About the Role We are seeking an experienced and highly motivated Senior DevOps Engineer to design, build, and operate a modern cloud-native platform that supports mission-critical applications and data services. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in Kubernetes-based infrastructure, GitOps practices, CI/CD automation, database administration, observability, and platform security. You will play a key role in driving platform reliability, scalability, and developer productivity while mentoring junior engineers and adopting open-source technologies to enhance our engineering ecosystem. Technology Stack (Key Technologies): Container Orchestration: Kubernetes, Docker GitOps & CI/CD: ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, Helm API Gateway & Ingress: Kong Gateway, Traefik Monitoring & Observability: Grafana, Prometheus, Loki Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL, Neo4j, Redis, ClickHouse, Qdrant Streaming & Messaging: Apache Kafka (Strimzi) Data Platform: Apache Airflow, Trino, Hive Metastore, OpenMetadata, MinIO (S3) Security: HashiCorp Vault, OpenBao Configuration Management: Ansible Key Responsibilities: • Design and manage advanced CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, ArgoCD GitOps). • Deploy and operate highly available PostgreSQL & MySQL clusters. • Manage Kong API Gateway and optimize Kubernetes infrastructure. • Operate and enhance monitoring (Grafana, Prometheus, Loki) and ensure security compliance. • Manage Kafka clusters, perform capacity planning, and participate in incident response. • Mentor junior engineers and deploy new open-source platforms end-to-end. Required Skills & Experience: • 8+ years in DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering. • Expert-level Kubernetes (deployments, StatefulSets, RBAC, CRDs) and Docker. • Extensive experience with PostgreSQL/MySQL (HA, replication) and Helm chart development. • Proficiency with ArgoCD, Prometheus + Grafana (PromQL), and Apache Kafka. • Strong Linux administration, scripting (Bash, Python, Go), and CI/CD (GitHub Actions). • Experience with HashiCorp Vault and Traefik ingress controller.