DevOps Engineer at Merkle · Pune · 1 - 4 years · ₹3L - ₹7L / yr · Profitable · Posted 27 Oct 2023
- Implementing various development, testing, automation tools, and IT infrastructure
- Monitoring the processes during the entire lifecycle for its adherence and updating or creating new processes for improvement and minimizing the wastage
- 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)
- Identifying and deploying cybersecurity measures by continuously performing vulnerability assessment and risk management

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Merkle Sokrati is India’s leading digital ad technology, paid search and big data analytics firm, with proprietary algorithms, artificial intelligence, and automation at its backbone. Started by ex-Amazon product heads in 2009, Sokrati is synonymous to breaking new ground in ad expertise and delivering digital - managing over 3000 of the biggest names in e-Commerce and BFSI sectors in the country today. The platform deals with 20M+ impressions per day, real-time optimization algorithms, a scalable & intuitive analytics platform and more - all developed in-house. We are currently a 700+ people team; growing extremely fast to gain more market share and roll out even cooler technology solutions in Digital Advertising space.
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We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced DevOps Engineer to join our development team.
Years of experience needed: 8+ Yrs
Required Skills
Strong experience with GitLab, TeamCity, Terraform, Kubernetes and Docker
Proficiency in various deployment strategies and CI/CD pipeline setups
Solid understanding of Linux administration and Windows IIS.
Advanced scripting skills in bash and PowerShell
Hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services, particularly GKE, GCS, GCE, Cloud SQL, and load balancers
Familiarity with Autosys for job scheduling and automation
Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills
Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment
- • Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
Company Overview:
Planview is hiring a DevOps Engineer in Bengaluru, India to support Planview SaaS applications across the product line. You will work in a global, collaborative team — owning CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and automation to keep deployments fast and systems reliable.
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins for reliable, fast delivery.
- Manage containerized workloads on Docker and ECS — task definitions, services, and clusters.
- Provision and manage AWS infrastructure using Terraform (CloudFormation a plus).
- Automate configuration and deployment tasks using Python (Ansible a plus).
- Set up and maintain monitoring and alerting via New Relic (CloudWatch, Datadog, or Prometheus/Grafana a plus).
- Write Shell and Python scripts to automate operations and reduce manual work.
- Manage Git workflows — branching, merge strategies, and pull request reviews.
- Administer and support MSSQL databases underpinning the product line — backups, restores, and basic performance troubleshooting.
- Troubleshoot deployment, performance, and infrastructure issues with development teams.
- Participate in on-call rotations and drive incident response.
- Continuously improve infrastructure resilience and deployment speed.
- Apply AI-assisted engineering tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Claude Code) to speed up IaC authoring, pipeline debugging, and day-to-day scripting.
Qualifications
Must-Have Skills
- Experience: 4–6 years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or Infrastructure Engineering.
- OS: Windows administration (systemd, package management, log analysis).
- Cloud: AWS (Active Directory, ECS, EC2, CloudFront, S3, VPC, IAM, RDS, Lambda basics).
- Source Control: Git — branching, merge/rebase, PR reviews.
- CI/CD (Jenkins): Pipeline creation and basic Groovy scripting.
- Containerization (Docker + ECS): Task definitions, services, and clusters.
- IaC: Terraform.
- Monitoring: New Relic.
- Scripting: Bash and Python scripting for automation.
- Networking Basics: DNS, load balancers, security groups, VPNs.
- Logging: ELK stack / CloudWatch Logs.
- Database: MSSQL administration — backups, restores, basic performance troubleshooting.
- Infrastructure Automation: Hands-on experience automating infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and deployment end-to-end.
- AI-Assisted Engineering: Comfortable working with AI coding/DevOps assistants (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Claude Code) for IaC generation, scripting, and troubleshooting — verified via a mandatory AI proficiency assessment during interviews.
Nice-to-Have Skills
• Configuration Management: Ansible.
• Additional IaC: CloudFormation.
• Architecture: Knowledge of microservices architecture.
• Cloudflare: DNS, CDN, WAF.
• Artifact Repositories: Nexus, JFrog Artifactory, ECR.
• Other CI/CD Tools: GitHub Actions.
• AWS cost optimization / FinOps awareness.
• Datadog, CloudWatch, or Prometheus/Grafana.
• AIOps: Exposure to AI-driven anomaly detection, root-cause analysis, or incident triage (e.g., Dynatrace Davis AI, Datadog Bits AI, Harness AIDA).
• Database Basics: RDS backups, restores, performance tuning.
Job Title : DevOps Engineer
Experience : 7+ Years
Working Hours : 3:30 AM – 11:30 AM ET
Duration : 12–18 Months
Engagement : Contract
Freelance : Not Applicable
BGV : Required
Role Overview :
We are looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer to design, implement, and optimize DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and cloud-native delivery platforms. The role will focus on enabling secure, reliable, and efficient software delivery while improving infrastructure automation, release processes, platform reliability, and operational resilience.
