Associate DevOps Engineer

Requirements

• 3+ years work experience writing clean production code
• Well versed with maintaining infrastructure as code (Terraform, Cloudformation etc). High proficiency with Terraform / Terragrunt is absolutely critical
• Experience of setting CI/CD pipelines from scratch
• Experience with AWS(EC2, ECS, RDS, Elastic Cache etc), AWS lambda, Kubernetes, Docker, ServiceMesh
• Experience with ETL pipelines, Bigdata infra
• Understanding of common security issues

Roles / Responsibilities:

• Write terraform modules for deploying different component of infrastructure in AWS like Kubernetes, RDS, Prometheus, Grafana, Static Website
• Configure networking, autoscaling. continuous deployment, security and multiple environments
• Make sure the infrastructure is SOC2, ISO 27001 and HIPAA compliant
• Automate all the steps to provide a seamless experience to developers.

Job Overview:

We are seeking a skilled and proactive Cloud Administrator with strong hands-on experience in Azure and AWS environments. The ideal candidate will have a solid background in Kubernetes administration, ArgoCD, MySQL, and GitLab, with a keen eye for cloud optimization and security best practices.

This role demands a self-motivated, quick learner who can confidently manage cloud infrastructure in production environments, communicate effectively with stakeholders, and escalate issues promptly when needed.

Key Skills & Qualifications:

• Strong experience with Azure and AWS cloud platforms.
• Proven expertise in Kubernetes administration (certification a plus).
• Experience with ArgoCD, GitLab CI/CD, and Helm.
• Proficiency in MySQL administration, including performance tuning and backups.
• Working knowledge of cloud security principles and cost optimization strategies.
• Ability to troubleshoot issues in high-pressure production environments.
• Strong communication and customer-facing skills.
• Quick learner with a positive attitude toward problem-solving.

About Kiru:

Kiru is a forward-thinking payments startup on a mission to revolutionise the digital payments landscape in Africa and beyond. Our innovative solutions will reshape how people transact, making payments safer, faster, and more accessible. Join us on our journey to redefine the future of payments.

Position Overview:

We are searching for a highly skilled and motivated DevOps Engineer to join our dynamic team in Pune, India. As a DevOps Engineer at Kiru, you will play a critical role in ensuring our payment infrastructure's reliability, scalability, and security.

Key Responsibilities:

• Utilize your expertise in technology infrastructure configuration to manage and automate infrastructure effectively.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Software Developers and technology management, to design and implement robust and efficient DevOps solutions.
• Configure and maintain a secure backend environment focusing on network isolation and VPN access.
• Implement and manage monitoring solutions like ZipKin, Jaeger, New Relic, or DataDog and visualisation and alerting solutions like Prometheus and Grafana.
• Work closely with developers to instrument code for visualisation and alerts, ensuring system performance and stability.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of development and deployment pipelines.
• Collaborate on the selection and implementation of appropriate DevOps tools and technologies.
• Troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure and deployment issues promptly to minimize downtime.
• Stay up-to-date with emerging DevOps trends and best practices.
• Create and maintain comprehensive documentation related to DevOps processes and configurations.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent work experience).
• Proven experience as a DevOps Engineer or in a similar role.
• Experience configuring infrastructure on Microsoft Azure
• Experience with Kubernetes as a container orchestration technology
• Experience with Terraform and Azure ARM or Bicep templates for infrastructure provisioning and management.
• Experience configuring and maintaining secure backend environments, including network isolation and VPN access.
• Proficiency in setting up and managing monitoring and visualization tools such as ZipKin, Jaeger, New Relic, DataDog, Prometheus, and Grafana.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with developers to instrument code for visualization and alerts.
• Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills.
• A proactive and self-motivated approach to work.

Desired Skills:

• Experience with Azure Kubernetes Services and managing identities across Azure services.
• Previous experience in a financial or payment systems environment.

