DevOps Engineer

As a Google Cloud Infrastructure / DevOps Engineer, you will design, implement, and maintain cloud infrastructure while enabling efficient development operations. This role bridges development and operations, with a strong focus on automation, scalability, reliability, and collaboration. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to optimize systems and enhance CI/CD pipelines.

Key Responsibilities:

Cloud Infrastructure Management

• Manage and monitor Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services and components.
• Ensure high availability, scalability, and security of cloud resources.

CI/CD Pipeline Implementation

• Design and implement automated pipelines for application releases.
• Build and maintain CI/CD workflows.
• Collaborate with developers to streamline deployment processes.
• Automate testing, deployment, and rollback procedures.

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

• Use Terraform (or similar tools) to define and manage infrastructure.
• Maintain version-controlled infrastructure code.
• Ensure environment consistency across dev, staging, and production.

Monitoring & Troubleshooting

• Monitor system performance, resource usage, and application health.
• Troubleshoot cloud infrastructure and deployment pipeline issues.
• Implement proactive monitoring and alerting.

Security & Compliance

• Apply cloud security best practices.
• Ensure compliance with industry standards and internal policies.
• Collaborate with security teams to address vulnerabilities.

Collaboration & Documentation

• Work closely with development, operations, and QA teams.
• Document architecture, processes, and configurations.
• Share knowledge and best practices with the team.

Qualifications:

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.

Experience

• Minimum 3 years of industry experience.
• At least 1 year designing and managing production systems on GCP.
• Familiarity with GCP services (Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud Storage, etc.).
• Exposure to Docker, Kubernetes, and microservices architecture.

Skills

• Proficiency in Python or Bash for automation.
• Strong understanding of DevOps principles.
• Knowledge of Jenkins or other CI/CD tools.
• Experience with GKE for container orchestration.
• Familiarity with event streaming platforms (Kafka, Google Cloud Pub/Sub).

About the Company: Bits In Glass – India

Industry Leader

• Established for 20+ years with global operations in the US, Canada, UK, and India.
• In 2021, Bits In Glass joined hands with Crochet Technologies, strengthening global delivery capabilities.
• Offices in Pune, Hyderabad, and Chandigarh.
• Specialized Pega Partner since 2017, ranked among the top 30 Pega partners globally.
• Long-standing sponsor of the annual PegaWorld event.
• Elite Appian partner since 2008 with deep industry expertise.
• Dedicated global Pega Center of Excellence (CoE) supporting customers and development teams worldwide.

Employee Benefits

• Career Growth: Clear pathways for advancement and professional development.
• Challenging Projects: Work on innovative, high-impact global projects.
• Global Exposure: Collaborate with international teams and clients.
• Flexible Work Arrangements: Supporting work-life balance.
• Comprehensive Benefits: Competitive compensation, health insurance, paid time off.
• Learning Opportunities: Upskill on AI-enabled Pega solutions, data engineering, integrations, cloud migration, and more.

Company Culture

• Collaborative Environment: Strong focus on teamwork, innovation, and knowledge sharing.
• Inclusive Workplace: Diverse and respectful workplace culture.
• Continuous Learning: Encourages certifications, learning programs, and internal knowledge sessions.

Core Values

• Integrity: Ethical practices and transparency.
• Excellence: Commitment to high-quality work.
• Client-Centric Approach: Delivering solutions tailored to client needs.

Must Have -

a. Background working with Startups

b. Good knowledge of Kubernetes & Docker

c. Background working in Azure

What you’ll be doing

• Ensure that our applications and environments are stable, scalable, secure and performing as expected.
• Proactively engage and work in alignment with cross-functional colleagues to understand their requirements, contributing to and providing suitable supporting solutions.
• Develop and introduce systems to aid and facilitate rapid growth including implementation of deployment policies, designing and implementing new procedures, configuration management and planning of patches and for capacity upgrades
• Observability: ensure suitable levels of monitoring and alerting are in place to keep engineers aware of issues.
• Establish runbooks and procedures to keep outages to a minimum. Jump in before users notice that things are off track, then automate it for the future.
• Automate everything so that nothing is ever done manually in production.
• Identify and mitigate reliability and security risks. Make sure we are prepared for peak times,
• DDoS attacks and fat fingers.
• Troubleshoot issues across the whole stack - software, applications and network.
• Manage individual project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables as part of a self-organizing team.
• Learn and unlearn every day by exchanging knowledge and new insights, conducting constructive code reviews, and participating in retrospectives.

