DevOps Engineer

REVIEW CRITERIA:

MANDATORY:

• Strong Hands-On AWS Cloud Engineering / DevOps Profile
• Mandatory (Experience 1): Must have 12+ years of experience in AWS Cloud Engineering / Cloud Operations / Application Support
• Mandatory (Experience 2): Must have strong hands-on experience supporting AWS production environments (EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, ALB, CloudWatch)
• Mandatory (Infrastructure as a code): Must have hands-on Infrastructure as Code experience using Terraform in production environments
• Mandatory (AWS Networking): Strong understanding of AWS networking and connectivity (VPC design, routing, NAT, load balancers, hybrid connectivity basics)
• Mandatory (Cost Optimization): Exposure to cost optimization and usage tracking in AWS environments
• Mandatory (Core Skills): Experience handling monitoring, alerts, incident management, and root cause analysis
• Mandatory (Soft Skills): Strong communication skills and stakeholder coordination skills

ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES:

We are looking for a hands-on AWS Cloud Engineer to support day-to-day cloud operations, automation, and reliability of AWS environments. This role works closely with the Cloud Operations Lead, DevOps, Security, and Application teams to ensure stable, secure, and cost-effective cloud platforms.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Operate and support AWS production environments across multiple accounts
• Manage infrastructure using Terraform and support CI/CD pipelines
• Support Amazon EKS clusters, upgrades, scaling, and troubleshooting
• Build and manage Docker images and push to Amazon ECR
• Monitor systems using CloudWatch and third-party tools; respond to incidents
• Support AWS networking (VPCs, NAT, Transit Gateway, VPN/DX)
• Assist with cost optimization, tagging, and governance standards
• Automate operational tasks using Python, Lambda, and Systems Manager

IDEAL CANDIDATE:

• Strong hands-on AWS experience (EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, ALB, CloudWatch)
• Experience with Terraform and Git-based workflows
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes / EKS
• Experience with CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, etc.)
• Scripting experience in Python or Bash
• Understanding of monitoring, incident management, and cloud security basics

NICE TO HAVE:

• AWS Associate-level certifications
• Experience with Karpenter, Prometheus, New Relic
• Exposure to FinOps and cost optimization practices

About the Job

This is a full-time role for a Lead DevOps Engineer at Spark Eighteen. We are seeking an experienced DevOps professional to lead our infrastructure strategy, design resilient systems, and drive continuous improvement in our deployment processes. In this role, you will architect scalable solutions, mentor junior engineers, and ensure the highest standards of reliability and security across our cloud infrastructure. The job location is flexible with preference for the Delhi NCR region.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor the DevOps/SRE team
• Define and drive DevOps strategy and roadmaps
• Oversee infrastructure automation and CI/CD at scale
• Collaborate with architects, developers, and QA teams to integrate DevOps practices
• Ensure security, compliance, and high availability of platforms
• Own incident response, postmortems, and root cause analysis
• Budgeting, team hiring, and performance evaluation

Requirements

Technical Skills

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 7+ years of professional DevOps experience with demonstrated progression.
• Strong architecture and leadership background
• Deep hands-on knowledge of infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and cloud
• Proven experience with monitoring, security, and governance
• Effective stakeholder and project management
• Experience with tools like Jenkins, ArgoCD, Terraform, Vault, ELK, etc.
• Strong understanding of business continuity and disaster recovery

Soft Skills

• Cross-functional communication excellence with ability to lead technical discussions.
• Strong mentorship capabilities for junior and mid-level team members.
• Advanced strategic thinking and ability to propose innovative solutions.
• Excellent knowledge transfer skills through documentation and training.
• Ability to understand and align technical solutions with broader business strategy.
• Proactive problem-solving approach with focus on continuous improvement.
• Strong leadership skills in guiding team performance and technical direction.
• Effective collaboration across development, QA, and business teams.
• Ability to make complex technical decisions with minimal supervision.
• Strategic approach to risk management and mitigation.

