AWS CERTIFIED LINUX ANSIBLE AUTOMATION SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT LEADER

We are looking for a DevOps / Site Reliability Engineer (L5) to own and scale the production reliability of a large-scale, AI-first platform. You will be responsible for running mission-critical workloads on cloud infrastructure, hardening Kubernetes-based systems, and ensuring high availability, performance, and cost efficiency across platform and AI services.

This role is deeply hands-on and ownership-driven. You will be trusted to run day-2 production systems end-to-end, lead incident response, and continuously raise the reliability bar for AI and data-intensive workloads.

At Proximity, you won’t just keep systems running — you’ll shape how reliability, observability, and operational excellence are built into the platform from the ground up.

Responsibilities

• Own day-2 production operations of a large-scale, AI-first platform running on cloud infrastructure
• Run, scale, and harden Kubernetes-based workloads integrated with a broad set of managed cloud services across data, messaging, AI, networking, and security
• Define, implement, and operate SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets across core platform and AI services
• Build and own observability end-to-end, including:
• APM
• Infrastructure monitoring
• Logs, alerts, and operational dashboards
• Improve and maintain CI/CD pipelines and Terraform-driven infrastructure automation
• Operate and integrate AI platform services for LLM deployments and model lifecycle management
• Lead incident response, conduct blameless postmortems, and drive systemic reliability improvements
• Optimize cost, performance, and autoscaling for AI, ML, and data-intensive workloads
• Partner closely with backend, data, and ML engineers to ensure production readiness and operational best practices

What Matters (Non-Negotiable Alignment)

Infra owners, not operators.

This role is for engineers who design, build, and own infrastructure, not those limited to ticket-based operations.

• Built and operated production-grade cloud infrastructure end-to-end
• Strong Kubernetes experience in real, high-traffic production environments
• AWS experience is mandatory, with GCP as a strong plus
• Experience operating AI / ML workloads in production
• Including GPU-based systems
• Strong ownership of CI/CD systems and Infrastructure as Code
• End-to-end observability ownership
• Monitoring, logging, alerting, dashboards
• Comfortable making infrastructure decisions under ambiguity
• Proven ability to collaborate deeply with ML and backend teams to take systems from design → production → scale

Requirements

• 6+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering roles.
• Strong, production-grade experience with cloud platforms
• AWS required
• GCP strongly preferred, especially Kubernetes and managed services
• Proven expertise running Kubernetes at scale in live production environments.
• Deep hands-on experience with New Relic in complex, distributed systems.
• Experience operating AI/ML or LLM-driven platforms in production environments.
• Solid background in Terraform, CI/CD systems, cloud networking, and security fundamentals.
• Strong understanding of reliability engineering principles, including capacity planning, failure modes, and resilience patterns.
• Comfortable owning production systems end-to-end with minimal supervision.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to operate calmly and effectively during incidents.
• Experience building internal platform tooling for developer productivity.

Desired Skills

• Experience managing multi-cloud environments or cross-cloud integrations.
• Familiarity with cost optimization strategies for large-scale Kubernetes and AI workloads.
• Exposure to service meshes, advanced traffic management, or zero-trust security models.

Benefits

• Best in class compensation: We hire only the best, and we pay accordingly.
• Proximity Talks: Learn from senior engineers, platform leaders, and industry experts.
• Work on real-world AI systems: Operate and scale production AI platforms used at meaningful scale.
• Continuous learning: Grow alongside a high-caliber team that values operational excellence and engineering rigor.

About us

We are Proximity — a global team of coders, designers, product managers, geeks, and experts. We solve complex problems and build cutting-edge technology at scale.

Our team of Proxonauts is growing quickly, which means your impact on the company’s success will be significant. You’ll work with experienced leaders who have built and led high-performing tech and platform teams.

About the Job

This is a full-time role for a Lead DevOps Engineer at Spark Eighteen. We are seeking an experienced DevOps professional to lead our infrastructure strategy, design resilient systems, and drive continuous improvement in our deployment processes. In this role, you will architect scalable solutions, mentor junior engineers, and ensure the highest standards of reliability and security across our cloud infrastructure. The job location is flexible with preference for the Delhi NCR region.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor the DevOps/SRE team
• Define and drive DevOps strategy and roadmaps
• Oversee infrastructure automation and CI/CD at scale
• Collaborate with architects, developers, and QA teams to integrate DevOps practices
• Ensure security, compliance, and high availability of platforms
• Own incident response, postmortems, and root cause analysis
• Budgeting, team hiring, and performance evaluation

Requirements

Technical Skills

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 7+ years of professional DevOps experience with demonstrated progression.
• Strong architecture and leadership background
• Deep hands-on knowledge of infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and cloud
• Proven experience with monitoring, security, and governance
• Effective stakeholder and project management
• Experience with tools like Jenkins, ArgoCD, Terraform, Vault, ELK, etc.
• Strong understanding of business continuity and disaster recovery

Soft Skills

• Cross-functional communication excellence with ability to lead technical discussions.
• Strong mentorship capabilities for junior and mid-level team members.
• Advanced strategic thinking and ability to propose innovative solutions.
• Excellent knowledge transfer skills through documentation and training.
• Ability to understand and align technical solutions with broader business strategy.
• Proactive problem-solving approach with focus on continuous improvement.
• Strong leadership skills in guiding team performance and technical direction.
• Effective collaboration across development, QA, and business teams.
• Ability to make complex technical decisions with minimal supervision.
• Strategic approach to risk management and mitigation.

