Cloud Architect

Job Title : DevOps Engineer

Experience : 3+ Years

Location : Mumbai

Employment Type : Full-time

Job Overview :

We’re looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer to design, build, and manage Kubernetes-based deployments for a microservices data discovery platform.

The ideal candidate has strong hands-on expertise with Helm, Docker, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud networking — and can handle complex deployments across on-prem, cloud, and air-gapped environments.

Mandatory Skills :

✅ Helm, Kubernetes, Docker

✅ Jenkins, ArgoCD, GitOps

✅ Cloud Networking (VPCs, bare metal vs. VMs)

✅ Storage (MinIO, Ceph, NFS, S3/EBS)

✅ Air-gapped & multi-tenant deployments

Key Responsibilities :

• Build and customize Helm charts from scratch.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, ArgoCD, GitOps.
• Manage containerized deployments across on-prem/cloud setups.
• Work on air-gapped and restricted environments.
• Optimize for scalability, monitoring, and security (Prometheus, Grafana, RBAC, HPA).

About Kiru:

Kiru is a forward-thinking payments startup on a mission to revolutionise the digital payments landscape in Africa and beyond. Our innovative solutions will reshape how people transact, making payments safer, faster, and more accessible. Join us on our journey to redefine the future of payments.

Position Overview:

We are searching for a highly skilled and motivated DevOps Engineer to join our dynamic team in Pune, India. As a DevOps Engineer at Kiru, you will play a critical role in ensuring our payment infrastructure's reliability, scalability, and security.

Key Responsibilities:

• Utilize your expertise in technology infrastructure configuration to manage and automate infrastructure effectively.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Software Developers and technology management, to design and implement robust and efficient DevOps solutions.
• Configure and maintain a secure backend environment focusing on network isolation and VPN access.
• Implement and manage monitoring solutions like ZipKin, Jaeger, New Relic, or DataDog and visualisation and alerting solutions like Prometheus and Grafana.
• Work closely with developers to instrument code for visualisation and alerts, ensuring system performance and stability.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of development and deployment pipelines.
• Collaborate on the selection and implementation of appropriate DevOps tools and technologies.
• Troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure and deployment issues promptly to minimize downtime.
• Stay up-to-date with emerging DevOps trends and best practices.
• Create and maintain comprehensive documentation related to DevOps processes and configurations.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent work experience).
• Proven experience as a DevOps Engineer or in a similar role.
• Experience configuring infrastructure on Microsoft Azure
• Experience with Kubernetes as a container orchestration technology
• Experience with Terraform and Azure ARM or Bicep templates for infrastructure provisioning and management.
• Experience configuring and maintaining secure backend environments, including network isolation and VPN access.
• Proficiency in setting up and managing monitoring and visualization tools such as ZipKin, Jaeger, New Relic, DataDog, Prometheus, and Grafana.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with developers to instrument code for visualization and alerts.
• Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills.
• A proactive and self-motivated approach to work.

Desired Skills:

• Experience with Azure Kubernetes Services and managing identities across Azure services.
• Previous experience in a financial or payment systems environment.

About Kiru:

At Kiru, we believe that success is achieved through collaboration. We recognise that every team member has a vital role to play, and it's the partnerships we build within our organisation that drive our customers' success and our growth as a business.

We are more than just a team; we are a close-knit partnership. By bringing together diverse talents and fostering powerful collaborations, we innovate, share knowledge, and continually learn from one another. We take pride in our daily achievements but never stop challenging ourselves and supporting each other. Together, we reach new heights and envision a brighter future.

Regardless of your career journey, we provide the guidance and resources you need to thrive. You will have everything required to excel through training programs, mentorship, and ongoing support. At Kiru, your success is our success, and that success matters because we are the essential partners for the world's most critical businesses. These companies manufacture, transport, and supply the world's essential goods.

Equal Opportunities and Accommodations Statement:

Kiru is committed to fostering a workplace and global community where inclusion is celebrated and where you can bring your authentic selfbecause that's who we're interested in. If you are interested in this role but don't meet every qualification in the job description, don't hesitate to apply. We are an equal opportunity employer.

We are looking for an experienced Sr.Devops Consultant Engineer to join our team. The ideal candidate should have at least 5+ years of experience.

We are retained by a promising startup located in Silicon valley backed by Fortune 50 firm with veterans from firms as Zscaler, Salesforce & Oracle. Founding team has been part of three unicorns and two successful IPO’s in the past and well funded by Dell Technologies and Westwave Capital. The company has been widely recognized as an industry innovator in the Data Privacy, Security space and being built by proven Cybersecurity executives who have successfully built and scaled high growth Security companies and built Privacy programs as executives.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain infrastructure as code using tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, and Ansible
• Manage and maintain Kubernetes clusters on EKS and EC2 instances
• Implement and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines for microservices
• Optimize AWS costs by identifying cost-saving opportunities and implementing cost-effective solutions
• Implement best security practices for microservices, including vulnerability assessments, SOC2 compliance, and network security
• Monitor the performance and availability of our cloud infrastructure using observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and Elasticsearch
• Implement backup and disaster recovery solutions for our microservices and databases
• Stay up to date with the latest AWS services and technologies and provide recommendations for improving our cloud infrastructure
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including developers, and product managers, to ensure the smooth operation of our cloud infrastructure
• Experience with large scale system design and scaling services is highly desirable

