DevOps Engineer

We are looking for a seasoned DevOps Engineer with a strong background in solution architecture, ideally from the Banking or BFSI (Banking, Financial Services, and Insurance) domain. This role is crucial for implementing scalable, secure infrastructure and CI/CD practices tailored to the needs of high-compliance, high-availability environments. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in Docker, Kubernetes, cloud platforms, and solution architecture, with knowledge of ML/AI and database management as a plus.

Key Responsibilities:

● Infrastructure & Solution Architecture: Design secure, compliant, and high-

performance cloud infrastructures (AWS, Azure, or GCP) optimized for BFSI-specific

applications.

● Containerization & Orchestration: Lead Docker and Kubernetes initiatives,

deploying applications with a focus on security, compliance, and resilience.

● CI/CD Pipelines: Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines suited to BFSI workflows,

incorporating automated testing, security checks, and rollback mechanisms.

● Cloud Infrastructure & Database Management: Manage cloud resources and

automate provisioning using Terraform, ensuring security standards. Optimize

relational and NoSQL databases for BFSI application needs.

● Monitoring & Incident Response: Implement monitoring and alerting (e.g.,

Prometheus, Grafana) for rapid incident response, ensuring uptime and reliability.

● Collaboration: Work closely with compliance, security, and development teams,

aligning infrastructure with BFSI standards and regulations.

Qualifications:

● Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering,

Information Technology, or a related field.

● Experience: 5+ years of experience in DevOps with cloud infrastructure and solution

architecture expertise, ideally in ML/AI environments.

● Technical Skills:

○ Cloud Platforms: Proficient in AWS, Azure, or GCP; certifications (e.g., AWS

Solutions Architect, Azure Solutions Architect) are a plus.

○ Containerization & Orchestration: Expertise with Docker and Kubernetes,

including experience deploying and managing clusters at scale.

○ CI/CD Pipelines: Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools like Jenkins, GitLab

CI, or GitHub Actions, with automation and integration for ML/AI workflows

preferred.

○ Infrastructure as Code: Strong knowledge of Terraform and/or

CloudFormation for infrastructure provisioning.

○ Database Management: Proficiency in relational databases (PostgreSQL,

MySQL) and NoSQL databases (MongoDB, DynamoDB), with a focus on

optimization and scalability.

○ ML/AI Infrastructure: Experience supporting ML/AI pipelines, model serving,

and data processing within cloud or hybrid environments.

○ Monitoring and Logging: Proficient in monitoring tools like Prometheus and

Grafana, and log management solutions like ELK Stack or Splunk.

○ Scripting and Automation: Strong skills in Python, Bash, or PowerShell for

scripting and automating processes.

What you’ll be doing at Novo:

● Systems thinking
● Creating best practices, templates, and automation for build, test, integration and
deployment pipelines on multiple projects
● Designing and developing tools for easily creating and managing dev/test infrastructure
and services in AWS cloud
● Providing expertise and guidance on CI/CD, Github, and other development tools via
containerization
● Monitoring and support systems in Dev, UAT and production environments
● Building mock services and production-like data sources for use in development and
testing
● Managing Github integrations, feature flag systems, code coverage tools, and other
development & monitoring tools tools
● Participating in support rotations to help troubleshoot to infrastructure issues

● Creating and working with containers, as well as using container orchestration tools
(Kubernetes / Docker)
● AWS: S3, EKS, EC2, RDS, Route53, VPC etc.
● Fair understanding of Linux
● Good knowledge of CI/CD : Jenkins / CircleCI / Github Actions
● Basic level of monitoring
● Support for Deployment along with various Web Servers and Linux environments , both
backend and frontend.

• 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

DESIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

 Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

 Ability to work independently, learn quickly and be proactive

 3-5 years overall and at least 1-2 years of hands-on experience in designing and managing DevOps Cloud infrastructure

 Experience must include a combination of:

o Experience working with configuration management tools – Ansible, Chef, Puppet, SaltStack (expertise in at least one tool is a must)

o Ability to write and maintain code in at least one scripting language (Python preferred)

o Practical knowledge of shell scripting

o Cloud knowledge – AWS, VMware vSphere o Good understanding and familiarity with Linux

o Networking knowledge – Firewalls, VPNs, Load Balancers

o Web/Application servers, Nginx, JVM environments

o Virtualization and containers - Xen, KVM, Qemu, Docker, Kubernetes, etc.

o Familiarity with logging systems - Logstash, Elasticsearch, Kibana

o Git, Jenkins, Jira

• Develop and Maintain IAC using Terraform and Ansible
• Draft design documents that translate requirements into code.
• Deal with challenges associated with scale.
• Assume responsibilities from technical design through technical client support.
• Manage expectations with internal stakeholders and context-switch in a fast paced environment.
• Thrive in an environment that uses Elasticsearch extensively.
• Keep abreast of technology and contribute to the engineering strategy.
• Champion best development practices and provide mentorship

• Terraform o Ansible
• *nix and shell scripting
• Elasticsearch
• Circle CI
• CloudFormation
• Python
• Packer
• Docker
• Prometheus and Grafana
• Challenges of scale
• Production support
• Sharp analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong sense of ownership.
• Demonstrable desire to learn and grow.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Mature collaboration and mentoring abilities.

Total Experience: 6 – 12 Years

Required Skills and Experience 

• 3+ years of relevant experience with DevOps tools Jenkins, Ansible, Chef etc
• 3+ years of experience in continuous integration/deployment and software tools development experience with Python and shell scripts etc
• Building and running Docker images and deployment on Amazon ECS
• Working with AWS services (EC2, S3, ELB, VPC, RDS, Cloudwatch, ECS, ECR, EKS)
• Knowledge and experience working with container technologies such as Docker and Amazon ECS, EKS, Kubernetes
• Experience with source code and configuration management tools such as Git, Bitbucket, and Maven
• Ability to work with and support Linux environments (Ubuntu, Amazon Linux, CentOS)
• Knowledge and experience in cloud orchestration tools such as AWS Cloudformation/Terraform etc
• Experience with implementing "infrastructure as code", “pipeline as code” and "security as code" to enable continuous integration and delivery
• Understanding of IAM, RBAC, NACLs, and KMS
• Good communication skills

Good to have:

• Strong understanding of security concepts, methodologies and apply them such as SSH, public key encryption, access credentials, certificates etc.
• Knowledge of database administration such as MongoDB.
• Knowledge of maintaining and using tools such as Jira, Bitbucket, Confluence.

Responsibilities

• Work with Leads and Architects in designing and implementation of technical infrastructure, platform, and tools to support modern best practices and facilitate the efficiency of our development teams through automation, CI/CD pipelines, and ease of access and performance.
• Establish and promote DevOps thinking, guidelines, best practices, and standards.
• Contribute to architectural discussions, Agile software development process improvement, and DevOps best practices.