Required Skills & Experience
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Extensive DevOps engineering experience within banking, financial services, fintech, payments, or other highly regulated environments.
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Strong AWS cloud engineering experience.
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Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, or similar.
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Experience building, maintaining, and supporting enterprise CI/CD pipelines.
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Strong scripting and automation skills using Python, Bash, PowerShell, or similar.
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Experience supporting highly available, mission-critical production environments with stringent uptime and resilience requirements.
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Experience implementing monitoring, logging, and observability solutions such as Datadog, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, New Relic, or Sumo Logic.
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Strong experience with containerized platforms including Kubernetes and Docker.
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Experience supporting and administering Apache Kafka platforms in production environments.
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Understanding of event-driven architectures and messaging patterns using Kafka for real-time transaction processing and system integration.
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Experience managing Kafka topics, partitions, replication, brokers, schema management, monitoring, performance tuning, and operational support.
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Experience working with distributed systems and cloud-native architectures.
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Strong understanding of production support, incident management, change management, and operational excellence practices.
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Experience working within Agile delivery teams.
AWS – IAM, EKS, ECR, VPC,Security Groups, Route 53, ALB/NLB, S3, Secrets Manager, PrivateLink
Containers & Kubernetes – Kubernetes administration, EKS, Helm, ingress controllers, autoscaling, RBAC, namespaces, networking
Infrastructure as Code --Terraform, environment provisioning, state management
CI/CD – GitOps, deployment pipelines, release automation, branching/versioning strategies
**Observability --**Datadog, OpenTelemetry, logging, metrics, tracing, dashboard creation, alerting
Secrets Management --AWS Secrets Manager, HashiCorp Vault integration
Scripting – troubleshooting containerized workloads
DevSecOps – Security scanning, policy-as-code, compliance controls embedded within pipelines