Requirements

• 2+ years extensive experience of Linux server administration include patching, packaging (rpm), performance tuning, networking, user management, and security.
• 2+ years of implementing systems that are highly available, secure, scalable, and self-healingon Azure cloud platform
• Strong understanding of networking, especially in cloud environments along with a good understanding of CICD.
• Prior experience implementing industry standard security best practices, including those recommended by Azure
• Proficiency with Bash, and any high-level scripting language.
• Basic working knowledge of observability stacks like ELK, prometheus, grafana, Signoz etc
• Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code and Infrastructure Testing, preferably using Pulumi/Terraform.
• Hands-on experience in building and administering VMs and Containers using tools such as Docker/Kubernetes.
• Excellent communication skills, spoken as well as written, with a demonstrated ability to articulate technical problems and projects to all stakeholders.

Job description

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Backend Developer to join our team at Infomance. The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 3 years of hands-on experience in developing and managing WordPress websites, deploying sites on AWS, and managing servers through cPanel. This role is critical in ensuring the seamless performance, security, and scalability of our web platform.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain the server end of our WordPress website.
• Manage and optimize the AWS server environment to ensure high performance and reliability.
• Deploy and manage WordPress sites on AWS.
• Utilize cPanel for server management, including setting up and configuring domains, email accounts, databases, and other hosting features.
• Collaborate with front-end developers to integrate user-facing elements with server-side logic.
• Ensure the security and integrity of the website and server infrastructure.
• Troubleshoot and resolve website and server issues promptly.
• Implement and maintain automated backup and disaster recovery solutions.
• Monitor server performance and optimize for speed and efficiency.
• Stay updated with the latest industry trends and technologies to ensure our platform remains at the cutting edge.

Required Skills:

1.. WordPress Development:

• Proficient in PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
• Experience in developing custom WordPress themes and plugins.
• Understanding of WordPress core and architecture.

2.. AWS (Amazon Web Services):

• Extensive experience with EC2, S3, RDS, and other relevant AWS services.
• Expertise in deploying and managing WordPress sites on AWS.
• Knowledge of AWS security best practices.

3.. Server Management:

• Proficiency with cPanel for server management.
• Experience in setting up and configuring domains, email accounts, and databases using cPanel.
• Ability to optimize server performance and ensure reliability.

4.. Version Control Systems:

• Experience with Git for version control and collaboration.
• Understanding of best practices for code management and deployment.

5.. API Integration:

• Familiarity with RESTful APIs and third-party integrations.
• Ability to implement and manage API connections effectively.

6.. Security:

• Strong understanding of web and server security practices.
• Experience in implementing security measures to protect the website and server infrastructure.

7.. Problem-Solving:

• Excellent troubleshooting skills.
• Ability to diagnose and resolve website and server issues promptly.

8.. Performance Optimization:

• Knowledge of techniques to optimize website speed and efficiency.
• Experience with caching, load balancing, and other performance-enhancing practices.

9.. Backup and Recovery:

• Experience in implementing automated backup solutions.
• Ability to manage disaster recovery processes effectively.

10.. Collaboration and Communication:

• Strong communication skills for working with cross-functional teams.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with front-end developers and other stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with full-stack development on WordPress.
• Knowledge of serverless architectures and microservices.
• Experience with other cloud platforms like Google Cloud or Azure.
• Understanding of DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines.

• At least 5 year of experience in Cloud technologies-AWS and Azure and developing. 
• Experience in implementing DevOps practices and DevOps-tools in areas like CI/CD using Jenkins environment automation, and release automation, virtualization, infra as a code or metrics tracking.
• Hands on experience in DevOps tools configuration in different environments.
• Strong knowledge of working with DevOps design patterns, processes and best practices
• Hand-on experience in Setting up Build pipelines.
• Prior working experience in system administration or architecture in Windows or Linux.
• Must have experience in GIT (BitBucket, GitHub, GitLab)
• Hands-on experience on Jenkins pipeline scripting.
• Hands-on knowledge in one scripting language (Nant, Perl, Python, Shell or PowerShell)
• Configuration level skills in tools like SonarQube (or similar tools) and Artifactory.
• Expertise on Virtual Infrastructure (VMWare or VirtualBox or QEMU or KVM or Vagrant) and environment automation/provisioning using SaltStack/Ansible/Puppet/Chef
• Deploying, automating, maintaining and managing Azure cloud based production systems including monitoring capacity.
• Good to have experience in migrating code repositories from one source control to another.
• Hands-on experience in Docker container and orchestration based deployments like Kubernetes, Service Fabric, Docker swarm.
• Must have good communication skills and problem solving skills

• Lead, inspire, and influence to make sure your team is successful
• Partner with the recruiting team to attract and retain high-quality and diverse talent
• Establish great rapport with other development teams, Product Managers, Sales, and Customer Success to maintain high levels of visibility, efficiency, and collaboration
• Ensure teams have appropriate technical direction, leadership, and balance between short-term impact and long-term architectural vision.
• Occasionally contributing to development tasks such as coding and feature verifications to assist teams with release commitments, to gain an understanding of the deeply technical product as well as to keep your technical acumen sharp

