DevOps Engineer

About Shopalyst:Shopalyst offers a Discovery Commerce platform for digital marketers. Combining data, AI and deep integrations with digital media and e-commerce platforms, Shopalyst connects people with products they love. More than 500 marquee brands leverage our SaaS platform for data driven marketing and sales in 30 countries across Asia, Europe and Americas. We have offices in Fremont CA, Bangalore, and Trivandrum. Our company is backed by Kalaari Capital.About the Role:This position is responsible for end to end management of Shopalyst's cloud infrastructure platform (AWS and Google Cloud).Candidate should have a bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Engineering (or equivalent) plus minimum 3+ years of experience in managing AWS cloud infrastructure.Core responsibilities:Infra managementReview infrastructure change requests, suggest & implement optimal solution in terms of performance, maintainability & costKeep the infrastructure updated/upgraded. This includes servers, operating system, packages and application softwareMaintain all infrastructure configuration as IaC (Infrastructure as Code)Infra monitoring and site reliabilityContinuous monitoring of infrastructure and ensuring 24x7 availabilityImplement/maintain automated alerting mechanisms for handling infra outagesDocument and maintain infra recovery procedures, ensure successful backup of critical dataContinuously monitor infra utilization and alert on when to scale up/scale down instancesInfra Security, Compliance & CertificationsInfrastructure access management - ensure least privilege as the default policy. Review infra access periodically. Manage access to critical systems like AWS/Open VPNAdherence to CIS/AWS security benchmarks on AWS Security HubImplement controls required for different attestations/certifications like SOC 2 Type 2,ISO 27xxx, PCI DSS etcDevOpsEnable CI/CD process for application deploymentInfra cost monitoring and optimisationServices-wise infrastructure cost monitoring analysis and optimisationInfra trends and new servicesEvaluate new cloud services, analyse feasibility of adoptionRequired Skills and Experience:AWS: 3+ years experience with using a broad range of AWS technologies (e.g. EC2,S3, ELB, VPC,Route 53, IAM, CloudWatch, CloudFront, RDS, Lambda, Glacier) to develop and maintain an Amazon AWS based cloud solutionDevOps: Solid experience as a DevOps Engineer in a 24x7 uptime Amazon AWS environment, including automation experience with configuration management tools.Infra automation: Experience in Terraform/AnsibleScripting Skills: Strong scripting (e.g. Python) and automation skills.Operating Systems: Linux system administration and strong shell scripting skillsMonitoring Tools: Experience with web servers (e.g. Nginx).Problem Solving: Ability to analyze and resolve complex infrastructure resource and application deployment issues.Desired Skills (Not essential but beneficial to have):DB Skills: Basic DB administration experience - Cassandra, RDS, MySQLSearch engines: Experience with search engines such as Apache Solr/Elastic SearchVersion Control: Experience administrating version control systems such as Git