About Kiru:

At Kiru, we believe that success is achieved through collaboration. We recognise that every team member has a vital role to play, and it's the partnerships we build within our organisation that drive our customers' success and our growth as a business.

We are more than just a team; we are a close-knit partnership. By bringing together diverse talents and fostering powerful collaborations, we innovate, share knowledge, and continually learn from one another. We take pride in our daily achievements but never stop challenging ourselves and supporting each other. Together, we reach new heights and envision a brighter future.

Regardless of your career journey, we provide the guidance and resources you need to thrive. You will have everything required to excel through training programs, mentorship, and ongoing support. At Kiru, your success is our success, and that success matters because we are the essential partners for the world's most critical businesses. These companies manufacture, transport, and supply the world's essential goods.

Equal Opportunities and Accommodations Statement:

Kiru is committed to fostering a workplace and global community where inclusion is celebrated and where you can bring your authentic selfbecause that's who we're interested in. If you are interested in this role but don't meet every qualification in the job description, don't hesitate to apply. We are an equal opportunity employer.

Type, Location

Full Time @ Anywhere in India

Desired Experience

2+ years

Job Description

What You’ll Do

● Deploy, automate and maintain web-scale infrastructure with leading public cloud vendors such as Amazon Web Services, Digital Ocean & Google Cloud Platform.

● Take charge of DevOps activities for CI/CD with the latest tech stacks.

● Acquire industry-recognized, professional cloud certifications (AWS/Google) in the capacity of developer or architect Devise multi-region technical solutions.

● Implementing the DevOps philosophy and strategy across different domains in organisation.

● Build automation at various levels, including code deployment to streamline release process

● Will be responsible for architecture of cloud services

● 24*7 monitoring of the infrastructure

● Use programming/scripting in your day-to-day work

● Have shell experience - for example Powershell on Windows, or BASH on *nix

● Use a Version Control System, preferably git

● Hands on at least one CLI/SDK/API of at least one public cloud ( GCP, AWS, DO)

● Scalability, HA and troubleshooting of web-scale applications.

● Infrastructure-As-Code tools like Terraform, CloudFormation

● CI/CD systems such as Jenkins, CircleCI

● Container technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift

● Monitoring and alerting systems: e.g. NewRelic, AWS CloudWatch, Google StackDriver, Graphite, Nagios/ICINGA

What you bring to the table

● Hands on experience in Cloud compute services, Cloud Function, Networking, Load balancing, Autoscaling.

● Hands on with GCP/AWS Compute & Networking services i.e. Compute Engine, App Engine, Kubernetes Engine, Cloud Function, Networking (VPC, Firewall, Load Balancer), Cloud SQL, Datastore.

● DBs: Postgresql, MySQL, Elastic Search, Redis, kafka, MongoDB or other NoSQL systems

● Configuration management tools such as Ansible/Chef/Puppet

Bonus if you have…

● Basic understanding of Networking(routing, switching, dns) and Storage

● Basic understanding of Protocol such as UDP/TCP

● Basic understanding of Cloud computing

● Basic understanding of Cloud computing models like SaaS, PaaS

● Basic understanding of git or any other source code repo

● Basic understanding of Databases(sql/no sql)

● Great problem solving skills

● Good in communication

● Adaptive to learning

**THIS IS A 100% WORK FROM OFFICE ROLE**

We are looking for an experienced DevOps engineer that will help our team establish DevOps practice. You will work closely with the technical lead to identify and establish DevOps practices in the company.
You will help us build scalable, efficient cloud infrastructure. You’ll implement monitoring for automated system health checks. Lastly, you’ll build our CI pipeline, and train and guide the team in DevOps practices.

