Lenskart - DevOps/Site Reliability/Platform Engineer

The Role We are looking for a high-calibre DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer who brings strong engineering fundamentals and a deep sense of ownership. You will design, build, and operate the platforms and infrastructure that enable product teams to ship quickly and safely at scale. This role is hands-on, impact-driven, and held to top-tier engineering standards.

What You Will Do Platform & Cloud Engineering:

• Design and operate cloud-native platforms that abstract complexity and improve developer productivity.
• Build reusable, opinionated infrastructure using Infrastructure-as-Code.
• Own Kubernetes clusters, networking, service orchestration, and workload reliability.

Reliability Engineering

• Define and drive SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets for business-critical services.
• Participate in on-call rotations, lead incident response, and write clear, blameless RCAs.
• Continuously reduce operational toil through automation and engineering solutions.

CI/CD & DevOps

• Build and evolve secure, automated CI/CD pipelines using GitOps principles.
• Enable safe, frequent production deployments with strong rollback and observability.
• Partner with application teams to embed reliability and operational excellence early in the lifecycle.

Observability & Operations

• Implement best-in-class logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting.
• Ensure alerts are actionable and aligned with service health - not noise.
• Build dashboards, runbooks, and self-healing mechanisms to improve MTTR.

Architecture & Collaboration

• Work closely with software engineers, architects, and security teams to influence system design.
• Review infrastructure and architecture through the lens of scale, resilience, and cost efficiency.
• Champion DevOps, SRE, and cloud-native best practices across the organization.

Core Engineering What Were Looking For:

• Strong foundations in Linux, networking (DNS, TCP/IP), and distributed systems.
• Proficiency in Python or Go for automation and tooling.
• Clean Git practices and strong software-engineering discipline.

Cloud & Containers

• Hands-on experience with AWS (primary); exposure to GCP or Azure is a plus.
• Required - strong experience operating Kubernetes in production environments.
• Required - experience with Helm and containerized workloads at scale.

Infrastructure & Tooling

• Required - Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform.
• Preferred - configuration and automation using Chef / Ansible.
• CI/CD & GitOps: ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or GitLab CI.

Observability & Reliability

• Metrics and alerting: Prometheus, Grafana, Alertmanager.
• Tracing / APM: Datadog, New Relic, OpenTelemetry.
• Incident management experience (PagerDuty or equivalent).

Data & Messaging (Working Knowledge)

• Datastores: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB.
• Streaming and search: Kafka, Elasticsearch.
• Caching: Redis.

Nice To Have

• Experience building internal developer platforms.
• Exposure to DevSecOps and cloud security.
• Experience operating high-traffic, consumer-facing systems.
• Strong written communication - design docs, RFCs, and runbooks. (ref:hirist.tech)