
Cloud Platform Engineer - DevOps
As part of the Cloud Platform / Devops team at Upswing, you will get to work on building state-of-the-art infrastructure for the future. You will also be –
- Building Infrastructure on AWS driven through terraform and building automation tools for deployment, infrastructure management, and observability stack
- Building and Scaling on Kubernetes
- Ensuring the Security of Upswing Cloud Infra
- Building Security Checks and automation to improve overall security posture
- Building automation stack for components like JVM-based applications, Apache Pulsar, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Reporting Infra, etc.
- Mentoring people across the teams to enable best practices
- Mentoring and guiding team members to upskill and helm them develop work class Fintech Infrastructure
What will you do if you join us?
- Write a lot of code
- Engage in a lot of cross-team collaboration to independently drive forward infrastructure initiatives and Devops practices across the org
- Taking Ownership of existing, ongoing, and future initiatives
- Plan Architecture- for upcoming infrastructure
- Build for Scale, Resiliency & Security
- Introduce best practices wrt Devops & Cloud in the team
- Mentor new/junior team members and eventually build your own team
You should have
- Curiosity for on-the-job learning and experimenting with new technologies and ideas
- A strong background in Linux environment
- Must have Programming skills and Experience
- Strong experience in Cloud technologies, Security and Networking concepts, Multi-cloud environments, etc.
- Experience with at least one scripting language (GoLang/Python/Ruby/Groovy)
- Experience in Terraform is highly desirable but not mandatory
- Experience with Kubernetes and Docker is required
- Understanding of the Java Technologies and Stack
- Any other Devops related experience will be considered

About Upswing Financial Technologies Private Limited
About
Here’s a quick read to know more about Upswing (upswing.one)
Company page on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/upswing-financial-technologies
We are a seed funded company, have recently raised USD 4Mn
• In the news: inc42.com/buzz/open-finance-startup-upswing-raises-4-mn-from-qed-investors
• Lead investor: http://qedinvestors.com/companies/upswing
• Angel investors: Founders and Senior executives of Jupiter, Cred, Slice, Epifi, Snapdeal, One Assist and many more.
Company vision:
At Upswing, our mission is to enable consumer companies to offer differentiated financial products and empower the financial institutions with greater reach through our Secure, Scalable and easy to integrate API platform.
We are enabling Consumer Tech/Non-Tech companies to become full stack banking players. The transformation will reduce the cost and complexity for any company to become a financial services company and re-define the future of banking
Our simple and powerful banking-as-a-service stack will help companies launch new banking products in weeks, not years.
Founding team has more than 40 years of experience in Building Banking, Lending, Payments and Disruptive Technology Stack.
Anupam Bagchi: Built Jupiter, India’s First Transit and multi bank EMI, Foundation to RuPay, Lending, Payments, Digital Banking. (linkedin.com/in/anupam-bagchi-b770572)
Nihar Gupta: Built Jupiter, Strategy and Execution of 811, Issuing, Acquiring, Toll Payments, Forex and Digital Banking (https://www.linkedin.com/in/nihargupta/)
Gazal Garg: Built disruptive tech at Zilingo from an idea to a unicorn, IIT Kharagpur alumnus - (linkedin.com/in/gazalgarg)
Tech stack
Candid answers by the company
We are enabling Consumer Tech/Non-Tech companies to become full stack banking players. The transformation will reduce the cost and complexity for any company to become a financial services company and re-define the future of banking
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Role Overview
We are looking for a DevOps Engineer with 2 – 5 years of experience working on AWS-based production systems. This role strictly requires hands-on experience managing production databases (MongoDB / SQL).
👉 Please apply only if you have hands-on experience managing databases in a production environment.
Key Responsibilities:
- Build and maintain AWS infrastructure with focus on availability, security, and cost.
- Deploy and operate Kubernetes (EKS) clusters and containerized applications in production.
- Manage and scale production databases (backup, replication, performance tuning, upgrades).
- Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines for automated deployments.
- Manage MongoDB or SQL in high-scale environments.
- Implement Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
- Set up monitoring, logging, and alerting.
- Handle production incidents, on-call support, and RCA.
- Automate ops tasks using Bash / Python.
Requirements:
- 2 – 5 years of DevOps experience.
- Hands-on experience managing production databases (MongoDB or SQL).
- Strong AWS & Kubernetes (EKS) experience in production.
- Experience with CI/CD tools (Jenkins / GitLab CI / GitHub Actions / ArgoCD), Terraform, Linux and networking fundamentals.
- Scripting: Bash / Python.
- Immediate joiners preferred.
Experience with MongoDB is preferred, though candidates with solid SQL database experience will also be considered.
