
Associate Principal Engineer, Linux Administrator
at Digital Product Engineering company
Associate Principal Engineer, Linux Administrator
Location: Bengaluru, India (Hybrid)
Employment Type: Full-time
Experience:9-11 years
Job description
REQUIREMENTS:
- Strong experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, and Infrastructure Automation
- Deep hands-on expertise in Linux Administration (RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu) – OS hardening, security, patching, and performance management (Must Have)
- Strong experience with Cloud Technologies – Public & Private Cloud environments (Must Have)
- Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform (Must Have)
- Strong automation expertise using Ansible for configuration management and infrastructure provisioning (Must Have)
- Experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines and end-to-end deployment automation
- Strong experience with Kubernetes administration, orchestration, and cluster management (Must Have)
- Hands-on experience with Docker containerization and Helm package management
- Experience managing large-scale development and infrastructure environments
- Strong understanding of Networking concepts, connectivity, design, troubleshooting, and network automation
- Experience with Observability & Monitoring tools and best practices
- Experience with Proxmox virtualization platform administration and management
- Knowledge of Edge Technologies and distributed infrastructure environments
- Basic understanding and administration of Active Directory (AD)
- Experience implementing AI-driven Automation solutions and operational efficiencies
- Strong understanding of infrastructure security, compliance, and governance
- Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments
- Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and problem-solving skills
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Design, build, and manage scalable infrastructure platforms across cloud and on-premise environments
- Administer and maintain Linux servers including security hardening, patching, performance tuning, and troubleshooting
- Develop and manage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions using Terraform
- Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and operational tasks using Ansible
- Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for application and infrastructure deployments
- Deploy, manage, and optimize Kubernetes clusters and containerized workloads
- Manage Docker environments and Helm-based application deployments
- Design and implement network solutions ensuring security, reliability, and scalability
- Monitor infrastructure health, performance, and availability using observability and monitoring tools
- Manage and support Proxmox virtualization environments
- Implement AI-driven automation initiatives to improve operational efficiency and reduce manual effort
- Support edge infrastructure deployments and distributed computing environments
- Collaborate with development, security, and operations teams to deliver reliable platform services
- Troubleshoot production incidents and perform root cause analysis
- Define infrastructure standards, automation frameworks, and operational best practices
- Ensure high availability, scalability, security, and reliability of infrastructure platforms
- Mentor junior engineers and provide technical leadership on DevOps and platform engineering initiatives
- Participate in Agile ceremonies and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives
- Work closely with stakeholders to understand infrastructure requirements and deliver optimal solutions
Qualifications
Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related fields

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- Candidate must demonstrate strong expertise in at least one of the following areas - Databases / Distributed Data Systems, Observability & Monitoring, CI/CD Pipelines. Networking Concepts, Kubernetes / Container Platforms
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- Codify our infrastructure
- Do what it takes to keep the uptime above 99.99%
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Working with Ruby, Python, Perl, and Java
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Troubleshooting and having working knowledge of various tools, open-source technologies, and cloud services.
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Demonstrate awareness of DB management, server related work, Elasticsearch.
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Selecting and deploying appropriate CI/CD tools
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Striving for continuous improvement and build continuous integration, continuous development, and constant deployment pipeline (CI/CD Pipeline)
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Experience working on Linux based infrastructure
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Awareness of critical concepts in DevOps and Agile principles
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- Excellent communication and articulation skills
- Aptitude for learning new technology and willingness to understand technologies which he/she is not directly working on.
- Willingness to travel within and outside the country.
- Ability to independently work at the customer site and navigate through different teams.
RESPONSIBILITIES
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- Get an in-depth understanding of Containers, Kubernetes, CI/CD, IaC.
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- Utilize various open source technologies and tools to orchestrate solutions.
- Write scripts and automation using Perl/Python/Groovy/Java/Bash
- Build independent tools and solutions to effectively scale the infrastructure.
- Will be involved in automation using CI/CD/DevOps concepts.
- Be able to document procedures for building and deploying.
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- Public clouds, such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform
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- Providing on-call support within a high availability production environment
- Logging issues
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- Supporting and collaborating with team members
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- Developing and running system health checks
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- Collaborating within geographically distributed teams
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- Working closely with developers and QA teams as part of a customer support centre
- Projecting delivery work, either individually or in conjunction with other teams, external suppliers or contractors
- Ensuring maintenance of the technical environments to meet current standards
- Ensuring compliance with appropriate industry and security regulations
- Providing support to Development and Customer Support teams
- Managing the hosted infrastructure through vendor engagement
- Managing 3rd party software licensing ensuring compliance
- Delivering new technologies as agreed by the business
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- Experience working within a technical operations environment relevant to associated skills stated.
- Be proficient in:
- Linux, zsh/ bash/ similar
- ssh, tmux/ screen/ similar
- vim/ emacs/ similar
- Computer networking
- Have a reasonable working knowledge of:
- Cloud infrastructure, Preferably GCP
- One or more programming/ scripting languages
- Git
- Docker
- Web services and web servers
- Databases, relational and NoSQL
- Some familiarity with:
- Puppet, ansible
- Terraform
- GitHub, CircleCI , Kubernetes
- Scripting language- Shell
- Databases: Cassandra, Postgres, MySQL or CloudSQL
- Agile working practices including scrum and Kanban
- Private & public cloud hosting environments
- Strong technology interests with a positive ‘can do’ attitude
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- Be good at planning and organising their own time and able to meet targets and deadlines without supervision
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Approachable with both colleagues and team members
- Be resourceful and practical with an ability to respond positively and quickly to technical and business challenges
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• Experience with n-tier web application development and experience in J2EE / .Net based frameworks
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• Knowledge of security, networking, DNS, firewalls, WAF etc
• Familiarity with Helm, Terraform for provisioning GKE,Bash/shell scripting
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• Strong Automation and Problem-solving skills and ability
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•Very strong hands with Automation tools such Terraform
• Good experience with provisioning tools such as Ansible, Chef
• Experience with CI CD tools such as Jenkins.
