DevOps Engineer

Location: Bangalore preferred / Hybrid as applicable

Experience: 3+ years

Education: B.E/B.Tech in Computer Science, Engineering or a related technical discipline

Salary: Above market standards, flexible for the right candidate

Career growth: Long-term opportunity with potential to lead DevOps architecture and cloud platform operations

About FrontM

FrontM builds software platforms for frontline workforces operating in remote and low-connectivity environments, with a strong focus on the maritime industry. The platform supports communication, collaboration, healthcare, learning, welfare and operational workflows across mobile, web, kiosk and connected device environments.

The platform runs across cloud infrastructure, constrained networks and specialised customer environments, requiring reliable DevOps practices, strong observability, secure architecture and careful operational discipline.

Role Summary

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will take ownership of FrontM’s AWS cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, platform reliability and technical operations. You will work closely with the VP of Delivery, CTO and CEO to maintain secure, scalable and high-availability infrastructure for FrontM’s production systems.

This role requires strong hands-on DevOps experience, broad AWS knowledge, Kubernetes experience and the ability to troubleshoot complex networking and production issues across multi-domain SaaS environments.

Key Responsibilities

Cloud Infrastructure & DevOps Architecture (≈45%)

· Own, maintain and improve AWS cloud infrastructure for FrontM platforms

· Create and maintain Terraform scripts for infrastructure deployment and management

· Manage Kubernetes workloads deployed within AWS EKS

· Support multi-zone AWS infrastructure design for availability, resilience and scale

· Maintain AWS services including Route 53, EC2, API Gateway, VPC, VPN, AWS Cognito, ElastiCache, DynamoDB and Lambda

· Contribute to DevOps architecture planning in line with FrontM’s platform roadmap

CI/CD, Operations & Platform Reliability (≈35%)

· Build, maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines for backend and platform services

· Oversee technical operations with hands-on administration, monitoring and release support

· Ensure continuous server uptime, stability, performance and maintainability

· Debug, respond to and restore system outages in production and staging environments

· Improve observability across infrastructure and applications, including migration from Elastic stack to logz.io

· Support backend stability, scale and performance across Node.js, Java and related services

Security, Networking & Production Support (≈20%)

· Maintain AWS security configurations, access controls and monitoring practices

· Support complex networking requirements across multi-domain SaaS implementations

· Troubleshoot network, infrastructure and access issues with internal teams and customer-side users

· Work with backend teams to support API integrations and infrastructure abstractions for complex requirements

· Document operational procedures, incident findings and technical support steps clearly

Required Technical Skills

Cloud Infrastructure & AWS

· Strong hands-on experience with AWS infrastructure and cloud operations

· Experience with Route 53, EC2, API Gateway, VPC, VPN, AWS Cognito, ElastiCache, DynamoDB and Lambda

· Experience with AWS security setup, monitoring and multi-zone infrastructure

· Ability to manage infrastructure using Terraform

Kubernetes, CI/CD & Observability

· Strong experience with Kubernetes, preferably AWS EKS

· Extensive CI/CD and DevOps experience

· Experience with infrastructure observability and application monitoring tools

· Ability to diagnose production bottlenecks, server failures and performance issues

Backend, Networking & SaaS Operations

· Experience supporting Node.js, Java and backend system procedures for stability and scale

· Good understanding of APIs, integrations and backend service dependencies

· Experience with complex networking and multi-domain SaaS implementations

· Ability to troubleshoot technical issues with non-technical end users

Nice to Have

· Experience with MongoDB clusters in MongoDB Atlas

Personal Attributes

· Strong ownership mindset for uptime, reliability and production stability

· Practical problem-solving approach with the ability to act quickly during incidents

· Clear written and spoken communication in English

· Ability to work independently and coordinate with senior management when required

· Comfortable working in fast-moving engineering teams

· Attention to detail in security, monitoring, documentation and operational processes

Why join FrontM?

Long-Term Career Growth

Opportunity to work on cloud infrastructure used by global maritime and remote workforce customers, with scope to grow into DevOps architecture and platform leadership roles.

