DevOps Engineer

About the Company:

Gruve is an innovative Software Services startup dedicated to empowering Enterprise Customers in managing their Data Life Cycle. We specialize in Cyber Security, Customer Experience, Infrastructure, and advanced technologies such as Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. Our mission is to assist our customers in their business strategies utilizing their data to make more intelligent decisions. As an well-funded early-stage startup, Gruve offers a dynamic environment with strong customer and partner networks.

Why Gruve:

At Gruve, we foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive and contribute their best work. If you’re passionate about technology and eager to make an impact, we’d love to hear from you.

Gruve is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and thank all who apply; however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

Position summary:

We are seeking a Staff Engineer – DevOps with 8-12 years of experience in designing, implementing, and optimizing CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and automation frameworks. The ideal candidate will have expertise in Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, Security, Observability, and Cloud Platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP). You will play a key role in scaling and securing our infrastructure, improving developer productivity, and ensuring high availability and performance. 

Key Roles & Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, ArgoCD, and Tekton.
• Deploy and manage Kubernetes clusters (EKS, AKS, GKE) and containerized workloads.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning using Terraform, Ansible, Pulumi, or CloudFormation.
• Implement observability and monitoring solutions using Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, OpenTelemetry, or Datadog.
• Ensure security best practices in DevOps, including IAM, secrets management, container security, and vulnerability scanning.
• Optimize cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP) for performance, cost efficiency, and scalability.
• Develop and manage GitOps workflows and infrastructure-as-code (IaC) automation.
• Implement zero-downtime deployment strategies, including blue-green deployments, canary releases, and feature flags.
• Work closely with development teams to optimize build pipelines, reduce deployment time, and improve system reliability. 

Basic Qualifications:

• A bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, electronics engineering or a related field
• 8-12 years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or Infrastructure Automation.
• Strong expertise in CI/CD pipelines, version control (Git), and release automation.
•  Hands-on experience with Kubernetes (EKS, AKS, GKE) and container orchestration.
• Proficiency in Terraform, Ansible for infrastructure automation.
• Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP services (EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, Lambda, API Gateway, etc.).
• Expertise in monitoring/logging tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, OpenTelemetry, or Datadog.
• Strong scripting and automation skills in Python, Bash, or Go.

Preferred Qualifications 

• Experience in FinOps Cloud Cost Optimization) and Kubernetes cluster scaling.
• Exposure to serverless architectures and event-driven workflows.
• Contributions to open-source DevOps projects. 

Responsibilities

 Provisioning and de-provisioning AWS accounts for internal customers

 Work alongside systems and development teams to support the transition and operation of client websites/applications in and out of AWS.

 Deploying, managing, and operating AWS environments

 Identifying appropriate use of AWS operational best practices

 Estimating AWS costs and identifying operational cost control mechanisms

 Keep technical documentation up to date

 Proactively keep up to date on AWS services and developments

 Create (where appropriate) automation, in order to streamline provisioning and de-provisioning processes

 Lead certain data/service migration projects

Job Requirements

 Experience provisioning, operating, and maintaining systems running on AWS

 Experience with Azure/AWS.

 Capabilities to provide AWS operations and deployment guidance and best practices throughout the lifecycle of a project

 Experience with application/data migration to/from AWS

 Experience with NGINX and the HTTP protocol.

 Experience with configuration and management software such as GIT  Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

 Deployment experience using common AWS technologies like VPC, and regionally distributed EC2 instances, Docker, and more.

 Ability to work in a collaborative environment

 Detail-oriented, strong work ethic and high standard of excellence

 A fast learner, the Achiever, sets high personal goals

 Must be able to work on multiple projects and consistently meet project deadlines

Description

Do you dream about code every night? If so, we’d love to talk to you about a new product that we’re making to enable delightful testing experiences at scale for development teams who build modern software solutions.

What You'll Do

 Troubleshooting and analyzing technical issues raised by internal and external users.

 Working with Monitoring tools like Prometheus / Nagios / Zabbix.

 Developing automation in one or more technologies such as Terraform, Ansible, Cloud Formation, Puppet, Chef will be preferred.

 Monitor infrastructure alerts and take proactive action to avoid downtime and customer impacts.

 Working closely with the cross-functional teams to resolve issues.

 Test, build, design, deployment, and ability to maintain continuous integration and continuous delivery process using tools like Jenkins, maven Git, etc.

 Work in close coordination with the development and operations team such that the application is in line with performance according to the customer's expectations.

What you should have

 Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science or any related field.

 3 - 6 years of experience in Linux / Unix, cloud computing techniques.

 Familiar with working on cloud and datacenter for enterprise customers.

 Hands-on experience on Linux / Windows / Mac OS’s and Batch/Apple/Bash scripting.

 Experience with various databases such as MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MSSQL.

 Familiar with AWS technologies like EC2, S3, Lambda, IAM, etc.

 Must know how to choose the best tools and technologies which best fit the business needs.

 Experience in developing and maintaining CI/CD processes using tools like Git, GitHub, Jenkins etc.