● Good understanding of how the web works
● Experience with at least one language like Java, Python etc
● Good with Shell scripting
● Experience with *Nix based operating systems
● Experience with k8s, containers
● Fairly good understanding of AWS/GCP/Azure
● Troubleshoot and fix outages and performance issues in infrastructure stack
● Identify gap and design automation tools for all feasible functions in infrastructure
● Good verbal and written communication skills
● Drive SLA/SLO of team
Benefits
This is an opportunity to work on a fairly complex set of systems and improve
them. You will get a chance to learn things like “how to think about code
simplicity”, “how to write for maintainability” and several other things.
● Comprehensive health insurance policy.
● Flexible working hours and a very friendly work environment.
● Flexibility to work either in the office (post Covid) or remotely.
Job Title: DevOps SDE llI
Job Summary
Porter seeks an experienced cloud and DevOps engineer to join our infrastructure platform team. This team is responsible for the organization's cloud platform, CI/CD, and observability infrastructure. As part of this team, you will be responsible for providing a scalable, developer-friendly cloud environment by participating in the design, creation, and implementation of automated processes and architectures to achieve our vision of an ideal cloud platform.
Responsibilities and Duties
In this role, you will
- Own and operate our application stack and AWS infrastructure to orchestrate and manage our applications.
- Support our application teams using AWS by provisioning new infrastructure and contributing to the maintenance and enhancement of existing infrastructure.
- Build out and improve our observability infrastructure.
- Set up automated auditing processes and improve our applications' security posture.
- Participate in troubleshooting infrastructure issues and preparing root cause analysis reports.
- Develop and maintain our internal tooling and automation to manage the lifecycle of our applications, from provisioning to deployment, zero-downtime and canary updates, service discovery, container orchestration, and general operational health.
- Continuously improve our build pipelines, automated deployments, and automated testing.
- Propose, participate in, and document proof of concept projects to improve our infrastructure, security, and observability.
Qualifications and Skills
Hard requirements for this role:
- 5+ years of experience as a DevOps / Infrastructure engineer on AWS.
- Experience with git, CI / CD, and Docker. (We use GitHub, GitHub actions, Jenkins, ECS and Kubernetes).
- Experience in working with infrastructure as code (Terraform/CloudFormation).
- Linux and networking administration experience.
- Strong Linux Shell scripting experience.
- Experience with one programming language and cloud provider SDKs. (Python + boto3 is preferred)
- Experience with configuration management tools like Ansible and Packer.
- Experience with container orchestration tools. (Kubernetes/ECS).
- Database administration experience and the ability to write intermediate-level SQL queries. (We use Postgres)
- AWS SysOps administrator + Developer certification or equivalent knowledge
Good to have:
- Experience working with ELK stack.
- Experience supporting JVM applications.
- Experience working with APM tools is good to have. (We use datadog)
- Experience working in a XaaC environment. (Packer, Ansible/Chef, Terraform/Cloudformation, Helm/Kustomise, Open policy agent/Sentinel)
- Experience working with security tools. (AWS Security Hub/Inspector/GuardDuty)
- Experience with JIRA/Jira help desk.

Java with cloud
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Core Java, SpringBoot, MicroServices |
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- DB2 or any RDBMS database application development |
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- Linux OS, shell scripting, Batch Processing |
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- Troubleshooting Large Scale application |
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- Experience in automation and unit test framework is a must |
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- AWS Cloud experience desirable |
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- Agile Development Experience |
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- Complete Development Cycle ( Dev, QA, UAT, Staging) |
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- Good Oral and Written Communication Skills |
| CI/CD tools Jenkins/Bamboo/Teamcity/CircleCI, DevSecOps Pipeline, Cloud Services (AWS/Azure/GCP), Ansible, Terraform, Docker, Helm, Cloud formation template, Webserver deployment & config, Databases(SQL/NoSQL) deployment & config, Git, Artifactory, Monitoring tools (Nagios, Grafana, Prometheus etc), Application logs (ELK/EFK, Splunk etc.), API Gateways, Security tools, Vault. |
Location: Bengaluru
Department: DevOps
We are looking for extraordinary infrastructure engineers to build a world class
cloud platform that scales to millions of users. You must have experience
building key portions of a highly scalable infrastructure using Amazon AWS and
should know EC2, S3, EMR like the back of your hand. You must enjoy working
in a fast-paced startup and enjoy wearing multiple hats to get the job done.
Responsibilities
● Manage AWS server farm Own AWS infrastructure automation and
support.
● Own production deployments in multiple AWS environments
● End-end backend engineering infra charter includes Dev ops,Global
deployment, Security and compliances according to latest practices.
Ability to guide the team in debugging production issues and write
best-of-the breed code.
● Drive “engineering excellence” (defects, productivity through automation,
performance of products etc) through clearly defined metrics.
● Stay current with the latest tools, technology ideas and methodologies;
share knowledge by clearly articulating results and ideas to key decision
makers.
● Hiring, mentoring and retaining a very talented team.
