Cloud Engineer/Sr Cloud Engineer(AWS)

Position: SDE-1 DevSecOps

Location: Pune, India

Experience Required: 0+ Years

We are looking for a DevSecOps engineer to contribute to product development, mentor team members, and devise creative solutions for customer needs. We value effective communication in person, in documentation, and in code. Ideal candidates thrive in small, collaborative teams, love making an impact, and take pride in their work with a product-focused, self-driven approach. If you're passionate about integrating security and deployment seamlessly into the development process, we want you on our team.

About FlytBase

FlytBase is a global leader in enterprise drone software automation. FlytBase platform is enabling drone-in-a-box deployments all across the globe and has the largest network of partners in 50+ countries.

The team comprises young engineers and designers from top-tier universities such as IIT-B, IIT-KGP, University of Maryland, Georgia Tech, COEP, SRM, KIIT and with deep expertise in drone technology, computer science, electronics, aerospace, and robotics.

The company is headquartered in Silicon Valley, California, USA, and has R&D offices in Pune, India. Widely recognized as a pioneer in the commercial drone ecosystem, FlytBase continues to win awards globally - FlytBase was the Global Grand Champion at the ‘NTT Data Open Innovation Contest’ held in Tokyo, Japan, and was the recipient of ‘ TiE50 Award’ at TiE Silicon Valley.

Role and Responsibilities:

• Participate in the creation and maintenance of CI/CD solutions and pipelines.
• Leverage Linux and shell scripting for automating security and system updates, and design secure architectures using AWS services (VPC, EC2, S3, IAM, EKS/Kubernetes) to enhance application deployment and management.
• Build and maintain secure Docker containers, manage orchestration using Kubernetes, and automate configuration management with tools like Ansible and Chef, ensuring compliance with security standards.
• Implement and manage infrastructure using Terraform, aligning with security and compliance requirements, and set up Dynatrace for advanced monitoring, alerting, and visualization of security metrics. Develop Terraform scripts to automate and optimize infrastructure provisioning and management tasks.
• Utilize Git for secure source code management and integrate continuous security practices into CI/CD pipelines, applying vulnerability scanning and automated security testing tools.
• Contribute to security assessments, including vulnerability and penetration testing, NIST, CIS AWS, NIS2 etc.
• Implement and oversee compliance processes for SOC II, ISO27001, and GDPR.
• Stay updated on cybersecurity trends and best practices, including knowledge of SAST and DAST tools, OWASP Top10.
• Automate routine tasks and create tools to improve team efficiency and system robustness.
• Contribute to disaster recovery plans and ensure robust backup systems are in place.
• Develop and enforce security policies and respond effectively to security incidents.
• Manage incident response protocols, including on-call rotations and strategic planning.
• Conduct post-incident reviews to prevent recurrence and refine the system reliability framework.
• Implementing Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and maintaining Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and Service Level Agreements (SLAs) to ensure high standards of service delivery and reliability.

Best suited for candidates who: (Skills/Experience)

• Up to 4 years of experience in a related field, with a strong emphasis on learning and execution.
• Background in IT or computer science.
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools, cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP), and programming languages like Python, JavaScript, or Ruby.
• Solid understanding of network layers and TCP/IP protocols.
• In-depth understanding of operating systems, networking, and cloud services.
• Strong problem-solving skills with a 'hacker' mindset.
• Knowledge of security principles, threat modeling, risk assessment, and vulnerability management is a plus. 
• Relevant certifications (e.g., CISSP, GWAPT, OSCP) are a plus.

Compensation: 

This role comes with an annual CTC that is market competitive and depends on the quality of your work experience, degree of professionalism, culture fit, and alignment with FlytBase’s long-term business strategy.

