DevOps Engineer

Job Title : DBA – AWS Aurora PostgreSQL

Experience : 6+ Years

Work Mode : Remote

Laptop Pickup : One-time pickup from Noida, Bengaluru, Pune, Hyderabad, or Chennai

Contract Duration : 6 Months

Job Summary :

We are seeking an experienced AWS Aurora PostgreSQL DBA to manage, optimize, and support enterprise database environments hosted on AWS.

The ideal candidate should have strong expertise in PostgreSQL, AWS RDS/Aurora PostgreSQL, database performance tuning, high availability, disaster recovery, security, and production support.

Key Skills Required :

AWS Aurora PostgreSQL, PostgreSQL DBA, AWS RDS, SQL Performance Tuning, Query Optimization, Indexing, Execution Plan Analysis, High Availability (HA), Disaster Recovery (DR), Multi-AZ, Read Replicas, CloudWatch, Aurora Performance Insights, Backup & Recovery, Database Security, IAM, Audit Logging, Production Support, RCA, Python/Shell/PowerShell Scripting, Terraform/CloudFormation, AWS DMS, CI/CD, Git.

Mandatory Skills :

• 4 to 5+ years of experience in PostgreSQL Database Administration.
• 3 to 5+ years of hands-on experience with AWS RDS and Aurora PostgreSQL.
• Strong SQL expertise, including query optimization, indexing, and execution plan analysis.
• Experience with Aurora clustering, Multi-AZ deployments, read replicas, failover management, backup, and recovery.
• Hands-on experience with AWS CloudWatch and Aurora Performance Insights.
• Strong understanding of database security, encryption, IAM controls, audit logging, and compliance practices.
• Experience in production support, incident management, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis (RCA).
• Scripting/automation experience using Python, Shell Script, or PowerShell.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or CloudFormation).
• Knowledge of AWS DMS, DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and Git.

Preferred Skills :

• Experience supporting Master Data Governance (MDG) or enterprise data platforms.
• Experience working in healthcare or other highly regulated environments.
• Exposure to AWS services such as Redshift, DynamoDB, and S3.
• AWS Certified Database Specialty or AWS Solutions Architect certification is preferred.

Key Responsibilities :

• Manage and support AWS Aurora PostgreSQL environments, including provisioning, configuration, monitoring, scaling, and maintenance.
• Optimize database performance through query tuning, indexing, and proactive monitoring.
• Implement and maintain high availability, backup, recovery, and disaster recovery solutions.
• Troubleshoot production issues, perform root cause analysis, and ensure database reliability and availability.
• Collaborate with application, cloud, and data engineering teams to support deployments and production releases.
• Automate routine DBA activities and improve operational efficiency using scripting and AWS-native tools.

Qualifications :

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and communication skills.
• Ability to work independently and manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.

About Kontrah Labs

Kontrah Labs is a performance marketing agency that works with premium D2C and ecommerce brands across India. We help brands scale profitably through data-driven advertising, creative testing, and conversion-focused growth strategies.

We're looking for a Performance Marketing Specialist who can independently manage and optimize Meta and Google Ads accounts while collaborating closely with clients, creatives, and strategy teams. This role is for someone who enjoys solving performance challenges, thrives in fast-paced agency environments, and takes ownership of results.

What You'll Actually Do

This is not a coordination role. You'll be inside ad accounts every day making decisions that directly impact client growth.

Campaign Strategy & Execution

• Build, launch, and manage Meta Ads and Google Ads campaigns end-to-end
• Manage ecommerce, lead generation, and conversion-focused campaigns
• Create scalable account structures across Meta and Google
• Set up audiences, placements, bidding strategies, budgets, and creative testing frameworks
• Plan and execute testing roadmaps for accounts under management

Optimization & Performance Management

• Monitor account performance daily
• Analyze CTR, CPM, CPC, CPA, ROAS, MER, Frequency, Conversion Rate, and other key metrics
• Identify winning opportunities and scale them profitably
• Diagnose performance drops and recommend corrective actions
• Manage budgets efficiently across multiple client accounts
• Continuously improve campaign performance through data-backed experimentation

Creative Strategy Collaboration

• Work closely with designers and content teams to develop high-performing creatives
• Translate performance insights into actionable creative briefs
• Analyze competitor ads, market trends, and consumer behavior
• Identify creative fatigue and recommend fresh testing angles
• Understand what makes winning ad creatives work and how to replicate success

Client Communication

This role is client-facing.

