Dev Ops

Senior DevOps Engineer

AWS Infrastructure, Kubernetes & Production Operations

📍 Mumbai (On-site) | Full-time | 5-8 years

About the Role:

Unico Connect is an AI-first technology partner that builds custom mobile, web, and AI products for clients across multiple geographies.

We are hiring a Senior DevOps Engineer for a dedicated client engagement building an AI platform that turns a written prompt into a working, deployed web application.

The platform runs entirely on our own Kubernetes on AWS in Mumbai: multiple clusters, self-hosted Kafka, PostgreSQL, Redis and a complete observability stack, with untrusted AI-generated code executing inside isolated sandboxes.

This role owns that infrastructure end to end.

The mandatory requirement is hands-on production ownership of self-managed Kubernetes and self-hosted stateful services.

This is not a managed-services role: almost nothing here is a click in a console, and there is no platform team above you to escalate to.

You will pair daily with the Tech Architect who owns the architecture, and you own its execution, which covers clusters, networking, pipelines, observability, isolation, and the monthly cloud bill as a number you can explain line by line.

The role carries a deliberate path into LLM infrastructure over the first year, and we are saying so up front because we want someone who wants that direction.

A typical week includes rehearsing a cluster upgrade in a lower environment, tracing an unexplained cost line to its source, tuning autoscaling so non-production shuts down cleanly overnight, and hardening the boundary that keeps AI-generated code away from everything else.

Responsibilities:

Kubernetes Platform Ownership

Own multiple EKS clusters separated by trust boundary, covering platform services, messaging, sandboxed build environments, and hosting for customers' published applications.

Node pools, taints and tolerations, resource requests versus limits, pod disruption budgets, and the scheduling decisions that determine whether a cluster is efficient or merely large.

Plan and execute version upgrades without customer-visible downtime.

Infrastructure as Code

Everything in Terraform, with no console changes that are not in code.

Build reusable cluster modules rather than copies.

Keep state and reality in sync, and treat drift as a defect.

CI/CD and Release Engineering

Own the GitHub Actions pipelines and self-hosted runners: OIDC-based AWS authentication with no stored credentials, image builds, and rollouts across development, QA and UAT.

Move manifest templating from scripted substitution to Kustomize or Helm.

Make a rollback as routine as a deploy.

Network Architecture and Workload Isolation

VPC and subnet design, ingress through load balancers and service mesh, and eBPF-based network policy.

The platform runs code we did not write, so the isolation boundary is a primary deliverable: default-deny egress, kernel-level sandboxing for untrusted workloads, no platform credentials inside tenant pods, and one project per pod with nothing shared between customers.

Observability

Operate a self-hosted stack of Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo, OpenTelemetry and Alertmanager.

Build alerts engineers trust rather than mute.

Know what belongs in a metric, a log and a trace, and keep metric cardinality under control as tenant count grows.

Autoscaling and Capacity

Node autoscaling with Karpenter, and workload autoscaling on the signal that actually matters, which is queue depth or a schedule rather than CPU wherever CPU misleads.

Implement scale-to-zero across non-production and warm-pool patterns where cold starts are unacceptable.

Size capacity from measurement, not assumption.

Cost Operations

Own the cloud bill as an engineering artifact.

Attribute spend per cluster and per environment, right-size against real utilisation, apply Spot where interruption is safe and never where it is not, and investigate any line you cannot explain.

Instance family selection is a cost decision: match the family to the resource that binds first.

Self-Hosted Stateful Services

Operate Kafka, PostgreSQL and Redis in-cluster, covering persistence, replication, failover, upgrades, and backups you have actually restored from.

Rehearse the restore and record how long it took.

Security Posture

IAM and workload identity, migration away from static credentials, secret management, web application firewall rules, and closing the gaps you find.

Credential rotation and least privilege are ongoing work, not a one-time project.

AI Infrastructure (Growth Path)

Within the first year, take on the infrastructure serving AI workloads: multi-provider LLM gateway and routing, token and cost attribution, rate-limit-aware capacity planning, LLM tracing with Langfuse, vector databases such as pgvector and Qdrant, and self-hosted embedding models including GPU nodes on Kubernetes.

This is inference operations, not model training.

AI-Assisted Engineering Discipline

Use Claude, Cursor, and similar tools day to day for infrastructure code, scripts, and pipelines.

