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About Certa At Certa, we’re revolutionizing process automation for top-tier companies, including Fortune 500 and Fortune 1000 leaders, from the heart of Silicon Valley. Our mission? Simplifying complexity through cutting-edge SaaS solutions. Join our thriving, global team and become a key player in a startup environment that champions innovation, continuous learning, and unlimited growth. We offer a fully remote, flexible workspace that empowers you to excel.
Role Overview
Ready to elevate your DevOps career by shaping the backbone of a fast-growing SaaS platform? As a Senior DevOps Engineer at Certa, you’ll lead the charge in building, automating, and optimizing our cloud infrastructure. Beyond infrastructure management, you’ll actively contribute with a product-focused mindset, understanding customer requirements, collaborating closely with product and engineering teams, and ensuring our AWS-based platform consistently meets user needs and business goals.
What You’ll Do
- Own SaaS Infrastructure: Design, architect, and maintain robust, scalable AWS infrastructure, enhancing platform stability, security, and performance.
- Orchestrate with Kubernetes: Utilize your advanced Kubernetes expertise to manage and scale containerized deployments efficiently and reliably.
- Collaborate on Enterprise Architecture: Align infrastructure strategies with enterprise architectural standards, partnering closely with architects to build integrated solutions.
- Drive Observability: Implement and evolve sophisticated monitoring and observability solutions (DataDog, ELK Stack, AWS CloudWatch) to proactively detect, troubleshoot, and resolve system anomalies.
- Lead Automation Initiatives: Champion an automation-first mindset across the organization, streamlining development, deployment, and operational workflows.
- Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Master Terraform to build repeatable, maintainable cloud infrastructure automation.
- Optimize CI/CD Pipelines: Refine and manage continuous integration and deployment processes (currently GitHub Actions, transitioning to CircleCI), enhancing efficiency and reliability.
- Enable GitOps with ArgoCD: Deliver seamless GitOps-driven application deployments, ensuring accuracy and consistency in Kubernetes environments.
- Advocate for Best Practices: Continuously promote and enforce industry-standard DevOps practices, ensuring consistent, secure, and efficient operational outcomes.
- Innovate and Improve: Constantly evaluate and enhance current DevOps processes, tooling, and methodologies to maintain cutting-edge efficiency.
- Product Mindset: Actively engage with product and engineering teams, bringing infrastructure expertise to product discussions, understanding customer needs, and helping prioritize infrastructure improvements that directly benefit users and business objectives.
What You Bring
- Hands-On Experience: 3-5 years in DevOps roles, ideally within fast-paced SaaS environments.
- Kubernetes Mastery: Advanced knowledge and practical experience managing Kubernetes clusters and container orchestration.
- AWS Excellence: Comprehensive expertise across AWS services, infrastructure management, and security.
- IaC Competence: Demonstrated skill in Terraform for infrastructure automation and management.
- CI/CD Acumen: Proven proficiency managing pipelines with GitHub Actions; familiarity with CircleCI highly advantageous.
- GitOps Knowledge: Experience with ArgoCD for effective continuous deployment and operations.
- Observability Skills: Strong capabilities deploying and managing monitoring solutions such as DataDog, ELK, and AWS CloudWatch.
- Python Automation: Solid scripting and automation skills using Python.
- Architectural Awareness: Understanding of enterprise architecture frameworks and alignment practices.
- Proactive Problem-Solving: Exceptional analytical and troubleshooting skills, adept at swiftly addressing complex technical challenges.
- Effective Communication: Strong interpersonal and collaborative skills, essential for remote, distributed teamwork.
- Product Focus: Ability and willingness to understand customer requirements, prioritize tasks that enhance product value, and proactively suggest infrastructure improvements driven by user needs.
- Startup Mindset (Bonus): Prior experience or enthusiasm for dynamic startup cultures is a distinct advantage.
Why Join Us
- Compensation: Top-tier salary and exceptional benefits.
- Work-Life Flexibility: Fully remote, flexible scheduling.
- Growth Opportunities: Accelerate your career in a company poised for significant growth.
- Innovative Culture: Engineering-centric, innovation-driven work environment.
