DevOps Engineer

Senior DevOps Engineer

AWS Infrastructure, Kubernetes & Production Operations

📍 Mumbai (On-site) | Full-time | 5-8 years

About the Role:

Unico Connect is an AI-first technology partner that builds custom mobile, web, and AI products for clients across multiple geographies.

We are hiring a Senior DevOps Engineer for a dedicated client engagement building an AI platform that turns a written prompt into a working, deployed web application.

The platform runs entirely on our own Kubernetes on AWS in Mumbai: multiple clusters, self-hosted Kafka, PostgreSQL, Redis and a complete observability stack, with untrusted AI-generated code executing inside isolated sandboxes.

This role owns that infrastructure end to end.

The mandatory requirement is hands-on production ownership of self-managed Kubernetes and self-hosted stateful services.

This is not a managed-services role: almost nothing here is a click in a console, and there is no platform team above you to escalate to.

You will pair daily with the Tech Architect who owns the architecture, and you own its execution, which covers clusters, networking, pipelines, observability, isolation, and the monthly cloud bill as a number you can explain line by line.

The role carries a deliberate path into LLM infrastructure over the first year, and we are saying so up front because we want someone who wants that direction.

A typical week includes rehearsing a cluster upgrade in a lower environment, tracing an unexplained cost line to its source, tuning autoscaling so non-production shuts down cleanly overnight, and hardening the boundary that keeps AI-generated code away from everything else.

Responsibilities:

Kubernetes Platform Ownership

Own multiple EKS clusters separated by trust boundary, covering platform services, messaging, sandboxed build environments, and hosting for customers' published applications.

Node pools, taints and tolerations, resource requests versus limits, pod disruption budgets, and the scheduling decisions that determine whether a cluster is efficient or merely large.

Plan and execute version upgrades without customer-visible downtime.

Infrastructure as Code

Everything in Terraform, with no console changes that are not in code.

Build reusable cluster modules rather than copies.

Keep state and reality in sync, and treat drift as a defect.

CI/CD and Release Engineering

Own the GitHub Actions pipelines and self-hosted runners: OIDC-based AWS authentication with no stored credentials, image builds, and rollouts across development, QA and UAT.

Move manifest templating from scripted substitution to Kustomize or Helm.

Make a rollback as routine as a deploy.

Network Architecture and Workload Isolation

VPC and subnet design, ingress through load balancers and service mesh, and eBPF-based network policy.

The platform runs code we did not write, so the isolation boundary is a primary deliverable: default-deny egress, kernel-level sandboxing for untrusted workloads, no platform credentials inside tenant pods, and one project per pod with nothing shared between customers.

Observability

Operate a self-hosted stack of Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo, OpenTelemetry and Alertmanager.

Build alerts engineers trust rather than mute.

Know what belongs in a metric, a log and a trace, and keep metric cardinality under control as tenant count grows.

Autoscaling and Capacity

Node autoscaling with Karpenter, and workload autoscaling on the signal that actually matters, which is queue depth or a schedule rather than CPU wherever CPU misleads.

Implement scale-to-zero across non-production and warm-pool patterns where cold starts are unacceptable.

Size capacity from measurement, not assumption.

Cost Operations

Own the cloud bill as an engineering artifact.

Attribute spend per cluster and per environment, right-size against real utilisation, apply Spot where interruption is safe and never where it is not, and investigate any line you cannot explain.

Instance family selection is a cost decision: match the family to the resource that binds first.

Self-Hosted Stateful Services

Operate Kafka, PostgreSQL and Redis in-cluster, covering persistence, replication, failover, upgrades, and backups you have actually restored from.

Rehearse the restore and record how long it took.

Security Posture

IAM and workload identity, migration away from static credentials, secret management, web application firewall rules, and closing the gaps you find.

Credential rotation and least privilege are ongoing work, not a one-time project.

AI Infrastructure (Growth Path)

Within the first year, take on the infrastructure serving AI workloads: multi-provider LLM gateway and routing, token and cost attribution, rate-limit-aware capacity planning, LLM tracing with Langfuse, vector databases such as pgvector and Qdrant, and self-hosted embedding models including GPU nodes on Kubernetes.

This is inference operations, not model training.

AI-Assisted Engineering Discipline

Use Claude, Cursor, and similar tools day to day for infrastructure code, scripts, and pipelines.

Set the team standard for safe use, review, and validation of AI-generated infrastructure before it ships.

Requirements:

Hands-on Production Ownership of Self-Managed Kubernetes (Mandatory)

Must have personally operated a production Kubernetes estate with operational responsibility including oncall, incident response, and upgrade ownership.

You understand why a cluster ends up over-provisioned and how to fix it.

Managed-platform-only experience, or Kubernetes limited to deploying into a cluster someone else runs, does not qualify.

