Job Description

Senior DevOps Engineer

Department: DevOps

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Islamabad, Pak

As Emumba’s Senior DevOps Engineer, you’ll play a pivotal role in designing and operating highly available, scalable, and secure cloud platforms that power real-world applications.

This is about building automation-first ecosystems, advocating DevOps culture, and ensuring our engineering practices align with long-term business impact. You’ll work closely with customers and cross-functional teams to transform requirements into resilient, production-grade infrastructure.

This role demands ownership, strategic thinking, and a passion for continuous improvement.

Must-Have Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps / Cloud Engineering roles
• Strong experience designing highly available, fault-tolerant, and scalable systems in AWS
• Deep understanding of the AWS Well-Architected Framework (six pillars)
• Experience designing CI/CD pipelines for dev, staging, and production environments (GitHub CI, ArgoCD, Jenkins preferred)
• Hands-on expertise with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or AWS CloudFormation)
• Experience with container orchestration, preferably Amazon EKS
• Strong knowledge of monitoring and logging tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK)
• Solid understanding of cloud security best practices
• Proven analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to mentor and contribute to team growth

What You’ll Do

Cloud Architecture & Infrastructure

• Design and deploy highly available, fault-tolerant applications in AWS
• Optimize cloud infrastructure according to the AWS Well-Architected Framework
• Implement Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or CloudFormation

CI/CD & Automation

• Design and manage CI/CD pipelines across multiple environments
• Drive automation-first initiatives across engineering workflows
• Utilize configuration management tools such as Ansible, Puppet, or Chef

Reliability & Observability

• Implement monitoring and logging stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK)
• Strengthen infrastructure security and resilience
• Proactively troubleshoot and resolve production issues

Leadership & Cultural Advocacy

• Champion DevOps culture and continuous improvement practices
• Mentor engineers through coaching, feedback, and knowledge sharing
• Translate customer requirements into scalable, long-term infrastructure solutions
• Align DevOps practices with broader business and project goals

• Experience leading teams in customer-facing projects
• Exposure to AI tooling in DevOps or LLMOps
• AWS Professional Certifications (Solutions Architect Pro, DevOps Pro)
• Kubernetes certifications (CKA, CKAD)
• Terraform certification (HashiCorp Terraform Associate)

What’s In It for You

• Ownership of impactful cloud and platform initiatives
• Work alongside high-performing engineers in a collaborative environment
• Exposure to enterprise-scale customer projects
• Opportunities to lead through expertise and influence through execution