DevOps Engineer

About GradRight

Our vision is to be the world’s leading Ed-Fin Tech company dedicated to making higher education accessible and affordable to all. Our mission is to drive transparency and accountability in the global higher education sector and create significant impact using the power of technology, data science and collaboration.

GradRight is the world’s first SaaS ecosystem that brings together students, universities and financial institutions in an integrated manner. It enables students to find and fund high return college education, universities to engage and select the best-fit students and banks to lend in an effective and efficient manner.

In the last three years, we have enabled students to get the best deals on a $ 2.8+ Billion of loan requests and facilitated disbursements of more than $ 350+ Million in loans. GradRight won the HSBC Fintech Innovation Challenge supported by the Ministry of Electronics & IT, Government of India & was among the top 7 global finalists in The PIEoneer awards, UK.

GradRight’s team possesses extensive domestic and international experience in the launch and scale-up of premier higher education institutions. It is led by alumni of IIT Delhi, BITS Pilani, IIT Roorkee, ISB Hyderabad and University of Pennsylvania. GradRight is a Delaware, USA registered company with a wholly owned subsidiary in India. 

About the Role

We are looking for a passionate DevOps Engineer with hands-on experience in AWS cloud infrastructure, containerization, and orchestration. The ideal candidate will be responsible for building, automating, and maintaining scalable cloud solutions, ensuring smooth CI/CD pipelines, and supporting development and operations teams.

Core Responsibilities

Design, implement, and manage scalable, secure, and highly available infrastructure on AWS.

Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, or GitHub Actions.

Containerize applications using Docker and manage deployments with Kubernetes (EKS, self-managed, or other distributions).

Monitor system performance, availability, and security using tools like CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK stack.

Collaborate with development teams to optimize application performance and deployment processes.

Required Skills & Experience

3–4 years of professional experience as a DevOps Engineer or similar role.

Strong expertise in AWS services (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, EKS, etc.).

Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes (EKS or self-hosted clusters).

Proficiency in CI/CD pipeline design and automation.

Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform / AWS CloudFormation).

Solid understanding of Linux/Unix systems and shell scripting.

Knowledge of monitoring, logging, and alerting tools.

Familiarity with networking concepts (DNS, Load Balancing, Security Groups, Firewalls).

Basic programming/scripting experience in Python, Bash, or Go.

Nice to Have

Exposure to microservices architecture and service mesh (Istio/Linkerd).

Knowledge of serverless (AWS Lambda, API Gateway).

About the Role:

We are seeking a talented and passionate DevOps Engineer to join our dynamic team. You will be responsible for designing, implementing, and managing scalable and secure infrastructure across multiple cloud platforms. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of DevOps best practices and a proven track record in automating and optimizing complex workflows.

Key Responsibilities:

Cloud Management:

• Design, implement, and manage cloud infrastructure on AWS, Azure, and GCP.
• Ensure high availability, scalability, and security of cloud resources.

Containerization & Orchestration:

• Develop and manage containerized applications using Docker.
• Deploy, scale, and manage Kubernetes clusters.

CI/CD Pipelines:

• Build and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines to automate the software delivery process.
• Implement monitoring and alerting to ensure pipeline efficiency.

Version Control & Collaboration:

• Manage code repositories and workflows using Git.
• Collaborate with development teams to optimize branching strategies and code reviews.

Automation & Scripting:

• Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration using tools like Terraform, Ansible, or similar.
• Write scripts to optimize and maintain workflows.

Monitoring & Logging:

• Implement and maintain monitoring solutions to ensure system health and performance.
• Analyze logs and metrics to troubleshoot and resolve issues.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• 3-5 years of experience with AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Proficiency in containerization tools like Docker and orchestration tools like Kubernetes.
• Hands-on experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines.
• Proficient in using Git for version control.
• Experience with scripting languages such as Bash, Python, or PowerShell.
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Solid understanding of networking, security, and system administration.
• Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
• Strong communication and teamwork skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Certifications such as AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Azure DevOps Engineer, or Google Professional DevOps Engineer.
• Experience with monitoring tools like Prometheus, Grafana, or ELK Stack.
• Familiarity with serverless architectures and microservices.

About us:

HappyFox is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) support platform. We offer an enterprise-grade help desk ticketing system and intuitively designed live chat software.

We serve over 12,000 companies in 70+ countries. HappyFox is used by companies that span across education, media, e-commerce, retail, information technology, manufacturing, non-profit, government and many other verticals that have an internal or external support function.

