DevOps Engineer

Job Title : Azure DevOps Engineer

Experience Required : 7+ Years

Work Mode : Remote / Hybrid

Location : Remote

Notice Period : Immediate Joiners / Serving Candidates (within 20 days only)

Interview Mode : Face-to-Face or Virtual

Open Positions : 2

Job Description :

We are seeking an experienced Azure DevOps Engineer with 7+ years of relevant experience in DevOps practices, especially around Azure infrastructure, deployment automation, and CI/CD pipeline management. The ideal candidate should have hands-on expertise with Azure DevOps, GitHub, YAML, and Azure services, along with solid communication and coordination capabilities.

Mandatory Skills : Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, YAML, Bicep, Azure services (App Gateway, WAF, NSG, CosmosDB, Storage Accounts), Unix scripting, and Azure Fundamentals certification.

Key Responsibilities :

• Manage deployments for Dynamics 365 and proxy applications
• Run and maintain ADO pipelines and GitHub Actions
• Ensure proper status updates on ADO Boards and deployed work items
• Coordinate with QA teams to execute smoke testing post-deployment
• Communicate deployment progress across team channels effectively
• Monitor deployment cycles, approval gates, logs, and alerts
• Ensure smooth integration of infrastructure and DevOps practices

Mandatory Skills :

• Minimum 7+ years in DevOps, with strong experience in Azure DevOps (ADO).
• Proven expertise in building pipelines using Azure DevOps and GitHub.
• Proficiency in Bicep, YAML scripting, and Azure Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC).
• Hands-on with Azure services like :
• App Gateway, WAF, NSG, CosmosDB, Storage Accounts.
• vNet, Managed Identity, KeyVault, AppConfig, App Insights.
• Basic Azure Fundamentals Certification (AZ-900).
• Excellent communication skills in English.

Nice to Have :

• Experience in managing large enterprise-scale deployments.
• Familiarity with branching strategies and monitoring tools.
• Exposure to Approval Gates and Deployment Governance.

Job Title: DevOps Engineer(Bench Role – Staff Augmentation)

Location: Remote

Engagement Type: Contract / Project-based / Full-time (depending on client)

Experience Range: 2–7 years

About the Role

We are building a strong remote bench of DevOps Engineers to work on modern, scalable infrastructure for global SaaS, FinTech, and product-based startups in the US, Canada, and Middle East.

Developers will focus on automation, reliability, and scalability — with clear deliverables, remote flexibility, and competitive monthly retainers.

Core Skills Required

CI/CD & Automation

• Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, CircleCI, AWS CodePipeline
• Automated build, test, and deployment pipelines
• Rolling, blue-green, and canary deployment strategies

Containerization & Orchestration

• Docker (required)
• Kubernetes (K8s) for workload orchestration and scaling

Cloud Platforms

• AWS, GCP, Azure (multi-cloud preferred)
• Deployment, networking, storage, and serverless (Lambda, Cloud Functions)
• Cloud cost optimization and security best practices

Scripting & Infrastructure as Code

• Linux shell scripting, Bash, Python for automation
• Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or Pulumi for IaC

Monitoring, Logging & Incident Response

• Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana)
• Datadog, Splunk for enterprise monitoring
• Incident management, root cause analysis, and post-mortems

Security (DevSecOps)

• Security scanning (Snyk, Aqua, Trivy)
• Vulnerability management and compliance checks

Workflow & Collaboration

• Git & GitHub/GitLab workflows
• Agile/Scrum collaboration, Jira, Confluence

Ideal Candidate Profile

• Able to automate, monitor, and scale production environments end-to-end
• Strong problem-solving and debugging skills in distributed systems
• Comfortable with high-availability, mission-critical deployments
• Good communicator in asynchronous, remote-first teams

Perks for Bench Developers

• Access to global, high-impact infrastructure projects
• Competitive retainers (based on skills & experience)
• Flexible remote work with clear deliverables and client engagement

Apply If You Have

• Experience with multi-cloud DevOps environments
• Built scalable, automated CI/CD pipelines
• Worked with containerized and microservices-based architectures

