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.What Were Looking For:Core Engineering:- 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)