DevOps Engineer

Job Description-

We are seeking a highly skilled Solution Architect to join our dynamic team in Tokyo. The ideal candidate will have substantial experience in designing, implementing, and deploying cutting-edge solutions involving Machine Learning (ML), Cloud Computing, Full Stack Development, and Kubernetes. The Solution Architect will play a key role in architecting and delivering innovative solutions that meet business objectives while leveraging advanced technologies and industry best practices.

Job Title: Solution Architect ML, Cloud

Experience:5-10 years

Client Location: Bangalore

Work Location: Tokyo, Japan (Onsite)

We are seeking a highly skilled Solution Architect to join our dynamic team in Tokyo. The ideal candidate will have substantial experience in designing, implementing, and deploying cutting-edge solutions involving Machine Learning (ML), Cloud Computing, Full Stack Development, and Kubernetes. The Solution Architect will play a key role in architecting and delivering innovative solutions that meet business objectives while leveraging advanced technologies and industry best practices.

Job Title: Solution Architect (ML, Cloud)

Location: Tokyo, Japan (Onsite)

Experience: 5-10 years

Overview: We are looking for a skilled Solution Architect with expertise in Machine Learning (ML), Cloud Computing, Full Stack Development, and Kubernetes to join our team in Tokyo. The ideal candidate will be responsible for designing and implementing cutting-edge, scalable solutions while leveraging the latest technologies and best practices to meet business objectives.

Key Responsibilities:

Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business needs and develop scalable, efficient technical solutions.

Architect and implement complex systems integrating Machine Learning, Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud), and Full Stack Development.

Lead the development and deployment of cloud-native applications using NoSQL databases, Python, and Kubernetes.

Design and optimize algorithms to improve performance, scalability, and reliability of solutions.

Review, validate, and refine architecture to ensure flexibility, scalability, and cost-efficiency.

Mentor development teams and ensure adherence to best practices for coding, testing, and deployment.

Contribute to the development of technical documentation and solution roadmaps.

Stay up-to-date with emerging technologies and continuously improve solution design processes.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

5-10 years of experience as a Solution Architect or similar role with expertise in ML, Cloud, and Full Stack Development.

Proficiency in at least two major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud).

Solid experience with Kubernetes for container orchestration and deployment.

Hands-on experience with NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB, Cassandra, DynamoDB).

Expertise in Python and ML frameworks like TensorFlow, PyTorch, etc.

Practical experience implementing at least two real-world algorithms (e.g., classification, clustering, recommendation systems).

Strong knowledge of scalable architecture design and cloud-native application development.

Familiarity with CI/CD tools and DevOps practices.

Excellent problem-solving abilities and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment.

Strong communication and collaboration skills with cross-functional teams.

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience with microservices and containerization.

Knowledge of distributed systems and high-performance computing.

Cloud certifications (AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Google Cloud Professional Architect, etc.).

Familiarity with Agile methodologies and Scrum.

Japanese language proficiency is an added advantage (but not mandatory).

Skills : ML, Cloud (any two major clouds), algorithms (two algorithms must be implemented), full stack, kubernatics, no sql, Python

 Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business needs and translate them into scalable and efficient technical solutions.
• Design and implement complex systems involving Machine Learning, Cloud Computing (at least two major clouds such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud), and Full Stack Development.
• Lead the design, development, and deployment of cloud-native applications with a focus on NoSQL databases, Python, and Kubernetes.
• Implement algorithms and provide scalable solutions, with a focus on performance optimization and system reliability.
• Review, validate, and improve architectures to ensure high scalability, flexibility, and cost-efficiency in cloud environments.
• Guide and mentor development teams, ensuring best practices are followed in coding, testing, and deployment.
• Contribute to the development of technical documentation and roadmaps.
• Stay up-to-date with emerging technologies and propose enhancements to the solution design process.

