
About GradRight
Our vision is to be the world’s leading Ed-Fin Tech company dedicated to making higher education accessible and affordable to all. Our mission is to drive transparency and accountability in the global higher education sector and create significant impact using the power of technology, data science and collaboration.
GradRight is the world’s first SaaS ecosystem that brings together students, universities and financial institutions in an integrated manner. It enables students to find and fund high return college education, universities to engage and select the best-fit students and banks to lend in an effective and efficient manner.
In the last three years, we have enabled students to get the best deals on a $ 2.8+ Billion of loan requests and facilitated disbursements of more than $ 350+ Million in loans. GradRight won the HSBC Fintech Innovation Challenge supported by the Ministry of Electronics & IT, Government of India & was among the top 7 global finalists in The PIEoneer awards, UK.
GradRight’s team possesses extensive domestic and international experience in the launch and scale-up of premier higher education institutions. It is led by alumni of IIT Delhi, BITS Pilani, IIT Roorkee, ISB Hyderabad and University of Pennsylvania. GradRight is a Delaware, USA registered company with a wholly owned subsidiary in India.
About the Role
We are looking for a passionate DevOps Engineer with hands-on experience in AWS cloud infrastructure, containerization, and orchestration. The ideal candidate will be responsible for building, automating, and maintaining scalable cloud solutions, ensuring smooth CI/CD pipelines, and supporting development and operations teams.
Core Responsibilities
Design, implement, and manage scalable, secure, and highly available infrastructure on AWS.
Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, or GitHub Actions.
Containerize applications using Docker and manage deployments with Kubernetes (EKS, self-managed, or other distributions).
Monitor system performance, availability, and security using tools like CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK stack.
Collaborate with development teams to optimize application performance and deployment processes.
Required Skills & Experience
3–4 years of professional experience as a DevOps Engineer or similar role.
Strong expertise in AWS services (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, EKS, etc.).
Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes (EKS or self-hosted clusters).
Proficiency in CI/CD pipeline design and automation.
Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform / AWS CloudFormation).
Solid understanding of Linux/Unix systems and shell scripting.
Knowledge of monitoring, logging, and alerting tools.
Familiarity with networking concepts (DNS, Load Balancing, Security Groups, Firewalls).
Basic programming/scripting experience in Python, Bash, or Go.
Nice to Have
Exposure to microservices architecture and service mesh (Istio/Linkerd).
Knowledge of serverless (AWS Lambda, API Gateway).

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Gradright is an ed-fin start-up aiming to foster accountability and create a long-lasting impact in global higher education using the power of technology, data science and collaboration. Our mission is to aid a million students in making rational and informed decisions about their universities and finances by 2025 and help them in pursuing their passion without unnecessary financial burden.
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We are seeking an experienced Operations Lead to drive operational excellence and lead a dynamic team in our fast-paced environment. The ideal candidate will combine strong technical expertise in Python with proven leadership capabilities to optimize processes, ensure system reliability, and deliver results.
Key Responsibilities
- Team & stakeholder leadership - Lead 3-4 operations professionals and work cross-functionally with developers, system administrators, quants, and traders
- DevOps automation & deployment - Develop deployment pipelines, automate configuration management, and build Python-based tools for operational processes and system optimization
- Technical excellence & standards - Drive code reviews, establish development standards, ensure regional consistency with DevOps practices, and maintain technical documentation
- System operations & performance - Monitor and optimize system performance for high availability, scalability, and security while managing day-to-day operations
- Incident management & troubleshooting - Coordinate incident response, resolve infrastructure and deployment issues, and implement automated solutions to prevent recurring problems
- Strategic technical leadership - Make infrastructure decisions, identify operational requirements, design scalable architecture, and stay current with industry best practices
- Reporting & continuous improvement - Report on operational metrics and KPIs to senior leadership while actively contributing to DevOps process improvements
Qualifications and Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field
- Proven experience of at least 5 years as a Software Engineer including at least 2 years as a DevOps Engineer or similar role, working with complex software projects and environments.
- Excellent knowledge with cloud technologies, containers and orchestration.
