
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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- Resolving technical support tickets via telephone, chat, email and sometimes in-person
- Keeping self and team updated with new cloud services offerings from Microsoft, Amazon & Google
- Staying current with industry trends, making recommendations as needed to help the company excel
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- Experience in cloud-based tech
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- Knowledge of various computer services on Microsoft Azure and AWS
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- Knowledge of log collecting services available with Microsoft Azure and AWS
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- Knowledgeable within this subject area and a thought leader
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- Imaginative problem solver
- Structured organizer
- Strong relationship building skills
- Strong analytical & numeracy skills
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Attributes:
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We are looking for an experienced DevOps engineer that will help our team establish DevOps practice. You will work closely with the technical lead to identify and establish DevOps practices in the company.
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This would be a hybrid role and the person would be expected to also do some application level programming in their downtime.
Responsibilities
- Deployment, automation, management, and maintenance of production systems.
- Ensuring availability, performance, security, and scalability of production systems.
- Evaluation of new technology alternatives and vendor products.
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- Providing recommendations for architecture and process improvements.
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Requirements
- Systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with strong communication skills and a sense of ownership and drive.
- Prior experience as a software developer in a couple of high level programming languages.
- Extensive experience in any Javascript based framework since we will be deploying services to NodeJS on AWS Lambda (Serverless)
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- Ability to present and communicate the architecture in a visual form.
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- Time and project management skills, with the capability to prioritize and multitask as needed.
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Technical Requirements & Responsibilities
- Have 4+ years’ experience as a DevOps and SysOps Engineer.
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- Design, develop, and implement software integrations based on user feedback.
- Troubleshoot production issues and coordinate with the development team to streamline code deployment.
- Implement automation tools and frameworks (CI/CD pipelines).
- Analyze code and communicate detailed reviews to development teams to ensure a marked improvement in applications and the timely completion of projects.
- Collaborate with team members to improve the company’s engineering tools, systems and procedures, and data security.
- Optimize the company’s computing architecture.
- Conduct systems tests for security, performance, and availability.
- Develop and maintain design and troubleshooting documentation.
- Expert in code deployment tools (Puppet, Ansible, and Chef).
- Can maintain Java / PHP / Ruby on Rail / DotNet web applications.
- Experience in network, server, and application-status monitoring.
- Possess a strong command of software-automation production systems (Jenkins and Selenium).
- Expertise in software development methodologies.
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- Possess a problem-solving attitude.
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Soft Skills Requirements
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- Attention to detail
- Organizational skills
- Understanding of the Software development life cycle
- Good Analytical and problem-solving skills
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