DevOps

Mode of Hire: Permanent

Required Skills Set (Mandatory): Linux, Shell Scripting, Python, AWS, Security best practices, Git

Desired Skills (Good if you have): Ansible, Terraform

Job Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain deployment pipelines and automation tooling to improve platform efficiency, scalability, and reliability.
• Manage infrastructure and services in production AWS environments.
• Drive platform improvements with a focus on security, scalability, and operational excellence.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to enhance development tooling, streamline access workflows, and improve platform usability through feedback.
• Mentor junior engineers and help foster a culture of high-quality engineering and knowledge sharing.

Job Requirements

• Strong foundational understanding of Linux systems.
• Cloud experience (e.g., AWS) with strong problem-solving in cloud-native environments.
• Proven track record of delivering robust, well-documented, and secure automation solutions.
• Comfortable owning end-to-end delivery of infrastructure components and tooling.

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced system and cloud optimization skills.
• Prior experience in platform teams or DevOps roles at product-focused startups.
• Demonstrated contributions to internal tooling, open-source, or automation projects.

PortOne is re−imagining payments in Korea and other international markets. We are a Series B funded startup backed by prominent VC firms Softbank and Hanwa Capital

https://portone.io/global/en

PortOne provides a unified API for merchants to integrate with and manage all of the payment options available in Korea and SEA Markets - Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia etc. It's currently used by 2000+ companies and processing multi-billion dollars in annualized volume. We are building a team to take this product to international markets, and looking for engineers with a passion for fintech and digital payments.

Culture and Values at PortOne

• You will be joining a team that stands for Making a difference.
• You will be joining a culture that identifies more with Sports Teams rather than a 9 to 5 workplace.
• This will be remote role that allows you flexibility to save time on commute
• Your will have peers who are/have
• Highly Self Driven with A sense of purpose
• High Energy Levels - Building stuff is your sport
• Ownership - Solve customer problems end to end - Customer is your Boss
• Hunger to learn - Highly motivated to keep developing new tech skill sets

Who you are ?

* You are an athlete and Devops/DevSecOps is your sport.

* Your passion drives you to learn and build stuff and not because your manager tells you to.

* Your work ethic is that of an athlete preparing for your next marathon. Your sport drives you and you like being in the zone.

* You are NOT a clockwatcher renting out your time, and NOT have an attitude of "I will do only what is asked for"

* Enjoys solving problems and delight users both internally and externally

* Take pride in working on projects to successful completion involving a wide variety of technologies and systems

* Posses strong & effective communication skills and the ability to present complex ideas in a clear & concise way

* Responsible, self-directed, forward thinker, and operates with focus, discipline and minimal supervision

* A team player with a strong work ethic

Experience

* 2+ year of experience working as a Devops/DevSecOps Engineer

* BE in Computer Science or equivalent combination of technical education and work experience

* Must have actively managed infrastructure components & devops for high quality and high scale products

* Proficient knowledge and experience on infra concepts - Networking/Load Balancing/High Availability

* Experience on designing and configuring infra in cloud service providers - AWS / GCP / AZURE

* Knowledge on Secure Infrastructure practices and designs

* Experience with DevOps, DevSecOps, Release Engineering, and Automation

* Experience with Agile development incorporating TDD / CI / CD practices

Hands on Skills

* Proficient in atleast one high level Programming Language: Go / Java / C

* Proficient in scripting - bash scripting etc - to build/glue together devops/datapipeline workflows

* Proficient in Cloud Services - AWS / GCP / AZURE

* Hands on experience on CI/CD & relevant tools - Jenkins / Travis / Gitops / SonarQube / JUnit / Mock frameworks

* Hands on experience on Kubenetes ecosystem & container based deployments - Kubernetes / Docker / Helm Charts / Vault / Packer / lstio / Flyway

* Hands on experience on Infra as code frameworks - Terraform / Crossplane / Ansible

* Version Control & Code Quality: Git / Github / Bitbucket / SonarQube

* Experience on Monitoring Tools: Elasticsearch / Logstash / Kibana / Prometheus / Grafana / Datadog / Nagios

* Experience with RDBMS Databases & Caching services: Postgres / MySql / Redis / CDN

* Experience with Data Pipelines/Worflow tools: Airflow / Kafka / Flink / Pub-Sub

* DevSecOps - Cloud Security Assessment, Best Practices & Automation

* DevSecOps - Vulnerabiltiy Assessments/Penetration Testing for Web, Network and Mobile applications

* Preferrable to have Devops/Infra Experience for products in Payments/Fintech domain - Payment Gateways/Bank integrations etc

What will you do ?

Devops

* Provisioning the infrastructure using Crossplane/Terraform/Cloudformation scripts.

* Creating and Managing the AWS EC2, RDS, EKS, S3, VPC, KMS and IAM services, EKS clusters & RDS Databases.

* Monitor the infra to prevent outages/downtimes and honor our infra SLAs

* Deploy and manage new infra components.

* Update and Migrate the clusters and services.

