DevOps Engineer

About the Role

We are looking for passionate and driven interns across multiple technology domains including Frontend Development, Backend Development, DevOps, AI/ML, and Data Engineering. This internship offers hands-on experience in real-world projects, collaboration with cross-functional teams, and exposure to modern tools and technologies. 

Domains & Responsibilities 

Frontend Development 

• Build responsive and user-friendly web interfaces  
• Translate UI/UX designs into functional applications  
• Optimize performance and ensure cross-browser compatibility  

 Backend Development 

• Develop APIs and server-side logic  
• Work with databases and data storage solutions  
• Ensure application security and performance  

 DevOps 

• Assist in CI/CD pipeline setup and automation  
• Manage deployments and cloud infrastructure  
• Monitor system performance and reliability  

 AI / Machine Learning 

• Develop and train ML models  
• Work on NLP, automation, or AI-driven features  
• Analyze datasets and evaluate model performance  

 Data Engineering 

• Build and maintain data pipelines (ETL/ELT)  
• Ensure data quality and availability  
• Work with large datasets and optimize data workflows  

 Required Skills (Any Domain) 

• Frontend: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React/Vue/Angular  
• Backend: Node.js / Python / Java / PHP, APIs, databases  
• DevOps: Linux, Git, CI/CD basics, cloud fundamentals  
• AI/ML: Python, ML basics, TensorFlow/PyTorch/Scikit-learn  
• Data Engineering: SQL, Python, data processing concepts  

 Good to Have 

• Knowledge of Git and version control  
• Basic understanding of cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)  
• Problem-solving mindset and willingness to learn  
• Exposure to real-world or academic projects  

 Who Should Apply 

• Students or recent graduates in Computer Science, IT, or related fields  
• Candidates with strong interest in any of the above domains  
• Self-learners with project experience are highly encouraged  

 Internship Details 

• Duration: 3–6 months  
• Mode: Remote  
• Certificate + PPO (Pre-Placement Offer) based on performance  

 What You’ll Gain 

• Hands-on experience with real projects  
• Mentorship from experienced professionals  
• Exposure to industry tools and workflows  
• Opportunity to convert to a full-time role 

What you need to have:

• 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.

Role : SRE

Experience : 4 - 8 Years

• Experience in building, deploying and operating cloud solutions on Kubernetes
• Strong expertise administrating and scaling Kubernetes on bare metal and CKA preferred
• Expertise on K8s Interfaces CNI, CSI, CRI and Service meshe
• Hands-on experience as a DevOps or Automation development
• Demonstrable knowledge of TCP/IP, Linux operating system internals, filesystems, disk/storage technologies and storage protocols.
• Experience working with Helm Charts and building out Infrastructure As Code (IaC)
• Experience in writing software to automate orchestration tasks at scale; we commonly use Python, Go, and Shell scripting
• Knowledge of systems (Linux, GNU tooling), networking (OSI model, DNS, routing) and virtualization vs containerization
• Expertise in CI/CD tooling for cloud-based applications specifically Terraform / CloudFormation, Jenkins and Git
• Architected CNF Orchestration with Kubernetes
• Strong understanding of the principles of 12-factor apps and modern containerized microservices
• Plan for reliability by designing systems to work across our multi-region and multi-cloud environments
• Experience developing and using Application & Integration stacks/tools such as Kafka, Spring Cloud, Apache Camel, Kubernetes, Docker, Redis, Knative, and NoSQL

• 7+ years of experience in System Administration, Networking, Automation, Monitoring
• Excellent problem solving, analytical skills and technical troubleshooting skills
• Experience managing systems deployed in public cloud platforms (Microsoft Azure, AWS or Google Cloud)
• Experience implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Concourse, etc.)
• Linux experience, flavours: Ubuntu, Redhat, CentOS (sysadmin, bash scripting)
• Experience setting up monitoring (Datadog, Splunk, etc.)
• Experience in Infrastructure Automation tools like Terraform
• Experience in Package Manager for Kubernetes like Helm Charts
• Experience with databases and data storage (Oracle, MongoDB, Postgres SQL, ELK stack)
• Experience with Docker
• Experience with orchestration technologies (Kubernetes or DC/OS)
• Familiar with Agile Software Development

About Us

Zupee is India’s fastest-growing innovator in real money gaming with a focus on predominant skill-focused games. Started by 2 IIT-Kanpur alumni in 2018, we are backed by marquee global investors such as WestCap Group, Tomales Bay Capital, Matrix Partners, Falcon Edge, Orios Ventures, and Smile Group.

Know more about our recent funding: https://bit.ly/3AHmSL3

Our focus has been on innovating in the board, strategy, and casual games sub-genres. We innovate to ensure our games provide an intersection between skill and entertainment, enabling our users to earn while they play.

