Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

About the role:

We are seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer with deep expertise in Jenkins, Docker, Ansible, and Kubernetes to architect and maintain secure, scalable infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines. This role emphasizes security-first DevOps practices, on-premises Kubernetes operations, and integration with data engineering workflows.

🛠 Required Skills & Experience

Technical Expertise

• Jenkins (Expert): Advanced pipeline development, DSL scripting, security integration, troubleshooting
• Docker (Expert): Secure multi-stage builds, vulnerability management, optimisation for Java/Scala/Python
• Ansible (Expert): Complex playbook development, configuration management, automation at scale
• Kubernetes (Expert - Primary Focus): On-premises cluster operations, security hardening, networking, storage management
• SonarQube/Code Quality (Strong): Integration, quality gate enforcement, threshold management
• DevSecOps (Strong): Security scanning, compliance automation, vulnerability remediation, workload governance
• Spark ETL/ETA (Moderate): Understanding of distributed data processing, job configuration, runtime behavior

Core Competencies

• Deep understanding of DevSecOps principles and security-first automation
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving abilities across complex distributed systems
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code and GitOps methodologies
• Knowledge of compliance frameworks and security standards
• Ability to mentor teams and drive best practice adoption

🎓Qualifications

• 6 - 10 Years years of hands-on DevOps
• Proven track record with Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, and Ansible in production environments
• Experience managing on-premises Kubernetes clusters (bare-metal preferred)
• Strong background in security hardening and compliance automation
• Familiarity with data engineering platforms and big data technologies
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills

🚀 Key Responsibilities

1.CI/CD Pipeline Architecture & Security

• Design, implement, and maintain enterprise-grade CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins with embedded security controls:
• Build greenfield pipelines and enhance/stabilize existing pipeline infrastructure
• Diagnose and resolve build, test, and deployment failures across multi-service environments
• Integrate security gates, compliance checks, and automated quality controls at every pipeline stage
• Manage and optimize SonarQube and static code analysis tooling:
• Enforce code quality and security scanning standards across all services
• Maintain organizational coding standards, vulnerability thresholds, and remediation workflows
• Automate quality gates as integral components of CI/CD processes
• Engineer optimized Docker images for Java, Scala, and Python applications:
• Implement multi-stage builds, layer optimization, and minimal base images
• Conduct image vulnerability scanning and enforce compliance policies
• Apply containerization best practices for security and performance
• Develop comprehensive Ansible automation:
• Create modular, reusable, and secure playbooks for configuration management
• Automate environment provisioning and application lifecycle operations
• Maintain infrastructure-as-code standards and version control

2.Kubernetes Platform Operations & Security

• Lead complete lifecycle management of on-premises/bare-metal Kubernetes clusters:
• Cluster provisioning, version upgrades, node maintenance, and capacity planning
• Configure and manage networking (CNI), persistent storage solutions, and ingress controllers
• Troubleshoot workload performance, resource constraints, and reliability issues
• Implement and enforce Kubernetes security best practices:
• Design and manage RBAC policies, service account isolation, and least-privilege access models
• Apply Pod Security Standards, network policies, secrets encryption, and certificate lifecycle management
• Conduct cluster hardening, security audits, monitoring, and policy governance
• Provide technical leadership to development teams:
• Guide secure deployment patterns and containerized application best practices
• Establish workload governance frameworks for distributed systems
• Drive adoption of security-first mindsets across engineering teams

3.Data Engineering Support

• Collaborate with data engineering teams on Spark-based workloads:
• Support deployment and operational tuning of Spark ETL/ETA jobs
• Understand cluster integration, job orchestration, and performance optimization
• Debug and troubleshoot Spark workflow issues in production environments

DevOps Lead Engineer

We are seeking a skilled DevOps Lead Engineer with 8 to 10 yrs. of experience who handles the entire DevOps lifecycle and is accountable for the implementation of the process. A DevOps Lead Engineer is liable for automating all the manual tasks for developing and deploying code and data to implement continuous deployment and continuous integration frameworks. They are also held responsible for maintaining high availability of production and non-production work environments.

