DevOps Engineer
Company Introduction
https://www.cometchat.com/">CometChat harnesses the power of chat by helping thousands of businesses around the world create customized in-app messaging experiences. Our products allow developers to seamlessly add voice, video and text chat to their websites and mobile apps so that their users can communicate with each other, resulting in a unified customer experience, increased engagement and retention, and revenue growth.
In 2019, CometChat was selected into the exclusive Techstars Boulder Accelerator. CometChat (Industry CPaaS: communication-platform-as-a-service) has also been listed among the top 10 best SaaS companies by G2 Crowd. With solid financials, strong organic growth and increasing interest in developer tool-focused companies (from the market and with top technical talent), we’re heading into an exciting period of growth and acceleration. https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/cometchat">CometChat is backed by seasoned investors such as iSeed Ventures, Range Ventures, Silicon Badia, eonCapital and Matchstick Ventures.
A global business from the start, we have 60+ team members across our Denver and Mumbai offices serving over 50,000 customers around the world. We’ve had an exciting journey so far, and we know this is just the beginning!
CometChat’s Mission
Enable meaningful connections between real people in an increasingly digital world.
CometChat’s Products
CometChat offers a robust suite of cloud hosted text, voice and video options that meet businesses where they are–whether they need drag and drop plugins that can be ready within 30 minutes or if they want more advanced features and can invest development resources to launch the experience that will best serve their users.
● Quickly build a reliable & full featured chat experience into any mobile or web app
● Fully customizable SDKs and API designed to help companies ship faster
At every step, CometChat helps customers solve complex infrastructure, performance and security challenges, regardless of the platform. But there is so much more! With over 20 ready to use extensions, customers can build an experience and get the data, analysis and insights they need to drive their business forward.
CometChat’s solutions are perfect for every kind of chat including:
● Social community – Allowing people in online communities to interact without moving the conversation to another platform
● Marketplace – Enabling communications between buyers and sellers
● Events – Bringing thousands of users together to interact without diminishing the quality of the experience
● Telemedicine – Making connections between patients and providers more accessible
● Dating – Keeping people engaged while they connect with one another
● And more!
CometChat is committed to fostering a culture of innovation & collaboration. Our people are our strength so we respect and nurture their individual talent and potential. Join us if you are looking to be a part of a high growth team!
Position Overview & Priorities:
The DevOps Engineer will be responsible for effective provisioning, installation/configuration, operation, and maintenance of systems and software using Infrastructure as Code. This can include the provision of cloud instances, streamlining deployments, configuring virtual instances, scaling out DB servers.
Primary responsibility would be:
- Oversight of all server environments, from Dev through Production.
- Work on an infrastructure that is 100% on AWS.
- Work on CI/CD tooling which is used to build and deploy code to our cloud.
- Assist with day-to-day issue management.
- Work on internal tooling which simplifies workflows.
- Research, design and implement solutions for fault tolerance, monitoring, performance enhancement, capacity optimization, and configuration management of systems and applications.
Work Location:
We operate on a Hybrid model – you choose where you work from! Remotely or from our offices. Currently, our talent is spread across 14 different cities globally.
Prioritized Experiences and Capabilities:
- 2-4 years of experience working as a DevOps Engineer/currently practicing DevOps methodology
- Experience in AWS Infrastructure
- Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (Cloud Formation / Terraform, Puppet / Chef / Ansible)
- Strong background in Linux/Unix Administration
- DevOps automation with CI/CD, a pipeline that enforces proper versioning and branching practices
- Experience in Docker and Kubernetes.

About CometChat
About
CometChat is a full-stack conversational platform built to unify every layer of interaction — bringing together real-time conversations (chat, messaging, voice, and video), AI Agents, moderation, notifications, and analytics in one modular, developer-first solution.
