Senior Staff/Principal DevOps Engineer - Balbix - Delhi NCR

Balbix is seeking a highly skilled Senior Staff/Principal DevOps Engineer to join our expanding team in Delhi NCR. This pivotal role is instrumental in empowering our engineering team and ensuring the delivery of a best-in-class, scalable platform. The position demands expertise across diverse hosting environments and technology stacks, with a strong emphasis on AWS, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), continuous deployment, and observability.

The ideal candidate will demonstrate a proven history of architecting sophisticated DevOps systems, scaling applications and infrastructure on a massive scale, and adeptly resolving complex challenges within AWS, IaC, and CI/CD automation. A capacity for rapid learning and adaptation to evolving technologies, particularly within AWS and other cloud platforms, is essential.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the development of key DevOps initiatives, define technical strategy, and influence the organization's overall technical direction.
• Address complex technical problems, mentor senior engineers, and foster collaboration with cross-functional teams to deliver impactful DevOps solutions.
• Design and develop Infrastructure as Code (IaC) components for Balbix's solutions and internal engineering tools deployed on AWS.
• Construct and deploy a cutting-edge security SaaS platform leveraging the latest CI/CD methodologies, ensuring full automation, repeatability, and robust security.
• Implement robust infrastructure security using best practices, including TLS, bastion hosts, certificate management, authentication and authorization, and network segmentation.
• Design and build a scalable and cost-effective deployment infrastructure on Kubernetes.
• Establish and implement consistent observability systems for Balbix solutions.
• Participate in an on-call rotation to ensure platform availability.

About You:

• You are a collaborative individual, adept at working across teams, taking ownership of cross-organizational projects, and leading operational initiatives.
• You possess strong communication skills, maintain excellent documentation practices, and can articulate technical concepts effectively within a team environment.
• You are comfortable working within an agile development framework.
• You exhibit a strong curiosity for technology, industry trends, and DevOps best practices, demonstrating a commitment to continuous learning.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.
• 10+ years of experience in DevOps for a Senior Staff role, or 12-15 years for a Principal role.
• Minimum of 4 years of experience setting up and managing AWS infrastructure for product development organizations.
• Demonstrated ability to independently architect, design, document, and implement complex platforms and DevOps systems.
• In-depth knowledge of AWS infrastructure and services, including load balancers (ALB/ELB), IAM, KMS, Networking, EC2, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, CloudFormation, Lambda, and others.
• 4+ years of experience building infrastructure with Terraform.
• 3+ years of solid experience with Kubernetes and Helm.
• Expert-level programming proficiency in Python for scripting and automation.
• Excellent knowledge of configuration management systems such as Ansible.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD code management and deployment tools like GitLab, Jenkins, or similar platforms.
• Familiarity with components commonly used in public cloud environments, such as Nginx, HAProxy, Kafka.
• Experience managing Observability systems using Grafana, Prometheus, or the LGTM stack is a plus.
• Experience deploying and managing databases such as Aurora RDS (Postgres), ElasticCache, Cassandra, OpenSearch/Elasticsearch, and ClickHouse is a plus.
• Relevant cloud certifications (e.g., Cloud Solutions Architect, DevOps, Developer, Database—AWS certifications preferred) are advantageous.
• MLOps experience is a plus.
• Experience building or working with the latest AI technologies for infrastructure management is a plus.
• Exceptional time management skills, maintaining focus and composure under pressure, meeting deadlines, and adapting to rapidly changing priorities.
• Clear and effective written and verbal communication abilities.
• Availability for on-call duties.