DevOps Engineer

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and maintain scalable, secure, and cost-effective infrastructure on AWS and Azure
• Set up and manage CI/CD pipelines for smooth code integration and delivery using tools like GitHub Actions, Bitbucket Runners, AWS Code build/deploy, Azure DevOps, etc.
• Containerize applications using Docker and manage orchestration with Kubernetes, ECS, Fargate, AWS EKS, Azure AKS.
• Manage and monitor production deployments to ensure high availability and performance
• Implement and manage CDN solutions using AWS CloudFront and Azure Front Door for optimal content delivery and latency reduction
• Define and apply caching strategies at application, CDN, and reverse proxy layers for performance and scalability
• Set up and manage reverse proxies and Cloudflare WAF to ensure application security and performance
• Implement infrastructure as code (IaC) using Terraform, CloudFormation, or ARM templates
• Administer and optimize databases (RDS, PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc.) including backups, scaling, and monitoring
• Configure and maintain VPCs, subnets, routing, VPNs, and security groups for secure and isolated network setups
• Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting using tools like CloudWatch, Grafana, ELK, or Azure Monitor
• Collaborate with development and QA teams to align infrastructure with application needs
• Troubleshoot infrastructure and deployment issues efficiently and proactively
• Ensure cloud cost optimization and usage tracking

Required Skills & Experience:

• 3-4 years of hands-on experience in a DevOps
• Strong expertise with both AWS and Azure cloud platforms
• Proficient in Git, branching strategies, and pull request workflows
• Deep understanding of CI/CD concepts and experience with pipeline tools
• Proficiency in Docker, container orchestration (Kubernetes, ECS/EKS/AKS)
• Good knowledge of relational databases and experience in managing DB backups, performance, and migrations
• Experience with networking concepts including VPC, subnets, firewalls, VPNs, etc.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform preferred)
• Strong working knowledge of CDN technologies: AWS CloudFront and Azure Front Door
• Understanding of caching strategies: edge caching, browser caching, API caching, and reverse proxy-level caching
• Experience with Cloudflare WAF, reverse proxy setups, SSL termination, and rate-limiting
• Familiarity with Linux system administration, scripting (Bash, Python), and automation tools
• Working knowledge of monitoring and logging tools
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills

Good to Have (Bonus Points):

• Experience with serverless architecture (e.g., AWS Lambda, Azure Functions)
• Exposure to cost monitoring tools like CloudHealth, Azure Cost Management
• Experience with compliance/security best practices (SOC2, ISO, etc.)
• Familiarity with Service Mesh (Istio, Linkerd) and API gateways
• Knowledge of Secrets Management tools (e.g., HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager)

Roles & Responsibilities:

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

• Experience in designing and maintaining high volume and scalable micro-services architecture on cloud infrastructure

• Knowledge in Linux/Unix Administration and Python/Shell Scripting

• Experience working with cloud platforms like AWS (EC2, ELB, S3, Auto-scaling, VPC, Lambda), GCP, Azure

• Knowledge in deployment automation, Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (Jenkins, Maven, Puppet, Chef, GitLab) and monitoring tools like Zabbix, Cloud Watch Monitoring, Nagios Knowledge of Java Virtual Machines, Apache Tomcat, Nginx, Apache Kafka, Microservices architecture, Caching mechanisms

• Experience in enterprise application development, maintenance and operations

• Knowledge of best practices and IT operations in an always-up, always-available service

• Excellent written and oral communication skills, judgment and decision-making skills

Kutumb is the first and largest communities platform for Bharat. We are growing at an exponential trajectory. More than 1 Crore users use Kutumb to connect with their community. We are backed by world-class VCs and angel investors. We are growing and looking for exceptional Infrastructure Engineers to join our Engineering team.

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We’re excited if you have:

• Recent experience designing and building unified observability platforms that enable companies to use the sometimes-overwhelming amount of available data (metrics, logs, and traces) to determine quickly if their application or service is operating as desired
• Expertise in deploying and using open-source observability tools in large-scale environments, including Prometheus, Grafana, ELK (ElasticSearch + Logstash + Kibana), Jaeger, Kiali, and/or Loki
• Familiarity with open standards like OpenTelemetry, OpenTracing, and OpenMetrics
• Familiarity with Kubernetes and Istio as the architecture on which the observability platform runs, and how they integrate and scale. Additionally, the ability to contribute improvements back to the joint platform for the benefit of all teams
• Demonstrated customer engagement and collaboration skills to curate custom dashboards and views, and identify and deploy new tools, to meet their requirements
• The drive and self-motivation to understand the intricate details of a complex infrastructure environment 
• Using CICD tools to automatically perform canary analysis and roll out changes after passing automated gates (think Argo & keptn)
• Hands-on experience working with AWS 
• Bonus points for knowledge of ETL pipelines and Big data architecture
• Great problem-solving skills & takes pride in your work
• Enjoys building scalable and resilient systems, with a focus on systems that are robust by design and suitably monitored
• Abstracting all of the above into as simple of an interface as possible (like Knative) so developers don't need to know about it unless they choose to open the escape hatch