 Excellent organizational skills to adapt to a constantly changing technical environment

Job Description:

• Hands on experience with Ansible & Terraform.
• Scripting language, such as Python or Bash or PowerShell is required and willingness to learn and master others. 
• Troubleshooting and resolving automation, build, and CI/CD related issues (in cloud environment like AWS or Azure).
• Experience with Kubernetes is mandate.
• To develop and maintain tooling and environments for test and production environments.
• Assist team members in the development and maintenance of tooling for integration testing, performance testing, security testing, as well as source control systems (that includes working in CI systems like Azure DevOps, Team City, and orchestration tools like Octopus).
• Good with Linux environment.

Roles and Responsibilities 

• Primary stakeholder collaborating with Dir Engineering on software/infrastructure architecture, monitoring/alerting framework and all other architectural level technical issues
• Design and manage implementation of Silvermine’s high performance, scalable, extensible and resilient microservices application stack based of existing, partially migrated monolithic application and for new product development.  Includes:
  • Utilizing either ECS Fargate (no EC2 clusters) or EKS as the orchestration framework – to be tested up to a minimum of 100k concurrent users
  • Exploring, designing and implementing use of on demand compute (Lambda) where appropriate
  • Scalable and redundant data architecture supporting microservices design principles
  • A scalable reverse proxy layer to isolate microservices from managing network connections
  • Utilizing CDN capabilities to offload origin load via an intelligent caching strategy
  • Leveraging best in breed AWS service offerings to enable team to focus on application stack instead of application scaffolding while minimizing operational complexity and cost
  • Monitoring and optimizing of stack for
• Security and monitoring
  • Leverage AWS and 3rd party services to monitor the application stack and data; secure them from DDOS attacks and security breaches; and alert the team in the vent of an incident
  • Using APM and logging tools:
    • Monitor application stack and infrastructure component performance
    • Proactively detect, triage and mitigate stack performance issues
    • Alert upon exception events
    • Provide triaging tools for debugging and Root Cause Analysis.
• Enhance the CI/CD pipeline to support automated testing, a resilient deployment model (e.g., blue-green, canary) and 100% rollback support (including the data layer)
• Development a comprehensive, supportable, repeatable IAC implementation using CloudFormation or Terraform
• Take a leadership role and exhibit expertise in the development of standards, architectural governance, design patterns, best practices and optimization of existing architecture.
• Partner with teams and leaders to provide strategic consultation for business process design/optimization, creating strategic technology road maps, performing rapid prototyping and implementing technical solutions to accelerate the fulfillment of the business strategic vision.
• Staying up to date on emerging technologies (AI, Automation, Cloud etc.) and trends with a clear focus on productivity, ease of use and fit-for-purpose, by researching, testing, and evaluating.
• Providing POCs and product implementation guidelines.
• Applying imagination and innovation by creating, inventing, and implementing new or better approaches, alternatives and breakthrough ideas that are valued by customers within the function.
• Assessing current state of solutions, defining future state needs, identifying gaps and recommending new technology solutions and strategic business execution improvements.
• Overseeing and facilitating the evaluation and selection technology, product standards and the design of standard configurations/implementation patterns.
• Partnering with other architects and solution owners to create standards and set strategies for the enterprise.
• Communicating directly with business colleagues on applying digital workplace technologies to solve identified business challenges.

Skills Required:

• Good mentorship skills to coach and guide the team on AWS DevOps.
• Jenkins, Python, Pipeline as Code, Cloud Formation Templates and Terraform.
• Experience with Dockers, Containers, Lambda and Fargate is a must
• Experience with CI/CD and Release management
• Strong proficiency in PowerShell scripting
• Demonstrable expertise in Java
• Familiarity with REST APIs

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience in Devops.
• Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science or equivalent degree.
• AWS Certifications is added advantage

We are hiring candidates who are looking to work in a cloud environment and ready to learn and adapt to the evolving technologies.

Linux Administrator Roles &  Responsibilities:

• 5+ or more years of professional experience with strong working expertise in Agile environments
• Deep knowledge in managing Linux servers.
• Managing Windows servers(Not Mandatory).
• Manage Web servers (Apache, Nginx).
• Manage Application servers.
• Strong background & experience in any one scripting language (Bash, Python)
• Manage firewall rules.
• Perform root cause analysis for production errors.
• Basic administration of MySQL, MSSQL.
• Ready to learn and adapt to business requirements.
• Manage information security controls with best practises and processes.
• Support business requirements beyond working hours.
• Ensuring highest uptimes of the services.
• Monitoring resource usages.

Skills/Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree or Diploma in Computer Science, Engineering, Software Engineering or a relevant field.
• Experience with Linux-based infrastructures, Linux/Unix administration.
• Knowledge in managing databases such as My SQL, MS SQL.
• Knowledge of scripting languages such as Python, Bash.
• Knowledge in open-source technologies and cloud services like AWS, Azure is a plus. Candidates willing to learn will be preferred.
• Experience in managing web applications.
• Problem-solving attitude.
• 5+ years experience in the IT industry.