5+ Years of Overall Engineering Experience

With at least 3 years in DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering.

This is not an ML science role.

A strong infrastructure background with genuine appetite for AI infrastructure is exactly the profile we want.

Proven Ability to Learn an Unfamiliar Technology to Production Depth

We are hiring for trajectory as much as for current tooling, so this carries real weight.

Be ready to walk us through something you picked up from scratch and then owned in production: what you got wrong in the first attempt, how you found out, and what you would do differently.

A candidate with a shorter tool list and a strong record of learning will be preferred over a longer list learned only at the surface.

Self-Hosted Stateful Services in Production

One or more of Kafka, PostgreSQL, Redis, or Elasticsearch operated by you, not by a managed service.

Backups, restores, failover, and version upgrades.

This matters more than any other line here, because almost everything we run, we run ourselves.

Infrastructure as Code Depth

Terraform in anger, including modules, state management, and recovering from drift.

Docker and image optimisation.

AWS at Depth

EKS, EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, RDS or Aurora, and load balancing.

You can read a bill and explain where the money went.

Networking Depth

VPC and subnet design, NAT and egress paths, load balancer behaviour, DNS, TLS, and Kubernetes networking.

Able to reason about address exhaustion and routing limits before they are hit rather than after.

Observability Depth

Production experience with Prometheus, Grafana, and a log or trace backend.

Comfortable instrumenting with OpenTelemetry.

Able to define alerts that are actionable and to resist the cardinality that makes a metrics system collapse.

CI/CD and Deployment Automation

Strong with GitHub Actions or GitLab CI, including self-hosted runners and short-lived cloud credentials.

Experience making deploys and rollbacks safe and routine.

Cost Management for Cloud Infrastructure

Demonstrated ownership of a cloud bill: right-sizing, reserved capacity or savings plans, Spot strategy, and tracing an anomaly to its cause.

Reliability Engineering

Comfortable defining SLOs and being accountable for them.

Experience with graceful shutdown, connection draining, disruption budgets, and long-lived connections such as WebSockets that autoscaling can otherwise sever.

Nice to Have:

• arm64 and Graviton estates
• eBPF networking with Cilium
• container runtime isolation such as gVisor, Kata, or Firecracker
• Kafka operations including partition and consumer-group management
• service mesh with Istio
• GPU workloads on Kubernetes
• hands-on familiarity with LLM observability tooling such as Langfuse or LangSmith
• India data-protection and residency requirements under the DPDP Act
• AWS certifications

Job Description:

• Drive end-to-end automation from GitHub/GitLab/BitBucket to Deployment,

Observability and Enabling the SRE activities

• Guide operations support (setup, configuration, management, troubleshooting) of

digital platforms and applications

• Solid understanding of DevSecOps Workflows that support CI, CS, CD, CM, CT.

• Deploy, configure, and manage SaaS and PaaS cloud platform and applications

• Provide Level 1 (OS, patching) and Level 2 (app server instance troubleshooting)

• DevOps programming: writing scripts, building operations/server instance/app/DB

monitoring tools Set up / manage continuous build and dev project management

environment: JenkinX/GitHub Actions/Tekton, Git, Jira Designing secure networks,

systems, and application architectures

• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure secure product development

• Disaster recovery, network forensics analysis, and pen-testing solutions

• Planning, researching, and developing security policies, standards, and procedures

• Awareness training of the workforce on information security standards, policies, and

best practices

• Installation and use of firewalls, data encryption and other security products and

procedures

• Maturity in understanding compliance, policy and cloud governance and ability to

identify and execute automation.

• At Wesco, we discuss more about solutions than problems. We celebrate innovation

and creativity.

1. Design cloud infrastructure that is secure, scalable, and highly available on AWS, Azure and GCP
2. Work collaboratively with software engineering to define infrastructure and deployment requirements
3. Provision, configure and maintain AWS, Azure, GCP cloud infrastructure defined as code
4. Ensure configuration and compliance with configuration management tools
5. Administer and troubleshoot Linux based systems
6. Troubleshoot problems across a wide array of services and functional areas
7. Build and maintain operational tools for deployment, monitoring, and analysis of AWS, Azure Infrastructure and systems
8. Perform infrastructure cost analysis and optimization

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.

