DevOps Engineer

About the Role

We are seeking an accomplished DevOps Lead with 12+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure, automation, Blockchain, and CI/CD processes. The DevOps Lead will play a pivotal role in architecting scalable cloud environments, driving automation, ensuring secure deployments, and enabling efficient software delivery pipelines. The role involves working with AWS, Huawei Cloud, Kubernetes, Terraform, blockchain-based infrastructure, and modern DevOps toolchains while providing leadership, technical guidance, and client-facing communication.

Key Responsibilities

Leadership & Team Management

● Lead, mentor, and grow a team of DevOps engineers, setting technical direction and ensuring adherence to best practices.

● Facilitate collaboration across engineering, QA, security, and blockchain development teams.

● Act as the primary technical liaison with clients, managing expectations, requirements, and solution delivery.

Infrastructure Automation & Management

● Architect, implement, and manage infrastructure as code (IaC) using Terraform across multi-cloud environments.

● Standardize environments across AWS, Digital Ocean, Huawei Cloud with a focus on scalability, reliability, and security.

● Manage provisioning, scaling, monitoring, and cost optimization of infrastructure resources.

CI/CD & Automation

● Build, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines supporting multiple applications and microservices.

● Integrate automated testing, static code analysis, and security scans into the pipelines.

● Implement blue-green / canary deployments and ensure zero downtime release strategies.

● Promote DevSecOps by embedding security policies into every phase of the delivery pipeline.

Containerization & Orchestration

● Deploy, manage, and monitor applications on Kubernetes clusters (EKS, CCE, or equivalent).

● Utilize Helm charts, Kustomize, and operators for environment consistency.

● Optimize container performance and manage networking, storage, and secrets.

Monitoring, Logging & Incident Response

● Implement and manage monitoring and alerting solutions (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, CloudWatch, Loki).

● Define SLOs, SLIs, and SLAs for production systems.

● Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and implement preventative measures.

Governance, Security & Compliance

● Implement best practices for secrets management, key rotation, and role-based access control.

● Integrate vulnerability scanning and security audits into pipelines.

Required Skills & Qualifications

● 12+ years of experience in DevOps, with at least 5+ years in a lead capacity.

● Proven expertise with Terraform and IaC across multiple environments.

● Strong hands-on experience with AWS and Huawei Cloud infrastructure services.

● Deep expertise in Kubernetes cluster administration, scaling, monitoring, and networking.

● Advanced experience designing CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or similar.

● Solid background in automated deployments, configuration management, and version control (Git, Ansible, Puppet, or Chef).

● Strong scripting and automation skills (Python, Bash, Go, or similar).

● Proficiency with monitoring/observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, CloudWatch, Datadog).

● Strong understanding of blockchain infrastructure, node operations, staking setups, and deployment automation.

● Knowledge of container security, network policies, and zero-trust principles.

● Excellent communication, client handling, and stakeholder management skills with proven ability to present complex DevOps concepts to non-technical audiences.

● Ability to design and maintain highly available, scalable, and fault-tolerant systems in production environments.

• Good knowledge of at least one language (C#, Java, Python, Go, PHP, Node.js)
• Have enough experience on application and infrastructure architectures
• Design and plan cloud solution architecture
• Design for security, network, and compliances
• Analyze and optimize technical and business processes
• Ensure solution and operational reliability
• Manage and provision cloud infrastructure
• Manage IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS solutions
• Design strategies around cloud governance, migration, Cloud operations and DevOps
• Design highly scalable, available, and reliable cloud applications
• Build and test applications
• Deploy applications on cloud
• Integration with cloud services

Certification:

• Architect level certificate of any cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure)

• 3 - 6 years of software development, and operations experience deploying and maintaining multi-tiered infrastructure and applications at scale.
• Design cloud infrastructure that is secure, scalable, and highly available on AWS
• Experience managing any distributed NoSQL system (Kafka/Cassandra/etc.)
• Experience with Containers, Microservices, deployment and service orchestration using Kubernetes, EKS (preferred), AKS or GKE.
• Strong scripting language knowledge, such as Python, Shell
• Experience and a deep understanding of Kubernetes.
• Experience in Continuous Integration and Delivery.
• Work collaboratively with software engineers to define infrastructure and deployment requirements
• Provision, configure and maintain AWS cloud infrastructure
• Ensure configuration and compliance with configuration management tools
• Administer and troubleshoot Linux-based systems
• Troubleshoot problems across a wide array of services and functional areas
• Build and maintain operational tools for deployment, monitoring, and analysis of AWS infrastructure and systems
• Perform infrastructure cost analysis and optimization

A network of the world's best developers - full-time, long-term remote software jobs with better compensation and career growth.  We enable our clients to accelerate their Cloud Offering, and Capitalize on Cloud.  We have our own IOT/AI platform and we provide professional services on that platform to build custom clouds for their IOT devices.  We also build mobile apps, run 24x7 devops/site reliability engineering for our clients.