To know more, Visit! - https://www.happyfox.com/

Responsibilities:

• Build and scale production infrastructure in AWS for the HappyFox platform and its products.
• Research, Build/Implement systems, services and tooling to improve uptime, reliability and maintainability of our backend infrastructure. And to meet our internal SLOs and customer-facing SLAs.
• Proficient in managing/patching servers with Unix-based operating systems like Ubuntu Linux.
• Proficient in writing automation scripts or building infrastructure tools using Python/Ruby/Bash/Golang
• Implement consistent observability, deployment and IaC setups
• Patch production systems to fix security/performance issues
• Actively respond to escalations/incidents in the production environment from customers or the support team
• Mentor other Infrastructure engineers, review their work and continuously ship improvements to production infrastructure.
• Build and manage development infrastructure, and CI/CD pipelines for our teams to ship & test code faster.
• Participate in infrastructure security audits

Requirements:

• At least 5 years of experience in handling/building Production environments in AWS.
• At least 2 years of programming experience in building API/backend services for customer-facing applications in production.
• Demonstrable knowledge of TCP/IP, HTTP and DNS fundamentals.
• Experience in deploying and managing production Python/NodeJS/Golang applications to AWS EC2, ECS or EKS.
• Proficient in containerised environments such as Docker, Docker Compose, Kubernetes
• Proficient in managing/patching servers with Unix-based operating systems like Ubuntu Linux.
• Proficient in writing automation scripts using any scripting language such as Python, Ruby, Bash etc.,
• Experience in setting up and managing test/staging environments, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience in IaC tools such as Terraform or AWS CDK
• Passion for making systems reliable, maintainable, scalable and secure.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to address, escalate and express technical ideas clearly
• Bonus points – if you have experience with Nginx, Postgres, Redis, and Mongo systems in production.

About us:

HappyFox is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) support platform. We offer an enterprise-grade help desk ticketing system and intuitively designed live chat software.

We serve over 12,000 companies in 70+ countries. HappyFox is used by companies that span across education, media, e-commerce, retail, information technology, manufacturing, non-profit, government and many other verticals that have an internal or external support function.

To know more, Visit! - https://www.happyfox.com/

Responsibilities

• Build and scale production infrastructure in AWS for the HappyFox platform and its products.
• Research, Build/Implement systems, services and tooling to improve uptime, reliability and maintainability of our backend infrastructure. And to meet our internal SLOs and customer-facing SLAs.
• Implement consistent observability, deployment and IaC setups
• Lead incident management and actively respond to escalations/incidents in the production environment from customers and the support team.
• Hire/Mentor other Infrastructure engineers and review their work to continuously ship improvements to production infrastructure and its tooling.
• Build and manage development infrastructure, and CI/CD pipelines for our teams to ship & test code faster.
• Lead infrastructure security audits

Requirements

• At least 7 years of experience in handling/building Production environments in AWS.
• At least 3 years of programming experience in building API/backend services for customer-facing applications in production.
• Proficient in managing/patching servers with Unix-based operating systems like Ubuntu Linux.
• Proficient in writing automation scripts or building infrastructure tools using Python/Ruby/Bash/Golang
• Experience in deploying and managing production Python/NodeJS/Golang applications to AWS EC2, ECS or EKS.
• Experience in security hardening of infrastructure, systems and services.
• Proficient in containerised environments such as Docker, Docker Compose, Kubernetes
• Experience in setting up and managing test/staging environments, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience in IaC tools such as Terraform or AWS CDK
• Exposure/Experience in setting up or managing Cloudflare, Qualys and other related tools
• Passion for making systems reliable, maintainable, scalable and secure.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to address, escalate and express technical ideas clearly
• Bonus points – Hands-on experience with Nginx, Postgres, Postfix, Redis or Mongo systems.

About BootLabs

https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.bootlabs.in/&;sa=D&source=calendar&ust=1667803146567128&usg=AOvVaw1r5g0R_vYM07k6qpoNvvh6" target="_blank">https://www.bootlabs.in/

-We are a Boutique Tech Consulting partner, specializing in Cloud Native Solutions. 
-We are obsessed with anything “CLOUD”. Our goal is to seamlessly automate the development lifecycle, and modernize infrastructure and its associated applications.
-With a product mindset, we enable start-ups and enterprises on the cloud
transformation, cloud migration, end-to-end automation and managed cloud services. 
-We are eager to research, discover, automate, adapt, empower and deliver quality solutions on time.
-We are passionate about customer success. With the right blend of experience and exuberant youth in our in-house team, we have significantly impacted customers.

• AWS 

•  Azure

• GCP

As a DevOps Engineer, you are responsible for setting up and maintaining the GIT repository, DevOps tools like Jenkins, UCD, Docker, Kubernetes, Jfrog Artifactory, Cloud monitoring tools, and Cloud security.