You'll need:

• BS/MS degree in CS-or- a related field with 5+ years of engineering management experience leading productive, high-functioning teams
• Strong fundamentals in distributed systems design and development
• Ability to hire while ensuring a high hiring bar, keep engineers motivated, coach/mentor, and handle performance management
• Experience running production services in Public Clouds such as AWS, GCP, and Azure
• Experience with running large stateful data systems in the Cloud
• Prior knowledge of Cloud architecture and implementation features (multi-tenancy, containerization, orchestration, elastic scalability)
• A great track record of shipping features and hitting deadlines consistently; should be able to move fast, build in increments and iterate; have a sense of urgency, aggressive mindset towards achieving results and excellent prioritization skills; able to anticipate future technical needs for the product and craft plans to realize them
• Ability to influence the team, peers, and upper management using effective communication and collaborative techniques; focused on building and maintaining a culture of collaboration within the team

• Designing and building infrastructure to support AWS, Azure, and GCP-based Cloud services and infrastructure.
• Creating and utilizing tools to monitor our applications and services in the cloud including system health indicators, trend identification, and anomaly detection.
• Working with development teams to help engineer scalable, reliable, and resilient software running in the cloud.
• Participating in on-call escalation to troubleshoot customer-facing issues
• Analyzing and monitoring performance bottlenecks and key metrics to optimize software and system performance.
• Providing analytics and forecasts for cloud capacity, troubleshooting analysis, and uptime.

• Should have strong experience of a couple of years, in leading DevOps team and planning, defining DevOps roadmap and executing as per the same along with the team 
• Familiarity with AWS cloud and JSON templates, Python, AWS Cloud formation templates
• Designing solutions using one or more AWS features, tools, and technologies such as EC2, EBS, Glacier, S3, ELB, CloudFormation, Lambada, CloudWatch, VPC, RDS, Direct Connect, AWS CLI, REST API
• Design and implement system architecture with AWS cloud - Develop automation scripts, ARM templates, Ansible, Chef, Python, Powershell Knowledge of AWS services and cloud design patterns- Knowledge on Cloud fundamentals like autoscaling, serverless
• Have experience with DevOps and Infrastructure as Code: AWS environment and application automation utilizing CloudFormation and third-party tools. CI/CD pipeline setup utilizing
• CI experience with the following is a must: Jenkins, Bitbucket/GIT, Nexus or Artifactory, SonarQube, WireMock or other mocking solution 
• Expert knowledge on Windows/Linux OS/Mac with at least 5-6 years of system administration experience
• Should have strong skills in using JIRA build tool
• Should have knowledge in managing the CI/CD pipeline on public cloud deployments using AWS
• Should have strong skills in using tools like Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes (AWS EKS, Azure AKS), and Cloudformation.
• Experience in monitoring tools like Pingdom, Nagios, etc.
• Experience in reverse proxy services like Nginx and Apache
• Desirable experience in Bitbucket with version control tools like GIT/SVN
• Experience of manual/automated testing desired application deployments
• Experience in database technologies such as PostgreSQL, MySQL
• Knowledge of helm and terraform

BENEFITS: -

 Competitive salary and stock options -

 Premium medical benefits 

LOCATION: - Remote (India) 

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE - 

Degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related field - 

At least 3-5 years of professional work experience as a 

DevOps / test automation / deployment engineer -

 Experience in agile software development methodologies 

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES: -

 Design and development of scalable software test framework to automate test procedures - Perform health checks of existing sites periodically (manually and also developing a automation pipeline) - Manage per site software releases - 

Generate release notes, user guides, technical documentation -

 Perform upgrades/ downgrades (patch management) - 

Generate and Manage configurations - 

Suggest process improvements by interfacing with product owner - 

File process/installation/deployment related issues & tracking them - 

Verify customer-reported issues and translate them into technical tasks for development 

REQUIREMENTS:

 Following are must to have requirements, - 

Automation frameworks like Selenium etc. - 

Scripting languages like Perl, Python etc. - 

Linux systems - 

Version control system like git -

 Issue tracking system like Jira -

 Networking protocols -

 Cloud infrastructure - 

Ability to work individually and as part of a team with a sense of urgency -

 Excellent communication skills in written and verbal English - 

Great attention to detail 

PREFERRED: 

Following are good to have requirements, - 

Knowledge in any of the programming languages like C, C++ etc. 

Experience managing cloud-based (e.g., AWS, Google Cloud, etc.) and in-house server infrastructure - 

Familiarity with machine learning / artificial intelligence infrastructure - 

Experience in data visualization and statistics - 

Basic knowledge of hardware infrastructure containing routers, switches and others -

 Familiarity with web & data securityDesign and development of scalable software test framework to automate test