Key Skills & Requirements:

• Proven experience 5-10 years) as a Solution Architect or similar role, with deep expertise in Machine Learning, Cloud Architecture, and Full Stack Development.
• Expertise in at least two major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud).
• Solid experience with Kubernetes for container orchestration and deployment.
• Strong hands-on experience with NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB, Cassandra, DynamoDB, etc.).
• Proficiency in Python, including experience with ML frameworks (such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, etc.) and libraries for algorithm development.
• Must have implemented at least two algorithms (e.g., classification, clustering, recommendation systems, etc.) in real-world applications.
• Strong experience in designing scalable architectures and applications from the ground up.
• Experience with DevOps and automation tools for CI/CD pipelines.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience with microservices architecture and containerization.
• Knowledge of distributed systems and high-performance computing.
• Certifications in cloud platforms (AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect, etc.).
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies and Scrum.
• Knowing Japanese Language is an additional advantage for the Candidate. Not mandatory.

About the Company:

Gruve is an innovative Software Services startup dedicated to empowering Enterprise Customers in managing their Data Life Cycle. We specialize in Cyber Security, Customer Experience, Infrastructure, and advanced technologies such as Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. Our mission is to assist our customers in their business strategies utilizing their data to make more intelligent decisions. As an well-funded early-stage startup, Gruve offers a dynamic environment with strong customer and partner networks.

Why Gruve:

At Gruve, we foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive and contribute their best work. If you’re passionate about technology and eager to make an impact, we’d love to hear from you.

Gruve is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and thank all who apply; however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

Position summary:

We are seeking a Staff Engineer – DevOps with 8-12 years of experience in designing, implementing, and optimizing CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and automation frameworks. The ideal candidate will have expertise in Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, Security, Observability, and Cloud Platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP). You will play a key role in scaling and securing our infrastructure, improving developer productivity, and ensuring high availability and performance. 

Key Roles & Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, ArgoCD, and Tekton.
• Deploy and manage Kubernetes clusters (EKS, AKS, GKE) and containerized workloads.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning using Terraform, Ansible, Pulumi, or CloudFormation.
• Implement observability and monitoring solutions using Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, OpenTelemetry, or Datadog.
• Ensure security best practices in DevOps, including IAM, secrets management, container security, and vulnerability scanning.
• Optimize cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP) for performance, cost efficiency, and scalability.
• Develop and manage GitOps workflows and infrastructure-as-code (IaC) automation.
• Implement zero-downtime deployment strategies, including blue-green deployments, canary releases, and feature flags.
• Work closely with development teams to optimize build pipelines, reduce deployment time, and improve system reliability. 

Basic Qualifications:

• A bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, electronics engineering or a related field
• 8-12 years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or Infrastructure Automation.
• Strong expertise in CI/CD pipelines, version control (Git), and release automation.
•  Hands-on experience with Kubernetes (EKS, AKS, GKE) and container orchestration.
• Proficiency in Terraform, Ansible for infrastructure automation.
• Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP services (EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, Lambda, API Gateway, etc.).
• Expertise in monitoring/logging tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, OpenTelemetry, or Datadog.
• Strong scripting and automation skills in Python, Bash, or Go.

Preferred Qualifications  

• Experience in FinOps Cloud Cost Optimization) and Kubernetes cluster scaling.
• Exposure to serverless architectures and event-driven workflows.
• Contributions to open-source DevOps projects. 

(Candidates from Service based Companies apply-Looking for automation(shell or python scripting))

SHIFT- Shift time either US East coast or west coast (2:30 PM to 10:30 PM India time or 5 to 2 am india time)

Exp- 5 to 8 years

Salary- Upto 25 LPA

Hyderabad based candidates preferred!

Immediate joiners would be preferred!!