What We Offer

• Professional Growth: Continuous learning opportunities through diverse projects and mentorship from experienced leaders
• Global Exposure: Work with clients from 20+ countries, gaining insights into different markets and business cultures
• Impactful Work: Contribute to projects that make a real difference, with solutions generating over $1B in revenue
• Work-Life Balance: Flexible arrangements that respect personal wellbeing while fostering productivity
• Career Advancement: Clear progression pathways as you develop skills within our growing organization
• Competitive Compensation: Attractive salary packages that recognize your contributions and expertise

Our Culture

At Spark Eighteen, our culture centers on innovation, excellence, and growth. We believe in:

• Quality-First: Delivering excellence rather than just quick solutions
• True Partnership: Building relationships based on trust and mutual respect
• Communication: Prioritizing clear, effective communication across teams
• Innovation: Encouraging curiosity and creative approaches to problem-solving
• Continuous Learning: Supporting professional development at all levels
• Collaboration: Combining diverse perspectives to achieve shared goals
• Impact: Measuring success by the value we create for clients and users

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• Configure, optimize, document, and support of the infrastructure components of software products (which are hosted in collocated facilities and cloud services such as AWS)
• Design and build tools and frameworks that support deployment and management and platforms
• Design, build, and deliver cloud computing solutions, hosted services, and underlying software infrastructures
• Build core functionality of our cloud-based platform product, deliver secure, reliable services and construct third party integrations
• Assist in coaching application developers on proper DevOps techniques for building scalable applications in the microservices paradigm
• Foster collaboration with software product development and architecture teams to ensure releases are delivered with repeatable and auditable processes
• Support and troubleshoot scalability, high availability, performance, monitoring, backup, and restores of different environments
• Work independently across multiple platforms and applications to understand dependencies
• Evaluate new tools, technologies, and processes to improve speed, efficiency, and scalability of continuous integration environments
• Design and architect solutions for existing client-facing applications as they are moved into cloud environments such as AWS
• Competencies
• Full understanding of scripting and automated process management in languages such as Shell, Ruby and/ or Python
• Working Knowledge SCM tools such as Git, GitHub, Bitbucket, etc.
• Working knowledge of Amazon Web Services and related APIs
• Ability to deliver and manage web or cloud-based services
• General familiarity with monitoring tools
• General familiarity with configuration/provisioning tools such as Terraform
• Experience
• Experience working within an Agile type environment
• 4+ years of experience with cloud-based provisioning (Azure, AWS, Google), monitoring, troubleshooting, and related DevOps technologies
• 4+ years of experience with containerization/orchestration technologies like Rancher, Docker and Kubernetes

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This person MUST have:

• B.E Computer Science or equivalent
• 2+ Years of hands-on experience troubleshooting/setting up of the Linux environment, who can write shell scripts for any given requirement.
• 1+ Years of hands-on experience setting up/configuring AWS or GCP services from SCRATCH and maintaining them.
• 1+ Years of hands-on experience setting up/configuring Kubernetes & EKS and ensuring high availability of container orchestration.
• 1+ Years of hands-on experience setting up CICD from SCRATCH in Jenkins & Gitlab.
• Experience configuring/maintaining one monitoring tool.
• Excellent verbal & written communication skills.
• Candidates with certifications - AWS, GCP, CKA, etc will be preferred
• Hands-on experience with databases (Cassandra, MongoDB, MySQL, RDS).

Experience:

• Min 3 years of experience as SRE automation engineer building, running, and maintaining production sites. Not looking for candidates who have experience only as L1/L2 or Build & Deploy..

Location:

• Remotely, anywhere in India

Timings:

• The person is expected to deliver with both high speed and high quality as well as work for 40 Hours per week (~6.5 hours per day, 6 days per week) in shifts which will rotate every month.

Position:

• Full time/Direct
• We have great benefits such as PF, medical insurance, 12 annual company holidays, 12 PTO leaves per year, annual increments, Diwali bonus, spot bonuses and other incentives etc.
• We dont believe in locking in people with large notice periods.  You will stay here because you love the company.  We have only a 15 days notice period.