DevOps Engineer

Title: Azure Cloud Developer/Engineer

Exp: 5+ yrs

Location: T-Hub, Hyderabad

Work from office (5 days/week)

Interview rounds: 2-3

Excellent comm skills

Immediate Joiner

Job Description

Position Overview:

We are seeking a highly skilled Azure Cloud Developer/Engineer with experience in designing, developing, and managing cloud infrastructure solutions. The ideal candidate should have a strong background in Azure infrastructure deployment using Terraform,Kubernetes (AKS) with advanced networking, and Helm Charts for application management.Experience with AWS is a plus. This role requires hands-on expertise in deploying scalable, secure,and highly available cloud solutions with strong networking capabilities.

Key Responsibilities:

• Deploy and manage Azure infrastructure using Terraform through CI/CD pipelines.
• Design, deploy, and manage Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) with advanced networking features, including on-premise connectivity.
• Create and manage Helm Charts, ensuring best practices for configuration, templating, and application lifecycle management.
• Collaborate with development, operations, and security teams to ensure optimal cloud infrastructure architecture.
• Implement high-level networking solutions including Azure Private Link, VNET Peering, ExpressRoute, Application Gateway, and Web Application Firewall (WAF).
• Monitor and optimize cloud environments for performance, cost, scalability, and security using tools like Azure Cost Management, Prometheus, Grafana, and Azure Monitor.
• Develop CI/CD pipelines for automated deployments using Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or Jenkins, integrating Terraform for infrastructure automation.
• Implement security best practices, including Azure Security Center, Azure Policy, and Zero Trust Architecture.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues in the cloud environment using Azure Service Health, Log Analytics, and Azure Sentinel.
• Ensure compliance with industry standards (e.g., CIS, NIST, ISO 27001) and organizational security policies.
• Work with Azure Key Vault for secrets and certificate management.
• Explore multi-cloud strategies, integrating AWS services where necessary.

Key Skills Required:

• Azure Cloud Infrastructure Deployment: Expertise in provisioning and managing Azure resources using Terraform within CI/CD pipelines.
• Kubernetes (AKS) with Advanced Networking: Experience in designing AKS clusters with private networking, hybrid connectivity (ExpressRoute, VPN), and security best practices.
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Azure Bicep): Deep understanding of defining and maintaining cloud infrastructure through code.
• Helm Charts: Strong expertise in creating, deploying, and managing Helm-based Kubernetes application deployments.
• Networking & Security: In-depth knowledge of VNET Peering, Private Link, ExpressRoute,Application Gateway, WAF, and hybrid networking.
• CI/CD Pipelines: Experience with building and managing Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or Jenkins pipelines for infrastructure and application deployment.
• Monitoring & Logging: Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, Azure Monitor, Log Analytics,and Azure Sentinel.
• Scripting & Automation: Proficiency in Bash, PowerShell, or Python.
• Cost Optimization (FinOps): Strong knowledge of Azure Cost Management and cloud financial governance.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in cloud engineering, preferably with Azure-focused infrastructure deployment and Kubernetes networking.
• Strong understanding of containerization, orchestration, and microservices architecture.

Certifications (Preferred):

Required:

• Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
• Microsoft Certified: Azure DevOps Engineer Expert

Nice to Have (AWS Experience):

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate or Professional
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional

Nice to Have Skills:

• Experience with multi-cloud environments (Azure & AWS).
• Familiarity with container security tools (Aqua Security, Prisma Cloud).
• Experience with GitOps methodologies using tools like ArgoCD or Flux.
• Understanding of serverless computing and event-driven architectures (Azure Functions, Event Grid, Logic Apps).

Benefits

Why Join Us?