- Proficiency in scripting and programming languages such as Python and Bash.
- Experience with Linux operating systems and command-line tools.
- Proficient in using Git for version control.
Good to Have
- Experience with Nagios or similar monitoring and alerting systems
- Backend and/or frontend development experience for operational tooling
- Previous experience working in a trading firm or financial services environment
- Knowledge of database management and SQL
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Experience with DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines
- Understanding of network protocols and system administration
Why You’ll Love Working Here
We’re a team that hustles—plain and simple. But we also believe life outside work matters. No cubicles, no suits—just great people doing great work in a space built for comfort and creativity.
Here’s what we offer:
💰 Competitive salary – Get paid what you’re worth.
🌴 Generous paid time off – Recharge and come back sharper.
🌍 Work with the best – Collaborate with top-tier global talent.
✈️ Adventure together – Annual offsites (mostly outside India) and regular team outings.
🎯 Performance rewards – Multiple bonuses for those who go above and beyond.
🏥 Health covered – Comprehensive insurance so you’re always protected.
⚡ Fun, not just work – On-site sports, games, and a lively workspace.
🧠 Learn and lead – Regular knowledge-sharing sessions led by your peers.
📚 Annual Education Stipend – Take any external course, bootcamp, or certification that makes you better at your craft.
🏋️ Stay fit – Gym memberships with equal employer contribution to keep you at your best.
🚚 Relocation support – Smooth move? We’ve got your back.
🏆 Friendly competition – Work challenges and extracurricular contests to keep things exciting.
We work hard, play hard, and grow together. Join us.
(P.S. We hire for talent, not pedigree—but if you’ve worked at a top tech co or fintech startup, we’d love to hear how you’ve shipped great products.)
• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Engineering,
Computer Science, Computer Applications, Mathematics, Statistics or related technical field or
equivalent practical experience. Relevant experience of at least 3 years in lieu of above if from a
different stream of education.
• Well-versed in DevOps principals & practices and hands-on DevOps
tool-chain integration experience: Release Orchestration & Automation, Source Code & Build
Management, Code Quality & Security Management, Behavior Driven Development, Test Driven
Development, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Deployment, and
Operational Monitoring & Management; extra points if you can demonstrate your knowledge with
working examples.
• Hands-on experience with demonstrable working experience with DevOps tools
and platforms viz., Slack, Jira, GIT, Jenkins, Code Quality & Security Plugins, Maven, Artifactory,
Terraform, Ansible/Chef/Puppet, Spinnaker, Tekton, StackStorm, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK,
PagerDuty, VictorOps, etc.
• Well-versed in Virtualization & Containerization; must demonstrate
experience in technologies such as Kubernetes, Istio, Docker, OpenShift, Anthos, Oracle VirtualBox,
Vagrant, etc.
• Well-versed in AWS and/or Azure or and/or Google Cloud; must demonstrate
experience in at least FIVE (5) services offered under AWS and/or Azure or and/or Google Cloud in
any categories: Compute or Storage, Database, Networking & Content Delivery, Management &
Governance, Analytics, Security, Identity, & Compliance (or) equivalent demonstratable Cloud
Platform experience.
• Well-versed with demonstrable working experience with API Management,
API Gateway, Service Mesh, Identity & Access Management, Data Protection & Encryption, tools &
platforms.
• Hands-on programming experience in either core Java and/or Python and/or JavaScript
and/or Scala; freshers passing out of college or lateral movers into IT must be able to code in
languages they have studied.
• Well-versed with Storage, Networks and Storage Networking basics
which will enable you to work in a Cloud environment.
• Well-versed with Network, Data, and
Application Security basics which will enable you to work in a Cloud as well as Business
Applications / API services environment.
• Extra points if you are certified in AWS and/or Azure
and/or Google Cloud.
Key Responsibilities:
- Work with the development team to plan, execute and monitor deployments
- Capacity planning for product deployments
- Adopt best practices for deployment and monitoring systems
- Ensure the SLAs for performance, up time are met
- Constantly monitor systems, suggest changes to improve performance and decrease costs.