- Team Events: Annual offsites and quarterly Hackerhouse.
- Wellness & Family: Comprehensive healthcare and parental leave.
- Workspace: Premium workstation setup allowance, providing the tech you need to succeed.

About Certa
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Certa’s no-code platform makes it easy to digitize and manage the lifecycle of all your suppliers, partners, and customers. With automated onboarding, contract lifecycle management, and ESG management, Certa eliminates the procurement bottleneck and allows companies to onboard third-parties 3x faster.
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We are seeking a highly skilled Azure DevOps Engineer with a strong background in backend development to join our rapidly growing team. The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 4 years of experience and has have extensive experience in building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, automating deployment processes, and optimizing infrastructure on Azure. Additionally, expertise in backend technologies and development frameworks is required to collaborate effectively with the development team in delivering scalable and efficient solutions.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with development and operations teams to implement continuous integration and deployment processes.
- Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and application deployment using tools such as Ansible, and Jenkins.
- Design, implement, and maintain Azure DevOps pipelines for continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD)
- Develop and maintain build and deployment pipelines, ensuring that they are scalable, secure, and reliable.
- Monitor and maintain the health of the production infrastructure, including load balancers, databases, and application servers.
- Automate the software development and delivery lifecycle, including code building, testing, deployment, and release.
- Familiarity with Azure CLI, Azure REST APIs, Azure Resource Manager template, Azure billing/cost management and the Azure Management Console
- Must have experience of any one of the programming language (Java, .Net, Python )
- Ensure high availability of the production environment by implementing disaster recovery and business continuity plans.
- Build and maintain monitoring, alerting, and trending operational tools (CloudWatch, New Relic, Splunk, ELK, Grafana, Nagios).
- Stay up to date with new technologies and trends in DevOps and make recommendations for improvements to existing processes and infrastructure.
- ontribute to backend development projects, ensuring robust and scalable solutions.
- Work closely with the development team to understand application requirements and provide technical expertise in backend architecture.
- Design and implement database schemas.
- Identify and implement opportunities for performance optimization and scalability of backend systems.
- Participate in code reviews, architectural discussions, and sprint planning sessions.
- Stay updated with the latest Azure technologies, tools, and best practices to continuously improve our development and deployment processes.
- Mentor junior team members and provide guidance and training on best practices in DevOps.
Required Qualifications
- BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
- 4+ years of experience as an Azure DevOps Engineer (or similar role) with experience in backed development.
- Strong understanding of CI/CD principles and practices.
- Expertise in Azure DevOps services, including Azure Pipelines, Azure Repos, and Azure Boards.
- Experience with infrastructure automation tools like Terraform or Ansible.
- Proficient in scripting languages like PowerShell or Python.
- Experience with Linux and Windows server administration.
- Strong understanding of backend development principles and technologies.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
- Problem-solving and analytical skills.
- Experience with industry frameworks and methodologies: ITIL/Agile/Scrum/DevOps
- Excellent problem-solving, critical thinking, and communication skills.
- Have worked in a product based company.
What we offer:
- Competitive salary and benefits package
- Opportunity for growth and advancement within the company
- Collaborative, dynamic, and fun work environment
- Possibility to work with cutting-edge technologies and innovative projects
- Strong communication skills (written and verbal)
- Responsive, reliable and results oriented with the ability to execute on aggressive plans
- A background in software development, with experience of working in an agile product software development environment
- An understanding of modern deployment tools (Git, Bitbucket, Jenkins, etc.), workflow tools (Jira, Confluence) and practices (Agile (SCRUM), DevOps, etc.)
- Expert level experience with AWS tools, technologies and APIs associated with it - IAM, Cloud-Formation, Cloud Watch, AMIs, SNS, EC2, EBS, EFS, S3, RDS, VPC, ELB, IAM, Route 53, Security Groups, Lambda, VPC etc.
- Hands on experience with Kubernetes (EKS preferred)
- Strong DevOps skills across CI/CD and configuration management using Jenkins, Ansible, Terraform, Docker.