We believe the interface of the future is conversation — not clicks. Every app will soon have an AI layer that’s as native as text messaging today. That’s why we’re building the infrastructure for the world’s AI-powered conversations — from human-to-human, to human-to-agent, to multi-party collaboration with AI in the mix.
From AI onboarding assistants that get users productive in minutes, to copilots that perform complex workflows in-app, to intelligent moderators that protect and guide communities in real time — our AI Agent platform makes it all possible.
With CometChat’s ready-to-use UI kits, powerful SDKs, and our Full Stack AI Agent Platform, product teams across startups and enterprises can launch safe, scalable, and smart in-app interactions faster than ever.
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Position : Architect or Technical Lead - DevOps
Location : Bangalore
Role:
Strong knowledge on architecture and system design skills for multi-tenant, multi-region, redundant and highly- available mission-critical systems.
Clear understanding of core cloud platform technologies across public and private clouds.
Lead DevOps practices for Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment pipeline and IT operations practices, scaling, metrics, as well as running day-to-day operations from development to production for the platform.
Implement non-functional requirements needed for a world-class reliability, scale, security and cost-efficiency throughout the product development lifecycle.
Drive a culture of automation, and self-service enablement for developers.
Work with information security leadership and technical team to automate security into the platform and services.
Meet infrastructure SLAs and compliance control points of cloud platforms.
Define and contribute to initiatives to continually improve Solution Delivery processes.
Improve organisation’s capability to build, deliver and scale software as a service on the cloud
Interface with Engineering, Product and Technical Architecture group to meet joint objectives.
You are deeply motivated & have knowledge of solving hard to crack societal challenges with the stamina to see it all the way through.
You must have 7+ years of hands-on experience on DevOps, MSA and Kubernetes platform.
You must have 2+ years of strong kubernetes experience and must have CKA (Certified Kubernetes Administrator).
You should be proficient in tools/technologies involved for a microservices architecture and deployed in a multi cloud kubernetes environment.
You should have hands-on experience in architecting and building CI/CD pipelines from code check-in until production.
You should have strong knowledge on Dockers, Jenkins pipeline scripting, Helm charts, kubernetes objects and manifests, prometheus and demonstrate hands-on knowledge of multi cloud computing, storage and networking.
You should have experience in designing, provisioning and administrating using best practices across multiple public cloud offerings (Azure, AWS, GCP) and/or private cloud offerings ( OpenStack, VMware, Nutanix, NIC, bare metal Infra).
You should have experience in setting up logging, monitoring Cloud application performance, error rates, and error budgets while tracking adherence to SLOs and SLAs.
Job Overview:
You will work in engineering and development teams to integrate and develop cloud solutions and virtualized deployment of software as a service product. This will require understanding the software system architecture function as well as performance and security requirements. The DevOps Engineer is also expected to have expertise in available cloud solutions and services, administration of virtual machine clusters, performance tuning and configuration of cloud computing resources, the configuration of security, scripting and automation of monitoring functions. This position requires the deployment and management of multiple virtual clusters and working with compliance organizations to support security audits. The design and selection of cloud computing solutions that are reliable, robust, extensible, and easy to migrate are also important.
Experience:
- Experience working on billing and budgets for a GCP project - MUST
- Experience working on optimizations on GCP based on vendor recommendations - NICE TO HAVE
- Experience in implementing the recommendations on GCP
- Architect Certifications on GCP - MUST
- Excellent communication skills (both verbal & written) - MUST
- Excellent documentation skills on processes and steps and instructions- MUST
- At least 2 years of experience on GCP.
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s/Master’s Degree in Engineering OR Equivalent.
- Extensive scripting or programming experience (Shell Script, Python).
- Extensive experience working with CI/CD (e.g. Jenkins).
- Extensive experience working with GCP, Azure, or Cloud Foundry.
- Experience working with databases (PostgreSQL, elastic search).
- Must have 2 years of minimum experience with GCP certification.
Benefits :
- Competitive salary.
- Work from anywhere.
