Cloud Architect

Job Title: Lead DevOps Engineer

Experience Required: 8+ years in DevOps or related fields

Employment Type: Full-time

About the Role:

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Lead DevOps Engineer. This role will focus on driving the design, implementation, and optimization of our CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and operational processes. As a Lead DevOps Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in enhancing the scalability, reliability, and security of our systems while mentoring a team of DevOps engineers to achieve operational excellence.

Key Responsibilities:

Infrastructure Management: Architect, deploy, and maintain scalable, secure, and resilient cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS, Azure, or GCP).

CI/CD Pipelines: Design and optimize CI/CD pipelines, to improve development velocity and deployment quality.

Automation: Automate repetitive tasks and workflows, such as provisioning cloud resources, configuring servers, managing deployments, and implementing infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible.

Monitoring & Logging: Implement robust monitoring, alerting, and logging systems for enterprise and cloud-native environments using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, NewRelic or Datadog.

Security: Ensure the infrastructure adheres to security best practices, including vulnerability assessments and incident response processes.

Collaboration: Work closely with development, QA, and IT teams to align DevOps strategies with project goals.

Mentorship: Lead, mentor, and train a team of DevOps engineers to foster growth and technical expertise.

Incident Management: Oversee production system reliability, including root cause analysis and performance tuning.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

Technical Expertise:

Strong proficiency in cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or GCP.

Advanced knowledge of containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).

Expertise in IaC tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi.

Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools, particularly Bitbucket Pipelines, Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, Github Actions or CircleCI.

Proficiency in scripting languages (e.g., Python, Bash, PowerShell).

Soft Skills:

Excellent communication and leadership skills.

Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.

Proven ability to manage and lead a team effectively.

Experience:

8+ years of experience in DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE).

3+ years in a leadership or team lead role, with proven experience managing distributed teams, mentoring team members, and driving cross-functional collaboration.

Strong understanding of microservices, APIs, and serverless architectures.

Nice to Have:

Certifications like AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Kubernetes Administrator, or similar.

Experience with GitOps tools such as ArgoCD or Flux.

Knowledge of compliance standards (e.g., GDPR, SOC 2, ISO 27001).

Perks & Benefits:

Competitive salary and performance bonuses.

Comprehensive health insurance for you and your family.

Professional development opportunities and certifications, including sponsored certifications and access to training programs to help you grow your skills and expertise.

Flexible working hours and remote work options.

Collaborative and inclusive work culture.

Join us to build and scale world-class systems that empower innovation and deliver exceptional user experiences.

Location: Malleshwaram/MG Road

Work: Initially Onsite and later Hybrid

We are committed to becoming a true DevOps house and want your help. The role will

require close liaison with development and test teams to increase effectiveness of

current dev processes. Participation in an out-of-hours emergency support rotationally

will be required. You will be shaping the way that we use our DevOps tools and

innovating to deliver business value and improve the cadence of the entire dev team.

Required Skills:

Good knowledge of Amazon Web Services suite (EC2, ECS, Loadbalancing, VPC,

S3, RDS, Lambda, Cloudwatch, IAM etc)

• Hands on knowledge on container orchestration tools – Must have: AWS ECS and Good to have: AWS EKS

• Good knowledge on creating and maintaining the infrastructure as code using Terraform

• Solid experience with CI-CD tools like Jenkins, git and Ansible

• Working experience on supporting Microservices (Deploying, maintaining and

monitoring Java web-based production applications using docker container)

• Strong knowledge on debugging production issues across the services and

technology stack and application monitoring (we use Splunk & Cloudwatch)

• Experience with software build tools (maven, and node)

• Experience with scripting and automation languages (Bash, groovy,

JavaScript, python)

• Experience with Linux administration and CVEs scan - Amz Linux, Ubuntu

• 4+ years in AWS DevOps Engineer

Optional skills:

• Oracle/SQL database maintenance experience

• Elastic Search

• Serverless/container based approach

• Automated testing of infrastructure deployments

• Experience of performance testing & JVM tuning

• Experience of a high-volume distributed eCommerce environment

• Experience working closely with Agile development teams

• Familiarity with load testing tools & process

• Experience with nginx, tomcat and apache

• Experience with Cloudflare

Personal attributes

The successful candidate will be comfortable working autonomously and

independently.

They will be keen to bring an entire team to the next level of delivering business value.

A proactive approach to problem

Job title - DevOps Engineer 

Experience - 4+ years 

Location - Pune (Onsite)

Primary Skills - Kubernetes, AWS 

Roles and Responsibilities:

Cloud Infrastructure Management: Design, deploy, and maintain AWS-based cloud infrastructure using best practices for scalability, security, and cost optimization.

Kubernetes & Containerization: Manage and orchestrate containerized applications using Kubernetes and Docker, ensuring efficient deployments and scaling.

CI/CD Pipelines: Develop, implement, and maintain continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines to enable fast, reliable software releases.

Automation: Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and management using tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible.

Monitoring & Logging: Set up and manage monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, ELK Stack) to ensure the health and performance of applications and infrastructure.

Collaboration: Work closely with software engineers, system administrators, and other teams to identify bottlenecks, improve processes, and resolve issues.

Security: Implement and monitor security measures within the cloud infrastructure, ensuring compliance with industry standards and best practices (e.g., IAM, VPC, SSL/TLS).

Backup and Disaster Recovery: Set up and maintain disaster recovery plans, backup strategies, and ensure business continuity.

Performance Tuning: Continuously analyze and optimize application performance, ensuring fast and efficient operations.

DevOps Systems Engineer with experience in Docker Containers, Docker Swarm, Docker Compose, Ansible, Jenkins and other tools. As part of this role she/he must work with the container best practices in design, development and implementation.