Role Objective:

• Ability to identify processes where efficiency could be improved via automation
• Ability to research, prototype, iterate and test automation solutions
• Good Technical understanding of Cloud service offering, with a sound appreciation of the associated business processes.
• Ability to build & maintain a strong working relationship with other Technical teams using the agile methodology (internal and external), Infrastructure Partners and Service Engagement Managers.
• Ability to shape and co-ordinate delivery of key initiatives to deliver improvements in stability
• Good understanding of the cost of the e2e service provision, and delivery of associated savings.
• Knowledge of web security principals
• Strong Linux experience – comfortable working from command line
• Some networking knowledge (routing, DNS)
• Knowledge of HA and DR concepts and experience implementing them
• Working with team to analyse and design infrastructure with 99.99% up-time.

Qualifications:

• Infrastructure automation through DevOps scripting (Eg Python, Ruby, PowerShell, Java, shell) or previous software development experience
• Experience in building and managing production cloud environments from the ground up.
• Hands-on, working experience with primary AWS services (EC2, VPC, RDS, Route53, S3)
• Knowledge on repository management (GitHub, SVN)
• Solid understanding of web application architecture and RDBMS (SQL Server preferred).
• Experience with IT compliance and risk management requirements is a bonus. (Eg Security, Privacy, HIPAA, SOX, etc)
• Strong logical, analytical and problem-solving skills with excellent communication skills.
• Should have degree in computer science, MIS, engineering or equivalent with 5+ years of experience.
• Should be willing to work in rotational shifts (including the nights)

Perks and benefits:

• Health & Wellness
• Paid time off
• Learning at work
• Fun at work
• Night shift allowance
• Comp off
• Pick and drop facility available to certain distance

• Job Title - DevOps Engineer

• Reports Into - Lead DevOps Engineer

• Location - India

A Little Bit about Kwalee….

Kwalee is one of the world’s leading multiplatform game developers and publishers, with well over 900 million downloads worldwide for mobile hits such as Draw It, Teacher Simulator, Let’s Be Cops 3D, Airport Security and Makeover Studio 3D. We also have a growing PC and Console team of incredible pedigree that is on the hunt for great new titles to join TENS!, Eternal Hope, Die by the Blade and Scathe.

What’s In It For You?

• Hybrid working - 3 days in the office, 2 days remote/ WFH is the norm

• Flexible working hours - we trust you to choose how and when you work best

• Profit sharing scheme - we win, you win 

• Private medical cover - delivered through BUPA

• Life Assurance - for long term peace of mind

• On site gym - take care of yourself

• Relocation support - available

• Quarterly Team Building days - we’ve done Paintballing, Go Karting & even Robot Wars

• Pitch and make your own games on https://www.kwalee.com/blog/inside-kwalee/what-are-creative-wednesdays/">Creative Wednesdays! 

Are You Up To The Challenge?

As a DevOps Engineer you have a passion for automation, security and building reliable expandable systems. You develop scripts and tools to automate deployment tasks and monitor critical aspects of the operation, resolve engineering problems and incidents. Collaborate with architects and developers to help create platforms for the future.

Your Team Mates

The DevOps team works closely with game developers, front-end and back-end server developers making, updating and monitoring application stacks in the cloud.Each team member has specific responsibilities with their own projects to manage and bring their own ideas to how the projects should work.  Everyone strives for the most efficient, secure and automated delivery of application code and supporting infrastructure.

What Does The Job Actually Involve?

• Find ways to automate tasks and monitoring systems to continuously  improve our systems.

• Develop scripts and tools to make our infrastructure resilient and efficient.

• Understand our applications and services and keep them running smoothly.

Your Hard Skills

• Minimum 1 years of experience on a dev ops engineering role

• Deep experience with Linux and Unix systems

• Networking basics knowledge (named, nginx, etc)

• Some coding experience  (Python, Ruby, Perl, etc.)

• Experience with common automation tools (Ex. Chef, Terraform, etc)

• AWS experience is a plus

• A creative mindset motivated by challenges and constantly striving for the best 

Your Soft Skills

Kwalee has grown fast in recent years but we’re very much a family of colleagues. We welcome people of all ages, races, colours, beliefs, sexual orientations, genders and circumstances, and all we ask is that you collaborate, work hard, ask questions and have fun with your team and colleagues. 