- Learning and gaining experience rapidly.
- Reimbursement for basic working set up at home.
- Insurance (including top-up insurance for COVID).
Location :
Remote - work from anywhere.
Ideal joining preferences:
Immediate or 15 days
Main tasks
- Supervision of the CI/CD process for the automated builds and deployments of web services and web applications as well as desktop tool in the cloud and container environment
- Responsibility of the operations part of a DevOps organization especially for development at LS telcom in the environment of container technology and orchestration, e.g. with Kubernetes
- Installation, operation and monitoring of web applications in cloud data centers for the purpose of development of the test as well as for the operation of an own productive cloud as LS service
- Implementation of installations of the LS system solution especially in the container context
- Introduction, maintenance and improvement of installation solutions for LS development in the desktop and server environment as well as in the cloud and with on-premise Kubernetes
- Maintenance of the system installation documentation and implementation of trainings
Execution of internal software tests and support of involved teams and stakeholders
- Hands on Experience with Azure DevOps.
Qualification profile
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in communications engineering, electrical engineering, physics or comparable qualification
- Experience in software
- Installation and administration of Linux and Windows systems including network and firewalling aspects
- Experience with build and deployment automation with tools like Jenkins, Gradle, Argo or similar as well as system scripting (Bash, Power-Shell, etc.)
- Interest in operation and monitoring of applications in virtualized and containerized environments in cloud and on-premise
- Server environments, especially application, web-and database servers
- Knowledge in VMware/K3D/Rancer is an advantage
- Good spoken and written knowledge of English
Key Sills Required for Lead DevOps Engineer
Containerization Technologies
Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift
Cloud Technologies
AWS/Azure, GCP
CI/CD Pipeline Tools
Jenkins, Azure Devops
Configuration Management Tools
Ansible, Chef,
SCM Tools
Git, GitHub, Bitbucket
Monitoring Tools
New Relic, Nagios, Prometheus
Cloud Infra Automation
Terraform
Scripting Languages
Python, Shell, Groovy
· Ability to decide the Architecture for the project and tools as per the availability
· Sound knowledge required in the deployment strategies and able to define the timelines
· Team handling skills are a must
· Debugging skills are an advantage
· Good to have knowledge of Databases like Mysql, Postgresql
It is advantageous to be familiar with Kafka. RabbitMQ
· Good to have knowledge of Web servers to deploy web applications
· Good to have knowledge of Code quality checking tools like SonarQube and Vulnerability scanning
· Advantage to having experience in DevSecOps
Note: Tools mentioned in bold are a must and others are added advantage
● Improve CI/CD tooling using gitlab.
● Implement and improve monitoring and alerting.
● Build and maintain highly available systems.
● Implement the CI pipeline.
● Implement and maintain monitoring stacks.
● Lead and guide the team in identifying and implementing new technologies.
● Implement and own the CI.
● Manage CD tooling.
● Implement and maintain monitoring and alerting.
● Build and maintain highly available production systems.
Skills
● Configuration Management experience such as Kubernetes, Ansible or similar.
● Managing production infrastructure with Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.
● Strong Linux, system administration background.
● Ability to present and communicate the architecture in a visual form. Strong knowledge of AWS,
Azure, GCP.