Perks:

• Fast-paced Startup culture
• Hacker mode environment
• Enthusiastic and approachable team
• Professional autonomy
• Company-wide sense of purpose
• Flexible work hours
• Informal dress code

Requirements

• 3+ years work experience writing clean production code
• Well versed with maintaining infrastructure as code (Terraform, Cloudformation etc). High proficiency with Terraform / Terragrunt is absolutely critical
• Experience of setting CI/CD pipelines from scratch
• Experience with AWS(EC2, ECS, RDS, Elastic Cache etc), AWS lambda, Kubernetes, Docker, ServiceMesh
• Experience with ETL pipelines, Bigdata infra
• Understanding of common security issues

Roles / Responsibilities:

• Write terraform modules for deploying different component of infrastructure in AWS like Kubernetes, RDS, Prometheus, Grafana, Static Website
• Configure networking, autoscaling. continuous deployment, security and multiple environments
• Make sure the infrastructure is SOC2, ISO 27001 and HIPAA compliant
• Automate all the steps to provide a seamless experience to developers.

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent work experience

Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure and services, such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform

Experience with infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation

Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or PowerShell

Familiarity with DevOps methodologies and tools such as Git, Jenkins, or Ansible

Strong problem-solving and analytical skills

Excellent communication and collaboration skills

Ability to work independently and as part of a team

Willingness to learn new technologies and tools as required

• Extensive experience in designing & supporting Azure Managed Services Operations.  
• Maintaining the Azure Active Directory and Azure AD authentication. 
• Azure update management – Handling updates/Patching. 
• Good understanding of Azure services (Azure App Service, Azure SQL,  Azure Storage Account..etc). 
• Understanding of load balancers, DNS, virtual networks, NSG and firewalls in cloud environment. 
• ARM templates writing, setup automation for resources provisioning. 
• Knowledge on Azure automation and Automation Desire State Configuration. 
• Good understanding of High Availability and Auto scaling. 
• Azure Backups and ASR (Azure Site Recovery) 
• Azure Monitoring and Configuration monitoring (performance metrics, OMS) 
• Cloud Migration Experience(On premise to Cloud). 
• PowerShell scripting for custom tasks automation. 
• Strong experience in configuring, maintaining, and troubleshooting Microsoft based production systems. 
  
  Certification: 
  
  Azure Administrator (AZ-103) & Azure Architect (AZ-300 & AZ-301) 

The AWS Cloud/Devops Engineer will be working with the engineering team and focusing on AWS infrastructure and automation.  A key part of the role is championing and leading infrastructure as code.  The Engineer will work closely with the Manager of Operations and Devops to build, manage and automate our AWS infrastructure. 

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Design cloud infrastructure that is secure, scalable, and highly available on AWS
• Work collaboratively with software engineering to define infrastructure and deployment requirements
• Provision, configure and maintain AWS cloud infrastructure defined as code
• Ensure configuration and compliance with configuration management tools
• Administer and troubleshoot Linux based systems
• Troubleshoot problems across a wide array of services and functional areas
• Build and maintain operational tools for deployment, monitoring, and analysis of AWS infrastructure and systems
• Perform infrastructure cost analysis and optimization

Qualifications:

• At least 1-5 years of experience building and maintaining AWS infrastructure (VPC, EC2, Security Groups, IAM, ECS, CodeDeploy, CloudFront, S3)
• Strong understanding of how to secure AWS environments and meet compliance requirements
• Expertise using Chef for configuration management
• Hands-on experience deploying and managing infrastructure with Terraform
• Solid foundation of networking and Linux administration
• Experience with CI-CD, Docker, GitLab, Jenkins, ELK and deploying applications on AWS
• Ability to learn/use a wide variety of open source technologies and tools
• Strong bias for action and ownership

We are looking for candidates that have experience in development and have performed CI/CD based projects. Should have a good hands-on Jenkins Master-Slave architecture, used AWS native services like CodeCommit, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy and CodePipeline. Should have experience in setting up cross platform CI/CD pipelines which can be across different cloud platforms or on-premise and cloud platform.

Job Description:

• Hands on with AWS (Amazon Web Services) Cloud with DevOps services and CloudFormation.
• Experience interacting with customer.
• Excellent communication.
• Hands-on in creating and managing Jenkins job, Groovy scripting.
• Experience in setting up Cloud Agnostic and Cloud Native CI/CD Pipelines.
• Experience in Maven.
• Experience in scripting languages like Bash, Powershell, Python.
• Experience in automation tools like Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Puppet.
• Excellent troubleshooting skills.
• Experience in Docker and Kuberneties with creating docker files.
• Hands on with version control systems like GitHub, Gitlab, TFS, BitBucket, etc.