Staff Software Engineer - DevOps/SRE

Role Overview

Accountabilities

• Build and maintain paved-road templates and golden paths within a Backstage-based Internal Developer Platform.
• Provision, configure, and operate Amazon EKS clusters across development, staging, and production environments.
• Design and manage AWS networking, including VPCs, CIDR allocation, VPC peering, Transit Gateway, and site-to-site VPNs.
• Support Central Inspection Hub onboarding and implement secure egress controls.
• Build and operate observability across metrics, logs, and traces using tools such as Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, VictoriaMetrics, and OpenSearch.
• Develop automated delivery pipelines and GitOps workflows using GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, and Kargo.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration using Terraform or OpenTofu.
• Improve reliability, infrastructure operations, system visibility, and developer productivity through repeatable engineering patterns.
• Collaborate across cloud infrastructure, networking, security, platform engineering, and developer experience.
• Identify opportunities to reduce operational friction and establish scalable engineering practices.

Requirements

• Strong hands-on AWS networking experience covering VPC architecture, CIDR allocation, VPC peering, Transit Gateway, and site-to-site VPNs.
• Strong Kubernetes administration experience, including cluster administration, RBAC, pod identity, and Amazon EKS.
• Experience building or contributing to an Internal Developer Platform.
• Strong understanding of infrastructure-as-code and GitOps practices.
• Practical experience designing or maintaining modern CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows.
• Observability platform experience with technologies such as Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, VictoriaMetrics, or OpenSearch is highly valuable.
• Cloud security, access management, SSO, identity providers, and OIDC knowledge is preferred.
• Service mesh experience with technologies such as Istio or Envoy is advantageous.
• Backstage plugin development or Internal Developer Platform extension experience is preferred.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Benefits and Work Environment

• The position is fully remote from India while collaborating with distributed engineering teams.
• The role offers staff-level technical impact across foundational infrastructure and platform capabilities.
• The technology scope includes AWS, EKS, Kubernetes, GitOps, infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, observability, and developer platforms.
• The environment emphasizes automation, reliability, scalable solutions, professional growth, and collaboration.

Compensation

• Salary and total compensation details are subject to the applicable employment terms for the position.