Sr. DevOps Engineer | B2B SaaS | Remote | Immediate Joiners

Profex Tech; Bengaluru, Delhi, Mumbai; Remote; INR 3,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Profex Tech in Bengaluru seeks an experienced Senior DevOps/SRE leader to own production infrastructure, manage AWS, containers, and CI/CD pipelines.

You will optimize PostgreSQL/MySQL performance, implement observability, security, and run blameless post-incident reviews; requires 8-12 years and willingness to evening shift with US overlap.

Qualifications

• 8-12 years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or related roles.
• At least 3 years in a senior/leadership capacity.
• Strong hands-on expertise in AWS production infrastructure.
• Proven experience with PostgreSQL or MySQL performance tuning.
• CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation expertise.
• Terraform or IaC tooling experience.
• Expertise in Docker and Kubernetes, incl. EKS.
• Scripting in Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
• Linux administration, networking, DNS, firewalls, VPNs, secure access.
• Monitoring and observability with Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog.
• Cloud security, IAM, secrets management, access governance.
• Troubleshooting production incidents and root-cause analysis.
• Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration.
• Willingness to work an ongoing evening shift with US-time-zone overlap.

Responsibilities

• Own production infrastructure health and lead incident response during the assigned shift.
• Monitor and optimize PostgreSQL/MySQL databases, including slow-query analysis and indexing.
• Design, implement, and optimize CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or equivalent.
• Automate cloud provisioning with Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi.
• Manage AWS infrastructure, containers, and orchestration with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Implement monitoring and observability using Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog, or similar.
• Improve reliability, availability, scalability, and performance via SLOs/SLIs and capacity planning.
• Strengthen cloud security with IAM policies, secrets management and least-privilege controls.
• Automate configuration management with Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Python, or Bash.
• Lead root-cause analysis and blameless post-incident reviews and fix actions.
• Maintain infra docs, runbooks, and on-call procedures.
• Collaborate with engineering, QA, product, and security to improve deployment efficiency.
• Support SOC 2 and GDPR compliance.

Skills

DevOps leadership

AWS cloud services

PostgreSQL tuning

MySQL tuning

CI/CD pipelines

Terraform

Docker & Kubernetes

Python / Bash scripting

Linux administration

Monitoring & observability

Cloud security

Incident response

Communication skills

Tools

Amazon EKS

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK

Datadog

Ansible

Puppet

Job description

Key Responsibilities:

• Own production infrastructure health and lead incident response during the assigned shift.
• Monitor and optimize PostgreSQL/MySQL databases, including slow-query analysis, indexing, query execution plans, connection pooling, replication, and capacity planning.
• Design, implement, and optimize CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or equivalent tools.
• Automate cloud infrastructure provisioning and management using Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi.
• Manage AWS infrastructure, containers, and orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability using Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog, or similar tools.
• Improve system reliability, availability, scalability, and performance through SLOs, SLIs, capacity planning, and performance testing.
• Strengthen cloud security through IAM policies, secrets management, access reviews, vulnerability scanning, and least-privilege controls.
• Automate configuration management and operational tasks using Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Python, or Bash.
• Lead root-cause analysis and blameless post-incident reviews, ensuring permanent corrective actions.
• Maintain infrastructure documentation, architecture diagrams, runbooks, and on-call procedures.
• Collaborate with engineering, QA, product, and security teams to improve deployment efficiency and infrastructure maturity.
• Support relevant compliance requirements, including SOC 2 and GDPR.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• 8-12 years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Cloud Infrastructure, or related roles.
• At least 3 years of experience in a senior or technical leadership capacity.
• Strong hands-on expertise in AWS cloud services and production infrastructure management.
• Proven experience with PostgreSQL or MySQL performance tuning and troubleshooting production database issues.
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
• Practical experience with Terraform or other Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools.
• Expertise in Docker and Kubernetes, including managed Kubernetes services such as Amazon EKS.
• Strong scripting and automation skills in Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
• Experience with Linux administration, networking, TCP/IP, DNS, firewalls, VPNs, and secure access.
• Hands-on experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or Datadog.
• Strong understanding of cloud security, IAM, secrets management, access governance, and vulnerability management.
• Proven ability to troubleshoot production incidents and drive root-cause resolution.
• Excellent communication, documentation, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Willingness to work an ongoing evening shift with US-time-zone overlap.