Azure Data Engineer

Company Description

Appiness Interactive Pvt. Ltd. is a Bangalore-based product development and UX firm that

specializes in digital services for startups to fortune-500s. We work closely with our clients to

create a comprehensive soul for their brand in the online world, engaged through multiple

platforms of digital media. Our team is young, passionate, and aggressive, not afraid to think

out of the box or tread the un-trodden path in order to deliver the best results for our clients.

We pride ourselves on Practical Creativity where the idea is only as good as the returns it

fetches for our clients.

About the Role

You will own the reliability of the distributed data systems, the streaming runtime and

processing engines that move hundreds of billions of rows per day for top-tier enterprises. This

is an SRE role for our big data stack: Kafka, Spark, Flink, Ray, Redis, and data warehouses, all

running on Kubernetes.

This is not a cloud-provisioning role. We are looking for someone who has lived inside stateful,

high-throughput systems in production who has chased down a broker outage, a checkpoint

stall, a crashlooping cache, and a sink that silently stopped writing, and who fixes the

architecture rather than the symptom. If keeping a large, busy data platform alive and fast is the

kind of problem you find satisfying, you will have a lot of fun working with us. This is a unique

opportunity to shape the foundation of a product that is defining the next wave of intelligent,

context-aware data movement.

Responsibilities

● Streaming & Data Plane Reliability: Own the health of our Kafka-based runtime

(managed via Strimzi on Kubernetes) - broker health, topic lifecycle and count

management, partition and throughput tuning, certificate/secret rotation, and version

upgrades - at a scale of hundreds of thousands of topics and hundreds of billions of rows

per day.

● Distributed Processing Engines: Operate and tune distributed system workloads in

production in collaboration with backend teams, resource allocation, autoscaling,

checkpointing, backpressure, and failure recovery for both batch and streaming jobs.

● Stateful Services: Run Redis clusters and other stateful systems reliably - failover,

persistence, liveness/readiness tuning, and capacity planning under heavy and bursty

load.

● Kubernetes & Operators: Take end-to-end ownership of Amazon EKS, Google GKE and

the operators (Strimzi and others) running our stateful data workloads - cluster lifecycle,

scaling, version upgrades, and resource governance.

● Observability: Build deep, data-aware monitoring - consumer lag, throughput, partition

skew, job latency, error rates - not just host and CPU metrics. Make the data plane's

behavior legible before it breaks.

● Incident Management: Lead root-cause analysis for distributed-systems failures (broker

outages, crashloops, sink decommissions, control-plane race conditions) and drive

durable fixes. Mitigate fast, but design out the recurrence.

● Infrastructure as Code & Automation: Provision and manage cloud infrastructure with

Terraform; build operational runbooks and automation, including for air-gapped/private

enterprise installs (pre-staged images, operator-facing procedures).

● Collaboration: Partner with platform, runtime, and connector engineering - and with

SREs and support - to ship and scale new data-movement features reliably in a

large-scale Linux environment.

Qualifications

● Experience: 6+ years in infrastructure, SRE, or DevOps, with significant time spent

operating production distributed data systems (not just application/cloud infra).

● Kafka: Deep, hands-on operational experience running Kafka at scale in production -

ideally on Kubernetes via Strimzi - including upgrades, topic/partition management,

performance tuning, and TLS/secret rotation.

● Distributed Processing (Strong Plus): Production experience operating one or more of

Spark, Flink, or Ray - resource tuning, checkpointing, failure recovery.

● Stateful Systems (Must Have): Production experience with Redis (clustering, persistence,

failover) and a solid understanding of operating stateful workloads on Kubernetes

(StatefulSets, PVCs, probes, operators).

● Data Warehouses: Familiarity operating against Snowflake, BigQuery, or similar, and an

understanding of JDBC connectivity and sink reliability.

● Kubernetes & EKS: Strong hands-on EKS cluster creation, scaling, version upgrades, and

operator management.

● Infrastructure as Code: Advanced proficiency with Terraform.

● Programming: Proficiency in Python (or similar) for automation and tooling. Comfort

reading and debugging JVM-based systems is a strong plus.

● Reliability Mindset: Demonstrated ownership of incident management, RCA, capacity

planning, and performance tuning for high-throughput systems.

● CI/CD: Solid understanding of CI/CD methodology (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI)

for containerized and non-containerized apps. Supporting, not the core of the role.

● Nice to Have: Configuration management (Ansible preferred); broader AWS services

(IAM, VPC, EC2, S3, Lambda); AWS CloudFormation.

