DevOps Engineer

Key responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps Services (Azure Pipelines) and Git-based workflows.

• Implement and manage infrastructure as code (IaC) using ARM templates, Bicep, and/or Terraform for repeatable environment provisioning.

• Containerize applications (Docker) and manage container orchestration platforms such as AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service).

• Automate build, test, release, and rollback processes; integrate automated testing and quality gates into pipelines.

• Monitor and improve platform reliability and observability using logging and monitoring tools (e.g., Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Prometheus, Grafana).

• Drive platform security and compliance through pipeline controls, secrets management (Key Vault / Vault), and secure configuration practices.

• Implement cost-optimization and governance for Azure resources (tags, policies, budgets).

• Troubleshoot build/release failures, production incidents, and performance bottlenecks; perform root-cause analysis and implement permanent fixes.

• Mentor developers in Git workflows, pipeline authoring, best practices for IaC, and cloud-native design.

• Maintain clear documentation: runbooks, deployment playbooks, architecture diagrams, and pipeline templates. 

Required skills & experience

• 4+ years hands-on experience working with Azure and cloud-native application delivery.

• Deep experience with Azure DevOps (Repos, Pipelines, Artifacts, Boards).

• Strong IaC skills with Terraform, ARM templates, or Bicep.

• Solid experience with CI/CD design and YAML pipeline authoring.

• Practical knowledge of containerization (Docker) and Kubernetes — preferably AKS.

• Scripting skills: PowerShell, Bash, and/or Python for automation.

• Experience with Git workflows (branching strategies, PRs, code reviews).

• Familiarity with configuration management and secrets management (Azure Key Vault, HashiCorp Vault).

• Understanding of networking, identity (Azure AD), and security fundamentals in Azure.

• Strong troubleshooting, debugging, and incident response skills.

• Good collaboration and communication skills; ability to work across teams.

Certification

AZ-400: Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert or AZ-104 or AZ 305 or Terraform Associate.

Job Summary:

We are looking for a highly skilled and experienced DevOps Engineer who will be responsible for the deployment, configuration, and troubleshooting of various infrastructure and application environments. The candidate must have a proficient understanding of CI/CD pipelines, container orchestration, and cloud services, with experience in AWS services like EKS, EC2, ECS, EBS, ELB, S3, Route 53, RDS, ALB, etc., in a highly available and scalable production environment. The DevOps Engineer will be responsible for monitoring, automation, troubleshooting, security, user management, reporting, migrations, upgrades, disaster recovery, and infrastructure restoration, among other tasks. They will also work with application teams on infrastructure design and issues, and architect solutions to optimally meet business needs.

Responsibilities:

• Deploy, configure, and troubleshoot various infrastructure and application environments
• Work with AWS services like EC2, ECS, EBS, ELB, S3, Route 53, RDS, ALB, etc., in a highly available and scalable production environment
• Monitor, automate, troubleshoot, secure, maintain users, and report on infrastructure and applications
• Collaborate with application teams on infrastructure design and issues
• Architect solutions that optimally meet business needs
• Implement CI/CD pipelines and automate deployment processes
• Disaster recovery and infrastructure restoration
• Restore/Recovery operations from backups
• Automate routine tasks
• Execute company initiatives in the infrastructure space
• Expertise with observability tools like ELK, Prometheus, Grafana , Loki

Qualifications:

• Proficient understanding of CI/CD pipelines, container orchestration, and various cloud services
• Experience with AWS services like EC2, ECS, EBS, ELB, S3, Route 53, RDS, ALB, etc.
• Experience in monitoring, automation, troubleshooting, security, user management, reporting, migrations, upgrades, disaster recovery, and infrastructure restoration
• Experience in architecting solutions that optimally meet business needs
• Experience with scripting languages (e.g., Shell, Python) and infrastructure as code (IaC) tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation)
• Strong understanding of system concepts like high availability, scalability, and redundancy
• Ability to work with application teams on infrastructure design and issues
• Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills
• Experience with automation of routine tasks
• Good communication and interpersonal skills

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field
• 5 to 10 years of experience as a DevOps Engineer or in a related role
• Experience with observability tools like ELK, Prometheus, Grafana

Working Conditions:

The DevOps Engineer will work in a fast-paced environment, collaborating with various application teams, stakeholders, and management. They will work both independently and in teams, and they may need to work extended hours or be on call to handle infrastructure emergencies.

Note: This is a remote role. The team member is expected to be in the Bangalore office for one week each quarter.

What You’ll Do:

We’re looking for a skilled DevOps Engineer to help us build and maintain reliable, secure, and scalable infrastructure. You will work closely with our development, product, and security teams to streamline deployments, improve performance, and ensure cloud infrastructure resilience.

Responsibilities:

● Deploy, manage, and monitor infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

● Build CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and integrate them with Git workflows

● Design and manage Kubernetes clusters and helm-based deployments

● Manage infrastructure as code using Terraform

● Set up logging, monitoring, and alerting (Stackdriver, Prometheus, Grafana)

● Ensure security best practices across cloud resources, networks, and secrets

● Automate repetitive operations and improve system reliability

● Collaborate with developers to troubleshoot and resolve issues in staging/production environments

What We’re Looking For:

Required Skills:

● 1–3 years of hands-on experience in a DevOps or SRE role

● Strong knowledge of GCP services (IAM, GKE, Cloud Run, VPC, Cloud Build, etc.)