• Join weekly client review calls
• Present campaign performance confidently and clearly
• Explain strategies, results, and recommendations without jargon
• Respond professionally to client communications
• Manage expectations and proactively flag risks or opportunities
• Build trust through transparency and data-driven decision making

AI-First Workflow

At Kontrah Labs, AI is part of how we work.

You'll be expected to:

• Use ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or similar tools daily
• Use AI for research, reporting, copywriting, analysis, and ideation
• Build prompt workflows that improve efficiency and quality
• Use AI creative tools to accelerate testing and production
• Stay updated on emerging AI tools and bring useful ideas to the team

If a task can be completed better and faster with AI, we expect you to know how.

Must-Have Requirements

Experience

• 2–3 years of hands-on paid media experience
• Minimum 2 years of agency-side experience managing multiple client accounts
• Proven experience managing Meta Ads and Google Ads accounts independently
• Experience handling monthly ad spends across multiple accounts

Platform Expertise

• Strong expertise in Meta Ads Manager
• Strong expertise in Google Ads (Search, Shopping, Performance Max)
• Understanding of audience strategy, attribution, bidding, scaling, and conversion optimization
• Familiarity with GA4, Meta Pixel, Conversion API, and tracking fundamentals

Skills

• Strong communication and presentation skills
• Excellent problem-solving mindset
• Strong analytical thinking and decision-making ability
• Understanding of ad creatives and creative testing frameworks
• Comfortable interpreting data and translating it into action
• Good Google Sheets / Excel skills

AI Adoption

• Active daily user of AI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, Midjourney, Gemini, Perplexity, or similar
• Able to demonstrate real AI workflows used in daily work

Nice to Have

• Experience working with D2C or ecommerce brands
• Experience with Shopify brands
• Familiarity with landing page optimization and CRO principles
• Exposure to creative strategy and copywriting
• Experience managing premium or high-AOV brands

What We Don't Care About

• Marketing degrees
• Big agency names on your resume
• Certifications without practical experience

We're more interested in what you've actually done.

Who You Are

• You take ownership instead of waiting for instructions
• You're curious and naturally investigate problems
• You communicate proactively
• You think in systems, not just tasks
• You care about details and execution quality
• You enjoy learning and improving continuously

What You'll Get

• Direct ownership of real client accounts
• Exposure to premium D2C and ecommerce brands
• Direct mentorship from experienced performance marketers
• Hands-on experience across strategy, creative, reporting, and client management
• Remote-first work environment
• Fast growth opportunities as the agency scales
• Small team with high ownership and zero politics

Role Summary

We are seeking dynamic and motivated individuals to join our Sales & Marketing team as Property Specialists. In this role, you will be the first point of contact for potential clients, creating a strong first impression and helping them navigate the buying and selling process. This position offers a mix of office and on-site work, giving you the opportunity to collaborate closely with the Sales team and support client visits.

Key Responsibilities

• Call and engage with a specific number of qualified leads per month for property buying and selling.
• Communicate with property owners to understand their requirements.
• Virtually showcase apartments to prospective buyers and assist the Sales team in closing deals.
• Maintain accurate and timely data entry in the CRM system.
• Generate dashboards and reports from CRM for stakeholders.
• Build and maintain a database of potential and current sellers/buyers.
• Coordinate with Operations team for home inspections.
• Explain and demonstrate property features to clients.
• Stay updated on competing products and services in the market.
• Work towards achieving monthly sales targets with the Sales and BD team.

What We’re Looking For

• 1–4 years of experience in a calling or customer-facing role (real estate experience preferred but not mandatory).
• Strong communication skills in English (knowledge of an additional Indian language is a plus).
• Organisational and multitasking skills with attention to detail.
• Enthusiasm to learn and adapt to CRM systems for reporting and record maintenance.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, target-driven environment.
• Willingness to work on weekends (as they are peak days in real estate).
• Positive, collaborative, and motivated mindset.

Why Join Us?

• Exciting opportunity in a fast-growing real estate sector.
• Exposure to both office and on-site sales activities.
• Supportive work environment with learning opportunities.
• Cab service available for women employees post 7:30 PM.