- Ensure the highest standards of security
Key Competencies (Functional):
- Proficiency in coding in atleast one scripting language - bash, Python, etc
- Has personally managed a fleet of servers (> 15)
- Understand different environments production, deployment and staging
- Worked in micro service / Service oriented architecture systems
- Has worked with automated deployment systems – Ansible / Chef / Puppet.
- Can write MySQL queries
Job description
The role requires you to design development pipelines from the ground up, Creation of Docker Files, design and operate highly available systems in AWS Cloud environments. Also involves Configuration Management, Web Services Architectures, DevOps Implementation, Database management, Backups, and Monitoring.
Key responsibility area
- Ensure reliable operation of CI/CD pipelines
- Orchestrate the provisioning, load balancing, configuration, monitoring and billing of resources in the cloud environment in a highly automated manner
- Logging, metrics and alerting management.
- Creation of Bash/Python scripts for automation
- Performing root cause analysis for production errors.
Requirement
- 2 years experience as Team Lead.
- Good Command on kubernetes.
- Proficient in Linux Commands line and troubleshooting.
- Proficient in AWS Services. Deployment, Monitoring and troubleshooting applications in AWS.
- Hands-on experience with CI tooling preferably with Jenkins.
- Proficient in deployment using Ansible.
- Knowledge of infrastructure management tools (Infrastructure as cloud) such as terraform, AWS cloudformation etc.
- Proficient in deployment of applications behind load balancers and proxy servers such as nginx, apache.
- Scripting languages: Bash, Python, Groovy.
- Experience with Logging, Monitoring, and Alerting tools like ELK(Elastic-search, Logstash, Kibana), Nagios. Graylog, splunk Prometheus, Grafana is a plus.
Must Have:
Linux, CI/CD(Jenkin), AWS, Scripting(Bash,shell Python, Go), Ngnix, Docker.
Good to have
Configuration Management(Ansible or similar tool), Logging tool( ELK or similar), Monitoring tool(Ngios or similar), IaC(Terraform, cloudformation).About Us:
Varivas is a community that allows users to create, support, and recommend content. The mission of Varivas is to give community freedom, ease, and complete control of their content.
Varivas is an early-stage startup looking for its first few members.
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Become part of a core team of an upcoming startup building an exciting product from scratch.
Your Responsibilities:
- Write scalable backend code and audit existing backend code for sanity, performance and security
- Design and implementation of on-demand scalable, and performant applications.
- Defining and setting development, test, release, update, and support processes for DevOps operation
- Incidence management and root cause analysis
- Selecting and deploying appropriate CI/CD tools for various test automation frameworks
- Monitoring the processes during the entire lifecycle Encouraging and building automated processes wherever possible
- Identifying and deploying cybersecurity measures by continuously performing vulnerability assessment and risk management
- Achieve repeatability, fast recovery, best practices, and delegate proper ownership permissions to teams
- Analyzes the technology currently being used and develops plans and processes for improvement and expansion for better cost and efficiency
- Collaborate with and assist QA in performing load tests and assessing performance optimization
- writing and maintaining the DevOps processes in tools such as confluence
We are looking for someone who is:
- Ready to take complete ownership of the whole infra at Varivas
- Has previous experience in building and maintaining live production app
- You have an eye for detail.
- You’re a problem solver and a perpetual learner.
- You possess a positive and solution-oriented mindset.
- Good Problem-solving skills and troubleshooting
- Build high-performing web and native applications that are robust and easy to maintain
Our Current DevOps stack:
- Github/bitbucket
- Azure cloud storage
- MongoDB Atlas
- JIRA
- Selenium, cypress test automation
- Heroku/digital ocean
- GoDaddy
- Google Analytics/search console
- SendGrid
- sentry.io
- hotjar
What we can offer:
- Payment for work done (of course 🙂)
- Remote work from anywhere
- part time or full time engagement
- Complete flexibility of working hours
- Complete freedom and ownership of your work
- No meetings, standups, or daily status group calls. (We prefer asynchronous communication like slack)
This person MUST have:
- B.E Computer Science or equivalent
- 2+ Years of hands-on experience troubleshooting/setting up of the Linux environment, who can write shell scripts for any given requirement.