Essential Requirements (must have):

• Bachelor's degree preferable in Engineering.

• Solid 5+ experience with AWS, DevOps, and related technologies

Skills Required:

Cloud Performance Engineering

• Performance scaling in a Micro-Services environment

• Horizontal scaling architecture

• Containerization (such as Dockers) & Deployment

• Container Orchestration (such as Kubernetes) & Scaling

DevOps Automation

• End to end release automation.

• Solid Experience in DevOps tools like GIT, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, CFN etc.

• Solid experience in Infra Automation (Infrastructure as Code), Deployment, and Implementation.

• Candidates must possess experience in using Linux, Jenkins, and ample experience in Configuring and automating the monitoring tools.

• Strong scripting knowledge

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Cloud and On-prem deployments

Infrastructure Design & Provisioning

• Infra provisioning.

• Infrastructure Sizing

• Infra Cost Optimization

• Infra security

• Infra monitoring & site reliability.

Job Responsibilities:

• Responsible for creating software deployment strategies that are essential for the successful

deployment of software in the work environment and provide stable environment for delivery of

quality.

• The DevOps Lead Engineer is accountable for designing, building, configuring, and optimizing

automation systems that help to execute business web and data infrastructure platforms.

• The DevOps Lead Engineer is involved in creating technology infrastructure, automation tools,

and maintaining configuration management.

• The Lead DevOps Engineer oversees and leads the activities of the DevOps team. They are

accountable for conducting training sessions for the juniors in the team, mentoring, career

support. They are also answerable for the architecture and technical leadership of the complete

DevOps infrastructure.

Type, Location

Full Time @ Anywhere in India

Desired Experience

2+ years

Job Description

What You’ll Do

● Deploy, automate and maintain web-scale infrastructure with leading public cloud vendors such as Amazon Web Services, Digital Ocean & Google Cloud Platform.

● Take charge of DevOps activities for CI/CD with the latest tech stacks.

● Acquire industry-recognized, professional cloud certifications (AWS/Google) in the capacity of developer or architect Devise multi-region technical solutions.

● Implementing the DevOps philosophy and strategy across different domains in organisation.

● Build automation at various levels, including code deployment to streamline release process

● Will be responsible for architecture of cloud services

● 24*7 monitoring of the infrastructure

● Use programming/scripting in your day-to-day work

● Have shell experience - for example Powershell on Windows, or BASH on *nix

● Use a Version Control System, preferably git

● Hands on at least one CLI/SDK/API of at least one public cloud ( GCP, AWS, DO)

● Scalability, HA and troubleshooting of web-scale applications.

● Infrastructure-As-Code tools like Terraform, CloudFormation

● CI/CD systems such as Jenkins, CircleCI

● Container technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift

● Monitoring and alerting systems: e.g. NewRelic, AWS CloudWatch, Google StackDriver, Graphite, Nagios/ICINGA

What you bring to the table

● Hands on experience in Cloud compute services, Cloud Function, Networking, Load balancing, Autoscaling.

● Hands on with GCP/AWS Compute & Networking services i.e. Compute Engine, App Engine, Kubernetes Engine, Cloud Function, Networking (VPC, Firewall, Load Balancer), Cloud SQL, Datastore.

● DBs: Postgresql, MySQL, Elastic Search, Redis, kafka, MongoDB or other NoSQL systems

● Configuration management tools such as Ansible/Chef/Puppet

Bonus if you have…

● Basic understanding of Networking(routing, switching, dns) and Storage

● Basic understanding of Protocol such as UDP/TCP

● Basic understanding of Cloud computing

● Basic understanding of Cloud computing models like SaaS, PaaS

● Basic understanding of git or any other source code repo

● Basic understanding of Databases(sql/no sql)

● Great problem solving skills

● Good in communication

● Adaptive to learning

DevOps Engineer

The DevOps team is one of the core technology teams of Lumiq.ai and is responsible for managing network activities, automating Cloud setups and application deployments. The team also interacts with our customers to work out solutions. If you are someone who is always pondering how to make things better, how technologies can interact, how various tools, technologies, and concepts can help a customer or how you can use various technologies to improve user experience, then Lumiq is the place of opportunities.