- Develop and Deploy Software:
- Architect and create an effective build and release process using industry best practices and tools
- Create and manage build scripts to deploy software in a multi-cloud environment
- Look for opportunities to automate as much of the deployment process as possible to provide for repeatability, auditability, scalability and build in process enforcement
- Manage Release Schedule:
- Act as a “gate keeper” for all releases into production
- Work closely with business stakeholders, development managers and developers to prepare a release schedule
- Help prioritize deployment requests for version upgrades, patches and hot-fixes
- Continuous Delivery of Software:
- Implement Continuous Integration (CI) practices to drive development teams to implement smaller changes and commit code to the version control repo frequently
- Implement Continuous Development (CD) practices that automates deployment of the application to several environments – Dev, Test and Production
- Implement Continuous Testing (functional and non-functional) to execute tests in the CI/CD pipeline
- Manage Version Control:
- Define and implement branching policies to efficiently manage source-code
- Implement business rules as a part of source control standards
- Resolve Software Issues:
- Assist technical support and development teams to troubleshoot issues and identify areas that need improvement
- Address deployment related issues
- Maintain Release Documentation:
- Maintain release notes (features available in stable versions and known issues) and other documents for both internal and external end users
We are global expert in cloud consulting and service management, focusing exclusively on the Cloud DevOps Space. In short, we strive to be at the forefront in this era of digital disruption by being dynamic, agile and cohesive in providing businesses the solutions needed to leverage it to the next level. Our expert team of Engineers, Programmers, Designers and Business development professionals are the foundations of our firm with the fusion of cutting-edge technology.Nimble IT Consulting is vested in Research and Analysis of Current and Upcoming trends, be it Technology, Business Values and User Experience, we dedicate our efforts tirelessly to be at the pinnacle of the Quality Standards. Devising solutions that are just not only being approved or followed by industry leaders in fact they depend on it. Read more about us: https://nimbleitconsulting.com/" target="_blank">https://nimbleitconsulting.com
What we are looking for
A DevOps Engineer who has valued certification to join our team and provide consulting services to our clients, below is the technology stack we are interested in
Technical skills
- Expertise in implementing and managing Devops CI/CD pipeline. ( either using Jenkins or Azure DevOps )
- At least one AWS or Azure Certification
- Terraform Scripting
- Hands-on experience with git and source code management and release management.
- Experience in DevOps automation tools. And Very well versed with DevOps principles and the Agile Frameworks.
- Working knowledge of scripting using shell, Python, Gradle, Yaml, Ansible or puppet or chef.
- Working knowledge of build systems for various technologies like npm, maven etc.
- Experience and good understanding in any of Cloud platforms like AWS, Azure or Google cloud.
- Hands on Knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes is required.
- Proficient in troubleshooting skills with proven abilities in resolving complex technical issues. Experience with working with ticketing tools (Jira & Service now)
- A programming language like Java, Go , NodeJS is a nice to have.
What you’ll get in return
- Work Permit for United Kingdom ( tier 2 visa ) total duration of visa will be 5 years ( first 2 years and then 3 year extension)
- At the end of the 5 years you will be eligible for British Citizenship by applying for Indefinite leave to remain in the UK
- Learn new technologies - We won’t ever expect you to do the same thing day in day out; we want to
- give you the chance to explore the latest techniques to solve challenging technical problems and help
- you become the best developer you can be.
- Join a growing agile team that are consistently delivering.
- Technical Development Program
Diversity Statement
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the
basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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.
- 3-6 years of relevant work experience in a DevOps role.
- Deep understanding of Amazon Web Services or equivalent cloud platforms.
- Proven record of infra automation and programming skills in any of these languages - Python, Ruby, Perl, Javascript.
- Implement DevOps Industry best practices and the application of procedures to achieve a continuously deployable system
- Continuously improve and increase the capabilities of the CI/CD pipeline
- Support engineering teams in the implementation of life-cycle infrastructure solutions and documentation operations in order to meet the engineering departments quality and standards
- Participate in production outages and handle complex issues and works towards resolution
Searce is a niche’ Cloud Consulting business with futuristic tech DNA. We do new-age tech
to realise the “Next” in the “Now” for our Clients. We specialise in Cloud Data Engineering,
AI/Machine Learning and Advanced Cloud infra tech such as Anthos and Kubernetes. We
are one of the top & the fastest growing partners for Google Cloud and AWS globally with
over 2,500 clients successfully moved to cloud.
What we believe?
1. Best practices are overrated
○ Implementing best practices can only make one n ‘average’ .