We don’t like egos or arrogance and we love playing games and celebrating success together. If that sounds like you, then please apply.

A Little More About Kwalee

Founded in 2011 by David Darling CBE, a key architect of the UK games industry who previously co-founded and led Codemasters, our team also includes legends such as Andrew Graham (creator of Micro Machines series) and Jason Falcus (programmer of classics including NBA Jam) alongside a growing and diverse team of global gaming experts.

Everyone contributes creatively to Kwalee’s success, with all employees eligible to pitch their own game ideas on Creative Wednesdays, and we’re proud to have built our success on this inclusive principle.

We have an amazing team of experts collaborating daily between our studios in Leamington Spa, Lisbon, Bangalore and Beijing, or on a remote basis from Turkey, Brazil, Cyprus, the Philippines and many more places around the world. We’ve recently acquired our first external studio, TicTales, which is based in France. 

We have a truly global team making games for a global audience, and it’s paying off: - Kwalee has been voted the Best Large Studio and Best Leadership Team at the TIGA Awards (Independent Game Developers’ Association) and our games have been downloaded in every country on earth - including Antarctica!

Now, more than ever, the Toast team is committed to our customers. We’re taking steps to help restaurants navigate these unprecedented times with technology, resources, and community. Our focus is on building a restaurant platform that helps restaurants adapt, take control, and get back to what they do best: building the businesses they love. And because our technology is purpose-built for restaurants by restaurant people, restaurants can trust that we’ll deliver on their needs for today while investing in experiences that will power their restaurant of the future.

At Toast, our Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) are responsible for keeping all customer-facing services and other Toast production systems running smoothly. SREs are a blend of pragmatic operators and software craftspeople who apply sound software engineering principles, operational discipline, and mature automation to our environments and our codebase. Our decisions are based on instrumentation and continuous observability, as well as predictions and capacity planning.

About this roll* (Responsibilities) 

• Gather and analyze metrics from both operating systems and applications to assist in performance tuning and fault finding
• Partner with development teams to improve services through rigorous testing and release procedures
• Participate in system design consulting, platform management, and capacity planning
• Create sustainable systems and services through automation and uplift
• Balance feature development speed and reliability with well-defined service level objectives

Troubleshooting and Supporting Escalations:

• Gather and analyze metrics from both operating systems and applications to assist in performance tuning and fault finding
• Diagnose performance bottlenecks and implement optimizations across infrastructure, databases, web, and mobile applications
• Implement strategies to increase system reliability and performance through on-call rotation and process optimization
• Perform and run blameless RCAs on incidents and outages aggressively, looking for answers that will prevent the incident from ever happening again

Do you have the right ingredients? (Requirements)

• Extensive industry experience with at least 7+ years in SRE and/or DevOps roles
• Polyglot technologist/generalist with a thirst for learning
• Deep understanding of cloud and microservice architecture and the JVM
• Experience with tools such as APM, Terraform, Ansible, GitHub, Jenkins, and Docker
• Experience developing software or software projects in at least four languages, ideally including two of Go, Python, and Java
• Experience with cloud computing technologies ( AWS cloud provider preferred)

Bread puns are encouraged but not required

As a SaaS DevOps Engineer, you will be responsible for providing automated tooling and process enhancements for SaaS deployment, application and infrastructure upgrades and production monitoring.

• Development of automation scripts and pipelines for deployment and monitoring of new production environments.

• Development of automation scripts for upgrades, hotfixes deployments and maintenance.

• Work closely with Scrum teams and product groups to support the quality and growth of the SaaS services.

• Collaborate closely with SaaS Operations team to handle day-to-day production activities - handling alerts and incidents.

• Assist SaaS Operations team to handle customers focus projects: migrations, features enablement.