Role : Principal Devops Engineer

About the Client

It is a Product base company that has to build a platform using AI and ML technology for their transportation and logiticsThey also have a presence in the global market

Responsibilities and Requirements

• Experience in designing and maintaining high volume and scalable micro-services architecture on cloud infrastructure

• Knowledge in Linux/Unix Administration and Python/Shell Scripting

• Experience working with cloud platforms like AWS (EC2, ELB, S3, Auto-scaling, VPC, Lambda), GCP, Azure

• Knowledge in deployment automation, Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (Jenkins, Maven, Puppet, Chef, GitLab) and monitoring tools like Zabbix, Cloud Watch Monitoring, Nagios

• Knowledge of Java Virtual Machines, Apache Tomcat, Nginx, Apache Kafka, Microservices architecture, Caching mechanisms

• Experience in enterprise application development, maintenance and operations

• Knowledge of best practices and IT operations in an always-up, always-available service

• Excellent written and oral communication skills, judgment and decision-making skill

• Pixuate is a deep-tech AI start-up enabling businesses make smarter decisions with our edge-based video analytics platform and offer innovative solutions across traffic management, industrial digital transformation, and smart surveillance. We aim to serve enterprises globally as a preferred partner for digitization of visual information.

  Job Description

  We at Pixuate are looking for highly motivated and talented Senior DevOps Engineers to support building the next generation, innovative, deep-tech AI based products. If you are someone who has a passion for building a great software, has analytical mindset and enjoys solving complex problems, thrives in a challenging environment, self-driven, constantly exploring & learning new technologies, have ability to succeed on one’s own merits and fast-track your career growth we would love to talk!

  What do we expect from this role?

  • This role’s key area of focus is to co-ordinate and manage the product from development through deployment, working with rest of the engineering team to ensure smooth functioning.
  • Work closely with the Head of Engineering in building out the infrastructure required to deploy, monitor and scale the services and systems.
  • Act as the technical expert, innovator, and strategic thought leader within the Cloud Native Development, DevOps and CI/CD pipeline technology engineering discipline.
  • Should be able to understand how technology works and how various structures fall in place, with a high-level understanding of working with various operating systems and their implications.
  • Troubleshoots basic software or DevOps stack issues

  You would be great at this job, if you have below mentioned competencies

  • Tech /M.Tech/MCA/ BSc / MSc/ BCA preferably in Computer Science
  • 5+ years of relevant work experience
  • https://www.edureka.co/blog/devops-skills#knowledge">Knowledge on Various DevOps Tools and Technologies
  • Should have worked on tools like Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible in a production environment for data intensive systems.
  • Experience in developing https://www.edureka.co/blog/continuous-delivery/">Continuous Integration/ Continuous Delivery pipelines (CI/ CD) preferably using Jenkins, scripting (Shell / Python) and https://www.edureka.co/blog/what-is-git/">Git and Git workflows
  • Experience implementing role based security, including AD integration, security policies, and auditing in a Linux/Hadoop/AWS environment.
  • Experience with the design and implementation of big data backup/recovery solutions.
  • Strong Linux fundamentals and scripting; experience as Linux Admin is good to have.
  • Working knowledge in Python is a plus
  • Working knowledge of TCP/IP networking, SMTP, HTTP, load-balancers (ELB, HAProxy) and high availability architecture is a plus
  • Strong interpersonal and communication skills
  • Proven ability to complete projects according to outlined scope and timeline
  • Willingness to travel within India and internationally whenever required
  • Demonstrated leadership qualities in past roles

  More about Pixuate:

  Pixuate, owned by Cocoslabs Innovative Solutions Pvt. Ltd., is a leading AI startup building the most advanced Edge-based video analytics products. We are recognized for our cutting-edge R&D in deep learning, computer vision and AI and we are solving some of the most challenging problems faced by enterprises. Pixuate’s plug-and-play platform revolutionizes monitoring, compliance to safety, and efficiency improvement for Industries, Banks & Enterprises by providing actionable real-time insights leveraging CCTV cameras.

  We have enabled our customers such as Hindustan Unilever, Godrej, Secuira, L&T, Bigbasket, Microlabs, Karnataka Bank etc and rapidly expanding our business to cater to the needs of Manufacturing & Logistics, Oil and Gas sector.

  Rewards & Recognitions:

  • Winner of Elevate by Startup Karnataka (https://pixuate.ai/thermal-analytics/">https://pixuate.ai/thermal-analytics/).
  • Winner of Manufacturing Innovation Challenge in the 2nd edition of Fusion 4.0’s MIC2020 organized by the NASSCOM Centre of Excellence in IoT & AI in 2021
  • Winner of SASACT program organized by MEITY in 2021

  Why join us?

  You will get an opportunity to work with the founders and be part of 0 to 1 journey& get coached and guided. You will also get an opportunity to excel your skills by being innovative and contributing to the area of your personal interest. Our culture encourages innovation, freedom and rewards high performers with faster growth and recognition.   

  Where to find us?

