
- 2+ years of demonstrable experience leading site reliability and performance in large-scale, high-traffic environments
- 2+ years of hands-on experience as a DevOps engineer
- Strong leadership, communication and interpersonal skills geared to getting things done
- Developing themselves and the talent within their charge – fostering and creating opportunity for the team
- Strong understanding of SRE concepts and the DevOps culture. Set the direction and strategy for your team, and help shape the overall SRE program for the company
- Be able to lead complicated technical issues and communicating status updates/RCA with management and customers.
- Own site stability, performance, capacity planning, DevOps recruitment.

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Job title - DevOps Engineer
Experience - 4+ years
Location - Pune (Onsite)
Primary Skills - Kubernetes, AWS
Roles and Responsibilities:
Cloud Infrastructure Management: Design, deploy, and maintain AWS-based cloud infrastructure using best practices for scalability, security, and cost optimization.
Kubernetes & Containerization: Manage and orchestrate containerized applications using Kubernetes and Docker, ensuring efficient deployments and scaling.
CI/CD Pipelines: Develop, implement, and maintain continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines to enable fast, reliable software releases.
Automation: Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and management using tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible.
Monitoring & Logging: Set up and manage monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, ELK Stack) to ensure the health and performance of applications and infrastructure.
Collaboration: Work closely with software engineers, system administrators, and other teams to identify bottlenecks, improve processes, and resolve issues.
Security: Implement and monitor security measures within the cloud infrastructure, ensuring compliance with industry standards and best practices (e.g., IAM, VPC, SSL/TLS).
Backup and Disaster Recovery: Set up and maintain disaster recovery plans, backup strategies, and ensure business continuity.
Performance Tuning: Continuously analyze and optimize application performance, ensuring fast and efficient operations.
Responsibilities
● Work with application development teams to identify and understand their operational pain points.
● Document these challenges and define goals to be achieved by the infrastructure team.
● Prototype and evaluate multiple solutions, often by experimenting with various vendors and tools available, to achieve the goals undertaken.
● Rollout tools and processes with heavy focus on automation.
● Evangelize and help onboard application development teams on the platforms provided by the infrastructure team.
● Co-own the responsibility with application development teams to ensure the reliability of services.
● Design and implement solutions around observability to ensure ease of maintenance and quick debugging of services
● Establish and implement administrative and operational best practices in the application development teams.
● Find avenues to reduce infrastructure costs and drive optimization in all services.
Qualifications
● 5+ years of experience as a DevOps / Infrastructure engineer with cloud platforms (preferably AWS)
● Experience with git, CI / CD, Docker, etc
● Experience in working with infrastructure as code (Terraform, etc).
● Strong Linux Shell scripting experience
● Experience with one of the programming languages like Python, Java, Kotlin, etc.
Classplus is India's largest B2B ed-tech start-up, enabling 1 Lac+ educators and content creators to create their digital identity with their own branded apps. Starting in 2018, we have grown more than 10x in the last year, into India's fastest-growing video learning platform.
Over the years, marquee investors like Tiger Global, Surge, GSV Ventures, Blume, Falcon, Capital, RTP Global, and Chimera Ventures have supported our vision. Thanks to our awesome and dedicated team, we achieved a major milestone in March this year when we secured a “Series-D” funding.
Now as we go global, we are super excited to have new folks on board who can take the rocketship higher🚀. Do you think you have what it takes to help us achieve this? Find Out Below!
What will you do?
• Define the overall process, which includes building a team for DevOps activities and ensuring that infrastructure changes are reviewed from an architecture and security perspective
• Create standardized tooling and templates for development teams to create CI/CD pipelines
• Ensure infrastructure is created and maintained using terraform
• Work with various stakeholders to design and implement infrastructure changes to support new feature sets in various product lines.
• Maintain transparency and clear visibility of costs associated with various product verticals, environments and work with stakeholders to plan for optimization and implementation
• Spearhead continuous experimenting and innovating initiatives to optimize the infrastructure in terms of uptime, availability, latency and costs
You should apply, if you
1. Are a seasoned Veteran: Have managed infrastructure at scale running web apps, microservices, and data pipelines using tools and languages like JavaScript(NodeJS), Go, Python, Java, Erlang, Elixir, C++ or Ruby (experience in any one of them is enough)
2. Are a Mr. Perfectionist: You have a strong bias for automation and taking the time to think about the right way to solve a problem versus quick fixes or band-aids.