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
• At least 5 years of experience in AWS DevOps and infrastructure engineering
• Expertise in Kubernetes management, Docker, EKS, EC2, Queues, Python Threads, Celery Optimization, Load balancers, AWS cost optimizations, Elasticsearch, Container management, and observability best practices
• Experience with SOC2 compliance and vulnerability assessment best practices for microservices
• Familiarity with AWS services such as S3, RDS, Lambda, and CloudFront
• Strong scripting skills in languages like Python, Bash, and Go
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work in a collaborative team environment
• Experience with agile development methodologies and DevOps practices
• AWS certification (e.g. AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, AWS Certified Solutions Architect) is a plus.

Notice period : Can join within a month

Role – Devops

Experience 3 – 6 Years

Roles & Responsibilities –

• 3-6 years of experience in deploying and managing highly scalable fault resilient systems
• Strong experience in container orchestration and server automation tools such as Kubernetes, Google Container Engine, Docker Swarm, Ansible, Terraform  

• Strong experience with Linux-based infrastructures, Linux/Unix administration, AWS, Google Cloud, Azure

• Strong experience with databases such as  MySQL, Hadoop, Elasticsearch, Redis, Cassandra, and MongoDB.

• Knowledge of scripting languages such as Java, JavaScript, Python, PHP, Groovy, Bash.

• Experience in configuring CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab CI, Travis.
• Proficient in technologies such as Docker, Kafka, Raft and Vagrant

• Experience in implementing queueing services such as RabbitMQ, Beanstalkd, Amazon SQS and knowledge in ElasticStack is a plus.

Role : SRE

Experience : 4 - 8 Years

• Experience in building, deploying and operating cloud solutions on Kubernetes
• Strong expertise administrating and scaling Kubernetes on bare metal and CKA preferred
• Expertise on K8s Interfaces CNI, CSI, CRI and Service meshe
• Hands-on experience as a DevOps or Automation development
• Demonstrable knowledge of TCP/IP, Linux operating system internals, filesystems, disk/storage technologies and storage protocols.
• Experience working with Helm Charts and building out Infrastructure As Code (IaC)
• Experience in writing software to automate orchestration tasks at scale; we commonly use Python, Go, and Shell scripting
• Knowledge of systems (Linux, GNU tooling), networking (OSI model, DNS, routing) and virtualization vs containerization
• Expertise in CI/CD tooling for cloud-based applications specifically Terraform / CloudFormation, Jenkins and Git
• Architected CNF Orchestration with Kubernetes
• Strong understanding of the principles of 12-factor apps and modern containerized microservices
• Plan for reliability by designing systems to work across our multi-region and multi-cloud environments
• Experience developing and using Application & Integration stacks/tools such as Kafka, Spring Cloud, Apache Camel, Kubernetes, Docker, Redis, Knative, and NoSQL

• Ensure reliable operation of CI/CD pipelines
• Orchestrate the provisioning, load balancing, configuration, monitoring and billing of resources in the cloud environment in a highly automated manner
• Logging, metrics and alerting management.
• Creation of Bash/Python scripts for automation
• Performing root cause analysis for production errors.

• 2 years experience as Team Lead.
• Good Command on kubernetes.
• Proficient in Linux Commands line and troubleshooting.
• Proficient in AWS Services. Deployment, Monitoring and troubleshooting applications in AWS.
• Hands-on experience with CI tooling preferably with Jenkins.
• Proficient in deployment using Ansible.
• Knowledge of infrastructure management tools (Infrastructure as cloud) such as terraform, AWS cloud formation etc.
• Proficient in deployment of applications behind load balancers and proxy servers such as nginx, apache.
• Scripting languages: Bash, Python, Groovy.
• Experience with Logging, Monitoring, and Alerting tools like ELK(Elastic-search, Logstash, Kibana), Nagios. Graylog, splunk Prometheus, Grafana is a plus.

Roles and Responsibilities

• 5 - 8 years of experience in Infrastructure setup on Cloud, Build/Release Engineering, Continuous Integration and Delivery, Configuration/Change Management.
• Good experience with Linux/Unix administration and moderate to significant experience administering relational databases such as PostgreSQL, etc.
• Experience with Docker and related tools (Cassandra, Rancher, Kubernetes etc.)
• Experience of working in Config management tools (Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Terraform etc.) is a plus.
• Experience with cloud technologies like Azure
• Experience with monitoring and alerting (TICK, ELK, Nagios, PagerDuty)
• Experience with distributed systems and related technologies (NSQ, RabbitMQ, SQS, etc.) is a plus
• Experience with scaling data store technologies is a plus (PostgreSQL, Scylla, Redis) is a plus
• Experience with SSH Certificate Authorities and Identity Management (Netflix BLESS) is a plus
• Experience with multi-domain SSL certs and provisioning a plus (Let's Encrypt) is a plus
• Experience with chaos or similar methodologies is a plus