Location: Shanti Nagar, Bangalore

Work Days: Either Tuesday to Sunday or Wednesday to Monday

Work Hours: 10:00 AM – 7:00 PM

Language Requirement: English communication is mandatory

Experience: Minimum 1+ years in a calling role

Cab Facility: Provided after 7:30 PM (for women only)

JoVE is the world-leading producer and provider of science video solutions with the mission to improve scientific research and education. Millions of scientists, educators and students use JoVE for their research, teaching and learning. Our institutional clients comprise over 1,000 universities, colleges, and biopharma companies, including such leaders as Harvard, MIT, Yale, and Stanford. As a rapidly growing company, with offices in the USA, UK, Australia, and India servicing clients in over 60 countries, we are seeking talented and ambitious individuals to join our company.

Role

We are seeking an experienced Senior Fullstack Engineer to join our team, working closely with the global content platform and new initiatives team. Your primary focus will be on developing new products, creating prototypes, and exploring novel use cases with emerging technologies. In this role, you'll collaborate closely with product managers and the platform team to drive innovation, rapidly develop new applications, and push the boundaries of what's possible with cutting-edge tech. If you're passionate about pioneering solutions and want to shape our company's future through creative exploration of new possibilities, we want you on board.

Responsibilities

• Take a lead role in the full software development lifecycle for assigned applications, encompassing design, hands-on engineering, prototype development, and code reviews.
• Mentor and guide engineering peers while driving transformation within various technology domains.
• Serve as an engineering leader on an agile team, focusing on building scalable software solutions through consistent development practices, including tools, common components, and documentation.
• Lead and manage code reviews, ensuring high-quality codebase.
• Promote engineering excellence, particularly in the realm of automated unit testing.
• Collaborate closely with product owners to define product and engineering roadmaps.
• Tackle software debugging and identify code defects for remediation.
• Oversee the deployment, support, and monitoring of software in both development and production environments.
• Contribute to the automation of deployment processes in various environments.
• Work towards ensuring that all applications can scale and explore self-healing solutions.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience with web application frameworks such as Symfony, Laravel, React, or similar. GraphQL experience is a plus.
• Experience with data-driven architecture and systems design, RESTful APIs, and microservices architecture.
• Proficiency utilizing SQL, NoSQL, in-memory, and distributed SQL (e.g., PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB, AuroraDB)
• Experience integrating with 3rd party APIs, external frameworks, and libraries
• Expert-level understanding and implementation of cloud-native architectures (AWS serverless or containers preferred) at scale in production
• Demonstrated understanding and implementation of software design principles such as SOLID and DRY with Software as a Service (SaaS), multi-tenancy application development
• Embraces the concepts of Agile Scrum software development and its related collaboration and issue-tracking tools (e.g., JIRA, Rally)
• Experience working in a Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CICD) model, including GitHub and CI pipeline automation tools
• Ability to triage and resolve incidents and lead incident investigations.
• Must be able to ensure Agile/Scrum concepts and principles are adhered to and be a voice of reason.

Why Join JoVE?

• When working with JoVE, you can expect salary and benefit package competitively placed within the local market
• You will make a direct impact in accelerating science research and in improving student learning in science education
• Opportunity to work with global teams and in an environment that promotes innovation and collaboration
• Our strong promotion from within culture draws a clear path to advance your career with us

Should have interaction with Architect /Interior designer /Consultant
➢ Knowledge to deal with builders would be added advantage
➢ Good Communication skills is a must
➢ Knowledge of computers (excel/word/PowerPoint)

Required Qualification: Mechanical engineer/MBA, Marketing

• Have a high bar for the quality of the product.
• Creative, independent, self-motivated, and willing to learn new technology.
• Possess a good understanding of QA methodologies and processes.
• Strong test planning ability with an understanding of enterprise storage workflows.
• Ability to take up a variety of roles in a startup environment.
• Excellent troubleshooting abilities spanning multiple software and hardware components (such as switches, storage systems, kernels).
• Good knowledge of storage stack, file system internals, and testing tools like fio, fsct, vdbench, dd, specFs etc.
• Strong knowledge of one or more storage protocols like NFS, iSCSI, CIFS, SMB, S3.
• Prior experience of testing storage filers using NFS/SMB/CIFS/S3 is a big plus.
• Experience with distributed systems (databases, storage, map-reduce frameworks, etc.).
• Good understanding of storage performance characteristics.
• Prior work experience in testing enterprise storage products is a must.
• Prior experience of programming, preferably in Go, Python, bash.
• Knowledge of ESXi, HyperV, KVM is a plus.