● Soft Skills: Excellent communication and organizational skills; ability to coordinate

effectively within a team and with customers.

Why This Might Be Worth It

● You own the hard part. The stateful, distributed systems that move billions of rows are

the platform's most demanding reliability problems - and they'd be yours.

● Impact at scale from day one. Your work keeps mission-critical data flowing for

companies like DoorDash and LinkedIn.

● The AI wave is real for us. We're not bolting AI onto a legacy product. Intelligent

connectors, context-aware data movement, and agentic workflows are the core of what

we're building next - on top of the runtime you'd run. ○ Small team, big problems. Direct

access to the CTO, real influence over product direction, and the autonomy to make

significant technical bets. ○ Recognized platform, startup energy. Enterprise validation

with the speed and ownership of an early-stage company.

Domain: Automation Testing – Selenium Job Purpose

 • Thought leadership - Consult with the client and setup/guides a team to strategize, design, implement and run automation solution supporting variety of applications

• Technical leadership - Identify, evaluate, recommend, and optimize current automated testing processes and tools

• Define and implement test automation strategy including roadmap, tools, framework, and approach across project teams

• Oversee technological delivery of the recommended automation solution roadmap across project teams

• setting up end to end QA processes across Requirement Analysis, Test Strategy/Design and Test reporting

• Participate in design and architectural reviews of proposed automation solutions across project teams

 • Designing & implementing enterprise-wide QA strategy for variety of clients including complex applications across multiple tech stacks (involving both functional and automation testing)

• Planning, estimating (should be aware of robust models and how to use them) and tracking team’s work

• Status reporting: Track and report upon testing activities, including testing results, test case coverage, required resources, defects discovered and their status etc.

• Mentors/guides the team on technical knowhow

• Adhere to company project standards and guidelines Mandatory Skills & Experience

• 7-11 years of managing team experience and at least 4+ years of in-depth experience in establishing test automation frameworks, evaluating tools, and implementing continuous testing strategy

• Hands on framework development for a Green Field Project

• Strong hands-on experience in Java/JavaScript programming languages; java collection frameworks • Strong experience on QA Automation tools such as Selenium/Cucumber/Appium/SOAPUI etc.

• Strong exposure on UI or API automation, hands on Webservices/Microservices automation

 • Experience in CI/CD tools, such as Gitlab(preferable) / Jenkins

• Experience in Cloud tech preferably AWS

• Experience on Cloud Platforms such as Sauce Labs, Perfecto

• Functional tools like Selenium (mandate), Web driver IO, NightWatchJS, etc

• Should have basic knowledge of JMeter or any other equivalent Performance testing tool

• Sound Knowledge of methodologies and approaches such as Agile, BDD, DevOps etc.

• Industry experience on Financial Services is preferred.

About US Publicis Sapient is a digital transformation partner helping established organizations get to their future, digitally enabled state, both in the way they work and the way they serve their customers. We help unlock value through a start-up mindset and modern methods, fusing strategy, consulting and customer experience with agile engineering and problem-solving creativity. United by our core values and our purpose of helping people thrive in the brave pursuit of next, our 20,000+ people in 53 offices around the world combine experience across technology, data sciences, consulting and customer obsession to accelerate our clients’ businesses through designing the products and services their customers truly value Additional Information

• Gender Neutral Policy

• 18 paid holidays throughout the year for NCR/BLR (22 For Mumbai)

• Generous parental leave and new parent transition program

• Flexible work arrangements • Employee Assistance Programs to help you in wellness and well being

Sales Manager

Location: Remote (India)

Experience: 1–4 Years

Compensation: Performance-based + Incentives

Company: Stairio

About Stairio

Stairio builds scalable digital infrastructure for hospitality and service-driven businesses.

We do not just build websites — we build complete booking systems, hotel management platforms, and digital revenue infrastructure that help hotels reduce OTA dependency, increase direct bookings, and own their brand.

Our primary focus is hotels and hospitality businesses.

Role Overview

As a Software Sales Officer at Stairio, you will own the full client acquisition and deal-closure lifecycle.

You are responsible for:

• Identifying and engaging potential clients
• Positioning Stairio as a revenue and brand-control solution
• Finalizing project scope and features
• Collecting complete business inputs
• Ensuring clean handover before development begins

Performance is measured by quality closures, structured handovers, and long-term client value.

