Senior DevOps Engineer

About the role

ixigo (Le Travenues Technology Limited) is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to design, automate, and operate scalable, secure, and highly available cloud-native platforms for its travel technology products. Day-to-day work includes building and scaling production infrastructure on AWS, managing Kubernetes/EKS environments, implementing Infrastructure as Code with Terraform, maintaining CI/CD pipelines, operating containerized workloads, managing service mesh and observability platforms, supporting databases, and driving platform reliability and AIOps adoption. The role is based in Gurugram, India, and is a full-time position.

What you’ll do

• Design, build, operate, and scale highly available production infrastructure on AWS, with a strong focus on reliability, security, automation, and performance
• Manage and optimize Kubernetes/EKS environments, including cluster upgrades, autoscaling, workload scheduling, networking, security, resource management, and high availability
• Build and maintain reusable Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and implement automated infrastructure provisioning across multiple environments
• Design and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, or similar tools for automated build, testing, deployment, rollback, and release management
• Implement and operate containerized workloads using Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm, following deployment and configuration best practices
• Manage service-to-service communication and traffic using Istio, Kubernetes Gateway API, kgateway, Envoy-based gateways, or similar technologies
• Build and maintain centralized observability platforms using Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Cortex, and related monitoring, logging, alerting, and tracing tools
• Troubleshoot complex production issues across Kubernetes, Linux, networking, DNS, HTTP/TLS, service mesh, load balancers, databases, and distributed microservices

What you’ll bring

• 5-6 years of hands-on experience in DevOps, Cloud Infrastructure, SRE, or Platform Engineering roles
• Strong knowledge of AWS services including EKS, EC2, VPC, ALB/NLB, CloudFront, Route 53, IAM, S3, RDS, KMS, Secrets Manager, and security services
• Strong experience with Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, Terraform, GitLab CI/CD, and Jenkins
• Hands-on knowledge of Istio, service mesh, API gateways, Kubernetes Gateway API, and Envoy-based architectures
• Strong experience with observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Cortex, and similar monitoring/logging platforms
• Strong Linux administration and troubleshooting skills, with scripting experience using Python and Shell
• Experience with relational and distributed databases including MySQL, PostgreSQL, RDS, ScyllaDB, ClickHouse, Redis, or similar technologies
• Familiarity with build and software development tools such as Git, Maven, Gradle, artifact repositories, and release processes

Skills