DevOps Engineer

Job Title: Senior DevOps Engineer

Location: Sector 39, Gurgaon (Onsite)

Employment Type: Full-Time

Working Days: 6 Days (Alternate Saturdays Working)

Experience Required: 5+ Years

Team Role: Lead & Mentor a team of 3–4 engineers

About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior DevOps Engineer to lead our infrastructure and automation initiatives while mentoring a small team. This role involves setting up and managing physical and cloud-based servers, configuring storage systems, and implementing automation to ensure high system availability and reliability. The ideal candidate will have strong Linux administration skills, hands-on experience with DevOps tools, and the leadership capabilities to guide and grow the team.

Key Responsibilities

Infrastructure & Server Management (60%)

• Set up, configure, and manage bare-metal (physical) servers as well as cloud-based environments.
• Configure network bonding, firewalls, and system security for optimal performance and reliability.
• Implement and maintain high-availability solutions for mission-critical systems.

Queue Systems (Kafka / RabbitMQ) (15%)

• Deploy and manage message queue systems to support high-throughput, real-time data exchange.
• Ensure reliable event-driven communication between distributed services.

Storage Systems (SAN/NAS) (15%)

• Configure and manage Storage Area Networks (SAN) and Network Attached Storage (NAS).
• Optimize storage performance, redundancy, and availability.

Database Administration (5%)

• Administer and optimize MariaDB, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, and Elasticsearch.
• Handle backup, recovery, replication, and performance tuning.

General DevOps & Automation

• Deploy product updates, patches, and fixes while ensuring minimal downtime.
• Design and manage CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins or similar tools.
• Administer and automate workflows with Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, AWS, and Git.
• Manage web and application servers (Apache httpd, Tomcat).
• Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting systems (Nagios, HAProxy, Keepalived).
• Conduct root cause analysis and implement automation to reduce manual interventions.
• Mentor a team of 3–4 engineers, fostering best practices and continuous improvement.

Required Skills & Qualifications

✅ 5+ years of proven DevOps engineering experience

✅ Strong expertise in Linux administration & shell scripting

✅ Hands-on experience with bare-metal server management & storage systems

✅ Proficiency in Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Jenkins, Git, and Ansible

✅ Experience with Kafka or RabbitMQ in production environments

✅ Knowledge of CI/CD, automation, monitoring, and high-availability tools (Nagios, HAProxy, Keepalived)

✅ Excellent problem-solving, troubleshooting, and leadership abilities

✅ Strong communication skills with the ability to mentor and lead teams

Good to Have

• Experience in Telecom projects involving SMS, voice, or real-time data handling.

We are looking for a passionate DevOps Engineer who can support deployment and monitor our Production, QE, and Staging environments performance. Applicants should have a strong understanding of UNIX internals and should be able to clearly articulate how it works. Knowledge of shell scripting & security aspects is a must. Any experience with infrastructure as code is a big plus. The key responsibility of the role is to manage deployments, security, and support of business solutions. Having experience in database applications like Postgres, ELK, NodeJS, NextJS & Ruby on Rails is a huge plus. At VakilSearch. Experience doesn't matter, passion to produce change matters

Responsibilities and Accountabilities:

• As part of the DevOps team, you will be responsible for configuration, optimization, documentation, and support of the infra components of VakilSearch’s product which are hosted in cloud services & on-prem facility
• Design, build tools and framework that support deploying and managing our platform & Exploring new tools, technologies, and processes to improve speed, efficiency, and scalability
• Support and troubleshoot scalability, high availability, performance, monitoring, backup, and restore of different Env 
• Manage resources in a cost-effective, innovative manner including assisting subordinates ineffective use of resources and tools
• Resolve incidents as escalated from Monitoring tools and Business Development Team
• Implement and follow security guidelines, both policy and technology to protect our data
• Identify root cause for issues and develop long-term solutions to fix recurring issues and Document it
• Strong in performing production operation activities even at night times if required
• Ability to automate [Scripts] recurring tasks to increase velocity and quality
• Ability to manage and deliver multiple project phases at the same time

I Qualification(s): 

• Experience in working with Linux Server, DevOps tools, and Orchestration tools 
• Linux, AWS, GCP, Azure, CompTIA+, and any other certification are a value-add 

II Experience Required in DevOps Aspects:

• Length of Experience: Minimum 1-4 years of experience
• Nature of Experience: 
• Experience in Cloud deployments, Linux administration[ Kernel Tuning is a value add ], Linux clustering, AWS, virtualization, and networking concepts [ Azure, GCP value add ]
• Experience in deployment solutions CI/CD like Jenkins, GitHub Actions [ Release Management is a value add ]
• Hands-on experience in any of the configuration management IaC tools like Chef, Terraform, and CloudFormation [ Ansible & Puppet is a value add ]
• Administration, Configuring and utilizing Monitoring and Alerting tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, ELK, Zabbix, Datadog, etc
• Experience with Containerization and orchestration tools like Docker, and Kubernetes [ Docker swarm is a value add ]Good Scripting skills in at least one interpreted language - Shell/bash scripting or Ruby/Python/Perl
• Experience in Database applications like PostgreSQL, MongoDB & MySQL [DataOps]
• Good at Version Control & source code management systems like GitHub, GIT
• Experience in Serverless [ Lambda/GCP cloud function/Azure function ]
• Experience in Web Server Nginx, and Apache
• Knowledge in Redis, RabbitMQ, ELK, REST API [ MLOps Tools is a value add ]
• Knowledge in Puma, Unicorn, Gunicorn & Yarn
• Hands-on VMWare ESXi/Xencenter deployments is a value add
• Experience in Implementing and troubleshooting TCP/IP networks, VPN, Load Balancing & Web application firewalls
• Deploying, Configuring, and Maintaining Linux server systems ON premises and off-premises
• Code Quality like SonarQube is a value-add
• Test Automation like Selenium, JMeter, and JUnit is a value-add
• Experience in Heroku and OpenStack is a value-add 
• Experience in Identifying Inbound and Outbound Threats and resolving it
• Knowledge of CVE & applying the patches for OS, Ruby gems, Node, and Python packages  
• Documenting the Security fix for future use
• Establish cross-team collaboration with security built into the software development lifecycle 
• Forensics and Root Cause Analysis skills are mandatory 
• Weekly Sanity Checks of the on-prem and off-prem environment 

III Skill Set & Personality Traits required:

• An understanding of programming languages such as Ruby, NodeJS, ReactJS, Perl, Java, Python, and PHP
• Good written and verbal communication skills to facilitate efficient and effective interaction with peers, partners, vendors, and customers

IV Age Group: 21 – 36 Years

V Cost to the Company: As per industry standards

Overview

adesso India specialises in optimization of core business processes for organizations. Our focus is on providing state-of-the-art solutions that streamline operations and elevate productivity to new heights.

Comprised of a team of industry experts and experienced technology professionals, we ensure that our software development and implementations are reliable, robust, and seamlessly integrated with the latest technologies. By leveraging our extensive knowledge and skills, we empower businesses to achieve their objectives efficiently and effectively.

Job Description

We are looking for an experienced Senior Software Developer for IT Services Management Team. 

In this role, you will be responsible for the application management of a B2C application to meet the agreed Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and fulfil customer expectations. 

You will act as an On-call-duty team in the time between 6:00 PM to 8:00 AM IST- 365 days a year. We are seeking a hands-on Software Developer with strong experience in Frontend + DevOps knowledge.

Responsibilities:

Problem Management & Incident Management activities: Identifying and resolving technical issues and errors that arise during application usage. 

Release and Update Coordination: Planning and executing software updates, new versions, or system upgrades to keep applications up to date.

Change Management: Responsible for implementing and coordinating changes to the application, considering the impact on ongoing operations.

Requirements:

Education and Experience: 

A bachelor’s or master’s degree in a relevant field, with a minimum of 5 years of professional experience or equivalent work experience.

Skills & Expertise:

Proficient in ITIL service management frameworks.

Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.

Experienced in project management methodologies (Agile, Kanban).

Excellent English Communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage and collaborate with stakeholders.

Experience in 24x7 application On call Support and ready to work in shifts on a Hybrid /WFH mode.

This assignment is a long-term contract for more than 3 years.

Good knowledge in Frontend Technologies like Frontend & DevOps – skill set given below.

Skills & Requirements

React JS (v17+), Tanstack, Context, React Router, Redux, Webpack / Vite, Storybook, Jest, React Testing Library, Vitest, Cypress, npm, Restful API, Azure, Azure Devops, Kubernetes, kubeAPI, docker/container, Debug Tools, openSSL, Kustomize, Curl.

• Solid understanding of IP network and TCP/IP
• Minimum of 7+ years’ work experience in IT
• Minimum of 4+ years experience as DevOps Enginneer
• Good interpersonal skills and communication written and oral.

We are a self organized engineering team with a passion for programming and solving business problems for our customers. We are looking to expand our team capabilities on the DevOps front and are on a lookout for 4 DevOps professionals having relevant hands on technical experience of 4-8 years. 

We encourage our team to continuously learn new technologies and apply the learnings in the day to day work even if the new technologies are not adopted. We strive to continuously improve our DevOps practices and expertise to form a solid backbone for the product, customer relationships and sales teams which enables them to add new customers every week to our financing network.

As a DevOps Engineer, you :

- Will work collaboratively with the engineering and customer support teams to deploy and operate our systems. 