Location: We are location agnostic & our teams work from anywhere. Physically we are based out of Gurugram

Core Responsibilities:

• Handling all Devops activities
• Engage with development teams to document and implement best practices for our existing and new products
• Ensure reliability of services by making systems and applications stable
• Implement DevOps technologies and processes i.e. containerization, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, metrics, monitoring, etc.
• Good understanding of Terraform (or similar ‘Infrastructure as Code’ technologies)
• Good understanding of modern CI/CD methods and approaches
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to application development, deployment, and operations
• The expertise of AWS ecosystem (EC2, ECS, S3, VPC, ALB, SG)
• Experience in monitoring production systems and being proactive to ensure that outages are limited
• Develop and contribute to several infrastructure improvement projects around performance, security, autoscaling, and cost-optimization

What are we looking for:

• AWS cloud services – Compute, Networking, Security and Database services
• Strong with Linux fundamentals
• Experience with Docker & Kubernetes in a Production Environment
• Working knowledge of Terraform/Ansible
• Working Knowledge of Prometheus and Grafana or any other monitoring system
• Good at scripting with Bash/Python/Shell
• Experience with CI/CD pipeline preferably AWS DevOps
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
• A top-notch DevOps Engineer will demonstrate excellent leadership skills and the capacity to mentor subordinates
• Good communication and collaboration skills
• Openness to learning new tools and technologies
• Startup Experience would be a plus

Role 

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.

You will also help us build scalable, efficient cloud infrastructure. You’ll implement monitoring for automated system health checks. Lastly, you’ll build our CI pipeline, and train and guide the team in DevOps practices.

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.
• System troubleshooting and problem resolution across various application domains and platforms.
• Providing recommendations for architecture and process improvements.
• Definition and deployment of systems for metrics, logging, and monitoring on AWS platform.
• Manage the establishment and configuration of SaaS infrastructure in an agile way by storing infrastructure as code and employing automated configuration management tools with a goal to be able to re-provision environments at any point in time.
• Be accountable for proper backup and disaster recovery procedures.
• Drive operational cost reductions through service optimizations and demand based auto scaling.
• Have on call responsibilities.
• Perform root cause analysis for production errors
• Uses open source technologies and tools to accomplish specific use cases encountered within the project.
• Uses coding languages or scripting methodologies to solve a problem with a custom workflow.

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)

• Extensive experience with web servers such as Nginx/Apache

• Strong Linux system administration background.
• Ability to present and communicate the architecture in a visual form.
• Strong knowledge of AWS (e.g. IAM, EC2, VPC, ELB, ALB, Autoscaling, Lambda, NAT gateway, DynamoDB)
• Experience maintaining and deploying highly-available, fault-tolerant systems at scale (~ 1 Lakh users a day)
• A drive towards automating repetitive tasks (e.g. scripting via Bash, Python, Ruby, etc)
• Expertise with Git
• Experience implementing CI/CD (e.g. Jenkins, TravisCI)
• Strong experience with databases such as MySQL, NoSQL, Elasticsearch, Redis and/or Mongo.
• Stellar troubleshooting skills with the ability to spot issues before they become problems.
• Current with industry trends, IT ops and industry best practices, and able to identify the ones we should implement.
• Time and project management skills, with the capability to prioritize and multitask as needed.

Required Skills and Experience 

• 4+ years of relevant experience with DevOps tools Jenkins, Ansible, Chef etc
• 4+ years of experience in continuous integration/deployment and software tools development experience with Python and shell scripts etc
• Building and running Docker images and deployment on Amazon ECS
• Working with AWS services (EC2, S3, ELB, VPC, RDS, Cloudwatch, ECS, ECR, EKS)
• Knowledge and experience working with container technologies such as Docker and Amazon ECS, EKS, Kubernetes
• Experience with source code and configuration management tools such as Git, Bitbucket, and Maven
• Ability to work with and support Linux environments (Ubuntu, Amazon Linux, CentOS)
• Knowledge and experience in cloud orchestration tools such as AWS Cloudformation/Terraform etc
• Experience with implementing "infrastructure as code", “pipeline as code” and "security as code" to enable continuous integration and delivery
• Understanding of IAM, RBAC, NACLs, and KMS
• Good communication skills

Good to have:

• Strong understanding of security concepts, methodologies and apply them such as SSH, public key encryption, access credentials, certificates etc.
• Knowledge of database administration such as MongoDB.
• Knowledge of maintaining and using tools such as Jira, Bitbucket, Confluence.
• Work with Leads and Architects in designing and implementation of technical infrastructure, platform, and tools to support modern best practices and facilitate the efficiency of our development teams through automation, CI/CD pipelines, and ease of access and performance.
• Establish and promote DevOps thinking, guidelines, best practices, and standards.
• Contribute to architectural discussions, Agile software development process improvement, and DevOps best practices.