•Experience managing production.
• Good understanding of security in IT and the cloud
• Good knowledge of TCP/IP
• Good Experience with Linux, networking and generic system operations tools
• Experience with Clojure and/or the JVM
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You’re cloud native with Terraform as an orchestration. You would use Terraform as a key Orchestration in Infrastructure as Code.
You're comfortable driving. You prefer to own your work streams and enjoy working in autonomy to progress towards your goals.
You provide an incredible support to the team. You sweat the small stuff but keep the big picture in mind. You know that a pair programming can give better result
An ideal candidate is/are:
This is a key role within our DevOps team and will involve working as part of a collaborative agile team in a shared services DevOps organization to support and deliver innovative technology solutions that directly align with the delivery of business value and enhanced customer experience. The primary objective is to provide support to Amazon Web Services hosted environment, ensure continuous availability, working closely with development teams to ensure best value for money, and effective estate management.
- Setup CI/CD Pipeline from scratch along with integration of appropriate quality gates.
- Expertise level knowledge in AWS cloud. Provision and configure infrastructure as code using Terraform
- Build and configure Kubernetes-based infrastructure, networking policies, LBs, and cluster security. Define autoscaling and cost strategies.
- Automate the build of containerized systems with CI/CD tooling, Helm charts, and more
- Manage deployments and rollbacks of applications
- Implement monitoring and metrics with Cloud watch, Newrelic
- Troubleshoot and optimize containerized workload deployments for clients
- Automate operational tasks, and assist in the transition to service ownership models.
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Location : Bangalore. 5 Days Working.
Education Qualification : Tech/B.E for Tier-1/Tier-2/Tier-3 Colleges or equivalent institutes
Skills :- DevOps Engineering, Ruby On Rails or Python and Bash/Shell skills, Docker, rkt or similar container engine, Kubernetes or similar clustering solutions
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Responsibilities:
- Build & operate infrastructure to support website, backed cluster, ML projects in the organization.
- Helping teams become more autonomous and allowing the Operation team to focus on improving the infrastructure and optimizing processes.
- Delivering system management tooling to the engineering teams.
- Working on your own applications which will be used internally.
- Contributing to open source projects that we are using (or that we may start).
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- Ruby On Rails or Python and Bash/Shell skills.
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- Experience with Docker, rkt or similar container engine.
- Experience with Kubernetes or similar clustering solutions.
- Experience with tools such as Ansible or Chef Understanding of the importance of smart metrics and alerting.
- Hands on experience with cloud infrastructure provisioning, deployment, monitoring (we are on AWS and use ECS, ELB, EC2, Elasticache, Elasticsearch, S3, CloudWatch).
- Experience with relational SQL and NoSQL databases, including Postgres and Cassandra.
- Knowledge of data pipeline and workflow management tools: Azkaban, Luigi, Airflow, etc.
- Experience in working on linux based servers.
- Managing large scale production grade infrastructure on AWS Cloud.
- Good Knowledge on scripting languages like ruby, python or bash.
- Experience in creating in deployment pipeline from scratch.
- Expertise in any of the CI tools, preferably Jenkins.
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- Using Infra/App Monitoring tools like, CloudWatch/Newrelic/Sensu.
Good to have:
- Knowledge of Ruby on Rails based applications and its deployment methodologies.
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• Design and implement monitoring solutions that identify both system bottlenecks and production issues
• Design and implement workflows for continuous integration, including provisioning, deployment, testing, and version control of the software.
• Develop self-service solutions for the engineering team in order to deliver sites/software with great speed and quality
o Automating Infra creation
o Provide easy to use solutions to engineering team
• Conduct research, tests, and implements new metrics collection systems that can be reused and applied as engineering best practices
o Update our processes and design new processes as needed.
o Establish DevOps Engineer team best practices.
o Stay current with industry trends and source new ways for our business to improve.
• Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements: automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery, re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability, etc.
• Manage timely resolution of all critical and/or complex problems
• Maintain, monitor, and establish best practices for containerized environments.
• Mentor new DevOps engineers
What you will bring
• The desire to work in fast-paced environment.
• 5+ years’ experience building, maintaining, and deploying production infrastructures in AWS or other cloud providers
• Containerization experience with applications deployed on Docker and Kubernetes
• Understanding of NoSQL and Relational Database with respect to deployment and horizontal scalability
• Demonstrated knowledge of Distributed and Scalable systems Experience with maintaining and deployment of critical infrastructure components through Infrastructure-as-Code and configuration management tooling across multiple environments (Ansible, Terraform etc)
• Strong knowledge of DevOps and CI/CD pipeline (GitHub, BitBucket, Artifactory etc)
• Strong understanding of cloud and infrastructure components (server, storage, network, data, and applications) to deliver end-to-end cloud Infrastructure architectures and designs and recommendations
o AWS services like S3, CloudFront, Kubernetes, RDS, Data Warehouses to come up with architecture/suggestions for new use cases.
• Test our system integrity, implemented designs, application developments and other processes related to infrastructure, making improvements as needed
Good to have
• Experience with code quality tools, static or dynamic code analysis and compliance and undertaking and resolving issues identified from vulnerability and compliance scans of our infrastructure
• Good knowledge of REST/SOAP/JSON web service API implementation
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