Target Market

Primary Focus (High Priority)

• Budget, mid-scale, and boutique hotels
• Guest houses, homestays, lodges
• Small hotel chains
• Hotels dependent on OTAs (MakeMyTrip, Booking.com, Goibibo, etc.)
• Hotels with outdated or non-functional booking websites

Secondary Market (Optional)

• Cafes and restaurants
• Consultants and professionals

Outreach efforts should remain strongly focused on hotels and hotel management systems.

Sales Process Structure

Step 1: Connect and Present

You will receive structured leads,

Your objective is to position Stairio as a revenue growth and brand ownership solution, not just a website provider.

Step 2: Deal Closure (Full Ownership Required)

Before development begins, you must:

• Finalize required features (Booking engine, payments, admin panel, etc.)
• Collect business details (contact information, policies, pricing logic, room data)
• Collect complete content (logos, images, text, branding assets)

Incomplete projects should not move to development.

Step 3: Handover and Relationship Continuity

Once all inputs are finalized:

• The project is officially handed over
• Development begins
• You maintain relationship continuity with the client

Required Skills

• Strong communication and negotiation skills
• Ability to sell value, not just price
• Experience in B2B sales / SaaS / hospitality sales preferred
• Comfortable interacting with hotel owners and decision-makers
• Structured and disciplined documentation approach
• High ownership mindset

Bonus if you:

• Understand hotel operations or OTA commission structures
• Have existing hospitality contacts

Why Join Stairio

• High-growth startup environment
• Direct impact on revenue and business expansion
• Performance-based earning potential
• Opportunity to grow into Regional or National Sales leadership roles

Professional Conduct

• Client data, pricing, and internal processes are strictly confidential
• Client diversion or misuse of information is prohibited
• Ethical and structured sales practices are mandatory

EXCITED ABOUT YOUR TASKS?

1. HR Coordination:

● Oversee and coordinate interview processes, including onboarding interviewers and conducting Quality interviews.

● Ensure adherence to policies and regulatory requirements of the company.

2. Client Relationship Management:

● Serve as a liaison between Clients/recruiters ensuring effective communication and alignment of goals.

● Build and nurture strong relationships with client’s HRs/recruiters, understanding their needs and addressing concerns.

3. Communication and Collaboration:

● Facilitate clear communication between recruiters and clients to streamline processes and resolve issues.

● Build rapport with employees and clients at various organizational levels

● Should have product knowledge and resolve platform issues and impart training.

4. Performance Monitoring:

● Monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) for assigned accounts and take corrective actions as needed.

● Provide regular reports on account status, highlighting achievements and areas for improvement.

5. Communication and Collaboration:

● Foster effective communication between internal teams and clients to address queries, concerns, and feedback.

● Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure a cohesive and client-centric approach.

WHAT WILL YOU NEED TO SUCCEED?

● Bachelor/ Master's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field.

● Previous experience in HR coordination, recruitment or a related HR role.

● Exposure to client interaction or account management is advantageous.

● Strong communication and interpersonal skills, essential for both HR and client interactions.

● Ability to multitask, problem-solve, and meet deadlines.

● Proficiency in MS Suite.

● Ability to adapt to evolving HR and client management needs.

Working Days:

Monday to Friday- WFO

Please Note: Initial days training at Bangalore office and then in Hyderabad (All WFO)

Job Overview: We are seeking a skilled MERN Stack Developer responsible for designing and developing robust and scalable web applications. The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of the entire web development process (design, development, and deployment) and be proficient in the MERN stack: MongoDB, Express.js, React.js, and Node.js.

Key Responsibilities:

• Full Stack Development: Design, develop, and deploy full-stack web applications using the MERN stack (MongoDB, Express.js, React.js, Node.js).
• API Development: Build RESTful APIs and integrate them with front-end components.
• Database Management: Design, manage, and optimize MongoDB databases for high-performance and scalability.
• UI/UX Collaboration: Work closely with UI/UX designers to implement responsive and user-friendly interfaces.
• Code Quality: Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code, following best practices and coding standards.
• Testing and Debugging: Perform unit testing, debugging, and integration testing to ensure the quality and functionality of the application.
• Version Control: Use Git for version control and collaborate with other developers on code management.
• Continuous Learning: Stay up-to-date with emerging technologies and best practices in web development and apply them to projects.

Required Skills and Qualifications:

• Proficiency in:
• React.js: Strong understanding of React.js and its core principles, including hooks, state management, and component lifecycle.
• Node.js & Express.js: In-depth knowledge of Node.js and Express.js for server-side development.
• MongoDB: Experience with MongoDB for database design, development, and optimization.
• JavaScript/ES6+: Proficiency in modern JavaScript (ES6+) and understanding of asynchronous programming.