DevOps / Infrastructure Engineer
Job Locations: Remote, Pakistan
Functional Department: Technology
Type: Contractual, Full-Time
Working hours: 6 pm – 3 am PKT (US hours)
Vision: Transforming how the world discovers, assesses, and hires exceptional talent through AI.
Mission: HiddenTalent.ai empowers organizations to identify, evaluate, and hire top talent using AI-driven workforce intelligence, skills assessment, and talent matching solutions.
At Hidden Talent, we are committed to upholding the following core values:
Passion |Respect | Accountability | Innovation | Speed | Execution [ PRAISE ]
Overview:
HiddenTalent.ai is an AI-powered talent intelligence platform that helps organizations make smarter hiring decisions through skills-based assessments, workforce analytics, and intelligent talent matching. We leverage modern cloud infrastructure, AI technologies, and scalable engineering practices to deliver secure, reliable, and high-performing solutions for customers worldwide.
The DevOps / Infrastructure Engineer is responsible for designing, implementing, securing, and maintaining the organization's cloud and infrastructure environments. This role will manage CI/CD pipelines, virtualization platforms, cloud infrastructure, containerized applications, automation, and monitoring while ensuring high availability, scalability, and security across production and development environments.
The ideal candidate is highly technical, process-driven, and passionate about automation, infrastructure as code, and cloud-native technologies.
Responsibilities
· Design, deploy, and maintain secure, scalable, and highly available infrastructure across on-premises and cloud environments.
· Administer and support VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization platforms.
· Install, configure, secure, and troubleshoot Linux servers across multiple distributions.
· Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and modern DevOps practices.
· Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform and/or AWS CloudFormation.
· Deploy, manage, and optimize AWS infrastructure, including Landing Zone, EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, CloudWatch, Load Balancers, and related services.
· Build, deploy, and manage containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes.
· Monitor infrastructure performance, availability, security, backups, and disaster recovery processes.
· Automate infrastructure provisioning, deployment, configuration management, and operational workflows.
· Collaborate with Engineering, QA, Security, and Product teams to improve deployment efficiency and system reliability.
· Troubleshoot production issues, perform root cause analysis, and implement preventive measures.
· Ensure infrastructure complies with security, governance, and operational best practices.
· Maintain technical documentation, architecture diagrams, operational procedures, and disaster recovery documentation.
· Participate in on-call support and infrastructure maintenance activities as required.
Minimum Qualifications
Education
· Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or a related field.
Experience
· Minimum 5+ years of experience in DevOps, Cloud Infrastructure, Systems Administration, or Infrastructure Engineering.
· Hands-on experience administering VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V environments.
· Expert-level knowledge of Linux administration across multiple distributions (Ubuntu, CentOS, Red Hat, Amazon Linux, etc.).
· Strong experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins.
· Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and/or AWS CloudFormation.
· Strong experience with AWS cloud services, including EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, Landing Zone, CloudWatch, Route 53, Auto Scaling, and Load Balancers.
· Practical experience with Docker and Kubernetes in production environments.
· Strong understanding of networking, DNS, firewalls, VPNs, SSL/TLS, and security best practices.
· Experience with monitoring and logging tools such as CloudWatch, Grafana, Prometheus, or ELK is preferred.
· Experience supporting production environments with high availability and disaster recovery.
· AWS, Kubernetes, Linux, VMware, or Terraform certifications are a plus.
Required Skills & Competencies
· AWS Cloud Infrastructure
· VMware & Microsoft Hyper-V Administration
· Linux Systems Administration
· Infrastructure as Code (Terraform / CloudFormation)
· CI/CD Pipeline Management (Jenkins)
· Docker & Kubernetes
· Cloud Security & Networking
· Automation & Scripting
· Monitoring & Incident Management
· Problem Solving & Root Cause Analysis
· Process Orientation
· Team Collaboration
· Communication & Documentation
· Time Management & Execution Excellence
· Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
Success Metrics (KPIs)
· Maintain 99.9%+ infrastructure and production environment availability.
· Achieve 95%+ successful CI/CD deployment rate with minimal production issues.
· Reduce deployment time and improve infrastructure automation through Infrastructure as Code.
· Meet infrastructure security, backup, patching, and compliance standards with zero critical vulnerabilities.
· Deliver infrastructure projects and operational support within agreed SLAs while maintaining high stakeholder satisfaction.