● Proficiency in Kubernetes (deployment, scaling, troubleshooting)

● Experience with Terraform for infrastructure provisioning

● CI/CD pipeline setup using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or similar tools

● Understanding of DevSecOps principles and cloud security practices

● Good command over Linux, shell scripting, and basic networking concepts

Nice to have:

● Experience with Docker, Helm, ArgoCD

● Exposure to other cloud platforms (AWS, Azure)

● Familiarity with incident response and disaster recovery planning

● Knowledge of logging and monitoring tools like ELK, Prometheus, Grafana

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent work experience

Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure and services, such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform

Experience with infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation

Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or PowerShell

Familiarity with DevOps methodologies and tools such as Git, Jenkins, or Ansible

Strong problem-solving and analytical skills

Excellent communication and collaboration skills

Ability to work independently and as part of a team

Willingness to learn new technologies and tools as required

Why LiftOff? 

We at LiftOff specialize in product creation, for our main forte lies in helping Entrepreneurs realize their dream. We have helped businesses and entrepreneurs launch more than 70 plus products.

Many on the team are serial entrepreneurs with a history of successful exits.

As a Devops Engineer, you will work directly with our founders and alongside our engineers on a variety of software projects covering various languages, frameworks, and application architectures.

Must Have 

*Work experience of at least 2 years with Kubernetes.

*Hands-on experience working with Kubernetes. Preferably on Azure Cloud.

*Well-versed with Kubectl

*Experience in using Azure Monitor, setting up analytics and reports for Azure containers and services.

*Monitoring and observability

*Setting Alerts and auto-scaling

Nice to have

*Scripting and automation

*Experience with Jenkins or any sort of CI/CD pipelines

*Past experience in setting up cloud infrastructure, configurations and database backups

*Experience with Azure App Service

*Experience of setting up web socket-based applications.

*Working knowledge of Azure APIM

We are a group of passionate people driven by core values. We strive to make every process transparent and have flexible work timings along with excellent startup culture and vibe.

Task:

• Need to run our software products in different international environments (on premise and cloud providers)
• Support the developers while debugging issues
• Analyse and monitor software during runtime to find bugs, performance issues and plan growth of the system
• Integrate new technologies to support our products while growing in the market
• Develop Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment Pipelines
• Maintain our on premise hosted servers and applications, like operating system upgrades, software upgrades, introducing new database versions etc.
• Automation of task to reduce amount of human errors and parallelize work

We wish:

• Basic OS knowledge (Debian, CentOS, Suse Enterprise Linux)
• Webserver administration and optimization (Apache, Traefik)
• Database administration and optimization (Mysql/MariaDB, Oracle, Elasticsearch)
• jvm administration and optimization application server administration and optimization (Servicemix, Karaf, Glassfish, Springboot)
• Scripting experience (Perl, Python, PHP, Java)
• Monitoring experience (Icinga/Nagios, Appdynamics, Prometheus, Grafana)
• Knowledge container management (Docker/ContainerD, DC/OS, Kubernetes)
• Experience with automatic deployment processes (Ansible, Gitlab-CI, Helm)
• Define and optimize processes for system maintenance, continuous integration, and continuous delivery
• Excellent communication skill & proficiency in English is necessary
• Leadership skill with team motivational approach
• Good Team player

We Offer:

• Freedom to realise your own ideas & individual career & development opportunity.
• A motivating work environment, flat hierarchical structure, numerous company events which cannot be forgotten and fun at work place with flexibilities.
• Professional challenges and career development opportunities.

Your Contact for this position is Janki Raval .

Would you like to become part of this highly innovative, dynamic, and exciting world?

We look forward to your expressive Resume.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Responsible for design, implementation, and continuous improvement on automated CI/CD infrastructure
• Displays technical leadership and oversight of implementation and deployment planning, system integration, ongoing data validation processes, quality assurance, delivery, operations, and sustainability of technical solutions
• Responsible for designing topology to meet requirements for uptime, availability, scalability, robustness, fault tolerance & security
• Implement proactive measures for automated detection and resolution of recurring operational issues
• Lead operational support team manage incidents, document root cause and tracking preventive measures
• Identifying and deploying cybersecurity measures by continuously validating/fixing vulnerability assessment reports and risk management
• Responsible for the design and development of tools, installation procedures
• Develops and maintains accurate estimates, timelines, project plans, and status reports
• Organize and maintain packaging and deployment of various internal modules and third-party vendor libraries
• Responsible for the employment, timely performance evaluation, counselling, employee development, and discipline of assigned employees.
• Participates in calls and meetings with customers, vendors, and internal teams on regular basis.
• Perform infrastructure cost analysis and optimization

SKILLS & ABILITIES

Experience: Minimum of 10 years of experience with good technical knowledge regarding build, release, and systems engineering

Technical Skills:

• Experience with DevOps toolchains such as Docker, Rancher, Kubernetes, Bitbucket
• Experience with Apache, Nginx, Tomcat, Prometheus ,Grafana
• Ability to learn/use a wide variety of open-source technologies and tools
• Sound understanding of cloud technologies preferably AWS technologies
• Linux, Windows, Scripting, Configuration Management, Build and Release Engineering
• 6 years of experience in DevOps practices, with a good understanding of DevOps and Agile principles
• Good scripting skills (Python/Perl/Ruby/Bash)
• Experience with standard continuous integration tools Jenkins/Bitbucket Pipelines
• Work on software configuration management systems (Puppet/Chef/Salt/Ansible)
• Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Outlook) and other business productivity tools
• Working knowledge on HSM and PKI (Good to have)

Location:

• Bangalore

Experience:

• 10 + Years.