* Reducing the cloud cost by enabling/scheduling for less utilized instances.

* Collaborate with stakeholders across the organization such as experts in - product, design, engineering

* Uphold best practices in Devops/DevSecOps and Infra management with attention to security best practices

DevSecOps

* Cloud Security Assessment & Automation

* Modify existing infra to adhere to security best practices

* Perform Threat Modelling of Web/Mobile applications

* Integrate security testing tools (SAST, DAST) in to CI/CD pipelines

* Incident management and remediation - Monitoring security incidents, recovery from and remediation of the issues

* Perform frequent Vulnerabiltiy Assessments/Penetration Testing for Web, Network and Mobile applications

* Ensure the environment is compliant to CIS, NIST, PCI etc.

Here are examples of apps/features you will be supporting as a Devops/DevSecOps Engineer

* Intuitive, easy-to-use APIs for payment process.

* Integrations with local payment gateways in international markets.

* Dashboard to manage gateways and transactions.

* Analytics platform to provide insights

As a DevOps Engineer, you’ll play a key role in managing our cloud infrastructure, automating deployments, and ensuring high availability across our global server network. You’ll work closely with our technical team to optimize performance and scalability.

Responsibilities

✅ Design, implement, and manage cloud infrastructure (primarily Azure)

✅ Automate deployments using CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or equivalent)

✅ Monitor and optimize server performance & uptime (100% uptime goal)

✅ Work with cPanel-based hosting environments and ensure seamless operation

✅ Implement security best practices & compliance measures

✅ Troubleshoot system issues, scale infrastructure, and enhance reliability

Requirements

🔹 3-7 years of DevOps experience in cloud environments (Azure preferred)

🔹 Hands-on expertise in CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, etc.)

🔹 Proficiency in Terraform, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes

🔹 Strong knowledge of Linux system administration & networking

🔹 Experience with monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, etc.)

🔹 Security-first mindset & automation-driven approach

Why Join Us?

🚀 Work at a fast-growing startup backed by Microsoft

💡 Lead high-impact DevOps projects in a cloud-native environment

🌍 Hybrid work model with flexibility in Bangalore, Delhi, or Mumbai

💰 Competitive salary ₹12-30 LPA based on experience

How to Apply?

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Role Introduction

• This role involves guiding the DevOps team towards successful delivery of Governance and

toolchain initiatives by removing manual tasks.

• Operate toolchain applications to empower engineering teams by providing, reliable, governed

self-service tools and supporting their adoption

• Driving good practice for consumption and utilisation of the engineering toolchain, with a focus

on DevOps practices

• Drive good governance for cloud service consumption

• Involves working in a collaborative environment and focus on leading team and providing

technical leadership to team members.

• Involves setting up process and improvements for teams on supporting various DevOps tooling

and governing the tooling.

• Co-ordinating with multiple teams within organization

• Lead on handovers from architecture teams to support major project rollouts which require the

Toolchain governance DevOps team to operationally support tooling

What you will do

• Identify and implement best practices, process improvement and automation initiatives for

improvement towards quicker delivery by removing manual tasks

• Ensure best practices and process are documented for reusability and keeping up-to date on

good practices and standards.

• Re-usable automation and compliance service, tools and processes

• Support and management of toolchain, toolchain changes and selection

• Identify and implement risk mitigation plans, avoid escalations, resolve blockers for teams.

Toolchain governance will involve operating and responding to alerts, enforcing good tooling

governance by driving automation, remediating technical debt and ensuring the latest tools

are utilised and on the latest versions

• Triage product pipelines, performance issues, SLA/SLO breaches, service unavailable along

with ancillary actions such as providing access to logs, tools, environments.

• Involve in initial / detailed estimates during roadmap planning or feature

estimation/planning of any automation identified for a given toolset.

• Develop, refine, and tune integrations between various tools

• Discuss with Product Owner/team on any challenges from implementation, deployment

perspective and assist in arriving probable solution and escalate any risks to get them

resolved w.r.t DevOps toolchain.

• In consultation with Head of DevOps and other stake holders, prioritization of items, item-

task breakdown; accountable for squad deliverables for sprint

• Involve in reviewing current components and plan for upgrade and ensure its communicated

to wider audience within Organization

• Involve in reviewing access / role and enhance and automate provisioning.

• Identify and encourage areas for growth and improvement within the team e.g conducts

regular 1-2-1’s with squad members to provide support, mentoring and goal setting

• Involve in performance management ,rewards and recognition of team members, Involve in

hiring process.• Plan for upskill of team to know about tools and perform tasks. Ensure quicker onboarding

of new joiners/freshers to team to be productive.

• Review ticket metrics to measure the health of the project including SLAs and plan for

improvement.

• Requirement for on call for critical incidents that happen Out of Hours, based on tooling SLA.

This may include planning standby schedule for squad, carrying out retrospective for every

callout and reviewing SLIs/SLOs.

