DevOps Engineer

Role: DevOps Engineer

Experience: 7+ Years

Location: Pune / Trivandrum

Work Mode: Hybrid

𝐊𝐞𝐲 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬:

• Drive CI/CD pipelines for microservices and cloud architectures
• Design and operate cloud-native platforms (AWS/Azure)
• Manage Kubernetes/OpenShift clusters and containerized applications
• Develop automated pipelines and infrastructure scripts
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams on DevOps best practices
• Mentor development teams on continuous delivery and reliability
• Handle incident management, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis

𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐒𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐬:

• 7+ years in DevOps/SRE roles
• Strong experience with AWS or Azure
• Hands-on with Docker, Kubernetes, and/or OpenShift
• Proficiency in Jenkins, Git, Maven, JIRA
• Strong scripting skills (Shell, Python, Perl, Ruby, JavaScript)
• Solid networking knowledge and troubleshooting skills
• Excellent communication and collaboration abilities

𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐒𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐬:

• Experience with Helm, monitoring tools (Splunk, Grafana, New Relic, Datadog)
• Knowledge of Microservices and SOA architectures
• Familiarity with database technologies

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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About Company:

• Role Overview

• Senior Engineer with a strong background and experience in cloud related technologies and architectures. Can design target cloud architectures to transform existing architectures together with the in-house team. Can actively hands-on configure and build cloud architectures and guide others.

• Key Knowledge

• 3-5+ years of experience in AWS/GCP or Azure technologies
• Is likely certified on one or more of the major cloud platforms
• Strong experience from hands-on work with technologies such as Terraform, K8S, Docker and orchestration of containers.
• Ability to guide and lead internal agile teams on cloud technology
• Background from the financial services industry or similar critical operational experience

Main tasks

• Supervision of the CI/CD process for the automated builds and deployments of web services and web applications as well as desktop tool in the cloud and container environment
• Responsibility of the operations part of a DevOps organization especially for development at LS telcom in the environment of container technology and orchestration, e.g. with Kubernetes
• Installation, operation and monitoring of web applications in cloud data centers for the purpose of development of the test as well as for the operation of an own productive cloud as LS service
• Implementation of installations of the LS system solution especially in the container context
• Introduction, maintenance and improvement of installation solutions for LS development in the desktop and server environment as well as in the cloud and with on-premise Kubernetes
• Maintenance of the system installation documentation and implementation of trainings

Execution of internal software tests and support of involved teams and stakeholders

• Hands on Experience with Azure DevOps.

Qualification profile

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in communications engineering, electrical engineering, physics or comparable qualification
• Experience in software
• Installation and administration of Linux and Windows systems including network and firewalling aspects
• Experience with build and deployment automation with tools like Jenkins, Gradle, Argo or similar as well as system scripting (Bash, Power-Shell, etc.)
• Interest in operation and monitoring of applications in virtualized and containerized environments in cloud and on-premise
• Server environments, especially application, web-and database servers
• Knowledge in VMware/K3D/Rancer is an advantage
• Good spoken and written knowledge of English

Who We Are

Grip is building a new category of investment options for the new-age of Indian Investors. Millennials

don’t communicate, shop, pay, entertain and work like the previous generation - then why should they

invest the same way?

Started in June’20, Grip has seen 20% month-on-month growth to become one of India’s fastest-

growing destinations for alternative investments. Today, Grip offers multiple investment options providing

8-16% annual returns and 1-60 month tenures as the country’s only multi- asset (lease financing,

inventory financing, corporate bonds start-up equity, commercial real estate ) investment platform. With a

minimum investment size of INR 20,000, Grip is democratizing investment options that have previously

only been available to the largest funds and family offices.

Finance and technology (FinTech) is what we do, but people are at the core of our mission. From client-

facing roles to technology, and everywhere in between, you’ll work alongside a diverse team who loves

to solve problems, think creatively, and fly the plane as we continue to build it.

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What We Can Offer You

● Young and fast-growing company with a healthy work-life balance

● Great culture based on the following core values

○ Courage

○ Transparency

○ Ownership

○ Customer Obsession

○ Celebration

● Lean structure and no micromanaging. You get to own your work

● The Company has turned two so you get a seat on rocketship that’s just taking off!

