Role Mission

The DevOps & Application Engineer will design, automate, and optimize the build-and-release ecosystem while ensuring the reliability, scalability, and security of StarHub’s cloud-native platforms. They will manage Kubernetes operations, infrastructure provisioning, CI/CD pipelines, and GitOps workflows, while contributing production-grade application code across multiple languages. This role accelerates engineering velocity by driving DevOps best practices, strengthening observability, and enabling consistent, high-quality deployments across the IS Division. 

Key Responsibilities 

• Define and enforce DevOps policies and best practices, with a strong focus on trunk-based development (short-lived feature branches, continuous integration gates, automated code-quality checks). 
• Design, develop, and maintain CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins using Pipeline-as-Code (shared libraries, scripted & declarative). 
• Write and manage build scripts and infrastructure tooling (Shell, Python, Groovy) to automate the software-delivery lifecycle. 
• Administer multi-cluster Kubernetes environments (EKS & OCP), including Helm chart development, RBAC, network policies, and autoscaling. 
• Implement GitOps workflows (Argo CD or Flux) to promote reproducible, auditable deployments. 
• Provision and manage AWS resources (EKS, RDS/PostgreSQL, EC2, S3, IAM). 
• Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or CloudFormation). 
• Contribute application code in Python, Go, or TypeScript, participating in design reviews and performance profiling. 
• Establish observability with Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, and incident-response workflows (PagerDuty). 
• Author technical documentation and provide knowledge transfer to internal teams. 

• Maintain Internal Developer Portal - Backstage 

Qualifications 

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field (Master’s a plus). 
• 4+ years of combined experience in DevOps, SRE, or Software Engineering. 
• Expertise with containerized environments, Kubernetes internals, and Helm. 
• Hands-on production experience with Jenkins and CI/CD best practices. 
• Proficiency in at least one programming language (Python, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript). 
• Strong SQL skills and proven PostgreSQL administration experience. 
• Solid understanding of AWS core services, IAM security, and cost-optimization practices. 
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation). 
• Comfortable with Linux internals, networking fundamentals, and shell scripting. 
• Agile mindset with experience working in Scrum teams. 
• Excellent communication, documentation, and collaboration skills. 

Preferred Certifications 

• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) 
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Associate or Professional)