DevOps Engineer

About the role:

We are seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer with deep expertise in Jenkins, Docker, Ansible, and Kubernetes to architect and maintain secure, scalable infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines. This role emphasizes security-first DevOps practices, on-premises Kubernetes operations, and integration with data engineering workflows.

🛠 Required Skills & Experience

Technical Expertise

• Jenkins (Expert): Advanced pipeline development, DSL scripting, security integration, troubleshooting
• Docker (Expert): Secure multi-stage builds, vulnerability management, optimisation for Java/Scala/Python
• Ansible (Expert): Complex playbook development, configuration management, automation at scale
• Kubernetes (Expert - Primary Focus): On-premises cluster operations, security hardening, networking, storage management
• SonarQube/Code Quality (Strong): Integration, quality gate enforcement, threshold management
• DevSecOps (Strong): Security scanning, compliance automation, vulnerability remediation, workload governance
• Spark ETL/ETA (Moderate): Understanding of distributed data processing, job configuration, runtime behavior

Core Competencies

• Deep understanding of DevSecOps principles and security-first automation
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving abilities across complex distributed systems
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code and GitOps methodologies
• Knowledge of compliance frameworks and security standards
• Ability to mentor teams and drive best practice adoption

🎓Qualifications

• 6 - 10 Years years of hands-on DevOps
• Proven track record with Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, and Ansible in production environments
• Experience managing on-premises Kubernetes clusters (bare-metal preferred)
• Strong background in security hardening and compliance automation
• Familiarity with data engineering platforms and big data technologies
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills

🚀 Key Responsibilities

1.CI/CD Pipeline Architecture & Security

• Design, implement, and maintain enterprise-grade CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins with embedded security controls:
• Build greenfield pipelines and enhance/stabilize existing pipeline infrastructure
• Diagnose and resolve build, test, and deployment failures across multi-service environments
• Integrate security gates, compliance checks, and automated quality controls at every pipeline stage
• Manage and optimize SonarQube and static code analysis tooling:
• Enforce code quality and security scanning standards across all services
• Maintain organizational coding standards, vulnerability thresholds, and remediation workflows
• Automate quality gates as integral components of CI/CD processes
• Engineer optimized Docker images for Java, Scala, and Python applications:
• Implement multi-stage builds, layer optimization, and minimal base images
• Conduct image vulnerability scanning and enforce compliance policies
• Apply containerization best practices for security and performance
• Develop comprehensive Ansible automation:
• Create modular, reusable, and secure playbooks for configuration management
• Automate environment provisioning and application lifecycle operations
• Maintain infrastructure-as-code standards and version control

2.Kubernetes Platform Operations & Security

• Lead complete lifecycle management of on-premises/bare-metal Kubernetes clusters:
• Cluster provisioning, version upgrades, node maintenance, and capacity planning
• Configure and manage networking (CNI), persistent storage solutions, and ingress controllers
• Troubleshoot workload performance, resource constraints, and reliability issues
• Implement and enforce Kubernetes security best practices:
• Design and manage RBAC policies, service account isolation, and least-privilege access models
• Apply Pod Security Standards, network policies, secrets encryption, and certificate lifecycle management
• Conduct cluster hardening, security audits, monitoring, and policy governance
• Provide technical leadership to development teams:
• Guide secure deployment patterns and containerized application best practices
• Establish workload governance frameworks for distributed systems
• Drive adoption of security-first mindsets across engineering teams

3.Data Engineering Support

• Collaborate with data engineering teams on Spark-based workloads:
• Support deployment and operational tuning of Spark ETL/ETA jobs
• Understand cluster integration, job orchestration, and performance optimization
• Debug and troubleshoot Spark workflow issues in production environments

Position: SDE-1 DevSecOps

Location: Pune, India

Experience Required: 0+ Years

We are looking for a DevSecOps engineer to contribute to product development, mentor team members, and devise creative solutions for customer needs. We value effective communication in person, in documentation, and in code. Ideal candidates thrive in small, collaborative teams, love making an impact, and take pride in their work with a product-focused, self-driven approach. If you're passionate about integrating security and deployment seamlessly into the development process, we want you on our team.

About FlytBase

FlytBase is a global leader in enterprise drone software automation. FlytBase platform is enabling drone-in-a-box deployments all across the globe and has the largest network of partners in 50+ countries.

The team comprises young engineers and designers from top-tier universities such as IIT-B, IIT-KGP, University of Maryland, Georgia Tech, COEP, SRM, KIIT and with deep expertise in drone technology, computer science, electronics, aerospace, and robotics.

The company is headquartered in Silicon Valley, California, USA, and has R&D offices in Pune, India. Widely recognized as a pioneer in the commercial drone ecosystem, FlytBase continues to win awards globally - FlytBase was the Global Grand Champion at the ‘NTT Data Open Innovation Contest’ held in Tokyo, Japan, and was the recipient of ‘ TiE50 Award’ at TiE Silicon Valley.

