Azure Devops Engineer

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

We are now seeking a talented and motivated individual to contribute to our product in the Cloud data

protection space. Ability to clearly comprehend customer needs in a cloud environment, excellent

troubleshooting skills, and the ability to focus on problem resolution until completion are a requirement.

Responsibilities Include:

Review proposed feature requirements

Create test plan and test cases

Analyze performance, diagnosis, and troubleshooting

Enter and track defects

Interact with customers, partners, and development teams

Researching customer issues and product initiatives

Provide input for service documentation

Required Skills:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related discipline

3+ years' experience inclusive of Software as a Service and/or DevOps engineering experience

Experience with AWS services like VPC, EC2, RDS, SES, ECS, Lambda, S3, ELB

Experience with technologies such as REST, Angular, Messaging, Databases, etc.

Strong troubleshooting skills and issue isolation skills

Possess excellent communication skills (written and verbal English)

Must be able to work as an individual contributor within a team

Ability to think outside the box

Experience in configuring infrastructure

Knowledge of CI / CD

Desirable skills:

Programming skills in scripting languages (e.g., python, bash)

Knowledge of Linux administration

Knowledge of testing tools/frameworks: TestNG, Selenium, etc

Knowledge of Identity and Security

• Responsible for the entire infrastructure including Production (both bare metal and AWS).
• Manage and maintain the production systems and operations including SysAdmin, DB activities.
• Improve tools and processes, automate manual efforts, and maintain the health of the system.
• Champion best practices, CI-CD, Metrics Driven Development
• Optimise the company's computing architecture
• Conduct systems tests for security, performance, and availability
• Maintain security of the system
• Develop and maintain design and troubleshooting documentation

• 7+ years of experience into DevOps/Technical Operations
• Extensive experience in operating scripting language like shell, python, etc
• Experience in developing and maintaining CI/CD process for SaaS applications using tools such as Jenkins
• Hands on experience in using configuration management tools such as Puppet, SaltStack, Ansible, etc
• Hands-on experience to build and handle VMs, Containers utilizing tools such as Kubernetes, Docker, etc
• Hands on experience in building, designing and maintaining cloud-based applications with AWS, Azure,GCP, etc
• Knowledge of Databases (MySQL, NoSQL)
• Knowledge of security/ethical hacking

• Have experience with ElasticSearch, Kibana, LogStash
• Have experience with Cassandra, Hadoop, or Spark
• Have experience with Mongo, Hive

What you do :

• Developing automation for the various deployments core to our business
• Documenting run books for various processes / improving knowledge bases
• Identifying technical issues, communicating and recommending solutions
• Miscellaneous support (user account, VPN, network, etc)
• Develop continuous integration / deployment strategies
• Production systems deployment/monitoring/optimization

• Management of staging/development environments

What you know :

• Ability to work with a wide variety of open source technologies and tools
• Ability to code/script (Python, Ruby, Bash)
• Experience with systems and IT operations
• Comfortable with frequent incremental code testing and deployment
• Strong grasp of automation tools (Chef, Packer, Ansible, or others)
• Experience with cloud infrastructure and bare-metal systems
• Experience optimizing infrastructure for high availability and low latencies
• Experience with instrumenting systems for monitoring and reporting purposes
• Well versed in software configuration management systems (git, others)
• Experience with cloud providers (AWS or other) and tailoring apps for cloud deployment

• Data management skills

Education :

• Degree in Computer Engineering or Computer Science
• 1-3 years of equivalent experience in DevOps roles.
• Work conducted is focused on business outcomes
• Can work in an environment with a high level of autonomy (at the individual and team level)

• Comfortable working in an open, collaborative environment, reaching across functional.

Our Offering :

• True start-up experience - no bureaucracy and a ton of tough decisions that have a real impact on the business from day one.

• The camaraderie of an amazingly talented team that is working tirelessly to build a great OS for India and surrounding markets.

Perks :

• Awesome benefits, social gatherings, etc.
• Work with intelligent, fun and interesting people in a dynamic start-up environment.

THE OPPORTUNITY

A platform to learn and grow in a great working environment with cutting edge technologies. There is vast opportunity to showcase creative thinking which can be translated into a highly optimized tools/utilities.

KEY ACTIVITIES

• Code Integrations ( Compile, Build, Notify )
• Package creation ( Service Packs, Patches, Hotfixes )
•  Environment Preparation ( With GOLD SCM technical stack )
•  Environment & Infra management
•  Package delivery ( Customer specific & Standard )
• Build & Deployment automation
• Tickets management

KEY CRITERIA

Primary Technical Skills  

• Shell Scripting
• ORACLE DB Fundamentals
• Infra Monitoring & Diagnostics
• ClearCase / GIT
• DevOps concepts
• Basic Java

Other Required Skills

• Problem Solving
• Logical Reasoning
• Aptitude & Attitude
• Communication (Verbal & Written)

• Mandatory: Docker, AWS, Linux, Kubernete or ECS
• Prior experience provisioning and spinning up AWS Clusters / Kubernetes
• Production experience to build scalable systems (load balancers, memcached, master/slave architectures)
• Experience supporting a managed cloud services infrastructure
• Ability to maintain, monitor and optimise production database servers
• Prior work with Cloud Monitoring tools (Nagios, Cacti, CloudWatch etc.)
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Mesos, NoSQL databases (DynamoDB, Cassandra, MongoDB, etc)
• Other Open Source tools used in the infrastructure space (Packer, Terraform, Vagrant, etc.)
• In-depth knowledge on Linux Environment.
• Prior experience leading technical teams through the design and implementation of systems infrastructure projects.
• Working knowledge of Configuration Management (Chef, Puppet or Ansible preferred) Continuous Integration Tools (Jenkins preferred)
• Experience in handling large production deployments and infrastructure.
• DevOps based infrastructure and application deployments experience.
• Working knowledge of the AWS network architecture including designing VPN solutions between regions and subnets
• Hands-on knowledge with the AWS AMI architecture including the development of machine templates and blueprints
• He/she should be able to validate that the environment meets all security and compliance controls.
• Good working knowledge of AWS services such as Messaging, Application Services, Migration Services, Cost Management Platform.
• Proven written and verbal communication skills.
• Understands and can serve as the technical team lead to oversee the build of the Cloud environment based on customer requirements.
• Previous NOC experience.
• Client Facing Experience with excellent Customer Communication and Documentation Skills