Set the team standard for safe use, review, and validation of AI-generated infrastructure before it ships.

Requirements:

Hands-on Production Ownership of Self-Managed Kubernetes (Mandatory)

Must have personally operated a production Kubernetes estate with operational responsibility including oncall, incident response, and upgrade ownership.

You understand why a cluster ends up over-provisioned and how to fix it.

Managed-platform-only experience, or Kubernetes limited to deploying into a cluster someone else runs, does not qualify.

5+ Years of Overall Engineering Experience

With at least 3 years in DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering.

This is not an ML science role.

A strong infrastructure background with genuine appetite for AI infrastructure is exactly the profile we want.

Proven Ability to Learn an Unfamiliar Technology to Production Depth

We are hiring for trajectory as much as for current tooling, so this carries real weight.

Be ready to walk us through something you picked up from scratch and then owned in production: what you got wrong in the first attempt, how you found out, and what you would do differently.

A candidate with a shorter tool list and a strong record of learning will be preferred over a longer list learned only at the surface.

Self-Hosted Stateful Services in Production

One or more of Kafka, PostgreSQL, Redis, or Elasticsearch operated by you, not by a managed service.

Backups, restores, failover, and version upgrades.

This matters more than any other line here, because almost everything we run, we run ourselves.

Infrastructure as Code Depth

Terraform in anger, including modules, state management, and recovering from drift.

Docker and image optimisation.

AWS at Depth

EKS, EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, RDS or Aurora, and load balancing.

You can read a bill and explain where the money went.

Networking Depth

VPC and subnet design, NAT and egress paths, load balancer behaviour, DNS, TLS, and Kubernetes networking.

Able to reason about address exhaustion and routing limits before they are hit rather than after.

Observability Depth

Production experience with Prometheus, Grafana, and a log or trace backend.

Comfortable instrumenting with OpenTelemetry.

Able to define alerts that are actionable and to resist the cardinality that makes a metrics system collapse.

CI/CD and Deployment Automation

Strong with GitHub Actions or GitLab CI, including self-hosted runners and short-lived cloud credentials.

Experience making deploys and rollbacks safe and routine.

Cost Management for Cloud Infrastructure

Demonstrated ownership of a cloud bill: right-sizing, reserved capacity or savings plans, Spot strategy, and tracing an anomaly to its cause.

Reliability Engineering

Comfortable defining SLOs and being accountable for them.

Experience with graceful shutdown, connection draining, disruption budgets, and long-lived connections such as WebSockets that autoscaling can otherwise sever.

Nice to Have:

• arm64 and Graviton estates
• eBPF networking with Cilium
• container runtime isolation such as gVisor, Kata, or Firecracker
• Kafka operations including partition and consumer-group management
• service mesh with Istio
• GPU workloads on Kubernetes
• hands-on familiarity with LLM observability tooling such as Langfuse or LangSmith
• India data-protection and residency requirements under the DPDP Act
• AWS certifications

Role: Azure Devops Consultant

Location: Bangalore

Fulltime

Work Mode: 5 Days Work From Office.

Responsibilities:

· Design and architect CI/CD pipelines and development automation solutions.

· Lead implementation of build versioning, packaging, and dependency

management strategies

· Define standards for code quality, security scanning, and automated testing

integration

· Create reference architectures for development workflows and automation

patterns

· Collaborate with security teams to implement "shift-left" security practices

· Guide implementation of A/B testing and feature flagging architectures

Skills:

· Strong expertise in Azure DevOps,PAAS, Git, CI/CD practices

· Deep understanding of SDLC and automation

· Containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)

· Security scanning tools (Veracode, SonarQube)

· Build tools and artifact management

· IaC (Terraform, ARM templates)

We are looking for a passionate DevOps Engineer who can support deployment and monitor our Production, QE, and Staging environments performance. Applicants should have a strong understanding of UNIX internals and should be able to clearly articulate how it works. Knowledge of shell scripting & security aspects is a must. Any experience with infrastructure as code is a big plus. The key responsibility of the role is to manage deployments, security, and support of business solutions. Having experience in database applications like Postgres, ELK, NodeJS, NextJS & Ruby on Rails is a huge plus. At VakilSearch. Experience doesn't matter, passion to produce change matters

