perience: 10+ Years
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ob Type: Full Time
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ob Description:
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alor Paytech is seeking a highly experienced Principal DevOps Engineer to lead the architecture, strategy, and execution of cloud infrastructure and DevOps practices across our AWS-based platforms. This role will drive automation, scalability, security, reliability, and operational excellence while providing technical leadership and mentoring engineering teams.
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ey Responsibilities
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loud Architecture & DevOps Leadership
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e- sign and manage secure, scalable, and highly available AWS infrastructure.
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e- fine cloud architecture standards, governance, cost optimization, and reliability best practices.
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e- ad cloud modernization and infrastructure transformation initiatives.
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s- tablish and enforce DevOps standards, processes, and operational excellence across environments.
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e- ntor and guide DevOps engineers and provide technical leadership across teams.
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nfrastructure Automation & CI/CD
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- ad Infrastructure as Code (IaC) initiatives using Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar tools.
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r- ive automation across provisioning, deployment, monitoring, and scaling processes.
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r- chitect, implement, and optimize enterprise-grade CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, or equivalent tools.
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m- prove deployment reliability, release management, and rollback strategies.
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eliability, Security & Observability
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- plement monitoring, logging, and alerting frameworks using tools such as CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK.
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r- ive SRE practices including incident management, root cause analysis, SLIs, and SLOs.
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n- sure high availability, disaster recovery, and business continuity.
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m- plement security best practices including IAM, KMS, secrets management, and DevSecOps controls.
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a- rtner with security teams to ensure compliance and governance requirements are met.
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ollaboration & Technical Advisory
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r
- anslate business and product requirements into scalable, secure, and reliable technical solutions.
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o- rk closely with Engineering, QA, Product, and Infrastructure teams to streamline delivery and deployment processes.
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c- t as a trusted advisor on infrastructure, cloud, and deployment strategies.
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n- fluence technology and architecture decisions across the organization.
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equired Qualifications
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- + years of experience in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering.
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+- years of hands-on experience with AWS services including EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, KMS, RDS, Lambda, and CloudWatch.
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t- rong expertise in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred).
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r- oven experience designing and managing large-scale CI/CD pipelines.
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a- nds-on experience with Docker and container orchestration — Kubernetes/EKS, ECS, or equivalent.
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t- rong Linux administration experience (RHEL/CentOS).
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d- vanced scripting skills in Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
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x- perience with configuration management tools such as Ansible, Chef, or Puppet.
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t- rong understanding of networking, security, and distributed system architecture.
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referred Qualifications
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- chelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
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x- perience in FinTech, Payments, Banking, or other regulated environments.
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x- posure to multi-cloud or hybrid cloud architectures.
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x- perience with artifact repositories such as Nexus or Artifactory.
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n- owledge of FinOps and cloud cost optimization practices.
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W- S Professional-level certifications are highly desirable.
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ey Competencies
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e- chnical leadership and architecture ownership
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t- rong problem-solving and decision-making skills
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t- akeholder management and cross-functional collaboration
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e- ntoring and team development
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u- tomation-first and continuous improvement mindset
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echnical Environment
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loud: AWS (EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, KMS, RDS, Lambda, CloudWatch)
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I/CD: Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD
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aC: Terraform, CloudFormation
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ontainers: Docker, Kubernetes (EKS), ECS
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onitoring: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, CloudWatch
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perating Systems: RHEL, CentOS, Windows Server
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cripting: Py