What We Offer

• Professional Growth: Continuous learning opportunities through diverse projects and mentorship from experienced leaders
• Global Exposure: Work with clients from 20+ countries, gaining insights into different markets and business cultures
• Impactful Work: Contribute to projects that make a real difference, with solutions generating over $1B in revenue
• Work-Life Balance: Flexible arrangements that respect personal wellbeing while fostering productivity
• Career Advancement: Clear progression pathways as you develop skills within our growing organization
• Competitive Compensation: Attractive salary packages that recognize your contributions and expertise

Our Culture

At Spark Eighteen, our culture centers on innovation, excellence, and growth. We believe in:

• Quality-First: Delivering excellence rather than just quick solutions
• True Partnership: Building relationships based on trust and mutual respect
• Communication: Prioritizing clear, effective communication across teams
• Innovation: Encouraging curiosity and creative approaches to problem-solving
• Continuous Learning: Supporting professional development at all levels
• Collaboration: Combining diverse perspectives to achieve shared goals
• Impact: Measuring success by the value we create for clients and users

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DevOps Architect 

Experience:  10 - 12+ year relevant experience on DevOps
Locations : Bangalore, Chennai, Pune, Hyderabad, Jaipur.

Qualification:
• Bachelors or advanced degree in Computer science, Software engineering or equivalent is required.
• Certifications in specific areas are desired

Technical Skillset: Skills Proficiency level

• Build tools (Ant or Maven) - Expert
• CI/CD tool (Jenkins or Github CI/CD) - Expert
• Cloud DevOps (AWS CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, Code Pipeline etc) or Azure DevOps. - Expert
• Infrastructure As Code (Terraform, Helm charts etc.) - Expert
• Containerization (Docker, Docker Registry) - Expert
• Scripting (linux) - Expert
• Cluster deployment (Kubernetes) & maintenance - Expert
• Programming (Java) - Intermediate
• Application Types for DevOps (Streaming like Spark, Kafka, Big data like Hadoop etc) - Expert
• Artifactory (JFrog) - Expert
• Monitoring & Reporting (Prometheus, Grafana, PagerDuty etc.) - Expert
• Ansible, MySQL, PostgreSQL - Intermediate

A.P.T Portfolio, a high frequency trading firm that specialises in Quantitative Trading & Investment Strategies.Founded in November 2009, it has been a major liquidity provider in global Stock markets. 

As a manager, you would be incharge of managing the devops team and your remit shall include the following

• Private Cloud - Design & maintain a high performance and reliable network architecture to support  HPC applications
• Scheduling Tool - Implement and maintain a HPC scheduling technology like Kubernetes, Hadoop YARN  Mesos, HTCondor or Nomad for processing & scheduling analytical jobs. Implement controls which allow analytical jobs to seamlessly utilize ideal capacity on the private cloud. 
• Security - Implementing best security practices and implementing data isolation policy between different divisions internally. 
• Capacity Sizing - Monitor private cloud usage and share details with different teams. Plan capacity enhancements on a quarterly basis. 
• Storage solution - Optimize storage solutions like NetApp, EMC, Quobyte for analytical jobs. Monitor their performance on a daily basis to identify issues early.
• NFS - Implement and optimize latest version of NFS for our use case. 
• Public Cloud - Drive AWS/Google-Cloud utilization in the firm for increasing efficiency, improving collaboration and for reducing cost. Maintain the environment for our existing use cases. Further explore potential areas of using public cloud within the firm. 
• BackUps  - Identify and automate  back up of all crucial data/binary/code etc in a secured manner at such duration warranted by the use case. Ensure that recovery from back-up is tested and seamless. 
•  Access Control  - Maintain password less access control and improve security over time. Minimize failures for automated job due to unsuccessful logins. 
•  Operating System  -Plan, test and roll out new operating system for all production, simulation and desktop environments. Work closely with developers to highlight new performance enhancements capabilities of new versions. 
•  Configuration management  -Work closely with DevOps/ development team to freeze configurations/playbook for various teams & internal applications. Deploy and maintain standard tools such as Ansible, Puppet, chef etc for the same. 
•  Data Storage & Security Planning  - Maintain a tight control of root access on various devices. Ensure root access is rolled back as soon the desired objective is achieved.
• Audit access logs on devices. Use third party tools to put in a monitoring mechanism for early detection of any suspicious activity. 
• Maintaining all third party tools used for development and collaboration - This shall include maintaining a fault tolerant   environment for GIT/Perforce, productivity tools such as Slack/Microsoft team, build tools like Jenkins/Bamboo etc

Qualifications 

• Bachelors or Masters Level Degree, preferably in CSE/IT
• 10+ years of relevant experience in sys-admin function
• Must have strong knowledge of IT Infrastructure, Linux, Networking and grid.
• Must have strong grasp of automation & Data management tools.
• Efficient in scripting languages and python

Desirables

• Professional attitude, co-operative and mature approach to work, must be focused, structured and well considered, troubleshooting skills.
•  Exhibit a high level of individual initiative and ownership, effectively collaborate with other team members.

APT Portfolio is an equal opportunity employer

• 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

• 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.