- 1+ Years of hands-on experience setting up/configuring AWS or GCP services from SCRATCH and maintaining them.
- 1+ Years of hands-on experience setting up/configuring Kubernetes & EKS and ensuring high availability of container orchestration.
- 1+ Years of hands-on experience setting up CICD from SCRATCH in Jenkins & Gitlab.
- Experience configuring/maintaining one monitoring tool.
- Excellent verbal & written communication skills.
- Candidates with certifications - AWS, GCP, CKA, etc will be preferred
- Hands-on experience with databases (Cassandra, MongoDB, MySQL, RDS).
Experience:
- Min 3 years of experience as SRE automation engineer building, running, and maintaining production sites. Not looking for candidates who have experience only as L1/L2.
Location:
- Remotely, anywhere in India
Timings:
- The person is expected to deliver with both high speed and high quality as well as work for 40 Hours per week (~6.5 hours per day, 6 days per week) in shifts which will rotate every month.
Position:
- Full time/Direct
- We have great benefits such as PF, medical insurance, 12 annual company holidays, 12 PTO leaves per year, annual increments, Diwali bonus, spot bonuses and other incentives etc.
- We dont believe in locking in people with large notice periods. You will stay here because you love the company. We have only a 15 days notice period.
We are a growth-oriented, dynamic, multi-national startup, so those that are looking for that startup excitement, dynamics, and buzz are here at the right place. Read on -
FrontM (http://www.frontm.com/" target="_blank">www.frontm.com) is an edge AI company with a platform that is redefining how businesses and people in remote and isolated environments (maritime, aviation, mining....) collaborate and drive smart decisions.
Successful candidate will lead the back end architecture working alongside VP of delivery, CTO and CEO
The problem you will be working on:
- Take ownership of AWS cloud infrastructure
- Overlook tech ops with hands-on CI/CD and administration
- Develop Node.js Java and backend system procedures for stability, scale and performance
- Understand FrontM platform roadmap and contribute to planning strategic and tactical capabilities
- Integrate APIs and abstractions for complex requirements
Who you are:
- You are an experienced Cloud Architect and back end developer
- You have experience creating AWS Serverless Lambdas EC2 MongoDB backends
- You have extensive CI/CD and DevOps experience
- You can take ownership of continuous server uptime, maintenance, stability and performance
- You can lead a team of backend developers and architects
- You are a die-hard problem solver and never-say-no person
- You have 10+ years experience
- You are very sound in English language
- You have the ability to initiate and lead teams working with senior management
Additional benefits
- Generous pay package, flexible for the right candidate
- Career development and growth planning
- Entrepreneurial environment that nurtures and promotes innovation
- Multi-national team with an enjoyable culture
We'd love to talk to you if you find this interesting and like to join in on our exciting journey
We are looking for a full-time remote DevOps Engineer who has worked with CI/CD automation, big data pipelines and Cloud Infrastructure, to solve complex technical challenges at scale that will reshape the healthcare industry for generations. You will get the opportunity to be involved in the latest tech in big data engineering, novel machine learning pipelines and highly scalable backend development. The successful candidates will be working in a team of highly skilled and experienced developers, data scientists and CTO.
Job Requirements
- Experience deploying, automating, maintaining, and improving complex services and pipelines • Strong understanding of DevOps tools/process/methodologies
- Experience with AWS Cloud Formation and AWS CLI is essential
- The ability to work to project deadlines efficiently and with minimum guidance
- A positive attitude and enjoys working within a global distributed team
Skills
- Highly proficient working with CI/CD and automating infrastructure provisioning
- Deep understanding of AWS Cloud platform and hands on experience setting up and maintaining with large scale implementations
- Experience with JavaScript/TypeScript, Node, Python and Bash/Shell Scripting
- Hands on experience with Docker and container orchestration
- Experience setting up and maintaining big data pipelines, Serverless stacks and containers infrastructure
- An interest in healthcare and medical sectors
- Technical degree with 4 plus years’ infrastructure and automation experience