• Write Knowledge articles to document known issues and best practices.

• Conduct regression tests to validate solutions or workarounds.

• Work in a globally distributed team.

What achievements should you have so far?

• Bachelor's or master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent.

• Experience with containerization, deployment, and operations.

• Strong knowledge of CI/CD processes (Git, Jenkins, Pipelines).

• Good experience with Linux systems and Shell scripting.

• Basic cloud experience, preferably oriented on MS Azure.

• Basic knowledge of containerized solutions (Helm, Kubernetes, Docker).

• Good Networking skills and experience.

• Having Terraform or CloudFormation knowledge will be considered a plus.

• Ability to analyze a task from a system perspective.

• Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; mastery in English and local language.

• Must be organized, thorough, autonomous, committed, flexible, customer-focused and productive.

KNOLSKAPE is looking for a DevOps Engineer to help us build Educational platforms and products that make learning experiential for leaders of the world.

DevOps Engineer responsibilities include deploying product updates, identifying production issues, and implementing integrations that meet customer needs. If you have a solid background in working with cloud technologies, setting up efficient deployment processes, and are motivated to work with diverse and talented teams, we’d like to meet you.

Ultimately, you will execute and automate operational processes fast, accurately, and securely.

Skills and Experience

• 2+ years of experience in building infrastructure experience with Cloud Providers ( AWS / Azure / GCP)
• Build and Deployment Management (Gitlab).
• Experience in writing automation scripts using Shell, Python, and Terraform based.
• Good experience in building pipelines with YAML-based knowledge of the GitLab environment.
• System Administration skill set.
• Docker/Kubernetes container infrastructure and orchestration
• Deploying/operating NodeJs/PHP/LAMP framework-based clusters with infrastructure.
• Monitoring, metrics collection, and distributed tracing
• Infrastructure as code” – Experience with Terraform preferred.
• Strong AWS Deployment Experience
• Provide system-level technical support
• Desire to learn new technologies while supporting existing
  
  

Roles and Responsibilities

• End to End-building CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins and Jenkins Pipelines etc.
• Build CI/CD pipelines to orchestrate provisioning and deployment of both large scale systems
• Develop and implement instrumentation for monitoring the health and availability of services including fault detection, alerting, triage, and recovery (automated and manual)
• Develop, improve, and thoroughly document operational practices and procedures.
• Perform tasks related to securing and keeping the products, tools, and processes you are responsible for securing our infrastructure.
• Agile software development practices
• Understand IT processes, including architecture, design, implementation, and operations
• Open Source development experience
• Self-motivated, able and willing to help where help is needed
• Able to build relationships, be culturally sensitive, have goal alignment, have learning agility

Location: Bangalore

About KNOLSKAPE

KNOLSKAPE is an end-to-end learning and assessment platform for accelerated employee development. Our core belief is that desired business outcomes are achieved best when learning needs are aligned with business requirements, but traditional methodologies for capability development require a new, more updated approach. Keeping with this philosophy, we offer engaging, immersive, and experiential learning and assessment solutions - strategy cascading, business acumen, change management, leadership pipeline, digital capabilities, and talent assessments. Leveraging a blended omnichannel delivery model, KNOLSKAPE offers instructor-led classroom sessions, live virtual sessions, and self-paced courses to suit every learning need.

More than 300 clients in 25 countries have benefited from KNOLSKAPE's award-winning experiential solutions. A 120+ strong team based out of offices in Singapore, India, Malaysia, and the USA serves a rapidly growing global client base across industries such as banking and finance, consulting, IT, FMCG, retail, manufacturing, infrastructure, pharmaceuticals, engineering, auto, government and academia.

KNOLSKAPE is a global Top 20 gamification company, recipient of numerous Brandon Hall awards, and has been recognized as a company to watch for in the Talent Management Space, by Frost & Sullivan, and as a disruptor in the learning space, by Bersin by Deloitte.