• Competitive salary with performance-based incentives.
• Opportunities for professional certifications (e.g., AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform).
• Access to training programs, workshops, and learning resources.
• Comprehensive health insurance coverage for employees and their families.
• Wellness programs and mental health support.
• Hands-on experience with large-scale, innovative cloud solutions.
• Opportunities to work with modern tools and technologies.
• Inclusive, supportive, and team-oriented environment.
• Opportunities to collaborate with global clients and cross-functional teams.
• Regular performance reviews with rewards for outstanding contributions.
• Employee appreciation events and programs.

The candidate must have 2-3 years of experience in the domain. The responsibilities include:

● Deploying system on Linux-based environment using Docker

● Manage & maintain the production environment

● Deploy updates and fixes

● Provide Level 1 technical support

● Build tools to reduce occurrences of errors and improve customer experience

● Develop software to integrate with internal back-end systems

● Perform root cause analysis for production errors

● Investigate and resolve technical issues

● Develop scripts to automate visualization

● Design procedures for system troubleshooting and maintenance

● Experience working on Linux-based infrastructure

● Excellent understanding of MERN Stack, Docker & Nginx (Good to have Node Js)

● Configuration and managing databases such as Mongo

● Excellent troubleshooting

● Experience of working with AWS/Azure/GCP

● Working knowledge of various tools, open-source technologies, and cloud services

● Awareness of critical concepts in DevOps and Agile principles

● Experience of CI/CD Pipeline

THE POSITION

Ashnik is looking for experienced technology consultant to work in DevOps team in pre-sales function. The primary area of focus will be Microservices, CI/CD pipeline, Docker, Kubernetes, containerization and container security. A person in this role will be responsible for leading technical discussions with customers and partners and helping them arrive at final solution.

QUALIFICATION AND EXPERIENCE

• Engineering or equivalent degree
• Must have at least 8 years of experience in IT industry designing and delivering solutions
• Must have at least 3 years of hand-on experience of Linux and Operating system
• Must have at least 3 years of experience of working in an environment with highly virtualized or cloud based infrastructure
• Must have at least 2 years hands on experience in CI/CD pipeline, micro-services, containerization and kubernetes
• Though coding is not needed in this role, the person should have ability to understand and debug code if required
• Should be able to explain complex solution in simpler ways
• Should be ready to travel 20-40% in a month
• Should be able to engage with customers to understand the fundamental/driving requirement

DESIRED SKILLS

• Past experience of working with Docker and/or Kubernetes at Scale
• Past experience of working in a DevOps team
• Prior experience in Pre-sales role

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Own pre-sales or sales engineering responsibility to design, present, deliver technical solution
• Be the point of contact for all technical queries for Sales team and partners
• Build full-fledged solution proposals with details of implementation and scope of work for customers
• Contribute in technical writings through blogs, whitepapers, solution demos
• Make presentations at events and participate in events.
• Conduct customer workshops to educate them about features in Docker Enterprise Edition
• Coordinate technical escalations with principal vendor
• Get an understanding of various other components and considerations involved in the areas mentioned above
• Be able to articulate value of technology vendor’s products that Ashnik is partnering with eg.  Docker, Sysdig, Hashicorp, Ansible, Jenkins etc.
• Work with partners and sales team for responding to RFPs and tenders

WHAT IS IN IT FOR YOU?

You would be adding a great experience of working with a leading open source solutions company in South East Asia region to your career. You would get to learn from the leaders and grow in the industry. This would be a great opportunity for you to grow in your career through continuous learning, adding depth and breadth of technologies. Since we work with leading open source technologies and engage with large enterprises, it creates enormous possibilities for career growth for our team. Not to mention that our people find the journey with Ashnik to be exciting and a fulfilling experience.

1. Bachelor’s and/or master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related technical discipline
2. About 5 years of professional experience supporting AWS cloud environments
3. Certified Amazon Architect Associate or Architect
4. Experience serving as lead (shift management, reporting) will be a plus
5. AWS Architect Certified Solution Architect Professional (Must have)
6. Minimum 4yrs experience, maximum 8 years’ experience.