Engineering Challenges That Matter

Work on infrastructure that supports applications used in remote, low-bandwidth and operationally demanding environments.

Broad Technical Ownership

Take responsibility across cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, CI/CD, observability, networking, security and production reliability.

Apply now

Join a team focused on building reliable software infrastructure for real-world use cases and contribute to systems used across the global maritime workforce.

NOTE- This is a contractual role for a period of 3-6 months.

Responsibilities:

● Set up and maintain CI/CD pipelines across services and environments

● Monitor system health and set up alerts/logs for performance & errors ● Work closely with backend/frontend teams to improve deployment velocity

● Manage cloud environments (staging, production) with cost and reliability in mind

● Ensure secure access, role policies, and audit logging

● Contribute to internal tooling, CLI automation, and dev workflow improvements

Must-Haves:

● 2–3 years of hands-on experience in DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering

● Experience with Docker, CI/CD (especially GitHub Actions), and cloud providers (AWS/GCP)

● Proficiency in writing scripts (Bash, Python) for automation

● Good understanding of system monitoring, logs, and alerting

● Strong debugging skills, ownership mindset, and clear documentation habits

● Infra monitoring tools like Grafana dashboards

• 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.

Responsibilities

● Be a hands-on engineer, ensure frameworks/infrastructure built is well designed,

scalable & are of high quality.

● Build and/or operate platforms that are highly available, elastic, scalable, operable and

observable.

● Build/Adapt and implement tools that empower the TI AI engineering teams to

self-manage the infrastructure and services owned by them.

● You will identify, articulate, and lead various long-term tech vision, strategies,

cross-cutting initiatives and architecture redesigns.

● Design systems and make decisions that will keep pace with the rapid growth of TI AI.

● Document your work and decision-making processes, and lead presentations and

discussions in a way that is easy for others to understand.

● Available for on-call during emergencies to handle and resolve problems in a quick and

efficient manner.

Requirements

● 2+ years of Hands-on experience as a DevOps / Infrastructure engineer with AWS and

Kubernetes or similar infrastructure platforms. (preferably AWS)

● Hands-on with DevOps principles and practices ( Everything-as-a-code, CI/CD, Test

everything, proactive monitoring etc).

● Experience in building and operating distributed systems.

● Understanding of operating systems, virtualization, containerization and networks

preferable

● Hands-on coding on any of the languages like Python or GoLang.

● Familiarity with software engineering practices including unit testing, code reviews, and

design documentation.

● Strong debugging and problem-solving skills Curiosity about how things work and love to

share that knowledge with others.

Benefits :

● Work with a world class team working on a very forward looking problem

● Competitive Pay

● Flat hierarchy

● Health insurance for the family

• As a DevOps engineer, you will be responsible for
• Automated provisioning of infrastructure in AWS/Azure/OpenStack environments.
• Creation of CI/CD pipelines to ensure smooth delivery of projects.
• Proactive Monitoring of overall infrastructure (Logs/Resources etc)
• Deployment of application to various cloud environments.
• Should be able to lead/guide a team towards achieving goals and meeting the milestones defined.
• Practice and implement best practices in every aspect of project deliverable.
• Keeping yourself up to date with new frameworks and tools and enabling the team to use them.

Skills Required

• Experience in Automation of CI/CD processes using tools such as GIT, Gerrit, Jenkins, CircleCI, Azure Pipeline, Gitlab
• Experience in working with AWS and Azure platforms and Cloud-Native automation tools such as AWS cloud formation and Azure Resource Manager.
• Experience in monitoring solutions such as ELK Stack, Splunk, Nagios, Zabbix, Prometheus
• Web Server/Application Server deployments and administration.
• Good Communication, Team Handling, Problem-solving, Work Ethic, and Creativity.
• Work experience of at least 1 year in the following are mandatory.

If you do not have the relevant experience, please do not apply.

• Any cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure, OpenStack)
• Any of the configuration management tools (Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Terraform, Powershell DSC)
• Scripting languages (PHP, Python, Shell, Bash, etc.?
• Docker or Kubernetes
• Troubleshoot and debug infrastructure Network and operating system issues.