At Least 4 Years of experience in DevOps with knowledge of:

• Docker
• Docker Cloud / Containerization
• DevOps Best Practices
• Distributed Applications
• Deployment Architecture
• Atleast AWS Experience
• Exposure to Kubernetes / Serverless Architecture

Skills:

• 3-7+ years of experience in DevOps Engineering
• Strong experience with Docker Containers, Implementing Docker Containers, Container Clustering
• Experience with Docker Swarm, Docker Compose, Docker Engine
• Experience with Provisioning and managing VM's - Virtual Machines
• Experience / strong knowledge with Network Topologies, Network Research,
• Jenkins, BitBucket, Jira
• Ansible or other Automation Configuration Management System tools
• Scripting & Programming using languages such as BASH, Perl, Python, AWK, SED, PHP, Shell
• Linux Systems Administration -: Redhat

Additional Preference:

Security, SSL configuration, Best Practices

Experience: 3+ years of experience in Cloud Architecture

About Company:

Cloud Architect / Lead

• Role Overview

• Senior Engineer with a strong background and experience in cloud related technologies and architectures. Can design target cloud architectures to transform existing architectures together with the in-house team. Can actively hands-on configure and build cloud architectures and guide others.

• Key Knowledge

• 3-5+ years of experience in AWS/GCP or Azure technologies
• Is likely certified on one or more of the major cloud platforms
• Strong experience from hands-on work with technologies such as Terraform, K8S, Docker and orchestration of containers.
• Ability to guide and lead internal agile teams on cloud technology
• Background from the financial services industry or similar critical operational experience

Why LiftOff? 

We at LiftOff specialize in product creation, for our main forte lies in helping Entrepreneurs realize their dream. We have helped businesses and entrepreneurs launch more than 70 plus products.

Many on the team are serial entrepreneurs with a history of successful exits.

As a Devops Engineer, you will work directly with our founders and alongside our engineers on a variety of software projects covering various languages, frameworks, and application architectures.

Must Have 

*Work experience of at least 2 years with Kubernetes.

*Hands-on experience working with Kubernetes. Preferably on Azure Cloud.

*Well-versed with Kubectl

*Experience in using Azure Monitor, setting up analytics and reports for Azure containers and services.

*Monitoring and observability

*Setting Alerts and auto-scaling

Nice to have

*Scripting and automation

*Experience with Jenkins or any sort of CI/CD pipelines

*Past experience in setting up cloud infrastructure, configurations and database backups

*Experience with Azure App Service

*Experience of setting up web socket-based applications.

*Working knowledge of Azure APIM

We are a group of passionate people driven by core values. We strive to make every process transparent and have flexible work timings along with excellent startup culture and vibe.

A.P.T Portfolio, a high frequency trading firm that specialises in Quantitative Trading & Investment Strategies.Founded in November 2009, it has been a major liquidity provider in global Stock markets. 

As a manager, you would be incharge of managing the devops team and your remit shall include the following

• Private Cloud - Design & maintain a high performance and reliable network architecture to support  HPC applications
• Scheduling Tool - Implement and maintain a HPC scheduling technology like Kubernetes, Hadoop YARN  Mesos, HTCondor or Nomad for processing & scheduling analytical jobs. Implement controls which allow analytical jobs to seamlessly utilize ideal capacity on the private cloud. 
• Security - Implementing best security practices and implementing data isolation policy between different divisions internally. 
• Capacity Sizing - Monitor private cloud usage and share details with different teams. Plan capacity enhancements on a quarterly basis. 
• Storage solution - Optimize storage solutions like NetApp, EMC, Quobyte for analytical jobs. Monitor their performance on a daily basis to identify issues early.
• NFS - Implement and optimize latest version of NFS for our use case. 
• Public Cloud - Drive AWS/Google-Cloud utilization in the firm for increasing efficiency, improving collaboration and for reducing cost. Maintain the environment for our existing use cases. Further explore potential areas of using public cloud within the firm. 
• BackUps  - Identify and automate  back up of all crucial data/binary/code etc in a secured manner at such duration warranted by the use case. Ensure that recovery from back-up is tested and seamless. 
•  Access Control  - Maintain password less access control and improve security over time. Minimize failures for automated job due to unsuccessful logins. 
•  Operating System  -Plan, test and roll out new operating system for all production, simulation and desktop environments. Work closely with developers to highlight new performance enhancements capabilities of new versions. 
•  Configuration management  -Work closely with DevOps/ development team to freeze configurations/playbook for various teams & internal applications. Deploy and maintain standard tools such as Ansible, Puppet, chef etc for the same. 
•  Data Storage & Security Planning  - Maintain a tight control of root access on various devices. Ensure root access is rolled back as soon the desired objective is achieved.
• Audit access logs on devices. Use third party tools to put in a monitoring mechanism for early detection of any suspicious activity. 
• Maintaining all third party tools used for development and collaboration - This shall include maintaining a fault tolerant   environment for GIT/Perforce, productivity tools such as Slack/Microsoft team, build tools like Jenkins/Bamboo etc

Qualifications 

• Bachelors or Masters Level Degree, preferably in CSE/IT
• 10+ years of relevant experience in sys-admin function
• Must have strong knowledge of IT Infrastructure, Linux, Networking and grid.
• Must have strong grasp of automation & Data management tools.
• Efficient in scripting languages and python

Desirables

• Professional attitude, co-operative and mature approach to work, must be focused, structured and well considered, troubleshooting skills.
•  Exhibit a high level of individual initiative and ownership, effectively collaborate with other team members.

APT Portfolio is an equal opportunity employer