ROLE and RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Understanding customer requirements and project KPIs
• Implementing various development, testing, automation tools, and IT infrastructure
• Planning the team structure, activities, and involvement in project management
activities.
• Managing stakeholders and external interfaces
• Setting up tools and required infrastructure
• Defining and setting development, test, release, update, and support processes for
DevOps operation
• Have the technical skill to review, verify, and validate the software code developed in
the project.
• Troubleshooting techniques and fixing the code bugs
• Monitoring the processes during the entire lifecycle for its adherence and updating or
creating new processes for improvement and minimizing the wastage
• Encouraging and building automated processes wherever possible
• Identifying and deploying cybersecurity measures by continuously performing
vulnerability assessment and risk management
• Incidence management and root cause analysis
• Coordination and communication within the team and with customers
• Selecting and deploying appropriate CI/CD tools
• Strive for continuous improvement and build continuous integration, continuous
development, and constant deployment pipeline (CI/CD Pipeline)
• Mentoring and guiding the team members
• Monitoring and measuring customer experience and KPIs
• Managing periodic reporting on the progress to the management and the customer

Essential Skills and Experience Technical Skills

• Proven 3+years of experience as DevOps
• A bachelor’s degree or higher qualification in computer science
• The ability to code and script in multiple languages and automation frameworks
like Python, C#, Java, Perl, Ruby, SQL Server, NoSQL, and MySQL
• An understanding of the best security practices and automating security testing and
updating in the CI/CD (continuous integration, continuous deployment) pipelines
• An ability to conveniently deploy monitoring and logging infrastructure using tools.
• Proficiency in container frameworks
• Mastery in the use of infrastructure automation toolsets like Terraform, Ansible, and command line interfaces for Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, and other cloud platforms
• Certification in Cloud Security
• An understanding of various operating systems
• A strong focus on automation and agile development
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• An ability to work in a fast-paced environment and handle multiple projects
simultaneously

OTHER INFORMATION

The DevOps Engineer will also be expected to demonstrate their commitment:
• to gedu values and regulations, including equal opportunities policy.
• the gedu’s Social, Economic and Environmental responsibilities and minimise environmental impact in the performance of the role and actively contribute to the delivery of gedu’s Environmental Policy.
• to their Health and Safety responsibilities to ensure their contribution to a safe and secure working environment for staff, students, and other visitors to the campus.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Responsible for design, implementation, and continuous improvement on automated CI/CD infrastructure
• Displays technical leadership and oversight of implementation and deployment planning, system integration, ongoing data validation processes, quality assurance, delivery, operations, and sustainability of technical solutions
• Responsible for designing topology to meet requirements for uptime, availability, scalability, robustness, fault tolerance & security
• Implement proactive measures for automated detection and resolution of recurring operational issues
• Lead operational support team manage incidents, document root cause and tracking preventive measures
• Identifying and deploying cybersecurity measures by continuously validating/fixing vulnerability assessment reports and risk management
• Responsible for the design and development of tools, installation procedures
• Develops and maintains accurate estimates, timelines, project plans, and status reports
• Organize and maintain packaging and deployment of various internal modules and third-party vendor libraries
• Responsible for the employment, timely performance evaluation, counselling, employee development, and discipline of assigned employees.
• Participates in calls and meetings with customers, vendors, and internal teams on regular basis.
• Perform infrastructure cost analysis and optimization

SKILLS & ABILITIES

Experience: Minimum of 10 years of experience with good technical knowledge regarding build, release, and systems engineering

Technical Skills:

• Experience with DevOps toolchains such as Docker, Rancher, Kubernetes, Bitbucket
• Experience with Apache, Nginx, Tomcat, Prometheus ,Grafana
• Ability to learn/use a wide variety of open-source technologies and tools
• Sound understanding of cloud technologies preferably AWS technologies
• Linux, Windows, Scripting, Configuration Management, Build and Release Engineering
• 6 years of experience in DevOps practices, with a good understanding of DevOps and Agile principles
• Good scripting skills (Python/Perl/Ruby/Bash)
• Experience with standard continuous integration tools Jenkins/Bitbucket Pipelines
• Work on software configuration management systems (Puppet/Chef/Salt/Ansible)
• Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Outlook) and other business productivity tools
• Working knowledge on HSM and PKI (Good to have)

Location:

• Bangalore

Experience:

• 10 + Years.