Azure Cloud Engineer

About Us

At Arka Energy, we're redefining how renewable energy is experienced and adopted in homes. Our focus is on developing next-generation residential solar energy solutions through a unique combination of custom product design, intuitive simulation software, and high-impact technology. With engineering teams in Bangalore and the Bay Area, we’re committed to building innovative products that transform rooftops into smart energy ecosystems.

Our flagship product is a 3D simulation platform that models rooftops and commercial sites, allowing users to design solar layouts and generate accurate energy estimates — streamlining the residential solar design process like never before.

What We're Looking For

We're seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer who will be responsible for managing and automating cloud infrastructure and services, ensuring seamless integration and deployment of applications, and maintaining high availability and reliability. You will work closely with development and operations teams to streamline processes and enhance productivity.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration in the Azure cloud environment.
• Monitor and manage system health, performance, and security.
• Collaborate with development teams to ensure smooth and secure deployment of applications.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to deployment and operations.
• Implement best practices for configuration management and infrastructure as code.
• Maintain documentation of processes and solutions.

Requirements

• Total relevant experience of 4 to 5 years.
• Proven experience as a DevOps Engineer, specifically with Azure.
• Experience with CI/CD tools and practices.
• Strong understanding of infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools like Terraform or ARM templates.
• Knowledge of scripting languages such as PowerShell or Python.
• Familiarity with containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.
• Good to have – knowledge on AWS, Digital Ocean, GCP
• Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
• High ownership, self-starter attitude, and ability to work independently
• Strong aptitude and reasoning ability with a growth mindset

Nice to Have

·        Experience working in a SaaS or product-driven startup

·        Familiarity with solar industry (preferred but not required)

About the Role

We are seeking motivated DevOps Interns to join our team remotely for a 3-month internship. This internship provides hands-on experience with cloud platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and automation tools. While this is an unpaid internship, interns who successfully complete the program will receive a Completion Certificate and a Letter of Recommendation.

Responsibilities

• Assist in setting up and managing CI/CD pipelines.
• Work with cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud).
• Support deployment, monitoring, and scaling of applications.
• Automate routine operational tasks using scripts and tools.
• Collaborate with developers to improve build and release processes.
• Help maintain system reliability, security, and performance.
• Document workflows, configurations, and best practices.

Requirements

• Basic understanding of Linux/Unix systems and shell scripting.
• Familiarity with version control (Git/GitHub).
• Knowledge of CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or similar).
• Exposure to containerization tools like Docker (Kubernetes knowledge is a plus).
• Understanding of cloud services (AWS, Azure, or GCP preferred).
• Problem-solving skills and willingness to learn quickly.
• Ability to work independently in a remote setup.

What You’ll Gain

• Real-world exposure to DevOps tools and workflows.
• Mentorship and guidance from experienced engineers.
• Completion Certificate after the internship.
• Letter of Recommendation based on performance.
• Opportunity to strengthen your resume and portfolio.

Internship Details

• Duration: 3 months
• Location: Remote (Work from Home)
• Stipend: Unpaid
• Perks: Completion Certificate + Letter of Recommendation

As a SaaS DevOps Engineer, you will be responsible for providing automated tooling and process enhancements for SaaS deployment, application and infrastructure upgrades and production monitoring.

• Development of automation scripts and pipelines for deployment and monitoring of new production environments.

• Development of automation scripts for upgrades, hotfixes deployments and maintenance.

• Work closely with Scrum teams and product groups to support the quality and growth of the SaaS services.

• Collaborate closely with SaaS Operations team to handle day-to-day production activities - handling alerts and incidents.

• Assist SaaS Operations team to handle customers focus projects: migrations, features enablement.

• Write Knowledge articles to document known issues and best practices.

• Conduct regression tests to validate solutions or workarounds.

• Work in a globally distributed team.

What achievements should you have so far?

• Bachelor's or master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent.

• Experience with containerization, deployment, and operations.

• Strong knowledge of CI/CD processes (Git, Jenkins, Pipelines).

• Good experience with Linux systems and Shell scripting.

• Basic cloud experience, preferably oriented on MS Azure.

• Basic knowledge of containerized solutions (Helm, Kubernetes, Docker).