● High focus on Learning & Development and monetary support for relevant upskilling

● Competitive compensation along with equity ownership for wealth creation

What You’ll Do

● Design cloud infrastructure that is secure, scalable, and highly available onAWS

● Work collaboratively with software engineering to define infrastructure and

deploying requirements

● Provision, configure and maintain AWS cloud infrastructure defined as code

● Ensure configuration and compliance with configuration management tools

● Administer and troubleshoot Linux based systems

● Troubleshoot problems across a wide array of services and functional areas

● Build and maintain operational tools for deployment, monitoring, and analysis of AWS

infrastructure and systems

● Perform infrastructure cost analysis and optimization

Your Superpowers

● At least 3-5 years of experience building and maintaining AWS infrastructure

(VPC,EC2, Security Groups, IAM, ECS, CodeDeploy, CloudFront,

S3,RDS,Elasticbeanstalk)

● Strong understanding of how to secure AWS environments and meet

compliance requirements

● Expertise using Chef/Cloudformation/Ansible for configuration management

● Hands-on experience deploying and managing infrastructure with Terraform

● Solid foundation of networking and Linux administration

● Experience with Docker, GitHub, Kubernetes,, ELK and deploying applications onAWS

● Ability to learn/use a wide variety of open source technologies and tools

● Strong bias for action and ownership

You will make an ideal candidate if you have: 

• Experience of building a range of Services in a Cloud Service provider

• Expert understanding of DevOps principles and Infrastructure as a Code concepts and techniques

• Strong understanding of CI/CD tools (Jenkins, Ansible, GitHub)

• Managed an infrastructure that involved 50+ hosts/network 

• 3+ years of Kubernetes experience & 5+ years of experience in Native services such as Compute (virtual machines), Containers (AKS), Databases, DevOps, Identity, Storage & Security

• Experience in engineering solutions on cloud foundation platform using Infrastructure As Code methods (eg. Terraform)

• Security and Compliance, e.g. IAM and cloud compliance/auditing/monitoring tools

• Customer/stakeholder focus. Ability to build strong relationships with Application teams, cross functional IT and global/local IT teams

• Good leadership and teamwork skills - Works collaboratively in an agile environment

• Operational effectiveness - delivers solutions that align to approved design patterns and security standards

• Excellent skills in at least one of following: Python, Ruby, Java, JavaScript, Go, Node.JS

• Experienced in full automation and configuration management

• A track record of constantly looking for ways to do things better and an excellent understanding of the mechanism necessary to successfully implement change

• Set and achieved challenging short, medium and long term goals which exceeded the standards in their field

• Excellent written and spoken communication skills; an ability to communicate with impact, ensuring complex information is articulated in a meaningful way to wide and varied audiences

• Built effective networks across business areas, developing relationships based on mutual trust and encouraging others to do the same

• A successful track record of delivering complex projects and/or programmes, utilizing appropriate techniques and tools to ensure and measure success

• A comprehensive understanding of risk management and proven experience of ensuring own/others' compliance with relevant regulatory processes

Essential Skills :

• Demonstrable Cloud service provider experience - infrastructure build and configurations of a variety of services including compute, devops, databases, storage & security

• Demonstrable experience of Linux administration and scripting preferably Red Hat

• Experience of working with Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD) and continuous testing tools

• Experience working within an Agile environment

• Programming experience in one or more of the following languages: Python, Ruby, Java, JavaScript, Go, Node.JS

• Server administration (either Linux or Windows)

• Automation scripting (using scripting languages such as Terraform, Ansible etc.)

• Ability to quickly acquire new skills and tools

Required Skills :

• Linux & Windows Server Certification

Requirements:-

• Must have good understanding of  Python and Shell scripting with industry standard coding conventions
• Must possess good coding debugging skills
• Experience in Design & Development of test framework
• Experience in Automation testing
• Good to have experience in Jenkins framework tool
• Good to have exposure to Continuous Integration process
• Experience in Linux and Windows OS
• Desirable to have Build  & Release  Process knowledge
• Experience in  Automating Manual test cases
• Experienced in automating OS / FW related tasks
• Understanding of BIOS / FW QA  is a strong plus
• OpenCV experience is a plus
• Good to have platform exposure
• Must have good Communication skills
• Good Leadership capabilities & collaboration capabilities, as individual will have to work with multiple teams and single handedly maintain the automation framework and enable the Manual validation team