DevOps Engineer

We are seeking an experienced Lead DevOps Engineer with deep expertise in Kubernetes infrastructure design and implementation. This role requires someone who can architect, build, and manage enterprise-grade Kubernetes clusters from the ground up. You’ll lead modernization initiatives, shape infrastructure strategy, and work with cutting-edge cloud-native technologies.

🚀 Key Responsibilities

Infrastructure Design & Implementation

• Architect and design enterprise-grade Kubernetes clusters across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
• Build production-ready Kubernetes infrastructure with HA, scalability, and security best practices.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code with Terraform, Helm, and GitOps workflows.
• Set up monitoring, logging, and observability for Kubernetes workloads.
• Design and execute backup and disaster recovery strategies for containerized applications.

Leadership & Team Management

• Lead a team of 3–4 DevOps engineers, providing technical mentorship.
• Drive best practices in containerization, orchestration, and cloud-native development.
• Collaborate with development teams to optimize deployment strategies.
• Conduct code reviews and maintain infrastructure quality standards.
• Build knowledge-sharing culture with documentation and training.

Operational Excellence

• Manage and scale CI/CD pipelines integrated with Kubernetes.
• Implement security policies (RBAC, network policies, container scanning).
• Optimize cluster performance and cost-efficiency.
• Automate operations to minimize manual interventions.
• Ensure 99.9% uptime for production workloads.

Strategic Planning

• Define the infrastructure roadmap aligned with business needs.
• Evaluate and adopt new cloud-native technologies.
• Perform capacity planning and cloud cost optimization.
• Drive risk assessment and mitigation strategies.

🛠 Must-Have Technical Skills

Kubernetes Expertise

• 6+ years of hands-on Kubernetes experience in production.
• Deep knowledge of Kubernetes architecture (etcd, API server, scheduler, kubelet).
• Advanced Kubernetes networking (CNI, Ingress, Service mesh).
• Strong grasp of Kubernetes storage (CSI, PVs, StorageClasses).
• Experience with Operators and Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs).

Infrastructure as Code

• Terraform (advanced proficiency).
• Helm (developing and managing complex charts).
• Config management tools (Ansible, Chef, Puppet).
• GitOps workflows (ArgoCD, Flux).

Cloud Platforms

• Hands-on experience with at least 2 of the following:
• AWS: EKS, EC2, VPC, IAM, CloudFormation
• Azure: AKS, VNets, ARM templates
• GCP: GKE, Compute Engine, Deployment Manager

CI/CD & DevOps Tools

• Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps
• Docker (advanced optimization and security practices)
• Container registries (ECR, ACR, GCR, Docker Hub)
• Strong Git workflows and branching strategies

Monitoring & Observability

• Prometheus & Grafana (metrics and dashboards)
• ELK/EFK stack (centralized logging)
• Jaeger/Zipkin (tracing)
• AlertManager (intelligent alerting)

💡 Good-to-Have Skills

• Service Mesh (Istio, Linkerd, Consul)
• Serverless (Knative, OpenFaaS, AWS Lambda)
• Running databases in Kubernetes (Postgres, MongoDB operators)
• ML pipelines (Kubeflow, MLflow)
• Security tools (Aqua, Twistlock, Falco, OPA)
• Compliance (SOC2, PCI-DSS, GDPR)
• Python/Go for automation
• Advanced Shell scripting (Bash/PowerShell)

🎓 Qualifications

• Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• Certifications (preferred):
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
• Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)
• Cloud provider certifications (AWS/Azure/GCP).

Experience

• 6–7 years of DevOps/Infrastructure engineering.
• 4+ years of Kubernetes in production.
• 2+ years in a lead role managing teams.
• Experience with large-scale distributed systems and microservices.

Requirements

• 3+ years work experience writing clean production code
• Well versed with maintaining infrastructure as code (Terraform, Cloudformation etc). High proficiency with Terraform / Terragrunt is absolutely critical
• Experience of setting CI/CD pipelines from scratch
• Experience with AWS(EC2, ECS, RDS, Elastic Cache etc), AWS lambda, Kubernetes, Docker, ServiceMesh
• Experience with ETL pipelines, Bigdata infra
• Understanding of common security issues

Roles / Responsibilities:

• Write terraform modules for deploying different component of infrastructure in AWS like Kubernetes, RDS, Prometheus, Grafana, Static Website
• Configure networking, autoscaling. continuous deployment, security and multiple environments
• Make sure the infrastructure is SOC2, ISO 27001 and HIPAA compliant
• Automate all the steps to provide a seamless experience to developers.

