DevOps Engineer II
HackerRank
Hybrid in Bangalore, IndiahybridPosted 1 month ago
Skill Required
EngineeringDevOps EngineerPenetration TestingQuery OptimizationSOCElasticsearchObservabilityKubernetesPrometheusDatadogTerraformRedshiftJenkinsPythonDockerArgoCDLinuxKafkaRedisCI/CDDesign PatternsJavaAWSGCPIAM
Key highlights
- 3+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or Cloud Infrastructure Engineering required
- Deep expertise with AWS (EKS, EC2, S3, SQS, IAM) required
- Part of a high-performing DevOps team with autonomy to design and optimise cloud infrastructure
- HackerRank's platform is trusted by over 2,500 innovative companies including NVIDIA, Amazon, and Microsoft
- Equal employment opportunity and affirmative action employer
- Recruiters use @hackerrank.com email addresses and HackerRank never asks for payment or credit check information
Role overview
HackerRank helps companies like NVIDIA, Amazon, and Microsoft hire and upskill the next generation of developers based on skills, not pedigree, with its platform trusted by over 2,500 of the world's most innovative companies. As software enters an era where humans and AI build side by side, HackerRank gives companies better ways to identify and invest in next-generation skills, with people who care deeply about impact, sweat the small details, move with urgency, and believe great outcomes come from high standards. In this role, you'll be part of a high-performing DevOps team responsible for evolving HackerRank's cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and observability frameworks across environments, with the autonomy to design, build, and optimise infrastructure systems while enabling developer productivity at scale.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for all HackerRank environments from development to production.
- Automate infrastructure using Terraform, Docker, and Kubernetes (EKS), ensuring scalability and reproducibility.
- Lead and evangelise DevOps best practices across engineering teams, CI/CD hygiene, observability, and cost-efficient architectures.
- Implement and maintain monitoring, alerting, and incident response systems using tools like OpsGenie, New Relic, and ELK.
- Optimise the performance and utilisation of key systems such as Redis, RDS, Redshift, ElasticSearch, and Kafka.
- Partner with security and platform teams to ensure compliance, resilience, and threat protection across cloud environments.
- Contribute to cloud cost optimisation initiatives and infrastructure efficiency projects.
- Drive platform improvements by partnering with developers, QA, and leadership teams.
- Automate processes, simplify workflows, and empower others through effective tools, bringing a builder's mindset.
- Own systems end-to-end and solve production challenges hands-on.
- Create calm out of complexity and design systems that just work.
Requirements
- Bring 3+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or Cloud Infrastructure Engineering roles.
- Deep expertise with AWS, including EKS, EC2, S3, SQS, and IAM.
- Strong experience with Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, and Linux (Ubuntu).
- Hands-on scripting or coding skills in Python or Java.
- Solid grasp of monitoring, alerting, and performance tuning principles.
- Strong collaborator who can partner with developers, QA, and leadership teams to drive platform improvements.
- Passionate about reliability, scalability, and developer experience.
- Balances technical depth with empathy, understanding that infrastructure is successful only when developers can move faster and safer.
Nice to have
- Ideally some exposure to GCP.
- Experience implementing ArgoCD, Jenkins, or other CI/CD orchestration tools.
- Background in security engineering, threat modelling, or penetration testing.
- Knowledge of observability frameworks and modern APM tools (New Relic, Prometheus, Grafana).
- Proven track record in cost optimisation and infrastructure scaling for high-traffic systems.
- Experience working with multi-cloud or hybrid environments.
Additional details
- HackerRank helps companies like NVIDIA, Amazon, and Microsoft hire and upskill the next generation of developers based on skills, not pedigree.
- HackerRank's platform is trusted by over 2,500 of the world's most innovative companies to build strong engineering teams ready for what's next.
- Software has entered an era where humans and AI build side by side, and as this shift accelerates, the definition of strong technical talent is changing.
- HackerRank gives companies better ways to identify and invest in next-generation skills.
- People at HackerRank care deeply about the impact of their work and sweat the small details so customers can be wildly successful with products they genuinely love to use.
- HackerRank moves with urgency and believes great outcomes come from high standards.
- The role is part of a high-performing DevOps team responsible for evolving cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and observability frameworks across environments.
- The role offers autonomy to design, build, and optimise infrastructure systems while enabling developer productivity at scale.
- Learn more about HackerRank by checking out HackerRank.com to explore products, solutions and resources, and diving into the story and mission via the provided link.
- HackerRank is a proud equal employment opportunity and affirmative action employer.
- HackerRank provides equal opportunity to everyone for employment based on individual performance and qualification.
- HackerRank never discriminates based on race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, marital, veteran, or disability status.
- All applicant information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
- HackerRank can be found on LinkedIn, X, Blog, Instagram, and Life@HackerRank.
- Notice to prospective HackerRank job applicants: Recruiters use @hackerrank.com email addresses.
- HackerRank never asks for payment or credit check information to apply, interview, or work there.