Hybrid Senior DevOps Engineer

at Demandbase

• Job title: Senior DevOps Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Airflow, AWS, Cloud, Google Cloud Platform, Grafana, Java, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Python, Terraform, Go
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Hyderabad, India

About the role

• Senior DevOps Engineer building and operating developer platforms for reliable production shipping at Demandbase in Hyderabad. Focused on improving developer experience and cloud infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate the platforms, tooling, and workflows that enable engineers to ship reliably to production.
• Partner with software, data, and security engineering teams to identify friction across the software delivery lifecycle and address it through automation, platform abstractions, and improved workflows.
• Design and evolve developer-facing platforms and tooling that standardize how services and pipelines are built, deployed, and operated.
• Enable self-service workflows with opinionated defaults that improve reliability, security, and consistency without slowing teams down.
• Use developer feedback, operational data, and production signals to prioritize and drive the DevEx roadmap.
• Design, build, and maintain CI/CD orchestration that supports high release velocity, strong security guardrails, and local-to-production parity, preferably using GitLab CI/CD.
• Standardize build, test, and deployment patterns across application and data workloads.
• Support modern deployment strategies and GitOps-based workflows.
• Build, operate, and evolve Kubernetes-based platforms across AWS and GCP, including EKS and GKE.
• Enable teams to run workloads on Kubernetes by providing clear operational guardrails, platform defaults, and documented best practices.
• Manage multi-account cloud environments with a focus on security, scalability, and ease of use.
• Design and maintain infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code, including Terraform and Crossplane.
• Build and operate internal platform components such as GitOps tooling, secret management systems, and service mesh infrastructure.
• Operate and evolve observability platforms (e.g., Prometheus, Mimir, Thanos, Grafana, Datadog) to provide actionable signals for platform and application teams.
• Define and apply SLIs, SLOs, alerting strategies, and incident response practices.
• Lead and participate in blameless post-mortems, translating learnings into platform improvements and reduced operational toil.
• Support engineering teams running data pipelines and batch workloads on platforms such as Airflow, EMR, and Dataproc.
• Standardize deployment, observability, and operational patterns for data workloads.
• Improve reliability and operability of data platforms through shared tooling and best practices.
• Serve as a technical leader within DevEx, promoting best practices in platform engineering, reliability, and secure software delivery.
• Mentor engineers and influence teams through strong technical design, documentation, and collaboration.
• Drive adoption of internal platforms through strong defaults, clear documentation, and self-service tooling.

Requirements

• 8+ years of overall engineering experience, including hands-on software development and cloud infrastructure ownership.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals with experience in at least one general-purpose programming language (e.g., Go, Python, Java).
• 5+ years of experience building and operating cloud infrastructure on AWS and/or GCP at scale.
• Proven experience managing multi-account cloud environments, including IAM, networking, and security best practices.
• Strong proficiency with Infrastructure as Code, preferably Terraform and Crossplane.
• Extensive experience operating Kubernetes platforms in production, including EKS and/or GKE.
• Experience managing multiple Kubernetes clusters, including upgrades, networking, and security.
• Hands-on experience with service mesh technologies such as Istio in multi-cluster environments.
• Deep experience designing and operating CI/CD systems that support high release velocity, preferably GitLab CI/CD.
• Experience building developer-facing tooling that improves local-to-production parity and reduces cognitive load.
• Familiarity with GitOps practices and modern deployment strategies.
• Experience supporting data platforms such as Airflow, EMR, and Dataproc.
• Strong experience building and operating observability platforms including Prometheus, Mimir, Thanos, Grafana, and Datadog.
• Solid understanding of SLIs, SLOs, alerting, and incident response.
• Demonstrated ability to partner with engineering teams to identify pain points and improve developer experience.
• Strong communication skills, including experience participating in or leading blameless post-mortems.

Benefits

• Group Medical
• Personal Accident
• Term Life Insurance
• Preventive healthcare including dental, vision, and OPD needs
• Strong mental health support
• Fitness benefit
• Car lease policy
• Gratuity for long-term financial well-being