• Set up, configure, and maintain GIT repos, Jenkins, UCD, etc. for multi-hosting cloud environments.
• Architect and maintain the server infrastructure in AWS. Build highly resilient infrastructure following industry best practices.
• Work on Docker images and maintain Kubernetes clusters.
• Develop and maintain the automation scripts using Ansible or other available tools.
• Maintain and monitor cloud Kubernetes Clusters and patching when necessary.
• Work on Cloud security tools to keep applications secured.
• Participate in software development lifecycle, specifically infra design, execution, and debugging required to achieve a successful implementation of integrated solutions within the portfolio.
• Have the necessary technical and professional expertise.

• Minimum 5-12 years of experience in the IT industry.
• Expertise in implementing and managing DevOps CI/CD pipeline.
• Experience in DevOps automation tools. Well versed with DevOps Frameworks, and Agile.
• Working knowledge of scripting using Shell, Python, Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, or chef.
• Experience and good understanding of any Cloud like AWS, Azure, or Google cloud.
• Knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes is required.
• Proficient in troubleshooting skills with proven abilities in resolving complex technical issues.
• Experience working with ticketing tools.
• Middleware technologies knowledge or database knowledge is desirable.
• Experience with Jira is a plus.

A wholesome opportunity in a fast-paced environment that will enable you to juggle between concepts, yet maintain the quality of content, interact, and share your ideas and have loads of learning while at work. Work with a team of highly talented young professionals and enjoy the benefits of being here.

It  is a rapidly growing fintech SaaS firm that propels business growth while focusing on human motivation. Backed by Giift and Apis Partners Growth Fund II,offers a suite of three products - Plum, Empuls, and Compass. Works with more than 2000 clients across 10+ countries and over 2.5 million users. Headquartered in Bengaluru, It  is a 300+ strong team with four global offices in San Francisco, Dublin, Singapore, New Delhi.

We look forward to connecting with you. As you may take time to review this opportunity, we will wait for a reasonable time of around 3-5 days before we screen the collected applications and start lining up job discussions with the hiring manager. We however assure you that we will attempt to maintain a reasonable time window for successfully closing this requirement. The candidates will be kept informed and updated on the feedback and application status.

Engineering Leader, Cloud Infrastructure.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Do you thrive on solving complex technical problems? Do you want to be at the cutting edge of technology? If so,we’re interested in speaking with you!

Your Impact:

We’re looking for a seasoned engineering leader in the Cloud team that is responsible for building, operating, and maintaining a customer-facing DBaaS service in multiple public clouds (AWS, GCP, and Azure). The service supports unified multiverse management of YugabyteDB, including fault-domain aware provisioning, rolling upgrades, security,

networking, monitoring, and day-2 operations (backups, scaling, billing etc). If you’re a strong leader who exemplifies collaboration, who is driven and thrive in a fast-paced startup environment, and who has a strong desire to build an internet-scale, extensible cloud based service with strong emphasis on simplicity and user experience, this job is for

you.

You Will:

Lead, inspire, and influence to make sure your team is successful

Partner with the recruiting team to attract and retain high-quality and diverse talent

Establish great rapport with other development teams, Product Managers, Sales and Customer Success tomaintain high levels of visibility, efficiency, and collaboration

Ensure teams have appropriate technical direction, leadership and balance between short-term impact andlong term architectural vision.

Occasionally contributing to development tasks such as coding and feature verifications to assist teamswith release commitments, to gain an understanding of the deeply technical product as well as to keepyour technical acumen sharp.

You'll need:

BS/MS degree in CS-or- a related field with 5+ years of engineering management experience leading productive, high-functioning teams

Strong fundamentals in distributed systems design and development

Ability to hire while ensuring a high hiring bar, keep engineers motivated, coach/mentor, and handle performance management

Experience running production services in Public Clouds such as AWS, GCP, and Azure

Experience with running large stateful data systems in the Cloud

Prior knowledge of Cloud architecture and implementation features (multi-tenancy, containerization,orchestration, elastic scalability)

A great track record of shipping features and hitting deadlines consistently; should be able to move fast,build in increments and iterate; have a sense of urgency, aggressive mindset towards achieving results and excellent prioritization skills; able to anticipate future technical needs for the product and craft plans to realize them

Ability to influence the team, peers, and upper management using effective communication and collaborative techniques; focused on building and maintaining a culture of collaboration within the team.

• Azure Devops - Working experience in Azure yaml pipelines. (Note – Some say they worked in yaml but it’s for Jenkins and not Azure devops)
• Azure – Infrastructure automation using Terraform/ARM templates. (Note – Some say that they worked in terraform but it’s for AWS and not Azure). Please confirm Terraform for Azure infrastructure automation.
• Powershell scripting to automate and deploy .Net applications.