• 3+ years of relevant experience
• 2+ years experience with AWS (EC2, ECS, RDS, Elastic Cache, etc)
• Well versed with maintaining infrastructure as code (Terraform, Cloudformation, etc)
• Experience in setting CI/CD pipelines from scratch
• Knowledge of setting up and securing networks (VPN, Intranet, VPC, Peering, etc)
• Understanding of common security issues

About the role:

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.
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• 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

Q2 is seeking a team-focused Lead Release Engineer with a passion for managing releases to ensure we release quality software developed using Agile Scrum methodology.  Working within the Development team, the Release Manager will work in a fast-paced environment with Development, Test Engineering, IT, Product Management, Design, Implementations, Support and other internal teams to drive efficiencies, transparency, quality and predictability in our software delivery pipeline.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Provide leadership on cross-functional development focused software release process.
• Management of the product release cycle to new and existing clients including the build release process and any hotfix releases
• Support end-to-end process for production issue resolution including impact analysis of the issue, identifying the client impacts, tracking the fix through dev/testing and deploying the fix in various production branches.
• Work with engineering team to understand impacts of branches and code merges.
• Identify, communicate, and mitigate release delivery risks.
• Measure and monitor progress to ensure product features are delivered on time.
• Lead recurring release reporting/status meetings to include discussion around release scope, risks and challenges.
• Responsible for planning, monitoring, executing, and implementing the software release strategy.
• Establish completeness criteria for release of successfully tested software component and their dependencies to gate the delivery of releases to Implementation groups
• Serve as a liaison between business units to guarantee smooth and timely delivery of software packages to our Implementations and Support teams
• Create and analyze operational trends and data used for decision making, root cause analysis and performance measurement.
• Build partnerships, work collaboratively, and communicate effectively to achieve shared objectives.
• Make Improvements to processes to improve the experience and delivery for internal and external customers.
• Responsible for ensuring that all security, availability, confidentiality and privacy policies and controls are adhered to.

EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, or related field or equivalent experience.
• Minimum 4 years related experience in product release management role.
• Excellent understanding of software delivery lifecycle.
• Technical Background with experience in common Scrum and Agile practices preferred.
• Deep knowledge of software development processes, CI/CD pipelines and Agile Methodology
• Experience with tools like Jenkins, Bitbucket, Jira and Confluence.
• Familiarity with enterprise software deployment architecture and methodologies.
• Proven ability in building effective partnership with diverse groups in multiple locations/environments 
• Ability to convey technical concepts to business-oriented teams.
• Capable of assessing and communicating risks and mitigations while managing ambiguity.
• Experience managing customer and internal expectations while understanding the organizational and customer impact.
• Strong organizational, process, leadership, and collaboration skills.
• Strong verbal, written, and interpersonal skills.

What you need to have:

Experience of Linux

Experience using Python or Shell scripting (for Automation) 

Hands-on experience with Implementation of CI/CD Processes 

Experience working  with one cloud platforms (AWS or Azure or Google) 

Experience working with configuration management tools such as Ansible & Chef 

Experience working with   Containerization tool Docker.

Experience working with Container Orchestration tool Kubernetes.

Experience in source Control Management including SVN and/or Bitbucket

& GitHub

Experience with setup & management of monitoring tools like Nagios, Sensu & Prometheus or any other popular tools 

Hands-on experience in Linux, Scripting Language & AWS is mandatory

Troubleshoot and Triage development, Production issues

• 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

About the Company

• 💰 Early-stage, ed-tech, funded, growing, growing fast
• 🎯 Mission Driven: Make Indonesia competitive on a global scale
• 🥅 Build the best educational content and technology to advance STEM education
• 🥇 Students-First approach
• 🇮🇩 🇮🇳 Teams in India and Indonesia

Skillset 🧗🏼‍♀️

• You primarily identify as a DevOps/Infrastructure engineer and are comfortable working with systems and cloud-native services on AWS
• You can design, implement, and maintain secure and scalable infrastructure delivering cloud-based services
• You have experience operating and maintaining production systems in a Linux based public cloud environment
• You are familiar with cloud-native concepts - Containers, Lambdas, Orchestration (ECS, Kubernetes)
• You’re in love with system metrics and strive to help deliver improvements to systems all the time
• You can think in terms of Infrastructure as Code to build tools for automating deployment, monitoring, and operations of the platform
• You can be on-call once every few weeks to provide application support, incident management, and troubleshooting
• You’re fairly comfortable with GIT, AWS CLI, python, docker CLI, in general, all things CLI. Oh! Bash scripting too!
• You have high integrity, and you are reliable

What you can expect from us 👌🏼

☮️ Mentorship, growth, great work culture

• Mentorship and continuous improvement are a part of the team’s DNA. We have a battle-tested robust growth framework. You will have people to look up to and people looking up to you
• We are a people-first, high-trust, high-autonomy team
• We live in the TDD, Pair Programming, First Principles world

🌏 Remote done right

• Distributed does not mean working in isolation, feeling alone, being buried in Zoom calls
• Our leadership team has been WFH for 10+ years now and we know how remote teams work. This will be a place to belong
• A good balance between deep focussed work and collaborative work ⚖️

🖥️ Friendly, humane interview process

• 30-minute alignment check and screening call
• A short take-home coding assignment, no more than 2-3 hours. Time is precious
• Pair programming interview. Collaborate, work together. No sitting behind a desk and judging
• In-depth engineering discussion around your skills and career so far
• System design and architecture interview for seniors

What we ask from you👇🏼

• Bring your software engineering — both individual brilliance and collaborative skills
• Bring your good nature — we're building a team that supports each other
• Be vested or interested in the company vision