  Website: http://pixuate.com/">http://pixuate.com/                            

  Linked in: https://www.linkedin.com/company/pixuate-ai     

   

  Place of Work:

  Work from Office – Bengaluru

Role : SRE

Experience : 4 - 8 Years

• Experience in building, deploying and operating cloud solutions on Kubernetes
• Strong expertise administrating and scaling Kubernetes on bare metal and CKA preferred
• Expertise on K8s Interfaces CNI, CSI, CRI and Service meshe
• Hands-on experience as a DevOps or Automation development
• Demonstrable knowledge of TCP/IP, Linux operating system internals, filesystems, disk/storage technologies and storage protocols.
• Experience working with Helm Charts and building out Infrastructure As Code (IaC)
• Experience in writing software to automate orchestration tasks at scale; we commonly use Python, Go, and Shell scripting
• Knowledge of systems (Linux, GNU tooling), networking (OSI model, DNS, routing) and virtualization vs containerization
• Expertise in CI/CD tooling for cloud-based applications specifically Terraform / CloudFormation, Jenkins and Git
• Architected CNF Orchestration with Kubernetes
• Strong understanding of the principles of 12-factor apps and modern containerized microservices
• Plan for reliability by designing systems to work across our multi-region and multi-cloud environments
• Experience developing and using Application & Integration stacks/tools such as Kafka, Spring Cloud, Apache Camel, Kubernetes, Docker, Redis, Knative, and NoSQL

Responsibilities

- Building and maintenance of resilient and scalable production infrastructure 

- Improvement of monitoring systems

- Creation and support of development automation processes (CI / CD)

- Participation in infrastructure development 

- Detection of problems in architecture and proposing of solutions for solving them 

- Creation of tasks for system improvements for system scalability, performance and monitoring

- Analysis of product requirements in the aspect of devops 

- Managing a team of DevOps, control of task deliveries 

- Incident analysis and fixing 

Technology stack

Linux, Bash, Salt/Ansible, LXC, libvirt, IPsec, VXLAN, Open vSwitch, OpenVPN, OSPF, BIRD, Cisco NX-OS, Multicast, PIM, LVM, software RAID, LUKS, PostgreSQL, nginx, haproxy, Prometheus, Grafana, Zabbix, GitLab, Capistrano

Skills and Experience

- Understanding of the distributed systems principles 

- Understanding of principles for building a resistant network infrastructure 

- Experience of Ubuntu Linux administration (Debian-like will be a plus)

- Strong knowledge of Bash

- Experience of working with LXC-containers 

- Understanding and experience with infrastructure as a code approach 

- Experience of development idempotent Ansible roles

- Experience with relational databases (PostgeSQL), ability to create simple SQL queries 

- Experience with git

- Experience with monitoring and metric collect systems (Prometheus, Grafana, Zabbix)

- Understanding of dynamic routing (OSPF)  

Preferred experience

- Experience of working with highload zero-downtown environments 

- Experience of coding on Python

- Experience of working with IPsec, VXLAN, Open vSwitch

- Knowledge and experience of working with network equipment Cisco

- Experience of working with Cisco NX-OS

- Knowledge of principles of multicast protocols IGMP, PIM

- Experience of setting multicast on Cisco equipment

- Experience of working with Solarflare Onload

- Experience administering Atlassian products

• Work with developers to build out CI/CD pipelines, enable self-service build tools and reusable deployment jobs. Find, explore, and advocate for new technologies for enterprise use.
• Automate the provisioning of environments
• Promote new DevOps tools to simplify the build process and entire Continuous Delivery.
• Manage a Continuous Integration and Deployment environment.
• Coordinate and scale the evolving build and cloud deployment systems across all product development teams.
• Work independently, with, and across teams. Establishing smooth running. environments are paramount to your success, and happiness
• Encourage innovation, implementation of cutting-edge technologies, inclusion, outside-of-the[1]box thinking, teamwork, self-organization, and diversity.

Technical Skills

• Experience with AWS multi-region/multi-AZ deployed systems, auto-scaling of EC2 instances, CloudFormation, ELBs, VPCs, CloudWatch, SNS, SQS, S3, Route53, RDS, IAM roles, security groups, cloud watch
• Experience in Data Visualization and Monitoring tools such as Grafana and Kibana
• Experienced in Build and CI/CD/CT technologies like GitHub, Chef, Artifactory, Hudson/Jenkins
• Experience with log collection, filter creation, and analysis, builds, and performance monitoring/tuning of infrastructure.
• Automate the provisioning of environments pulling strings with Puppet, cooking up some recipes with Chef, or through Ansible, and the deployment of those environments using containers, like Docker or Rocket: (have at least some configuration management tool through some version control).

Qualifications:

• B.E/ B.Tech/ M.C.A in Computer Science, Electronics and Communication Engineering, Electronics and Electrical Engineering.
• Minimum 60% in Graduation and Post-Graduation.
• Good verbal and written communication skills