• Good Networking skills and experience.

• Having Terraform or CloudFormation knowledge will be considered a plus.

• Ability to analyze a task from a system perspective.

• Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; mastery in English and local language.

• Must be organized, thorough, autonomous, committed, flexible, customer-focused and productive.

• Extensive experience in designing & supporting Azure Managed Services Operations.  
• Maintaining the Azure Active Directory and Azure AD authentication. 
• Azure update management – Handling updates/Patching. 
• Good understanding of Azure services (Azure App Service, Azure SQL,  Azure Storage Account..etc). 
• Understanding of load balancers, DNS, virtual networks, NSG and firewalls in cloud environment. 
• ARM templates writing, setup automation for resources provisioning. 
• Knowledge on Azure automation and Automation Desire State Configuration. 
• Good understanding of High Availability and Auto scaling. 
• Azure Backups and ASR (Azure Site Recovery) 
• Azure Monitoring and Configuration monitoring (performance metrics, OMS) 
• Cloud Migration Experience(On premise to Cloud). 
• PowerShell scripting for custom tasks automation. 
• Strong experience in configuring, maintaining, and troubleshooting Microsoft based production systems. 
  
  Certification: 
  
  Azure Administrator (AZ-103) & Azure Architect (AZ-300 & AZ-301) 

**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.

Engineering Leader, Cloud Infrastructure.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Do you thrive on solving complex technical problems? Do you want to be at the cutting edge of technology? If so,we’re interested in speaking with you!

Your Impact:

We’re looking for a seasoned engineering leader in the Cloud team that is responsible for building, operating, and maintaining a customer-facing DBaaS service in multiple public clouds (AWS, GCP, and Azure). The service supports unified multiverse management of YugabyteDB, including fault-domain aware provisioning, rolling upgrades, security,

networking, monitoring, and day-2 operations (backups, scaling, billing etc). If you’re a strong leader who exemplifies collaboration, who is driven and thrive in a fast-paced startup environment, and who has a strong desire to build an internet-scale, extensible cloud based service with strong emphasis on simplicity and user experience, this job is for

you.

You Will:

Lead, inspire, and influence to make sure your team is successful

Partner with the recruiting team to attract and retain high-quality and diverse talent

Establish great rapport with other development teams, Product Managers, Sales and Customer Success tomaintain high levels of visibility, efficiency, and collaboration

Ensure teams have appropriate technical direction, leadership and balance between short-term impact andlong term architectural vision.

Occasionally contributing to development tasks such as coding and feature verifications to assist teamswith release commitments, to gain an understanding of the deeply technical product as well as to keepyour technical acumen sharp.

You'll need:

BS/MS degree in CS-or- a related field with 5+ years of engineering management experience leading productive, high-functioning teams

Strong fundamentals in distributed systems design and development

Ability to hire while ensuring a high hiring bar, keep engineers motivated, coach/mentor, and handle performance management

Experience running production services in Public Clouds such as AWS, GCP, and Azure

Experience with running large stateful data systems in the Cloud

Prior knowledge of Cloud architecture and implementation features (multi-tenancy, containerization,orchestration, elastic scalability)

A great track record of shipping features and hitting deadlines consistently; should be able to move fast,build in increments and iterate; have a sense of urgency, aggressive mindset towards achieving results and excellent prioritization skills; able to anticipate future technical needs for the product and craft plans to realize them

Ability to influence the team, peers, and upper management using effective communication and collaborative techniques; focused on building and maintaining a culture of collaboration within the team.

• Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Bricks, Talend, BODS, Jenkins
• Microsoft Office (mandatory)
• Strong knowledge on Databases, Azure Synapse, data management, SQL
• Knowledge on any cloud platforms (Azure, AWS etc.,)

• Engineering in computer science
• 3-5 years of experience in setup and management of Kubernetes infrastructure
• Expert level skills in analytical & problem solving
• Ability to communicate clearly in English

• Microsoft Azure
• Kubernetes, AKS services as well as custom clusters on bare metal infrastructure
• Linux internals & services
• Docker, Docker Registry
• NGINX, Load Balancing, Firewall, Security, PKI
• Shell & Awk Script, Azure Templates & scripting, Python Scripting
• Knowledge of NoSQL Databases