This person MUST have:

• B.E Computer Science or equivalent
• 2+ Years of hands-on experience troubleshooting/setting up of the Linux environment, who can write shell scripts for any given requirement.
• 1+ Years of hands-on experience setting up/configuring AWS or GCP services from SCRATCH and maintaining them.
• 1+ Years of hands-on experience setting up/configuring Kubernetes & EKS and ensuring high availability of container orchestration.
• 1+ Years of hands-on experience setting up CICD from SCRATCH in Jenkins & Gitlab.
• Experience configuring/maintaining one monitoring tool.
• Excellent verbal & written communication skills.
• Candidates with certifications - AWS, GCP, CKA, etc will be preferred
• Hands-on experience with databases (Cassandra, MongoDB, MySQL, RDS).

Experience:

• Min 3 years of experience as SRE automation engineer building, running, and maintaining production sites. Not looking for candidates who have experience only as L1/L2 or Build & Deploy..

Location:

• Remotely, anywhere in India

Timings:

• The person is expected to deliver with both high speed and high quality as well as work for 40 Hours per week (~6.5 hours per day, 6 days per week) in shifts which will rotate every month.

Position:

• Full time/Direct
• We have great benefits such as PF, medical insurance, 12 annual company holidays, 12 PTO leaves per year, annual increments, Diwali bonus, spot bonuses and other incentives etc.
• We dont believe in locking in people with large notice periods.  You will stay here because you love the company.  We have only a 15 days notice period.

Hammoq is an exponentially growing Startup in US and UK. 

Design and implement secure automation solutions for development, testing, and production environments

• Build and deploy automation, monitoring, and analysis solutions

• Manage our continuous integration and delivery pipeline to maximize efficiency

• Implement industry best practices for system hardening and configuration management

• Secure, scale, and manage Linux virtual environments

• Develop and maintain solutions for operational administration, system/data backup, disaster recovery, and security/performance monitoring

• Continuously evaluate existing systems with industry standards, and make recommendations for improvement

Desired Skills & Experiences

• Bachelor’s or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

• Understanding of system administration in Linux environments

• Strong knowledge of configuration management tools

• Familiarity with continuous integration tools such as Jenkins, Travis CI, Circle CI

• Proficiency in scripting languages including Bash, Python, and JavaScript

• Strong communication and documentation skills

• An ability to drive to goals and milestones while valuing and maintaining a strong attention to detail

• Excellent judgment, analytical thinking, and problem-solving skills

• Full understanding of software development lifecycle best practices

• Self-motivated individual that possesses excellent time management and organizational skills
  
  In PM's Words 
  Bash scripting, Containerd(or docker), Linux Operating system basics, kubernetes, git, Jenkins ( or any pipeline management), GCP ( or idea on any cloud technology)
  
  Linux is major..most of the people are coming from Windows.. we need Linux.. and if windows is also there it will be added advantage
  
  There is utmost certainilty that you will be working with an amazing team...

DevOps Engineer responsibilities include deploying product updates, identifying production issues, and implementing integrations that meet customer needs. If you have a solid background in working with cloud technologies, set up efficient deployment processes, and are motivated to work with diverse and talented teams, we’d like to meet you.

Ultimately, you will execute and automate operational processes fast, accurately, and securely.

Skills and Experience

• 4+ years of experience in building infrastructure experience with Cloud Providers ( AWS, Azure, GCP)

• Experience in deploying containerized applications build on NodeJS/PHP/Python to kubernetes cluster.

• Experience in monitoring production workload with relevant metrics and dashboards.

• Experience in writing automation scripts using Shell, Python, Terraform, etc.

• Experience in following security practices while setting up the infrastructure. 

• Self-motivated, able, and willing to help where help is needed

• Able to build relationships, be culturally sensitive, have goal alignment, have learning agility  

Roles and Responsibilities

• Manage various resources across different cloud providers. (Azure, AWS, and GCP)

• Monitor and optimize infrastructure cost.

• Manage various kubernetes clusters with appropriate monitoring and alerting setup.

• Build CI/CD pipelines to orchestrate provisioning and deployment of various services into kubernetes infrastructure.

• Work closely with the development team on upcoming features to determine the correct infrastructure and related tools.

• Assist the support team with escalated customer issues.

• Develop, improve, and thoroughly document operational practices and procedures. 

• Responsible for setting up good security practices across various clouds.