Job Description

• Explore about the newest innovations in scalable and distributed systems.
• Helps in designing the architecture of the project, solutions to the existing problems and future improvements to be done.
• Make the cloud infrastructure and services smart by implementing automation and trigger based solutions.
• Interact with Data Engineers and Application Engineers to create continuous integration and deployment frameworks and pipelines.
• Playing around with large clusters on different clouds to tune your jobs or to learn.
• Researching about new technologies, proving the concepts and planning how to integrate or update.
• Be part of discussions of other projects to learn or to help.

Responsibilities

• 2+years of experience as DevOps Engineer.
• You understand actual networking to Software defined networking.
• You like containers and open source orchestration system like Kubernetes, Mesos.
• Should have experience to secure system by creating robust access policy and network restrictions enforcement.
• Should have  knowledge about how applications work are very important to design distributed systems.
• Should have experience to open source projects and have discussed the shortcomings or problems with the community on several occasions.
• You understand that provisioning a Virtual Machine is not DevOps.
• You know you are not a SysAdmin but DevOps Engineer who is the person behind developing operations for the system to run efficiently and scalably.
• Exposure on Private Cloud, Subnets, VPNs, Peering, Load Balancers and have worked with them.
• You check logs before screaming about error.
• Multiple Screens makes you more efficient.
• You are a doer who don’t say the word impossible.
• You understand the value of documentation of your work.
• You understand the Big Data ecosystem and how can you leverage cloud for it.
• You know these buddies - #airflow, #aws, #azure, #gcloud, #docker, #kubernetes, #mesos, #acs

• Essentail Skills:
• Docker
• Jenkins
• Python dependency management using conda and pip

• Base Linux System Commands, Scripting
• Docker Container Build & Testing
• Common knowledge of minimizing container size and layers
• Inspecting containers for un-used / underutilized systems
• Multiple Linux OS support for virtual system

• Has experience as a user of jupyter / jupyter lab to test and fix usability issues in workbenches
• Templating out various configurations for different use cases (we use Python Jinja2 but are open to other languages / libraries)
• Jenkins PIpeline
• Github API Understanding to trigger builds, tags, releases
• Artifactory Experience
• Nice to have: Kubernetes, ArgoCD, other deployment automation tool sets (DevOps)

This person MUST have:

• Min of 3-5 prior experience as a DevOps Engineer.
• Expertise in CI/CD pipeline maintenance and enhancement specifically Jenkins based pipelines.
• Working experience with engineering tools like git, git work flow, bitbucket, JIRA etc
• Hands-on experience deploying and managing infrastructure with CloudFormation/Terraform
• Experience managing AWS infrastructure
• Hands on experience of Linux administration.
• Basic understanding of Kubernetes/Docker orchestration
• Works closely with engineering team for day to day activities
• Manges existing infrastructure/Pipelines/Engineering tools (On Prem or  AWS) for engineering team (Build servers/Jenkin nodes etc.)
• Works with engineering team for new config required for infra like replicating the setups, adding new resources etc.
• Works closely with engineering team for improving existing pipelines for build .
• Troubleshoots problems across infrastructure/services

Experience:

• Min 5-7  year experience

Location

• Remotely, anywhere in India

Timings:

• 40 hours a week (11 AM to 7 PM).

Position:

• Full time/Direct
• We have great benefits such as PF, medical insurance, 12 annual company holidays, 12 PTO leaves per year, annual increments, Diwali bonus, spot bonuses and other incentives etc.
• We dont believe in locking in people with large notice periods.  You will stay here because you love the company.  We have only a 15 days notice period.