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SE I - DevOps Developer Productivity

Keywords Studios

About Keywords Studios

About the Team

Responsibilities

  • Build, maintain, and improve CI/CD pipelines for build, test, deployment, and release workflows.
  • Automate repetitive build and release activities.
  • Troubleshoot pipeline failures and improve pipeline reliability.
  • Work with version control and release workflows.
  • Develop scripts and tools that simplify engineering workflows.
  • Automate repetitive operational and development tasks.
  • Identify small but impactful areas of friction in developer workflows.
  • Build and maintain CLI-based utilities and internal tooling.
  • Work with cloud infrastructure supporting CI/CD and development environments.
  • Contribute to infrastructure provisioning and configuration automation.
  • Understand basic cloud networking, compute, storage, and IAM concepts.
  • Build and work with containerised applications and workloads.
  • Support Kubernetes-based development and deployment environments.
  • Troubleshoot common container and Kubernetes issues.
  • Implement and maintain basic monitoring and logging for DevX systems.
  • Use metrics, logs, and traces to troubleshoot issues.
  • Contribute to dashboards and alerts for engineering infrastructure.
  • Follow secure development and CI/CD practices.
  • Contribute to security checks within engineering workflows.
  • Understand basic concepts around IAM, secrets, dependencies, and container security.
  • Support development and test environments used by engineering teams.
  • Help improve build and test workflows.
  • Troubleshoot issues related to developer environments and tooling.
  • Contribute to sandbox and environment automation.
  • Diagnose issues across CI/CD, infrastructure, containers, and development environments.
  • Use logs, metrics, and system information to perform root-cause analysis.
  • Escalate and collaborate effectively on complex issues.
  • Participate in operational support and incident resolution.

Requirements

  • We are looking for an engineer who enjoys automation, troubleshooting, learning new technologies, and building tools that make engineering teams more productive.
  • 2–5 years of experience in software engineering, DevOps, infrastructure, platform engineering, SRE, or a related field.
  • Good understanding of Linux/Unix systems.
  • Hands-on experience with CI/CD and automation.
  • Working knowledge of Git and software development workflows.
  • Experience with Docker and/or Kubernetes.
  • Experience with at least one programming or scripting language.
  • Exposure to cloud platforms, preferably AWS.
  • Basic understanding of Infrastructure as Code.
  • Understanding of monitoring, logging, and troubleshooting.
  • Strong problem-solving and debugging skills.
  • Comfortable working with CLI-based tools.
  • Good communication and documentation skills.
  • Willingness to learn and work across different technologies.
  • Ability to take ownership of assigned tasks and drive them to completion.

Preferred

  • Experience with Jenkins or another CI/CD platform.
  • Experience with AWS.
  • Experience with Kubernetes/EKS.
  • Experience with Terraform, AWS CDK, CloudFormation, or Ansible.
  • Experience with Python or Shell scripting.
  • Exposure to Prometheus/Grafana or similar observability tools.
  • Familiarity with Helm and GitOps.
  • Experience working with developer tooling or internal engineering platforms.
  • Familiarity with VSCode, IntelliJ, or similar IDEs.
  • Experience working with testing infrastructure.

What Success Looks Like

  • Reliable execution of assigned DevX projects and tasks.
  • Reduction of repetitive manual engineering work through automation.
  • Improved reliability of CI/CD and development workflows.
  • Faster troubleshooting and resolution of DevX issues.
  • Growing ownership of DevX systems and tools.
  • Positive collaboration with engineering teams.

CI/CD & Release Engineering

  • **Tools / Technologies:**
  • Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, CircleCI, Git, Helm, Argo CD, or equivalent.

Developer Productivity & Automation

  • **Languages / Technologies:**
  • Python, Shell/Bash, Java, Clojure, Go, or equivalent.

Cloud & Infrastructure

  • **Tools / Technologies:**
  • AWS, GCP, Azure, AWS CDK, Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, or equivalent.

Containers & Kubernetes

  • **Tools / Technologies:**
  • Docker, Kubernetes, Amazon EKS, Helm, Kustomize, ECR, or equivalent.

Observability

  • **Tools / Technologies:**
  • Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, Dynatrace, Datadog, Loki, OpenSearch/Elasticsearch, OpenTelemetry, or equivalent.

Security

  • **Tools / Technologies:**
  • Trivy, Snyk, Prisma Cloud, Checkov, cfn-guard, OPA/Conftest, or equivalent.

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