• Owns the tech/repair debt, risk and compliance for the tooling with respect to

infrastructure, pipelines, access etc

• Track optimum utilization of resources and monitor/track the delivery schedule

• Review solutions designs with the Architects / Principal DevOps Engineers as required

• Provide monthly reporting which align to DevOps Tooling KPIs

What you will have

• Candidate should have 8+ years of experience and Hands-on DevOps experience and

experience in team management.

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, Team player

• Good working experience of CI/CD tools like Jenkins, SonarQube, FOSSA, Harness, Jira, JSM,

ServiceNow etc.

• Good hands on knowledge of AWS Services like EC2, ECS, S3, IAM, SNS, SQS, VPC, Lambda,

API Gateway, Cloud Watch, Cloud Formation etc.

• Experience in operating and governing DevOps Toolchain

• Experience in operational monitoring, alerting and identifying and delivering on both repair

and technical debt

• Experience and background in ITIL/ITSM processes. The candidate will ensure development

of the appropriate (ITSM) model and processes, based on the ITIL Service Management

framework. This includes the strategic, design, transition, and operation services and

continuous service improvement

• Provide ITSM leadership experience and coaching processes

• Experience on various tools like Jenkins, Harness, Fossa,

• Experience of hosting and managing applications on AWS/AZURE•

• Experience in CI/CD pipeline (Jenkins build pipelines)

• Experience in containerization (Docker/Kubernetes)

• Experience in any programming language (Node.js or Python is preferred)

• Experience in Architecting and supporting cloud based products will be a plus

• Experience in PowerShell & Bash will be a plus

• Able to self manage multiple concurrent small projects, including managing priorities

between projects

• Able to quickly learn new tools

• Should be able to mentor/drive junior team members to achieve desired outcome of

roadmap-

• Ability to analyse information to identify problems and issues, and make effective decisions

within short span

• Excellent problem solving and critical thinking

• Experience in integrating various components including unit testing / CI/CD configuration.

• Experience to review current toolset and plan for upgrade.

• Experience with Agile framework/Jira/JSM tool.• Good communication skills and ability to communicate/work independently with external

teams.

• Highly motivated, able to work proficiently both independently and in a team environment

Good knowledge and experience with security constructs –

• Hands-on knowledge on various CI-CD tools (Jenkins/TeamCity, Artifactory, UCD, Bitbucket/Github, SonarQube) including setting up of build-deployment automated pipelines.
• Very good knowledge in scripting tools and languages such as Shell, Perl or Python , YAML/Groovy, build tools such as Maven/Gradle.
• Hands-on knowledge in containerization and orchestration tools such as Docker, OpenShift and Kubernetes.
• Good knowledge in configuration management tools such as Ansible, Puppet/Chef and have worked on setting up of monitoring tools (Splunk/Geneos/New Relic/Elk).
•             Expertise in job schedulers/workload automation tools such as Control-M or AutoSys is good to have.
• Hands-on knowledge on Cloud technology (preferably GCP) including various computing services and infrastructure setup using Terraform.

• Should have basic understanding on networking, certificate management, Identity and Access Management and Information security/encryption concepts.
• •             Should support day-to-day tasks related to platform and environments upkeep such as upgrades, patching, migration and system/interfaces integration.
• •             Should have experience in working in Agile based SDLC delivery model, multi-task and support multiple systems/apps.
• •             Big-data and Hadoop ecosystem knowledge is good to have but not mandatory.

• Should have worked on standard release, change and incident management tools such as ServiceNow/Remedy or similar

What you need to have:

• Must have a minimum of 3 years of experience in managing AWS resources and automating CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong scripting skills in PowerShell, Python or Bash be able to build and administer CI/CD pipelines.
• Knowledge of infrastructure tools like Cloud Formation, Terraform, Ansible.
• Experience with microservices and/or event-driven architecture.
• Experience using containerization technologies (Docker, ECS, Kubernetes, Mesos or Vagrant).
• Strong practical Windows and Linux system administration skills in the cloud.
• Understanding of DNS, NFS, TCP/IP and other protocols.
• Knowledge of secure SDLC, OWASP top 10 and CWE/SANS top 25.
• Deep understanding of Web Sockets and their functioning. Hands on experience of ElasticCache, Redis, ECS or EKS. Installation, configuration and management of Apache or Nginx web server, Apache/Tomcat Application Server, configure SSL certificates, setup reverse proxy.
• Exposure to RDBMS (MySQL, SQL Server, Aurora, etc.) is a plus.
• Exposure to programming languages like JAVA, PHP, SQL is a plus.
• AWS Developer or AWS SysOps Administrator certification is a plus.
• AWS Solutions Architect Certification experience is a plus.
• Experience building Blue/Green, Canary or other zero down time deployment strategies, advanced understanding of VPC, EC2 Route53 IAM, Lambda is a plus.

1. GCP Cloud experience mandatory
2. CICD - Azure DevOps
3. IaC tools – Terraform
4. Experience with IAM / Access Management within cloud
5. Networking / Firewalls
6. Kubernetes / Helm / Istio