Mandatory Skills :
DevOps, CI/CD, Azure DevOps / GitHub Actions, Kubernetes, Docker, PowerShell / Python / Bash, Automation, Monitoring & Observability, DevSecOps, IaC, Troubleshooting, and Production Support.
Key Responsibilities :
- Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for enterprise application delivery and release management.
- Develop deployment automation frameworks to improve release quality, consistency, scalability, and efficiency.
- Administer Kubernetes and containerized environments and supporting orchestration platforms.
- Improve build, test, deployment, and release workflows for development teams.
- Integrate automated testing, security scanning, validation, and compliance controls into CI/CD pipelines.
- Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability solutions for platform and application environments.
- Troubleshoot deployment failures, production issues, and platform incidents; perform root cause analysis.
- Develop automation scripts and tools using PowerShell, Python, Bash, or similar technologies.
- Implement Infrastructure as Code and automation practices to reduce manual effort and operational risk.
- Collaborate with Cloud, Infrastructure, Security, and Application teams to deliver scalable and resilient solutions.
- Maintain deployment standards, release procedures, technical documentation, and operational runbooks.
- Apply DevOps, DevSecOps, and SRE best practices to improve delivery speed and platform reliability.
- Evaluate emerging DevOps technologies and recommend improvements.
- Mentor team members on DevOps methodologies, automation, and platform engineering practices.
- Act as an escalation point for critical deployment, infrastructure, and platform issues.
Required Technical Skills :
1. DevOps & CI/CD :
- 7+ years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or Software Engineering.
- Strong experience designing and supporting CI/CD pipelines and release management.
- Hands-on experience with Azure DevOps, GitHub, GitHub Actions, or equivalent platforms.
- Strong understanding of Git, branching strategies, release management, and deployment methodologies.
2. Containers & Cloud :
- Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes and Docker/containerization.
- Understanding of cloud-native application architectures and distributed systems.
- Experience supporting production-grade containerized environments.
3. Automation & IaC :
- Strong proficiency in PowerShell, Python, Bash, or similar scripting languages.
- Experience developing automation frameworks and deployment tooling.
- Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) concepts.
- Experience with Terraform, Bicep, or similar tools is preferred.
4. Monitoring & Reliability :
- Experience with monitoring, logging, observability, and alerting.
- Strong troubleshooting and root cause analysis skills.
- Experience supporting highly available and resilient production systems.
- Knowledge of SRE practices is preferred.
5. Security & DevSecOps :
- Understanding of DevSecOps and secure software delivery practices.
- Experience integrating vulnerability scanning, security controls, and compliance checks into CI/CD pipelines.
- Knowledge of IAM, secrets management, and access control within DevOps environments.
Preferred Qualifications :
- Hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure.
- Experience with Terraform/Bicep or other IaC tools.
- Knowledge of SRE and platform engineering practices.
- Relevant Azure, Kubernetes, Cloud, or DevOps certifications.
Job Title : DevOps Engineer – Linux, AWS & Infrastructure
Experience : 3+ Years
Location : Sector 48, Gurgaon
Work Mode : 6 Days WFO – Monday to Saturday
Week Off : 01st & 03rd Saturday Off
Employment Type : Full-Time
Job Summary :
We are looking for a DevOps Engineer with strong hands-on experience in Linux, Networking, Server Administration, AWS, CI/CD, Containers, Kubernetes, and Infrastructure Automation. The ideal candidate should have strong troubleshooting skills, production ownership, and the ability to manage and automate infrastructure reliably.
Key Responsibilities :
- Manage and troubleshoot Linux servers, bare-metal infrastructure, and server environments.
- Perform system administration, networking, performance monitoring, and production troubleshooting.
- Design, maintain, and optimize Jenkins-based CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows.
- Manage Docker containers and Kubernetes environments.
- Work with AWS Cloud services, infrastructure, security, and deployment environments.
- Monitor system health, application performance, logs, and infrastructure using appropriate monitoring and logging tools.
- Implement and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
- Automate repetitive operational tasks using Python, Bash, Shell scripting, or similar technologies.
- Implement infrastructure and application security, access controls, patching, and hardening.
- Investigate production incidents, perform root-cause analysis (RCA), and drive issues to resolution.
- Take end-to-end ownership of infrastructure reliability, availability, and operational issues.
- Collaborate with development and other engineering teams to improve deployment, scalability, and system reliability.
Mandatory Skills :
Linux & Networking | Bare Metal / Server Administration | Jenkins / CI-CD | Docker / Containers | AWS Cloud | Kubernetes | Git | Monitoring & Logging | Security | Infrastructure as Code (IaC) | Automation / Scripting | Production Troubleshooting & Ownership
Preferred Skills :
- Strong understanding of TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, SSH, load balancing, and networking fundamentals.