Responsibilities and Accountabilities:

• As part of the DevOps team, you will be responsible for configuration, optimization, documentation, and support of the infra components of VakilSearch’s product which are hosted in cloud services & on-prem facility
• Design, build tools and framework that support deploying and managing our platform & Exploring new tools, technologies, and processes to improve speed, efficiency, and scalability
• Support and troubleshoot scalability, high availability, performance, monitoring, backup, and restore of different Env 
• Manage resources in a cost-effective, innovative manner including assisting subordinates ineffective use of resources and tools
• Resolve incidents as escalated from Monitoring tools and Business Development Team
• Implement and follow security guidelines, both policy and technology to protect our data
• Identify root cause for issues and develop long-term solutions to fix recurring issues and Document it
• Strong in performing production operation activities even at night times if required
• Ability to automate [Scripts] recurring tasks to increase velocity and quality
• Ability to manage and deliver multiple project phases at the same time

I Qualification(s): 

• Experience in working with Linux Server, DevOps tools, and Orchestration tools 
• Linux, AWS, GCP, Azure, CompTIA+, and any other certification are a value-add 

II Experience Required in DevOps Aspects:

• Length of Experience: Minimum 1-4 years of experience
• Nature of Experience: 
• Experience in Cloud deployments, Linux administration[ Kernel Tuning is a value add ], Linux clustering, AWS, virtualization, and networking concepts [ Azure, GCP value add ]
• Experience in deployment solutions CI/CD like Jenkins, GitHub Actions [ Release Management is a value add ]
• Hands-on experience in any of the configuration management IaC tools like Chef, Terraform, and CloudFormation [ Ansible & Puppet is a value add ]
• Administration, Configuring and utilizing Monitoring and Alerting tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, ELK, Zabbix, Datadog, etc
• Experience with Containerization and orchestration tools like Docker, and Kubernetes [ Docker swarm is a value add ]Good Scripting skills in at least one interpreted language - Shell/bash scripting or Ruby/Python/Perl
• Experience in Database applications like PostgreSQL, MongoDB & MySQL [DataOps]
• Good at Version Control & source code management systems like GitHub, GIT
• Experience in Serverless [ Lambda/GCP cloud function/Azure function ]
• Experience in Web Server Nginx, and Apache
• Knowledge in Redis, RabbitMQ, ELK, REST API [ MLOps Tools is a value add ]
• Knowledge in Puma, Unicorn, Gunicorn & Yarn
• Hands-on VMWare ESXi/Xencenter deployments is a value add
• Experience in Implementing and troubleshooting TCP/IP networks, VPN, Load Balancing & Web application firewalls
• Deploying, Configuring, and Maintaining Linux server systems ON premises and off-premises
• Code Quality like SonarQube is a value-add
• Test Automation like Selenium, JMeter, and JUnit is a value-add
• Experience in Heroku and OpenStack is a value-add 
• Experience in Identifying Inbound and Outbound Threats and resolving it
• Knowledge of CVE & applying the patches for OS, Ruby gems, Node, and Python packages  
• Documenting the Security fix for future use
• Establish cross-team collaboration with security built into the software development lifecycle 
• Forensics and Root Cause Analysis skills are mandatory 
• Weekly Sanity Checks of the on-prem and off-prem environment 

III Skill Set & Personality Traits required:

• An understanding of programming languages such as Ruby, NodeJS, ReactJS, Perl, Java, Python, and PHP
• Good written and verbal communication skills to facilitate efficient and effective interaction with peers, partners, vendors, and customers

IV Age Group: 21 – 36 Years

V Cost to the Company: As per industry standards

Job Responsibilities:

• Managing and maintaining the efficient functioning of containerized applications and systems within an organization
• Design, implement, and manage scalable Kubernetes clusters in cloud or on-premise environments
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate infrastructure and application deployments, and track all automation processes
• Implement workload automation using configuration management tools, as well as infrastructure as code (IaC) approaches for resource provisioning
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize the performance of Kubernetes clusters and underlying cloud infrastructure
• Ensure high availability, security, and scalability of infrastructure through automation and best practices
• Establish and enforce cloud security standards, policies, and procedures Work agile technologies
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Primary Requirements:

• Kubernetes: Proven experience in managing Kubernetes clusters (min. 2-3 years)
• Linux/Unix: Proficiency in administering complex Linux infrastructures and services
• Infrastructure as Code: Hands-on experience with CM tools like Ansible, as well as the 
• knowledge of resource provisioning with Terraform or other Cloud-based utilities
• CI/CD Pipelines: Expertise in building and monitoring complex CI/CD pipelines to 
• manage the build, test, packaging, containerization and release processes of software
• Scripting & Automation: Strong scripting and process automation skills in Bash, Python
• Monitoring Tools: Experience with monitoring and logging tools (Prometheus, Grafana)
• Version Control: Proficient with Git and familiar with GitOps workflows.
• Security: Strong understanding of security best practices in cloud and containerized 
• environments.

Skills/Traits that would be an advantage:

• Kubernetes administration experience, including installation, configuration, and troubleshooting
• Kubernetes development experience
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team

Role & Responsiblities

• DevOps Engineer will be working with implementation and management of DevOps tools and technologies.
• Create and support advanced pipelines using Gitlab.
• Create and support advanced container and serverless environments.
• Deploy Cloud infrastructure using Terraform and cloud formation templates.
• Implement deployments to OpenShift Container Platform, Amazon ECS and EKS
• Troubleshoot containerized builds and deployments
• Implement processes and automations for migrating between OpenShift, AKS and EKS
• Implement CI/CD automations.
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Required Skillsets

• 3-5 years of cloud-based architecture software engineering experience.
• Deep understanding of Kubernetes and its architecture.
• Mastery of cloud security engineering tools, techniques, and procedures.
• Experience with AWS services such as Amazon S3, EKS, ECS, DynamoDB, AWS Lambda, API Gateway, etc.
• Experience with designing and supporting infrastructure via Infrastructure-as-Code in AWS, via CDK, CloudFormation Templates, Terraform or other toolset.
• Experienced with tools like Jenkins, Github, Puppet or other similar toolset.
• Experienced with monitoring functions like cloudwatch, newrelic, graphana, splunk, etc,
• Excellence in verbal and written communication, and in working collaboratively with a variety of colleagues and clients in a remote development environment.
• Proven track record in cloud computing systems and enterprise architecture and security

Who We Are

Grip is building a new category of investment options for the new-age of Indian Investors. Millennials

don’t communicate, shop, pay, entertain and work like the previous generation - then why should they

invest the same way?

Started in June’20, Grip has seen 20% month-on-month growth to become one of India’s fastest-

growing destinations for alternative investments. Today, Grip offers multiple investment options providing

8-16% annual returns and 1-60 month tenures as the country’s only multi- asset (lease financing,

inventory financing, corporate bonds start-up equity, commercial real estate ) investment platform. With a

minimum investment size of INR 20,000, Grip is democratizing investment options that have previously

only been available to the largest funds and family offices.

Finance and technology (FinTech) is what we do, but people are at the core of our mission. From client-

facing roles to technology, and everywhere in between, you’ll work alongside a diverse team who loves

to solve problems, think creatively, and fly the plane as we continue to build it.

In the News

- Money Control : Click Here

- Hindu Business : Click Here

What We Can Offer You

● Young and fast-growing company with a healthy work-life balance

● Great culture based on the following core values

○ Courage

○ Transparency

○ Ownership

○ Customer Obsession

○ Celebration

● Lean structure and no micromanaging. You get to own your work

● The Company has turned two so you get a seat on rocketship that’s just taking off!

● High focus on Learning & Development and monetary support for relevant upskilling

● Competitive compensation along with equity ownership for wealth creation

What You’ll Do

● Design cloud infrastructure that is secure, scalable, and highly available onAWS

● Work collaboratively with software engineering to define infrastructure and

deploying 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

Your Superpowers

● At least 3-5 years of experience building and maintaining AWS infrastructure

(VPC,EC2, Security Groups, IAM, ECS, CodeDeploy, CloudFront,

S3,RDS,Elasticbeanstalk)

● Strong understanding of how to secure AWS environments and meet

compliance requirements

● Expertise using Chef/Cloudformation/Ansible for configuration management

● Hands-on experience deploying and managing infrastructure with Terraform

● Solid foundation of networking and Linux administration

● Experience with Docker, GitHub, Kubernetes,, ELK and deploying applications onAWS

● Ability to learn/use a wide variety of open source technologies and tools

● Strong bias for action and ownership

Position Summary

Cloud Engineer helps to solutionize, enable, migrate and onboard clients to a secure cloud
platform, which offload the heavy lifting for the clients so that they can focus on their own business
value creation.