Requirements
● B.S. or M.S in Computer Science or a related field (math, physics,
engineering)
● 5-8 years of experience in maintaining infrastructure system/devops
● Enjoy playing with tech like nginx, haproxy, postgres, AWS, ansible,
docker, nagios, or graphite Deployment automation experience with
Puppet/Chef/Ansible/Salt Stack Work with small, tightly knit product
teams that function cohesively to move as quickly as possible.
● Determination to provide reliable and fault tolerant systems to the
application developers that consume them
● Experience in developing Java/C++ backend systems is a huge plus Be a
strong team player.
Preferred
Deep working knowledge of Linux servers and networked environments
Thorough understanding of distributed systems and the protocols they use,
including TCP/IP, RESTful APIs, SQL, NoSQL. Experience in managing a NoSQL
database (Cassandra) is a huge plus.
Projects you'll be working on:
- We're focused on enhancing our product for our clients and their users, as well as streamlining operations and improving our technical foundation.
- Writing scripts for procurement, configuration and deployment of instances (infrastructure automation) on GCP
- Managing Kubernetes cluster
- Manage product and services like VPC, Elasticsearch, cloud functions, rabbitMQ, redis servers, postgres infrastructure, app engine, etc.
- Supporting developers in setting up infrastructure for services
- Manage and improve microservices infrastructure
- Managing high availability, low latency applications
- Focus on security best practices to ensure assist in security and compliance activities
Requirements
- Minimum 3 years experience as DevOps
- Minimum 1 years' experience with Kubernetes Cluster (Infrastructure as code, maintaining and scalability).
- BASH expertise, node or python professional programming experience
- Experience with setting up, configuring and using Jenkins or any CI tools, building CI/CD pipeline
- Experience setting microservices architecture
- Experience with package management and deployments
- Thorough understanding of networking.
- Understanding of all common services and protocols
- Experience in web server configuration, monitoring, network design and high availability
- Thorough understanding of DNS, VPN, SSL
Technologies you'll work with:
- GKE, Prometheus, Grafana, Stackdriver
- ArgoCD and GitHub Actions
- NodeJS Backend
- Postgres, ElasticSearch, Redis, RabbitMQ
- Whatever else you decide - we're constantly re-evaluating our stack and tools
- Having prior experience with the technologies is a plus, but not mandatory for skilled candidates.
Benefits
- Remote Option - You can work from location of your choice :)
- Reimbursement of Home Office Setup
- Competitive Salary
- Friendly atmosphere
- Flexible paid vacation policy
• Drive the architectural design, solution planning and feasibility study on Cloud Computing Infrastructure.
• Deliver new IT services and exploit current infrastructure technologies.
• Drive the infrastructure roadmaps and planning in adopting the cloud infrastructure in a long run.
• Conduct research and make recommendations on suitable cloud platforms & services.
• Advise on and implement cloud best practices.
Job Requirements:
Desired understanding of the following - VPC, EC2, S3, IAM, Route 53, Lambda, Billing, AWS MYSQL, Kinesis, API
Gateway, Cloud Watch, EBS, AMI, RDS, Dynamo DB, ELB, Light sail, Kubernetes, Docker, NAT Gateway
Education & Experience:
• 3 to 5 years related work experience
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related field
• Solid experience in infrastructure architecture solutions design
• Solid knowledge in AWS/Google Cloud
• Experience in managing implementations on public clouds (AWS/Google Cloud)
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Good command in written and spoken English.
• Certification for AWS/Google Cloud Architect – Associate level
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
- Mandatory: Docker, AWS, Linux, Kubernete or ECS
- Prior experience provisioning and spinning up AWS Clusters / Kubernetes
- Production experience to build scalable systems (load balancers, memcached, master/slave architectures)
- Experience supporting a managed cloud services infrastructure
- Ability to maintain, monitor and optimise production database servers
- Prior work with Cloud Monitoring tools (Nagios, Cacti, CloudWatch etc.)
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Mesos, NoSQL databases (DynamoDB, Cassandra, MongoDB, etc)
- Other Open Source tools used in the infrastructure space (Packer, Terraform, Vagrant, etc.)
- In-depth knowledge on Linux Environment.
- Prior experience leading technical teams through the design and implementation of systems infrastructure projects.
- Working knowledge of Configuration Management (Chef, Puppet or Ansible preferred) Continuous Integration Tools (Jenkins preferred)
- Experience in handling large production deployments and infrastructure.
- DevOps based infrastructure and application deployments experience.
- Working knowledge of the AWS network architecture including designing VPN solutions between regions and subnets
- Hands-on knowledge with the AWS AMI architecture including the development of machine templates and blueprints
- He/she should be able to validate that the environment meets all security and compliance controls.
- Good working knowledge of AWS services such as Messaging, Application Services, Migration Services, Cost Management Platform.
- Proven written and verbal communication skills.
- Understands and can serve as the technical team lead to oversee the build of the Cloud environment based on customer requirements.
- Previous NOC experience.
- Client Facing Experience with excellent Customer Communication and Documentation Skills