Role and Responsibilities:

• Participate in the creation and maintenance of CI/CD solutions and pipelines.
• Leverage Linux and shell scripting for automating security and system updates, and design secure architectures using AWS services (VPC, EC2, S3, IAM, EKS/Kubernetes) to enhance application deployment and management.
• Build and maintain secure Docker containers, manage orchestration using Kubernetes, and automate configuration management with tools like Ansible and Chef, ensuring compliance with security standards.
• Implement and manage infrastructure using Terraform, aligning with security and compliance requirements, and set up Dynatrace for advanced monitoring, alerting, and visualization of security metrics. Develop Terraform scripts to automate and optimize infrastructure provisioning and management tasks.
• Utilize Git for secure source code management and integrate continuous security practices into CI/CD pipelines, applying vulnerability scanning and automated security testing tools.
• Contribute to security assessments, including vulnerability and penetration testing, NIST, CIS AWS, NIS2 etc.
• Implement and oversee compliance processes for SOC II, ISO27001, and GDPR.
• Stay updated on cybersecurity trends and best practices, including knowledge of SAST and DAST tools, OWASP Top10.
• Automate routine tasks and create tools to improve team efficiency and system robustness.
• Contribute to disaster recovery plans and ensure robust backup systems are in place.
• Develop and enforce security policies and respond effectively to security incidents.
• Manage incident response protocols, including on-call rotations and strategic planning.
• Conduct post-incident reviews to prevent recurrence and refine the system reliability framework.
• Implementing Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and maintaining Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and Service Level Agreements (SLAs) to ensure high standards of service delivery and reliability.

Best suited for candidates who: (Skills/Experience)

• Up to 4 years of experience in a related field, with a strong emphasis on learning and execution.
• Background in IT or computer science.
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools, cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP), and programming languages like Python, JavaScript, or Ruby.
• Solid understanding of network layers and TCP/IP protocols.
• In-depth understanding of operating systems, networking, and cloud services.
• Strong problem-solving skills with a 'hacker' mindset.
• Knowledge of security principles, threat modeling, risk assessment, and vulnerability management is a plus. 
• Relevant certifications (e.g., CISSP, GWAPT, OSCP) are a plus.

Compensation: 

This role comes with an annual CTC that is market competitive and depends on the quality of your work experience, degree of professionalism, culture fit, and alignment with FlytBase’s long-term business strategy.

Perks:

• Fast-paced Startup culture
• Hacker mode environment
• Enthusiastic and approachable team
• Professional autonomy
• Company-wide sense of purpose
• Flexible work hours
• Informal dress code

Role – Sr. Devops Engineer

Location - Bangalore

Experience 5+ Years

Responsibilities

• Implementing various development, testing, automation tools, and IT infrastructure
• Planning the team structure, activities, and involvement in project management activities.
• Defining and setting development, test, release, update, and support processes for DevOps operation
• Troubleshooting techniques and fixing the code bugs
• Monitoring the processes during the entire lifecycle for its adherence and updating or creating new processes for improvement and minimizing the wastage
• Encouraging and building automated processes wherever possible
• Incidence management and root cause analysis.
• Selecting and deploying appropriate CI/CD tools
• Strive for continuous improvement and build continuous integration, continuous development, and constant deployment pipeline (CI/CD Pipeline)
• Mentoring and guiding the team members 
• Monitoring and measuring customer experience and KPIs

Requirements

• 5-6 years of relevant experience in a Devops role.
• Good knowledge in cloud technologies such as AWS/Google Cloud.
• Familiarity with container orchestration services, especially Kubernetes experience (Mandatory) and good knowledge in Docker.
• Experience administering and deploying development CI/CD tools such as Git, Jira, GitLab, or Jenkins.
• Good knowledge in complex Debugging mechanisms (especially JVM) and Java programming experience (Mandatory)
• Significant experience with Windows and Linux operating system environments
• A team player with excellent communication skills.

Requirements

Core skills:

● Strong background in Linux / Unix Administration and

troubleshooting

● Experience with AWS (ideally including some of the following:

VPC, Lambda, EC2, Elastic Cache, Route53, SNS, Cloudwatch,

Cloudfront, Redshift, Open search, ELK etc.)

● Experience with Infra Automation and Orchestration tools

including Terraform, Packer, Helm, Ansible.

● Hands on Experience on container technologies like Docker,

Kubernetes/EKS, Gitlab and Jenkins as Pipeline.

● Experience in one or more of Groovy, Perl, Python, Go or

scripting experience in Shell.

● Good understanding of with Continuous Integration(CI) and

Continuous Deployment(CD) pipelines using tools like Jenkins,

FlexCD, ArgoCD, Spinnaker etc

● Working knowledge of key value stores, database technologies

(SQL and NoSQL), Mongo, mySQL

● Experience with application monitoring tools like Prometheus,

Grafana, APM tools like NewRelic, Datadog, Pinpoint

● Good exposure on middleware components like ELK, Redis, Kafka

and IOT based systems including Redis, NewRelic, Akamai,

Apache / Nginx, ELK, Grafana, Prometheus etc

Good to have:

● Prior experience in Logistics, Payment and IOT based applications

● Experience in unmanaged mongoDB cluster, automations &

operations, analytics

● Write procedures for backup and disaster recovery

Core Experience

● 3-5 years of hands-on DevOps experience

● 2+ years of hands-on Kubernetes experience

● 3+ years of Cloud Platform experience with special focus on

Lambda, R53, SNS, Cloudfront, Cloudwatch, Elastic Beanstalk,

RDS, Open Search, EC2, Security tools

● 2+ years of scripting experience in Python/Go, shell

● 2+ years of familiarity with CI/CD, Git, IaC, Monitoring, and

Logging tools

• Strong Systems Experience- Linux, networking, cloud, APIs
• Scripting language Programming - Shell, Python
• Strong Debugging Capability
• AWS Platform -IAM, Network,EC2, Lambda, S3, CloudWatch
• Knowledge on Terraform, Packer, Ansible, Jenkins
• Observability - Prometheus, InfluxDB, Dynatrace,
• Grafana, Splunk • DevSecOps-CI/CD - Jenkins
• Microservices
• Security & Access Management
• Container Orchestration a plus - Kubernetes, Docker etc.
• Big Data Platforms knowledge EMR, Databricks. Cloudera a plus