- Hands-on experience with Terraform / CloudFormation.
- Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, ELK / EFK, CloudWatch, or similar monitoring / logging tools.
- Good understanding of Linux performance troubleshooting, processes, memory, disk, networking, and file systems.
- Experience handling production incidents, RCA, deployments, and system reliability.
- Exposure to cloud security, IAM, secrets management, and server hardening.
What We’re Looking For :
- 3+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps / SRE / Infrastructure Engineering.
- Strong practical knowledge rather than certification-based/theoretical understanding.
- Good troubleshooting and analytical skills.
- Strong sense of ownership and accountability for production systems.
- Comfortable working in a 6-day work-from-office environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Automate application deployments from Bitbucket to servers using CI/CD pipelines.
- Design and manage scalable, highly available AWS infrastructure.
- Implement Auto Scaling, ELB, and Route 53 for traffic management and high availability.
- Work with AWS services including IAM, RDS, DynamoDB, EC2, and other cloud services.
- Build and manage Docker containers and server images.
- Deploy and manage applications using Kubernetes.
- Implement Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible.
- Develop automation scripts using Python and Bash.
- Implement monitoring and logging using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK.
- Integrate security and compliance practices into CI/CD pipelines.
- Optimize infrastructure for security, scalability, performance, and cost.
Required Skills
- 3+ years of experience in DevOps or a similar role.
- Strong knowledge of AWS beyond EC2.
- Hands-on experience with Jenkins or similar CI/CD tools.
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
- Good understanding of Terraform/IaC and automation.
- Proficiency in Python and/or Bash scripting.
- Knowledge of DevSecOps, security, and compliance best practices.
- Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
Job Description:
Pre-requisite skills required for a DevOps Engineer role include:
- 6+yrs exp in DevOps
- Experience working on Linux based infrastructure
- knowledge in AWS, docker, CI/CD tools
- Hands on exp in Python/shell scripting language
- hands on exp in AWS and Azure
- Work exp in Docker, Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, LINUX
- Excellent understanding of Ruby, Python, Perl, and Java
- Configuration and managing databases such as MySQL, Mongo
- Excellent troubleshooting
- Working knowledge of various tools, open-source technologies, and cloud services
Job Title : DevOps / Infrastructure Engineer
Experience : 3+ Years
Location : Gurugram Sector 48
Work Mode : 6 Days WFO (Monday to Saturday) / 01st & 03rd Saturdays are off
Employment Type : Full-time
Role Overview :
We are looking for a DevOps / Infrastructure Engineer with strong hands-on experience in Linux administration, Jenkins, Docker, networking, bare-metal servers, AWS, Redis, and MongoDB. The candidate should be capable of independently troubleshooting infrastructure, deployment, networking, and application-related issues in production environments.
Mandatory / Non-Negotiable Skills :
- Strong hands-on experience with Linux Administration & Troubleshooting.Strong experience with Jenkins and CI/CD pipelines.
- Hands-on experience with Docker and containerized environments.
- Strong understanding of Networking concepts – TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, ports, routing, firewalls, load balancing, etc.
- Hands-on experience with Bare Metal Servers / Server Administration.
- Strong hands-on experience with AWS (EC2, VPC, IAM, Security Groups, Load Balancers, S3 & CloudWatch)
- Working knowledge of Redis
- Working knowledge of MongoDB
- Strong production troubleshooting and incident-resolution skills
Key Responsibilities :
- Manage, configure, monitor, and troubleshoot Linux and bare-metal servers
- Build, maintain, and troubleshoot Jenkins CI/CD pipelines
- Deploy, manage, and troubleshoot applications using Docker
- Manage and troubleshoot AWS infrastructure and services
- Configure and maintain networking, security groups, firewalls, ports, and connectivity
- Support and maintain Redis and MongoDB environments
- Perform server health checks, log analysis, performance troubleshooting, and incident resolution
- Work closely with development teams to support application deployments
- Identify root causes of infrastructure and production issues and implement preventive solutions
- Maintain infrastructure security, availability, and reliability
- Automate repetitive operational tasks wherever possible
Required Candidate Profile :
- 3+ years of relevant experience in DevOps, Infrastructure, System Administration, or related roles.
- Strong hands-on / production experience with all mandatory technologies.
- Good understanding of Linux systems and infrastructure.
- Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving abilities.
- Ability to take ownership of production infrastructure and deployment issues.
- Good communication and collaboration skills.