3. Bring your A-Game: Have hands-on experience and ability to design/implement infrastructure with GCP services like Compute, Database, Storage, Load Balancers, API Gateway, Service Mesh, Firewalls, Message Brokers, Monitoring, Logging and experience in setting up backups, patching and DR planning
4. Are up with the times: Have expertise in one or more cloud platforms (Amazon WebServices or Google Cloud Platform or Microsoft Azure), and have experience in creating and managing infrastructure completely through Terraform kind of tool
5. Have it all on your fingertips: Have experience building CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins, Docker for applications majorly running on Kubernetes. Hands-on experience in managing and troubleshooting applications running on K8s
6. Have nailed the data storage game: Good knowledge of Relational and NoSQL databases (MySQL,Mongo, BigQuery, Cassandra…)
7. Bring that extra zing: Have the ability to program/script is and strong fundamentals in Linux and Networking.
8. Know your toys: Have a good understanding of Microservices architecture, Big Data technologies and experience with highly available distributed systems, scaling data store technologies, and creating multi-tenant and self hosted environments, that’s a plus
Being Part of the Clan
At Classplus, you’re not an “employee” but a part of our “Clan”. So, you can forget about being bound by the clock as long as you’re crushing it workwise😎. Add to that some passionate people working with and around you, and what you get is the perfect work vibe you’ve been looking for!
It doesn’t matter how long your journey has been or your position in the hierarchy (we don’t do Sirs and Ma’ams); you’ll be heard, appreciated, and rewarded. One can say, we have a special place in our hearts for the Doers! ✊🏼❤️
Are you a go-getter with the chops to nail what you do? Then this is the place for you.
- At least 5 year of experience in Cloud technologies-AWS and Azure and developing.
- Experience in implementing DevOps practices and DevOps-tools in areas like CI/CD using Jenkins environment automation, and release automation, virtualization, infra as a code or metrics tracking.
- Hands on experience in DevOps tools configuration in different environments.
- Strong knowledge of working with DevOps design patterns, processes and best practices
- Hand-on experience in Setting up Build pipelines.
- Prior working experience in system administration or architecture in Windows or Linux.
- Must have experience in GIT (BitBucket, GitHub, GitLab)
- Hands-on experience on Jenkins pipeline scripting.
- Hands-on knowledge in one scripting language (Nant, Perl, Python, Shell or PowerShell)
- Configuration level skills in tools like SonarQube (or similar tools) and Artifactory.
- Expertise on Virtual Infrastructure (VMWare or VirtualBox or QEMU or KVM or Vagrant) and environment automation/provisioning using SaltStack/Ansible/Puppet/Chef
- Deploying, automating, maintaining and managing Azure cloud based production systems including monitoring capacity.
- Good to have experience in migrating code repositories from one source control to another.
- Hands-on experience in Docker container and orchestration based deployments like Kubernetes, Service Fabric, Docker swarm.
- Must have good communication skills and problem solving skills
- Minimum 3+ yrs of Experience in DevOps with AWS Platform
- • Strong AWS knowledge and experience
- • Experience in using CI/CD automation tools (Git, Jenkins, Configuration deployment tools ( Puppet/Chef/Ansible)
- • Experience with IAC tools Terraform
- • Excellent experience in operating a container orchestration cluster (Kubernetes, Docker)
- • Significant experience with Linux operating system environments
- • Experience with infrastructure scripting solutions such as Python/Shell scripting
- • Must have experience in designing Infrastructure automation framework.
- • Good experience in any of the Setting up Monitoring tools and Dashboards ( Grafana/kafka)
- • Excellent problem-solving, Log Analysis and troubleshooting skills
- • Experience in setting up centralized logging for system (EKS, EC2) and application
- • Process-oriented with great documentation skills
- • Ability to work effectively within a team and with minimal supervision
Role and responsibilities
- Expertise in AWS (Most typical Services),Docker & Kubernetes.
- Strong Scripting knowledge, Strong Devops Automation, Good at Linux
- Hands on with CI/CD (CircleCI preferred but any CI/CD tool will do). Strong Understanding of GitHub
- Strong understanding of AWS networking and. Strong with Security & Certificates.
Nice-to-have skills
- Involved in Product Engineering
Skills:
- Strong working knowledge of AWS.
- Implements AWS cloud platform.
- Infrastructure as Code, GitLab CI/CD, and DevOps standard methodologies
- scripting in Shell, Python, Ruby or any preferred scripting language
Terraform expertise is a MUST for this role.
a short exercise on terraform to all shortlisted candidates to demonstrate their hands-on skills on terraform before rolling out the offer
Desired Profile
Providing expertise on all matters related to CI, CD and DevOps.
Building and maintaining highly available production systems.
Developing and maintaining release related documents, such as release plan, release notes etc.
Ensuring quality releases and managing release and configuration change conflicts to resolution.
Tracking release and publishing release notes. Investigating and resolving technical issues by deploying updates/ fixes.
Onboard applications to DevOps process.
Setup and configure build jobs.
Create automated deployment scripts.
Configure JIRA workflow, and integrate with Jenkins / Micro-services.
Qualification
Degree/Diploma in Computer Science, Engineering or related field and have previous experience as a DevOps Engineer.
AWS Certification will be a plus.
Experience of automation and provisioning approaches, using tools such as Terraform & Cloud Formation
Skillset Required
Solid experience within release management, infra architecture, CI&CD.
Highly goal driven and work well in fast paced environments.
Proven experience of using Jenkins, Unix Shell Commands, Container technology (Docker, Kubernetes),
Java Programming, Groovy Script, Git, Code Branching Strategy, Maven, Gradle, JIRA, ECS, OpenShift.


