitoring, alerting, logging, and observability solutions.
• Optimize cloud infrastructure for cost, security, and performance.
• Support containerized applications and microservices architectures.
• Maintain and improve deployment workflows using Git and Bitbucket.
• Contribute to SRE best practices including SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets.

Skills

DevOps/SRE

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

CloudFormation

Jenkins

CI/CD

Linux Admin

Scripting

Monitoring/Logging

Incident Mgmt

Tools

Git

Bitbucket

Job description

Job Title: Senior DevOps Engineer (SRE Focus)

Experience: 4 to 7 Years

Location: Manyata Tech Park, Bangalore(Work from Office)

Important Note

Only Immediate Joiners or candidates who can join within 30 days should apply for this position.

About the Role

We are looking for a highly skilled Senior DevOps Engineer with strong Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) experience to join our growing engineering team. The ideal candidate should have hands-on expertise in AWS cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD automation, and production reliability engineering.

This role requires someone who can design, automate, deploy, monitor, and optimize large-scale cloud-native environments while ensuring high availability, scalability, security, and operational excellence.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and manage highly available cloud infrastructure on AWS.
• Build and maintain scalable Kubernetes environments.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and CloudFormation.
• Develop and manage CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins.
• Drive automation across infrastructure provisioning, deployments, monitoring, and incident management.
• Work closely with engineering teams to improve system reliability, performance, and scalability.
• Manage production incidents, root cause analysis, and postmortems.
• Implement monitoring, alerting, logging, and observability solutions.
• Optimize cloud infrastructure for cost, security, and performance.
• Support containerized applications and microservices architectures.
• Maintain and improve deployment workflows using Git and Bitbucket.
• Contribute to SRE best practices including SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets.

Mandatory Skills

• 4 to 7 years of DevOps / SRE experience.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS.
• Production-grade Kubernetes (K8s) experience.
• Expertise in Terraform.
• Experience with AWS CloudFormation.
• Strong Jenkins pipeline creation and administration experience.
• CI/CD implementation and automation expertise.
• Linux administration and troubleshooting.
• Shell Scripting, Bash, or Python.
• Monitoring and logging tools such as ELK, Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, etc.
• Experience handling production environments and critical incidents.

Preferred Skills

• Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) experience.
• Bitbucket administration and pipeline integration.
• Docker and containerization technologies.
• Azure cloud exposure.
• Security, compliance, and infrastructure governance experience.
• Experience working in Agile environments.

Ideal Candidate Profile

• Strong hands-on engineer, not a people manager.
• Experience supporting large-scale production environments.
• Proven expertise in reliability engineering and operational excellence.
• Startup or product company experience preferred.
• Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management abilities.

Nice to Have

• AWS Certifications.
• Kubernetes Certifications.
• Azure exposure.
• Experience in healthcare, fintech, SaaS, or product-based organizations.