Senior DevOps Engineer
Paytm · Noida · 6+ yrs experience · Posted 2026-06-03
Tech stack: AWS, Jenkins, Kafka, Kubernetes, Python, Redis, Terraform, ArgoCD, Argo Rollouts, Spinnaker, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, AI
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About the role
JD - Senior DevOps Engineer
About the Role:
What You Will Do:
● Execute advanced deployment strategies including canary and progressive delivery (Argo Rollouts, Spinnaker, etc.)
● Take ownership of AWS infrastructure components, ensuring reliability, scalability, and security
● Build and enhance observability systems (metrics, logging, tracing) to improve system visibility and debugging
● Engineer and automate workflows using modern tooling and emerging AI/agentic solutions
● Strengthen system reliability through effective monitoring, alerting, and incident
Responsibilities:
Qualifications:
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Qualifications
- Comfortable leveraging AI tools to improve productivity and reduce manual effort
- Ability to identify opportunities for automation and intelligent workflows
- Interest in applying AI to analysis, debugging, and operational efficiency
- 3–6 years of experience (at least 3 years in DevOps)
- Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes and other containerized environments
- Experience with Terraform (or equivalent IaC tools)
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, etc.)
- Experience with GitOps workflows (ArgoCD preferred)
- Solid understanding of deployment strategies (canary, blue-green, rolling)
- Strong experience with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, or equivalent)
- Experience managing production-grade systems (Kafka, Redis, etc.)
- Strong debugging and problem-solving skills in distributed systems
- Proficiency in scripting (Python preferred)
- Proven ability to independently own and drive improvements in at least one critical DevOps domain (CI/CD, observability, cost optimization, or infrastructure reliability).
- Strong sense of ownership for production systems
- Ability to think in terms of systems, trade-offs, and scalability
- Bias for automation over manual processes
- Strong collaboration and communication skills
- Proactive problem-solving and continuous improvement mindset
- Why Join Us?
- A collaborative, output-driven environment that fosters innovation.
- Opportunities to work on large-scale, high-impact projects.
- A culture that values technical excellence, automation, and efficiency.
- Respect that is earned from peers and leadership based on contributions and impact.
Responsibilities
- As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will play a key role in building and operating reliable, scalable, and efficient infrastructure and deployment systems.
- You will work on improving platform capabilities, enhancing observability, and driving automation across the DevOps charter.
- This role requires strong hands-on expertise in cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, deployment strategies, and observability, along with the ability to take ownership of production systems and continuously improve them using automation and AI-assisted workflows.
- Design and maintain high-performance, resilient DevOps platforms and infrastructure components
- Execute advanced deployment strategies including canary and progressive delivery (Argo Rollouts, Spinnaker, etc.)
- Take ownership of AWS infrastructure components, ensuring reliability, scalability, and security
- Build and enhance observability systems (metrics, logging, tracing) to improve system visibility and debugging
- Engineer and automate workflows using modern tooling and emerging AI/agentic solutions
- Strengthen system reliability through effective monitoring, alerting, and incident response practices
- Collaborate with engineering and security teams to implement DevOps best practices and standards
- Contribute to improving deployment efficiency, system performance, and cloud cost optimization initiatives
- Support and mentor team members through knowledge sharing and technical guidance