Azure Specialist

Role - Sr. QA Engineer

Location- Gurgaon

Mode - Hybrid

Experience - 6 Years

Notice Period:- Immediate Joiner

Must-Have:

- Experience in QA automation/platform QA

- Experience in Playwright, Selenium, Rest Assured

- Strong in API & load testing (JMeter, k6)

- GCP or Azure experience

- CI/CD: GitHub Actions, Jenkins

- Drive test automation, CI/CD quality gates, chaos testing & more.

About the Job

This is a full-time role for a Lead DevOps Engineer at Spark Eighteen. We are seeking an experienced DevOps professional to lead our infrastructure strategy, design resilient systems, and drive continuous improvement in our deployment processes. In this role, you will architect scalable solutions, mentor junior engineers, and ensure the highest standards of reliability and security across our cloud infrastructure. The job location is flexible with preference for the Delhi NCR region.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor the DevOps/SRE team
• Define and drive DevOps strategy and roadmaps
• Oversee infrastructure automation and CI/CD at scale
• Collaborate with architects, developers, and QA teams to integrate DevOps practices
• Ensure security, compliance, and high availability of platforms
• Own incident response, postmortems, and root cause analysis
• Budgeting, team hiring, and performance evaluation

Requirements

Technical Skills

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 7+ years of professional DevOps experience with demonstrated progression.
• Strong architecture and leadership background
• Deep hands-on knowledge of infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and cloud
• Proven experience with monitoring, security, and governance
• Effective stakeholder and project management
• Experience with tools like Jenkins, ArgoCD, Terraform, Vault, ELK, etc.
• Strong understanding of business continuity and disaster recovery

Soft Skills

• Cross-functional communication excellence with ability to lead technical discussions.
• Strong mentorship capabilities for junior and mid-level team members.
• Advanced strategic thinking and ability to propose innovative solutions.
• Excellent knowledge transfer skills through documentation and training.
• Ability to understand and align technical solutions with broader business strategy.
• Proactive problem-solving approach with focus on continuous improvement.
• Strong leadership skills in guiding team performance and technical direction.
• Effective collaboration across development, QA, and business teams.
• Ability to make complex technical decisions with minimal supervision.
• Strategic approach to risk management and mitigation.

What We Offer

• Professional Growth: Continuous learning opportunities through diverse projects and mentorship from experienced leaders
• Global Exposure: Work with clients from 20+ countries, gaining insights into different markets and business cultures
• Impactful Work: Contribute to projects that make a real difference, with solutions generating over $1B in revenue
• Work-Life Balance: Flexible arrangements that respect personal wellbeing while fostering productivity
• Career Advancement: Clear progression pathways as you develop skills within our growing organization
• Competitive Compensation: Attractive salary packages that recognize your contributions and expertise

Our Culture

At Spark Eighteen, our culture centers on innovation, excellence, and growth. We believe in:

• Quality-First: Delivering excellence rather than just quick solutions
• True Partnership: Building relationships based on trust and mutual respect
• Communication: Prioritizing clear, effective communication across teams
• Innovation: Encouraging curiosity and creative approaches to problem-solving
• Continuous Learning: Supporting professional development at all levels
• Collaboration: Combining diverse perspectives to achieve shared goals
• Impact: Measuring success by the value we create for clients and users

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• Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent area
• 10 to 20 years of experience in software development
• Hands-on experience designing and building B2B or B2C products
• 3+ years architecting SaaS/Web based customer facing products, leading engineering teams as software/technical architect
• Experiences of engineering practices such as code refactoring, microservices, design and enterprise integration patterns, test and design-driven development, continuous integration, building highly scalable applications, application and infrastructure security
• Strong cloud infrastructure experience with AWS and/or Azure
• Experience building event driven systems and working with message queues/topics
• Broad working experience across multiple programming languages and frameworks with in-depth experience in one or more of the following: .Net, Java, Scala or Go-lang
• Hands-on experience with relational databases like SQL Server, PostgreSQL and document stores like Elasticsearch or MongoDB
• Hands-on experience with Big Data processing technologies like Hadoop/Spark is a plus
• Hands-on experience with container technologies like Docker, Kubernetes
• Knowledge of Agile software development process

What You'll do:

• 4+ years of experience building scalable backends using Nodejs
• In-depth knowledge of any framework of Nodejs (i.e. Express, Hapi, Koa.js)
• Hands on experience with developing REST APIs using Node.js and any of the above framework
• Should have experience with Socket.IO
• Familiar with oauth integration Social Networking API (Facebook, Twitter, Linked In, Google+)
• Good understanding of standard authentication systems such as OAuth2 and JWT
• Knowledge of server-side templating (e.g. Jade, Handlebars.js, etc.)
• Should have understanding of model, caching, async mechanisms
• Hands-on experience with implementing Role based User authentication and authorization system
• Understanding of caching, database interactions, middlewares
• Able to engineer the best performing solutions and always keeping scalability in mind

What makes you a great fit:

• Strong problem solving skills
• Knowledge of data structures and algorithms
• Hungry for more responsibility and knowledge
• Passion for building robust systems that are engineered to handle failure scenarios, an undying love and attitude for maintaining coding standards
• Strong advocate for producing quality software who makes sure issues are raised and resolved
• Experience with at least one of the cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, Azure, Digital Ocean etc. (docker, Kubernetes, microservice good to have)

Must have skillsets:

Skills : NodeJs

Experience required: + years

Job Type: Full time/ Permanent

Perks and Benefits :

• 5 days working.
• Flexible shift timings
• Company-sponsored certifications.
• Team friendly culture
• Flat hierarchy
• Carrom, Table tennis games, Cricket Tournament Participation for interested employees
• Snack-filled pantry for team members
• Group Medical Insurance (*)

Must Haves

• Programming experience with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
• 1+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and current systems.
• 4+ years’  work experience in  software development
• BS degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering or related field
• Understanding of operating system fundamentals (Linux)
• Understanding of scalable computing systems, software architecture, data structures, and algorithms
• Knowledge of professional software engineering best practices for the full software development life cycle
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Strong analytical skills, with excellent problem solving abilities
• Working experience with Kubernetes
• Experienced working with distributed databases at scale

Good to haves

• Experience in developing software using AWS native services & technologies.
• Experience taking a lead role in building and operating scalable distributed systems
• Experience in Agile/SCRUM enterprise-scale software development
• Familiar with building secure software using modern security principles
• Demonstrated ability to achieve goals in a highly innovative and fast-paced environment

Why us

We're hiring a set of highly skilled, enthusiastic, and passionate people who thrive in a high-growth environment. We believe the best way to grow is to give everyone the opportunity to pursue their interests. At Lucidity, you have complete freedom to work on projects that interest you. Plus, with benefits like flexible hours, company offsites, unlimited leaves, we ensure you enjoy the journey as much as we do. We are also offering healthy founding team ESOP's.

Requirements:-

• Bachelor’s Degree or Master’s in Computer Science, Engineering,Software Engineering or a relevant field. 
• Strong experience with Windows/Linux-based infrastructures, Linux/Unix administration.
• knowledge of Jira, Bitbucket, Jenkins, Xray, Ansible, Windows and  .Net. as their Core Skill.
• Strong experience with databases such as SQL, MS SQL, MySQL, NoSQL.
• Knowledge of scripting languages such as Shell Scripting /Python/ PHP/Groovy, Bash.  
• Experience with project management and workflow tools such as   Agile, Jira / WorkFront etc.
• Experience with open-source technologies and cloud services.
• Experience in working with Puppet or Chef for automation and configuration.
• Strong communication skills and ability to explain protocol and processes with team  and management.  
• Experience in a DevOps Engineer role (or similar role)
• AExperience in software development and infrastructure development is a plus

Job Specifications:-

• Building and maintaining tools, solutions and micro services associated with deployment and our operations platform, ensuring that all meet our customer service standards and reduce errors.  
• Actively troubleshoot any issues that arise during testing and production, catching and solving issues before launch.
• Test our system integrity, implemented designs, application developments and other processes related to infrastructure, making improvements as needed
• Deploy product updates as required while implementing integrations when they arise.  
• Automate our operational processes as needed, with accuracy and in compliance with our security requirements.
• Specifying, documenting and developing new product features, and writing automating scripts.  Manage code deployments, fixes, updates and related processes.
• Work with open-source technologies as needed.
• Work with CI and CD tools, and source control such as GIT and SVN.
• Lead the team through development and operations.
• Offer  technical support where needed, developing software for our back-end systems.