Job Description

• Assessing existing customer systems and/or cloud environment to determine the best migration approach and supporting tools used
• Build a secure and compliant cloud environment, with a proven enterprise operating model, on-going cost optimisation, and day-to-day infrastructure management
• Provide and implement cloud solutions to reduce operational overhead and risk, and automates common activities, such as change requests, monitoring, patch management, security, and backup services, and provides full-lifecycle services to provision, run, and support their infrastructure
• Collaborate with internal service teams to meet the clients’ needs for their infrastructure and application deployments
• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure deployments, recreate customer issues, and build proof of concept environments that abide by cloud-best-practices & well architecture frameworks
• Apply advanced troubleshooting techniques to provide unique solutions to our customers’ individual needs
• Work on critical, highly complex customer problems that will span across multiple cloud platforms and services
• Identify and drive improvements on process and technical related issues. Act as an escalation point of contact for the clients
• Drive clients meetings & communication during reviews

Requirement:

• Degree in computer science or a similar field.
• At least 2 year of experience in the field of cloud computing.
• Experience with CI/CD systems.
• Strong in Cloud services
• Exposure to AWS/GCP and other cloud-based infrastructure platforms
• Experience with AWS configuration and management – EC2, S3, EBS, ELB, IAM, VPC, RDS, CloudFront etc
• Exposure in architecting, designing, developing, and implementing cloud solutions on AWS platforms or other cloud server such as Azure, Google Cloud
• Proficient in the use and administration of all versions of MS Windows Server
• Experience with Linux and Windows system administration and web server configuration and monitoring
• Solid programming skills in Python, Java, Perl
• Good understanding of software design principles and best practices
• Good knowledge of REST APIs
• Should have hands-on experience in any deployment orchestration tool (Jenkins, Urbancode, Bamboo, etc.)
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm charts
• Hands on experience in Ansible and Git repositories
• Knowledge in Maven / Gradle
• Azure, AWS, and GCP certifications are preferred.
• Troubleshooting and analytical skills.
• Good communication and collaboration skills.

• 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)

Responsibilities

- Building and maintenance of resilient and scalable production infrastructure 

- Improvement of monitoring systems

- Creation and support of development automation processes (CI / CD)

- Participation in infrastructure development 

- Detection of problems in architecture and proposing of solutions for solving them 

- Creation of tasks for system improvements for system scalability, performance and monitoring

- Analysis of product requirements in the aspect of devops 

- Managing a team of DevOps, control of task deliveries 

- Incident analysis and fixing 

Technology stack

Linux, Bash, Salt/Ansible, LXC, libvirt, IPsec, VXLAN, Open vSwitch, OpenVPN, OSPF, BIRD, Cisco NX-OS, Multicast, PIM, LVM, software RAID, LUKS, PostgreSQL, nginx, haproxy, Prometheus, Grafana, Zabbix, GitLab, Capistrano

Skills and Experience

- Understanding of the distributed systems principles 

- Understanding of principles for building a resistant network infrastructure 

- Experience of Ubuntu Linux administration (Debian-like will be a plus)

- Strong knowledge of Bash

- Experience of working with LXC-containers 

- Understanding and experience with infrastructure as a code approach 

- Experience of development idempotent Ansible roles

- Experience with relational databases (PostgeSQL), ability to create simple SQL queries 

- Experience with git

- Experience with monitoring and metric collect systems (Prometheus, Grafana, Zabbix)

- Understanding of dynamic routing (OSPF)  

Preferred experience

- Experience of working with highload zero-downtown environments 

- Experience of coding on Python

- Experience of working with IPsec, VXLAN, Open vSwitch

- Knowledge and experience of working with network equipment Cisco

- Experience of working with Cisco NX-OS

- Knowledge of principles of multicast protocols IGMP, PIM

- Experience of setting multicast on Cisco equipment

- Experience of working with Solarflare Onload

- Experience administering Atlassian products