Must Have -

a. Background working with Startups

b. Good knowledge of Kubernetes & Docker

c. Background working in Azure

What you’ll be doing

• Ensure that our applications and environments are stable, scalable, secure and performing as expected.
• Proactively engage and work in alignment with cross-functional colleagues to understand their requirements, contributing to and providing suitable supporting solutions.
• Develop and introduce systems to aid and facilitate rapid growth including implementation of deployment policies, designing and implementing new procedures, configuration management and planning of patches and for capacity upgrades
• Observability: ensure suitable levels of monitoring and alerting are in place to keep engineers aware of issues.
• Establish runbooks and procedures to keep outages to a minimum. Jump in before users notice that things are off track, then automate it for the future.
• Automate everything so that nothing is ever done manually in production.
• Identify and mitigate reliability and security risks. Make sure we are prepared for peak times,
• DDoS attacks and fat fingers.
• Troubleshoot issues across the whole stack - software, applications and network.
• Manage individual project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables as part of a self-organizing team.
• Learn and unlearn every day by exchanging knowledge and new insights, conducting constructive code reviews, and participating in retrospectives.

Requirements

• 2+ years extensive experience of Linux server administration include patching, packaging (rpm), performance tuning, networking, user management, and security.
• 2+ years of implementing systems that are highly available, secure, scalable, and self-healingon Azure cloud platform
• Strong understanding of networking, especially in cloud environments along with a good understanding of CICD.
• Prior experience implementing industry standard security best practices, including those recommended by Azure
• Proficiency with Bash, and any high-level scripting language.
• Basic working knowledge of observability stacks like ELK, prometheus, grafana, Signoz etc
• Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code and Infrastructure Testing, preferably using Pulumi/Terraform.
• Hands-on experience in building and administering VMs and Containers using tools such as Docker/Kubernetes.
• Excellent communication skills, spoken as well as written, with a demonstrated ability to articulate technical problems and projects to all stakeholders.

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.

In the News

- Money Control : Click Here

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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

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.

• Experience in implementing DevOps practices and DevOps-tools in areas like CI/CD using Jenkins environment automation, and release automation, virtualization, infra as a code or metrics tracking.
• Hands on experience in DevOps tools configuration in different environments.
• Strong knowledge of working with DevOps design patterns, processes and best practices
• Hand-on experience in Setting up Build pipelines.
• Prior working experience in system administration or architecture in Windows or Linux.
• Must have experience in GIT (BitBucket, GitHub, GitLab)
• Hands-on experience on Jenkins pipeline scripting.
• Hands-on knowledge in one scripting language (Nant, Perl, Python, Shell or PowerShell)
• Configuration level skills in tools like SonarQube (or similar tools) and Artifactory.
• Expertise on Virtual Infrastructure (VMWare or VirtualBox or QEMU or KVM or Vagrant) and environment automation/provisioning using SaltStack/Ansible/Puppet/Chef
• Deploying, automating, maintaining and managing Azure cloud based production systems including monitoring capacity.
• Good to have experience in migrating code repositories from one source control to another.
• Hands-on experience in Docker container and orchestration based deployments like Kubernetes, Service Fabric, Docker swarm.
• Must have good communication skills and problem solving skills

A strong background in Azure OR Amazon Web Services (AWS) or a similar cloud platform is a must-have, certification is a plus.

Excellent technical skills and knowledge include but not limited to: cloud methodologies like PaaS and SaaS; programming languages such as Python, Java, .Net; orchestration systems such as Chef, Ansible, Terraform; Azure IaaS servers; PowerShell scripting.

Fully aware of the DevOps cycle with hands-on on deployment models to the cloud.

Experience working with Docker and related containerization technologies.

Experience working on orchestration platforms such as AKS, RedHat OpenShift etc.

Extensive knowledge working with logging and monitoring tools such as EFK, visualization tools such as Grafana and Prometheus.

Exposure to security alert monitoring tools.