DevOps Manager

About the Role

WorkIndia is seeking a hands-on DevOps Engineer III / DevOps Manager to manage and enhance its cloud infrastructure, deployment pipelines, monitoring systems, and security practices. The role involves building scalable, reliable, secure, and cost-efficient infrastructure to support a growing platform. The individual will proactively identify infrastructure bottlenecks and drive continuous improvements in engineering efficiency. Depending on the level, responsibilities will include leading critical infrastructure initiatives or taking broader ownership of infrastructure strategy, execution, and team development.

Key Responsibilities

• Cloud Infrastructure: Design, manage, and optimize AWS infrastructure using Terraform and Kubernetes, ensuring scalability, availability, and reliability.
• Cost Optimisation: Identify infrastructure inefficiencies, optimize cloud resource utilization, and implement cost-control mechanisms.
• CI/CD & Deployment Automation: Build and improve automated deployment pipelines using GitHub Actions and Argo CD.
• Monitoring & Observability: Establish monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting using Grafana, Loki, Tempo, Elastic APM, and Sentry.
• Security & Reliability: Implement infrastructure security best practices using AWS WAF, AWS Shield, and other relevant controls.
• Incident Management: Proactively identify system bottlenecks, troubleshoot production incidents, and drive root-cause analysis.
• Infrastructure Automation: Reduce manual intervention through automation, standardization, and Infrastructure as Code.
• Engineering Collaboration: Partner with engineering and product teams to improve deployment velocity, system reliability, and developer productivity.
• Technical Leadership (Manager Level): Define infrastructure strategy, establish engineering standards, mentor team members, and drive long-term platform reliability and scalability.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Strong hands-on experience managing production infrastructure on AWS.
• Proficiency in Terraform and Infrastructure as Code practices.
• Solid experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration.
• Experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and Argo CD.
• Hands-on experience with observability tools including Grafana, Loki, Tempo, Elastic APM, and Sentry.
• Understanding of cloud security practices, including AWS WAF, AWS Shield, access controls, and infrastructure hardening.
• Demonstrated experience in cloud cost optimisation, resource right-sizing, and infrastructure efficiency.
• Strong troubleshooting, incident management, and root-cause analysis skills.
• Ability to take end-to-end ownership of infrastructure challenges and drive measurable improvements.
• Experience leading infrastructure initiatives and mentoring DevOps/SRE engineers.
• Ability to define infrastructure roadmaps, operational standards, and reliability practices.
• Experience balancing infrastructure scalability, security, engineering productivity, and cloud expenditure.
• Strong stakeholder management and ability to drive cross-functional initiatives.