2. Honesty and Transparency
○ We believe in naked truth. We do what we tell and tell what we do.
3. Client Partnership
○ Client - Vendor relationship: No. We partner with clients instead.
○ And our sales team comprises 100% of our clients.
How we work?
It’s all about being Happier first. And rest follows. Searce work culture is defined by
HAPPIER.
1. Humble: Happy people don’t carry ego around. We listen to understand; not to
respond.
2. Adaptable: We are comfortable with uncertainty. And we accept changes well. As
that’s what life's about.
3. Positive: We are super positive about work & life in general. We love to forget and
forgive. We don’t hold grudges. We don’t have time or adequate space for it.
4. Passionate: We are as passionate about the great street-food vendor across the
street as about Tesla’s new model and so on. Passion is what drives us to work and
makes us deliver the quality we deliver.
5. Innovative: Innovate or Die. We love to challenge the status quo.
6. Experimental: We encourage curiosity & making mistakes.
7. Responsible: Driven. Self motivated. Self governing teams. We own it.
Are you the one? Quick self-discovery test:
1. Love for cloud: When was the last time your dinner entailed an act on “How would
‘Jerry Seinfeld’ pitch Cloud platform & products to this prospect” and your friend did
the ‘Sheldon’ version of the same thing.
2. Passion for sales: When was the last time you went at a remote gas station while on
vacation, and ended up helping the gas station owner saasify his 7 gas stations
across other geographies.
3. Compassion for customers: You listen more than you speak. When you do speak,
people feel the need to listen.
4. Humor for life: When was the last time you told a concerned CEO, ‘If Elon Musk can
attempt to take humanity to Mars, why can’t we take your business to run on cloud ?
Your bucket of undertakings:
This position will be responsible to consult with clients and propose architectural solutions
to help move & improve infra from on-premise to cloud or help optimize cloud spend from
one public cloud to the other.
1. Be the first one to experiment on new age cloud offerings, help define the best
practise as a thought leader for cloud, automation & Dev-Ops, be a solution
visionary and technology expert across multiple channels.
2. Continually augment skills and learn new tech as the technology and client needs
evolve
3. Use your experience in Google cloud platform, AWS or Microsoft Azure to build
hybrid-cloud solutions for customers.
4. Provide leadership to project teams, and facilitate the definition of project
deliverables around core Cloud based technology and methods.
5. Define tracking mechanisms and ensure IT standards and methodology are met;
deliver quality results.
6. Participate in technical reviews of requirements, designs, code and other artifacts
7. Identify and keep abreast of new technical concepts in google cloud platform
8. Security, Risk and Compliance - Advise customers on best practices around access
management, network setup, regulatory compliance and related areas.
Accomplishment Set
● Passionate, persuasive, articulate Cloud professional capable of quickly establishing
interest and credibility
● Good business judgment, a comfortable, open communication style, and a
willingness and ability to work with customers and teams.
● Strong service attitude and a commitment to quality.
● Highly organised and efficient.
● Confident working with others to inspire a high-quality standard.
Education, Experience, etc.
1. Is Education overrated? Yes. We believe so. However there is no way to locate you
otherwise. So unfortunately we might have to look for a Bachelor's or Master's
degree in engineering from a reputed institute or you should be programming from
12. And the latter is better. We will find you faster if you specify the latter in some
manner. Not just degree, but we are not too thrilled by tech certifications too ... :)
2. To reiterate: Passion to tech-awesome, insatiable desire to learn the latest of the
new-age cloud tech, highly analytical aptitude and a strong ‘desire to deliver’ outlives
those fancy degrees!
3. 1 - 5 years of experience with at least 2 - 3 years of hands-on experience in Cloud
Computing (AWS/GCP/Azure) and IT operational experience in a global enterprise
environment.
4. Good analytical, communication, problem solving, and learning skills.
5. Knowledge on programming against cloud platforms such as Google Cloud Platf