- Experience provisioning and spinning up AWS Clusters using Terraform, Helm, Helm Charts
- Ability to work across multiple projects simultaneously
- Ability to manage and work with teams and customers across the globe
- Experience working on Linux based infrastructure
- Strong hands-on knowledge of setting up production, staging, and dev environments on AWS/GCP/Azure
- Strong hands-on knowledge of technologies like Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes
- Strong understanding of continuous testing environments such as Travis-CI, CircleCI, Jenkins, etc.
- Configuration and managing databases such as MySQL, Mongo
- Excellent troubleshooting
- Working knowledge of various tools, open-source technologies, and cloud services
- Awareness of critical concepts in DevOps and Agile principles
Job Description
- Experienced in Cloud (AWS, Digital Ocean, Google& Azure) development and System Operations.
- Cloud Storage Services and prior experience in designing and building infrastructure components in Amazon. DigitalOcean (or other cloud providers).
- Strong Linux experience (Red Hat 6.x/CentOS 5.x & 6.x, Debian).
- Expert Knowledge in - Git, Jenkins
- Should have experience in CI/CD Automation using tools like Jenkins, Ansible, puppet/Mcollective, Chef Docker, Kubernetes, GIT, Ansible, Terraform, Packer, Hashicorp Vault Docker, Kubernetes, Python Scripting etc.
- Good working knowledge with scripting languages such as Python, php
- Good communications and Presentation Skills
Preferred Education:
Bachelor's Degree or global equivalent in Computer Science or related field

• Develop and maintain CI/CD tools to build and deploy scalable web and responsive applications in production environment
• Design and implement monitoring solutions that identify both system bottlenecks and production issues
• Design and implement workflows for continuous integration, including provisioning, deployment, testing, and version control of the software.
• Develop self-service solutions for the engineering team in order to deliver sites/software with great speed and quality
o Automating Infra creation
o Provide easy to use solutions to engineering team
• Conduct research, tests, and implements new metrics collection systems that can be reused and applied as engineering best practices
o Update our processes and design new processes as needed.
o Establish DevOps Engineer team best practices.
o Stay current with industry trends and source new ways for our business to improve.
• Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements: automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery, re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability, etc.
• Manage timely resolution of all critical and/or complex problems
• Maintain, monitor, and establish best practices for containerized environments.
• Mentor new DevOps engineers
What you will bring
• The desire to work in fast-paced environment.
• 5+ years’ experience building, maintaining, and deploying production infrastructures in AWS or other cloud providers
• Containerization experience with applications deployed on Docker and Kubernetes
• Understanding of NoSQL and Relational Database with respect to deployment and horizontal scalability
• Demonstrated knowledge of Distributed and Scalable systems Experience with maintaining and deployment of critical infrastructure components through Infrastructure-as-Code and configuration management tooling across multiple environments (Ansible, Terraform etc)
• Strong knowledge of DevOps and CI/CD pipeline (GitHub, BitBucket, Artifactory etc)
• Strong understanding of cloud and infrastructure components (server, storage, network, data, and applications) to deliver end-to-end cloud Infrastructure architectures and designs and recommendations
o AWS services like S3, CloudFront, Kubernetes, RDS, Data Warehouses to come up with architecture/suggestions for new use cases.
• Test our system integrity, implemented designs, application developments and other processes related to infrastructure, making improvements as needed
Good to have
• Experience with code quality tools, static or dynamic code analysis and compliance and undertaking and resolving issues identified from vulnerability and compliance scans of our infrastructure
• Good knowledge of REST/SOAP/JSON web service API implementation
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2. Extensive expertise in the below in AWS Development.
3. Amazon Dynamo Db, Amazon RDS , Amazon APIs. AWS Elastic Beanstalk, and AWS Cloud Formation.
4. Lambda, Kinesis. CodeCommit ,CodePipeline.
5. Leveraging AWS SDKs to interact with AWS services from the application.
6. Writing code that optimizes performance of AWS services used by the application.
7. Developing with Restful API interfaces.
8. Code-level application security (IAM roles, credentials, encryption, etc.).
9. Programming Language Python or .NET. Programming with AWS APIs.
10. General troubleshooting and debugging.


