Senior DevOps Engineer

Gurugram, Haryana, India
May 16, 2025
May 16, 2026
Onsite
Full-Time
4 - 6 Years
Job Description

As a Senior DevOps Engineer and more importantly, a Senior Principal Engineer in our team, you will take ownership of mission-critical deliverables across multiple projects. You will not only design and implement resilient, scalable systems but also lead a high-performing DevOps team. Your focus will be on creating infrastructure that powers world-class user experiences.

Your role includes

  • Leading a small but impactful team of engineers through day-to-day operations and long-term strategic goals.
  • Designing and building highly available, scalable, and modular infrastructure systems using modern DevOps practices.
  • Spearheading initiatives around automation, monitoring, incident management, and CI/CD enablement.
  • Architecting robust, secure, and cost-efficient deployments in hybrid cloud environments (with AWS as a primary focus).
  • Establishing and improving Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs).
  • Managing and enhancing systems observability using modern telemetry stacks (e.g., ELK, Prometheus, Grafana).
  • Driving incident response and root cause analysis processes, and leading efforts to automate fault recovery and issue prevention.
  • Providing on-call support with a focus on reducing alert fatigue and improving incident outcomes.
  • Contributing to infrastructure roadmap planning, performance tuning, and security best practices.

ou Might Be a Fit If You Have

  • 4–6 years of hands-on experience in DevOps, SRE, or Infrastructure Engineering roles.
  • Solid Linux/Unix administration background with strong shell scripting and debugging skills.
  • Deep experience working with Kubernetes (deployment, scaling, high availability, troubleshooting).
  • Proven ability in managing scalable infrastructure on AWS. Familiarity with GCP is a bonus.
  • Strong grasp of networking concepts like DNS, routing, VPCs, subnets, firewalls, and VPNs.
  • Fluency in Infrastructure-as-Code tools (Terraform is essential).
  • Experience with configuration management systems like Ansible.
  • Proven expertise in building, managing, and improving CI/CD pipelines with tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI, or ArgoCD.
  • Strong knowledge of observability and monitoring stacks Prometheus, ELK, Telegraf, Grafana.
  • Working familiarity with databases and data platforms like MongoDB, DynamoDB, Redis, Kafka, or Cassandra.
  • Bonus - Exposure to Big Data tools and pipelines such as DataProc, Redshift, etc.

Your Toolbelt (a.k.a. Soft Skills)

  • You're a self-starter who takes initiative and drives outcomes without micromanagement.
  • You think strategically but execute pragmatically. You’re as comfortable leading architecture discussions as you are writing Terraform scripts.
  • You embrace ambiguity and adjust quickly in fast-changing environments.
  • You collaborate well with engineers, product managers, and stakeholders your communication is clear, honest, and impactful.

We’d Love to Hear More About

  • Real-world problems you’ve solved from outages to cost optimization to scaling challenges.
  • Your leadership style how you motivate teams, mentor junior engineers, and drive alignment across functions.
  • Any open-source projects, blogs, or talks you’ve contributed to show us your passion!

Why Join Xtelify?

  1. Truly Agile Culture. We’re nimble, iterative, and fast. Your voice matters in the product and platform direction.
  2. Scale and Impact. We operate in the dynamic entertainment and OTT domain big problems, even bigger opportunities.
  3. Tech-First Approach. Work with a forward-thinking team using cutting-edge cloud-native tools and platforms.
  4. Hybrid Cloud Exposure. Be part of our transition to a hybrid cloud model, where performance, resilience, and cost efficiency go hand-in-hand.
  5. Top-Tier Engineering Team. Collaborate with passionate technologists who love solving real-world problems.

Ready to help shape the future of cloud-native infrastructure in the entertainment space? Apply now and let’s build something great together.