Job Description:
- Job title : Senior DevOps Engineer (On-Premises Automation)
- Experience: 8+ years
- Location: Chennai / Pune / Hyderabad / Bangalore
- Shift: UK Shift
- Work Mode: Onsite (WFO)
Roles and Responsibilities:
- This engagement automates end-to-end infrastructure build provisioning across on-prem and Azure. The team will build a shared ServiceNow-led intake, approval, orchestration, and closed-loop status model, using Jenkins/Ansible for on-prem builds and Azure DevOps/Terraform for cloud builds. Automation includes standards, security/compliance controls, scan gates, CMDB/change updates, and handover.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead secure and repeatable on-prem build provisioning pipelines
- Lead Jenkins CI/CD for automated on-prem provisioning and configuration.
- Create pipeline templates for VM/physical host, OS deployment, configuration, certification, and rollback.
- Embed hardened-image validation, scan gates, secrets handling, approvals, and audit evidence.
- Lead Ansible roles, PowerShell modules, test automation, and code reviews.
- Implement logging, monitoring, and root-cause analysis; support UAT and hypercare.
Required Qualifications:
- 8–10 years in DevOps, platform engineering, or infrastructure automation.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
- Jenkins
- Git, CI/CD
- Ansible, PowerShell
- Python, IaC
- security scanning, secrets management
- Windows/Linux.
Job Summary :
We are looking for a proactive and skilled DevOps Engineer to join our team and play a key role in building, managing, and scaling infrastructure for high-performance systems. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Docker, Python scripting, cloud platforms, and DevOps practices around CI/CD, monitoring, and incident response.
Key Responsibilities :
- Design, build, and maintain scalable, reliable, and secure infrastructure on cloud platforms such as AWS.
- Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools like Terraform, Cloud Formation, or similar.
- Manage Kubernetes clusters, configure namespaces, services, deployments, and auto scaling. CI/CD & Release Management
- Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines for automated testing, building, and deployment of services.
- Collaborate with developers to ensure smooth and frequent deployments to production.
- Manage versioning and rollback strategies for critical deployments.
- Containerization & Orchestration using Kubernetes.
- Containerize applications using Docker, and manage them using Kubernetes.
- Write automation scripts using Python or Shell for infrastructure tasks, monitoring, and deployment flows.
- Develop utilities and tools to enhance operational efficiency and reliability.
- Monitoring & Incident Management
- Analyze system performance and implement infrastructure scaling strategies based on load and usage trends.
- Optimize application and system performance through proactive monitoring and configuration tuning.
Desired Skills and Experience :
- Experience Required - 6+ yrs.
- Hands-on experience on cloud services like AWS, EKS etc.
- Ability to design a good cloud solution.
- Strong Linux troubleshooting, Shell Scripting, Kubernetes, Docker, Ansible, Jenkins Skills.
- Design and implement the CI/CD pipeline following the best industry practices using open-source tools.
- Use knowledge and research to constantly modernize our applications and infrastructure stacks.
- Be a team player and strong problem-solver to work with a diverse team.
- Having good communication skills.
Job Title : DevOps Engineer / Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
Experience : 4+ Years
Location : Gurugram, Sector 48, Haryana (On-site)
Employment Type : Full-Time
Working Days : Monday to Saturday (1st & 3rd Saturday Off)
About the Role :
We are looking for a hands-on DevOps Engineer / Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with strong experience in Linux, AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, and production application deployments.
The ideal candidate should have real-world production experience, excellent troubleshooting skills, and the ability to manage both infrastructure and application-level issues.
Mandatory Skills :
Linux, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Python, Bash, Git, Grafana, Prometheus, ELK, CloudWatch, New Relic, SRE (SLI/SLO/SLA), Networking (DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, TCP/IP, Load Balancer), Production Application Deployment & Troubleshooting
Key Responsibilities :
- Manage and maintain AWS cloud infrastructure.
- Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI.
- Deploy, monitor, and troubleshoot applications across production environments.
- Automate infrastructure using Terraform and Ansible.
- Manage Docker containers and Kubernetes clusters.
- Monitor systems using Grafana, Prometheus, ELK, CloudWatch, and New Relic.
- Perform Linux server administration and troubleshooting.
- Handle production incidents, Root Cause Analysis (RCA), and improve system reliability.
- Collaborate with development teams to support application releases and automation.
Required Qualifications :
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
- 4+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps / SRE.
- Strong Linux administration and production troubleshooting skills.
- Experience with AWS and modern DevOps toolchains.
- Hands-on experience with application deployment and production support.
What We're Looking For :
- Strong practical Linux and cloud knowledge.
- Real production experience with application deployments.
- Ability to troubleshoot both infrastructure and application issues.
- Experience handling live production incidents.
- Excellent communication and problem-solving skills.
- Candidates should be comfortable with scenario-based technical discussions and demonstrate genuine hands-on expertise.
Interview Process :
- HR Screening
- Technical Round
- Client Technical Round
- Final Discussion
Note : The interview will focus on practical hands-on experience in Linux, AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, application deployment, production troubleshooting, and real-world DevOps scenarios.












