Senior Associate - DevOps Security Engineer

Role Overview

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain secure, scalable, and highly available AWS infrastructure.
• Develop and maintain AWS CloudFormation templates using repeatable provisioning and release automation practices.
• Implement IAM, network, encryption, secrets, logging, vulnerability remediation, and compliance-oriented controls.
• Support AWS infrastructure components including networking, load balancing, compute, storage, databases, and managed services.
• Contribute to Azure operations and hybrid or multi-cloud environments where needed.
• Build CI/CD pipelines and integrate code quality, infrastructure, dependency, image, and security scanning.
• Implement observability through monitoring, logging, alerting, metrics, dashboards, and incident response workflows.
• Troubleshoot production issues and collaborate across engineering, data, security, and operations teams.
• Maintain technical documentation, runbooks, architecture diagrams, and operational procedures.
• Participate in incident reviews, capacity planning, cost optimization, and continuous improvement.
• Support foundational MLOps workflows including model deployment environments, pipeline automation, artifact handling, and monitoring.

Required Skills and Experience

• Four to seven years of experience in DevOps, CloudOps, infrastructure engineering, or platform engineering.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS infrastructure and core AWS services.
• Strong experience developing and maintaining AWS CloudFormation templates using YAML or JSON.
• Understanding of cloud security, DevSecOps, least-privilege access, network segmentation, encryption, secrets management, and audit readiness.
• Experience with infrastructure automation, configuration management, scripting, and operational tooling.
• Working knowledge of CI/CD, release automation, branching, artifact management, and environment promotion workflows.
• Experience with monitoring and observability platforms.
• Understanding of Docker, Kubernetes, Amazon EKS, ECS, or Azure Kubernetes Service.
• Ability to troubleshoot production issues, analyze logs and metrics, perform root cause analysis, and implement preventive actions.
• Strong documentation, communication, ownership, and stakeholder collaboration skills.

Preferred Skills

• Working exposure to Microsoft Azure services, Azure DevOps, Azure Monitor, Azure Policy, Key Vault, VNets, and role-based access control.
• Experience with Terraform, AWS CDK, Ansible, or other infrastructure-as-code and automation tools.
• Experience with Snyk, SonarQube, Checkov, Trivy, Wiz, or similar security scanning solutions.
• Exposure to compliance frameworks, cloud governance, tagging standards, cost optimization, backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity.
• Foundational understanding of MLOps concepts and model lifecycle workflows.
• Cloud certifications such as AWS or Azure associate, specialty, or expert certifications are desirable.

Education and Working Style

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline; equivalent practical experience is also considered.
• Demonstrated experience delivering secure and automated cloud infrastructure in production environments.
• Ability to work independently, manage priorities, and operate effectively in a fast-paced consulting or technology delivery environment.

Workplace

• The position is based in Hyderabad and is described as hybrid.