DevOps Engineer

This role is for one of the Weekday's clients

Min Experience: 4 years

Location: Chandigarh, Mohali, Punjab

JobType: full-time

We are looking for a DevOps Engineer with 4+ years of experience to design, build, and operate scalable AWS infrastructure with strong ownership of CI/CD, containerized workloads, and infrastructure as code. The role requires deep hands-on expertise and a production-first mindset.

Key Responsibilities:

● Design, develop, and maintain reliable CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions across various environments such as development, staging, and production.

● Build, deploy, and manage containerized applications on AWS ECS, utilizing Fargate and/or EC2 instances.

● Provision, update, and oversee AWS infrastructure through CloudFormation, including managing templates, stacks, and stack sets.

● Take ownership of deployment automation, release planning, rollback procedures, and ensure deployments achieve zero or minimal downtime.

● Monitor, diagnose, and optimize AWS workloads to enhance performance, reliability, availability, and cost-efficiency.

● Implement and uphold security best practices covering IAM, networking, secrets management, and CI/CD pipelines.

● Collaborate closely with application engineering teams to refine build, deployment, and operational processes.

● Participate actively in incident response, conducting root cause analyses, and preparing post-mortem reports.

● Maintain comprehensive documentation, runbooks, and operational guidelines.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

● Minimum of 4 years of practical experience in DevOps or Cloud Engineering roles.

● Extensive production experience with AWS services including:

○ ECS, ECR, EC2

○ VPC, Security Groups, ALB/NLB

○ S3, RDS

○ IAM, CloudWatch

● Demonstrated expertise in CI/CD processes using GitHub Actions, including creating reusable workflows and managing environment-specific deployments.

● Strong proficiency in Docker and containerization best practices.

● Hands-on experience with CloudFormation for provisioning and managing infrastructure lifecycle.

● Solid understanding of networking principles, load balancing techniques, and AWS security fundamentals.

● Experience working with Linux operating systems and shell scripting.

● Familiarity with monitoring, logging, and alerting systems within AWS environments.

● Excellent troubleshooting abilities focused on maintaining production stability.

Must-have Skills

AWS

DOCKER

DevOps

Preferred Skills

Docker