DevOps Engineer

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Plan, schedule, and manage all releases across product and customer projects.
• Define and maintain the release calendar, identifying dependencies and managing risks proactively.
• Partner with engineering, QA, DevOps, and product management to ensure release readiness.
• Create release documentation (notes, guides, videos) for both internal stakeholders and customers.
• Run a release review process with product leads before publishing.
• Publish releases and updates to the company website release section.
• Drive communication of release details to internal teams and customers in a clear, concise way.
• Manage post-release validation and rollback procedures when required.
• Continuously improve release management through automation, tooling, and process refinement.

IDEAL CANDIDATE:

• 3+ years of experience in Release Management, DevOps, or related roles.
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, source control (Git), and build/deployment practices.
• Experience creating release documentation and customer-facing content (videos, notes, FAQs).
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills; able to translate technical changes into business impact.
• Familiarity with SaaS, iPaaS, or enterprise software environments is a strong plus.

PERKS, BENEFITS AND WORK CULTURE:

• Competitive salary package.
• Opportunity to learn from and work with senior leadership & founders.
• Build solutions for large enterprises that move from concept to real-world impact.
• Exceptional career growth pathways in a highly innovative and rapidly scaling environment.

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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• Understanding of maintenance of existing systems (Virtual machines), Linux stack
• Experience running, operating and maintainence of Kubernetes pods
• Strong Scripting skills
• Experience in AWS
• Knowledge of configuring/optimizing open source tools like Kafka, etc.
• Strong automation maintenance - ability to identify opportunities to speed up build and deploy process with strong validation and automation
• Optimizing and standardizing monitoring, alerting.
• Experience in Google cloud platform
• Experience/ Knowledge  in Python will be an added advantage
• Experience on Monitoring Tools like Jenkins, Kubernetes ,Terraform  etc

What you need to have:

DevOps 

Engineers : Min 3 to 5 Years 
Tech Leads : Min 6 to 10 Years 

• Implementing & supporting CI/CD/CT pipelines at scale.  
• Knowledge and experience using Chef, Puppet or Ansible automation to deploy and be able to manage Linux systems in production and CI environments.  
• Extensive experience with Shell scripts (bash).  
• Knowledge and practical experience of Jenkins for CI.  
• Experienced in build & release management.  
• Experience of deploying JVM based applications.  
• Enterprise AWS deployment with sound knowledge on AWS & AWS security.  
• Knowledge of encryption technologies: IPSec, SSL, SSH. 
• Minimum of 2 years of experience as a Linux Systems Engineer (CentOS/Red Hat) ideally supporting a highly-available, 24x7 production environments. 
• DNS providing and maintenance.  
• Helpful skills: Knowledge of applications relying on Maven, Ant, Gradle, Spring Boot.  
• Knowledge of app and server monitoring tools such as ELK/AppEngine. 
• Excellent written, oral communication and interpersonal skills.