What you’ll be doing:

• Design and build automation around the chosen tools to make onboarding new services easy for developers (dashboards, alerts, traces, etc)
• Demonstrate great communication skills in working with technical and non-technical audiences
• Contribute new open-source tools and/or improvements to existing open-source tools back to the CNCF ecosystem

Tools we use:

Kops, Argo, Prometheus/ Loki/ Grafana, Kubernetes, AWS, MySQL/ PostgreSQL, Apache Druid, Cassandra, Fluentd, Redis, OpenVPN, MongoDB, ELK

What we offer:

• High pace of learning
• Opportunity to build the product from scratch
• High autonomy and ownership
• A great and ambitious team to work with
• Opportunity to work on something that really matters
• Top of the class market salary and meaningful ESOP ownership

• 3+ years experience leading a team of DevOps engineers
• 8+ years experience managing DevOps for large engineering teams developing cloud-native software
• Strong in networking concepts
• In-depth knowledge of AWS and cloud architectures/services.
• Experience within the container and container orchestration space (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Passion for CI/CD pipeline using tools such as Jenkins etc.
• Familiarity with config management tools like Ansible Terraform etc
• Proven record of measuring and improving DevOps metrics
• Familiarity with observability tools and experience setting them up
• Passion for building tools and productizing services that empower development teams.
• Excellent knowledge of Linux command-line tools and ability to write bash scripts.
• Strong in Unix / Linux administration and management,

KEY ROLES/RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Own and manage the entire cloud infrastructure
• Create the entire CI/CD pipeline to build and release
• Explore new technologies and tools and recommend those that best fit the team and organization
• Own and manage the site reliability
• Strong decision-making skills and metric-driven approach
• Mentor and coach other team members

• 3-6 years of relevant work experience in a DevOps role.
• Deep understanding of Amazon Web Services or equivalent cloud platforms.
• Proven record of infra automation and programming skills in any of these languages - Python, Ruby, Perl, Javascript.
• Implement DevOps Industry best practices and the application of procedures to achieve a continuously deployable system
• Continuously improve and increase the capabilities of the CI/CD pipeline
• Support engineering teams in the implementation of life-cycle infrastructure solutions and documentation operations in order to meet the engineering departments quality and standards
• Participate in production outages and handle complex issues and works towards resolution

Must Have Skills

• AWS Solutions Architect and/or DevOps certification, Professional preferred
• BS level technical degree or equivalent experience; Computer Science or Engineering background preferred
• Hands-on technical expertise on Amazon Web Services (AWS) to include but not limited to EC2, VPC, IAM, Security groups, ELB/NLB/ALB, Internet gateway, S3, EBS and EFS.
• Experience in migration-deployment of applications to Cloud, re-engineering of application for cloud, setting up OS and app environments in virtualized cloud
• DevOps automation, CI/CD, infrastructure/services provisioning, application deployment and configuration
• DevOps toolsets to include Ansible, Jenkins and XLdeploy, XLrelease
• Deploy and configuration of Java/Wildfly, Springboot, JavaScript/Node.js and Ruby applications and middleware
• Scripting in Shell (bash) and Extensive Python
• Agile software development
• Excellent written, verbal communication skills, presentation, and collaboration skills - Team leadership skills
• Linux (RHEL) administration/engineering

Experience:

• Deploying, configuring, and supporting large scale monolithic and microservices based SaaS applications
• Working as both an infrastructure and application migration specialist
• Identifying and documenting application requirements for network, F5, IAM, and security groups
• Implementing DevOps practices such as infrastructure as code, continuous integration, and automated deployment 
• Work with Technology leadership to understand business goals and requirements
• Experience with continuous integration tools
• Experience with configuration management platforms
• Writing and diagnosing issues with complex shell scripts
• Strong practical application development experience on Linux and Windows-based systems