1. 100% work from office in Hyderabad
2. Very fluent in English

Striim (pronounced “stream” with two i’s for integration and intelligence) was founded in 2012 with a simple goal of helping companies make data useful the instant it’s born.

Striim’s enterprise-grade, streaming integration with intelligence platform makes it easy to build continuous, streaming data pipelines – including change data capture (CDC) – to power real-time cloud integration, log correlation, edge processing, and streaming analytics

2 - 5 Years of Experience in any Programming any language (Polyglot Preferred ) & System Operations • Awareness of Devops & Agile Methodologies • Proficient in leveraging CI and CD tools to automate testing and deployment . • Experience in working in an agile and fast paced environment . • Hands on knowledge of at least one cloud platform (AWS / GCP / Azure). • Cloud networking knowledge: should understand VPC, NATs, and routers. • Contributions to open source is a plus. • Good written communication skills are a must. Contributions to technical blogs / whitepapers will be an added advantage.

• 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.

DevOps Engineer

Company Introduction 

https://www.cometchat.com/">CometChat harnesses the power of chat by helping thousands of businesses around the world create customized in-app messaging experiences. Our products allow developers to seamlessly add voice, video and text chat to their websites and mobile apps so that their users can communicate with each other, resulting in a unified customer experience, increased engagement and retention, and revenue growth.

In 2019, CometChat was selected into the exclusive Techstars Boulder Accelerator. CometChat (Industry CPaaS: communication-platform-as-a-service) has also been listed among the top 10 best SaaS companies by G2 Crowd. With solid financials, strong organic growth and increasing interest in developer tool-focused companies (from the market and with top technical talent), we’re heading into an exciting period of growth and acceleration. https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/cometchat">CometChat is backed by seasoned investors such as iSeed Ventures, Range Ventures, Silicon Badia, eonCapital and Matchstick Ventures.

A global business from the start, we have 60+  team members across our Denver and Mumbai offices serving over 50,000 customers around the world. We’ve had an exciting journey so far, and we know this is just the beginning!

CometChat’s Mission

Enable meaningful connections between real people in an increasingly digital world.

CometChat’s Products

CometChat offers a robust suite of cloud hosted text, voice and video options that meet businesses where they are–whether they need drag and drop plugins that can be ready within 30 minutes or if they want more advanced features and can invest development resources to launch the experience that will best serve their users. 

● Quickly build a reliable & full featured chat experience into any mobile or web app

● Fully customizable SDKs and API designed to help companies ship faster

At every step, CometChat helps customers solve complex infrastructure, performance and security challenges, regardless of the platform. But there is so much more! With over 20 ready to use extensions, customers can build an experience and get the data, analysis and insights they need to drive their business forward.

 CometChat’s solutions are perfect for every kind of chat including:

● Social community – Allowing people in online communities to interact without moving the conversation to another platform

● Marketplace – Enabling communications between buyers and sellers

● Events – Bringing thousands of users together to interact without diminishing the quality of the experience

● Telemedicine – Making connections between patients and providers more accessible

● Dating – Keeping people engaged while they connect with one another

● And more!

CometChat is committed to fostering a culture of innovation & collaboration. Our people are our strength so we respect and nurture their individual talent and potential. Join us if you are looking to be a part of a high growth team!

Position Overview & Priorities:

The DevOps Engineer will be responsible for effective provisioning, installation/configuration, operation, and maintenance of systems and software using Infrastructure as Code. This can include the provision of cloud instances, streamlining deployments, configuring virtual instances, scaling out DB servers.

Primary responsibility would be:

• Oversight of all server environments, from Dev through Production.
• Work on an infrastructure that is 100% on AWS.
• Work on CI/CD tooling which is used to build and deploy code to our cloud.
• Assist with day-to-day issue management.
• Work on internal tooling which simplifies workflows.
• Research, design and implement solutions for fault tolerance, monitoring, performance enhancement, capacity optimization, and configuration management of systems and applications.