- Build and maintain tools for deployment, monitoring and operations.

- Help automate and streamline our operations and processes. 

- Troubleshoot and resolve issues in our test and production environments. 

- Take control of various mandates and change management processes to ensure compliance for various certifications (PCI and ISO 27001 in particular) 

- Monitor and optimize the usage of various cloud services. 

- Setup and enforce CI/CD processes and practices

Skills required :

- Strong experience with AWS services (EC2, ECS, ELB, S3, SES, to name a few)

- Strong background in Linux/Unix administration and hardening 

- Experience with automation using Ansible, Terraform or equivalent 

- Experience with continuous integration and continuous deployment tools (Jenkins) 

- Experience with container related technologies (docker, lxc, rkt, docker swarm, kubernetes)

- Working understanding of code and script (Python, Perl, Ruby, Java)

- Working understanding of SQL and databases 

- Working understanding of version control system (GIT is preferred) 

- Managing IT operations, setting up best practices and tuning them from time-totime. 

- Ensuring that process overheads do not reduce the productivity and effectiveness of small team. - Willingness to explore and learn new technologies and continuously refactor thetools and processes.

A.P.T Portfolio, a high frequency trading firm that specialises in Quantitative Trading & Investment Strategies.Founded in November 2009, it has been a major liquidity provider in global Stock markets. 

As a manager, you would be incharge of managing the devops team and your remit shall include the following

• Private Cloud - Design & maintain a high performance and reliable network architecture to support  HPC applications
• Scheduling Tool - Implement and maintain a HPC scheduling technology like Kubernetes, Hadoop YARN  Mesos, HTCondor or Nomad for processing & scheduling analytical jobs. Implement controls which allow analytical jobs to seamlessly utilize ideal capacity on the private cloud. 
• Security - Implementing best security practices and implementing data isolation policy between different divisions internally. 
• Capacity Sizing - Monitor private cloud usage and share details with different teams. Plan capacity enhancements on a quarterly basis. 
• Storage solution - Optimize storage solutions like NetApp, EMC, Quobyte for analytical jobs. Monitor their performance on a daily basis to identify issues early.
• NFS - Implement and optimize latest version of NFS for our use case. 
• Public Cloud - Drive AWS/Google-Cloud utilization in the firm for increasing efficiency, improving collaboration and for reducing cost. Maintain the environment for our existing use cases. Further explore potential areas of using public cloud within the firm. 
• BackUps  - Identify and automate  back up of all crucial data/binary/code etc in a secured manner at such duration warranted by the use case. Ensure that recovery from back-up is tested and seamless. 
•  Access Control  - Maintain password less access control and improve security over time. Minimize failures for automated job due to unsuccessful logins. 
•  Operating System  -Plan, test and roll out new operating system for all production, simulation and desktop environments. Work closely with developers to highlight new performance enhancements capabilities of new versions. 
•  Configuration management  -Work closely with DevOps/ development team to freeze configurations/playbook for various teams & internal applications. Deploy and maintain standard tools such as Ansible, Puppet, chef etc for the same. 
•  Data Storage & Security Planning  - Maintain a tight control of root access on various devices. Ensure root access is rolled back as soon the desired objective is achieved.
• Audit access logs on devices. Use third party tools to put in a monitoring mechanism for early detection of any suspicious activity. 
• Maintaining all third party tools used for development and collaboration - This shall include maintaining a fault tolerant   environment for GIT/Perforce, productivity tools such as Slack/Microsoft team, build tools like Jenkins/Bamboo etc

Qualifications 

• Bachelors or Masters Level Degree, preferably in CSE/IT
• 10+ years of relevant experience in sys-admin function
• Must have strong knowledge of IT Infrastructure, Linux, Networking and grid.
• Must have strong grasp of automation & Data management tools.
• Efficient in scripting languages and python

Desirables

• Professional attitude, co-operative and mature approach to work, must be focused, structured and well considered, troubleshooting skills.
•  Exhibit a high level of individual initiative and ownership, effectively collaborate with other team members.

APT Portfolio is an equal opportunity employer

• 5+ years hands-on experience with designing, deploying and managing core AWS services and infrastructure
• Proficiency in scripting using Bash, Python, Ruby, Groovy, or similar languages 
• Experience in source control management, specifically with Git
• Hands-on experience in Unix/Linux and bash scripting
• Experience building, managing Helm-based build and release CI-CD pipelines for Kubernetes platforms (EKS, Openshift, GKE) 
• Strong experience with orchestration and config management tools such as Terraform, Ansible or Cloudformation  
• Ability to debug, analyze issues leveraging tools like App Dynamics, New Relic and Sumologic 
• Knowledge of Agile Methodologies and principles 
• Good writing and documentation skills
• Strong collaborator with the ability to work well with core teammates and our colleagues across STS