Work Location:

We operate on a Hybrid model – you choose where you work from! Remotely or from our offices. Currently, our talent is spread across 14 different cities globally.

Prioritized Experiences and Capabilities:

• 2-4 years of experience working as a DevOps Engineer/currently practicing DevOps methodology
• Experience in AWS Infrastructure
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (Cloud Formation / Terraform, Puppet / Chef / Ansible)
• Strong background in Linux/Unix Administration
• DevOps automation with CI/CD, a pipeline that enforces proper versioning and branching practices
• Experience in Docker and Kubernetes.

We are looking for a full-time remote DevOps Engineer who has worked with CI/CD automation, big data pipelines and Cloud Infrastructure, to solve complex technical challenges at scale that will reshape the healthcare industry for generations. You will get the opportunity to be involved in the latest tech in big data engineering, novel machine learning pipelines and highly scalable backend development. The successful candidates will be working in a team of highly skilled and experienced developers, data scientists and CTO.

Job Requirements

• Experience deploying, automating, maintaining, and improving complex services and pipelines • Strong understanding of DevOps tools/process/methodologies
• Experience with AWS Cloud Formation and AWS CLI is essential
• The ability to work to project deadlines efficiently and with minimum guidance
• A positive attitude and enjoys working within a global distributed team

Skills

• Highly proficient working with CI/CD and automating infrastructure provisioning
• Deep understanding of AWS Cloud platform and hands on experience setting up and maintaining with large scale implementations
• Experience with JavaScript/TypeScript, Node, Python and Bash/Shell Scripting
• Hands on experience with Docker and container orchestration
• Experience setting up and maintaining big data pipelines, Serverless stacks and containers infrastructure
• An interest in healthcare and medical sectors
• Technical degree with 4 plus years’ infrastructure and automation experience

Mandatory Skills Sets                                                                   

• Excellent problem-solving skills in technical challenges
• Deep knowledge of at least one cloud platform (AWS Preferred)
• Understanding of Latest cloud computing technologies
• Experience in architecting solutions based on knowledge of infrastructure & application architectures including the integration approaches
• Complete hands-on with ability to grasp evolving technologies and coding languages
• Excellent communication skills which would involve customer facing role
• Design thinking
• Customer facing skills and strong technical capabilities to review the teams work as well as guide the team
• Experience working/building/contributing to proposals for architecture, estimations

Preferred Skills Sets                                                                      

• Experience architecting infrastructure solutions using both Linux/Unix and Windows with specific recommendations on server, load balancing, HA/DR, & storage architectures.
• Experience architecting or deploying Cloud/Virtualization solutions in enterprise customers.
• Person must have performed Application Architect Role for 3+ years
• AWS platform specific experience a bonus.
• Enterprise application and database architecture a bonus.

Your skills and experience should cover:

• 5+ years of experience with developing, deploying, and debugging solutions on the AWS platform using ALL AWS services such as S3, IAM, Lambda, API Gateway, RDS, Cognito, Cloudtrail, CodePipeline, Cloud Formation, Cloudwatch and WAF (Web Application Firewall).

• Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certified Developer: Associate, is required; Amazon Web Services (AWS) DevOps Engineer: Professional, preferred.

• 5+ years of experience using one or more modern programming languages (Python, Node.js).

• Hands-on experience migrating data to the AWS cloud platform

• Experience with Scrum/Agile methodology.

• Good understanding of core AWS services, uses, and basic AWS architecture best practices (including security and scalability)

• Experience with AWS Data Storage Tools.

• Experience in Configure and implement AWS tools such as CloudWatch, CloudTrail and direct system logs for monitoring.

• Experience working with GIT, or similar tools.

• Ability to communicate and represent AWS Recommendations and Standards.

The following areas are highly advantageous:

• Experience with Docker

• Experience with PostgreSQL database