DevOps Engineer

Job Details:

• Role: Staff Engineer, ArgoCD
• Experience: 5.5-7.5 Years
• Employment Type: Full-time
• Work Mode: Gurugram (Hybrid)

Job Description

REQUIREMENTS:

• Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes (K8s) administration, deployment, and troubleshooting
• Expertise in GitOps implementation using ArgoCD
• Strong experience with Crossplane for infrastructure provisioning and orchestration
• Hands-on experience with New Relic for monitoring, observability, and performance management
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation
• Strong knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform
• Experience working with AWS cloud services and cloud-native architectures
• Hands-on experience with Docker and containerization technologies
• Strong Linux administration and scripting skills
• Experience implementing platform reliability, security, and automation best practices
• Strong understanding of monitoring, logging, and observability frameworks

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Manage, maintain, and optimize Kubernetes-based infrastructure and application deployments
• Implement and support GitOps workflows using ArgoCD
• Design and manage infrastructure provisioning using Crossplane
• Monitor platform performance, reliability, and user experience using New Relic
• Build, enhance, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for automated software delivery
• Collaborate with development and platform engineering teams to deliver scalable cloud-native solutions
• Implement Infrastructure as Code practices using Terraform and automation tools
• Ensure platform stability, security, scalability, and operational excellence
• Troubleshoot infrastructure, deployment, and performance-related issues
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives across DevOps processes, tooling, and automation practices
• Support cloud infrastructure management and containerized application environments on AWS
• Promote DevOps best practices, governance, and operational standards across teams

Qualifications

Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related fields   

Applicants must read the JD and understand the JD throughly

Job Title: Database & DevOps Engineer

Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu (On-site/Hybrid)

Experience: 2+ years -

Job Summary

We are looking for a skilled Database & DevOps Engineer with 2+ years of hands-on experience in database administration, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, automation, and AI application deployment. The role involves managing database and infrastructure environments, automating deployments, supporting AI/LLM workloads, and ensuring high availability, security, performance, and scalability.

Key Responsibilities

Database Management

• Install, configure, monitor, and maintain SQL and NoSQL databases.

• Manage database backup, recovery, replication, and disaster recovery.

• Optimise performance through indexing, query tuning, and monitoring.

• Ensure database security, integrity, and availability.

• Troubleshoot database issues and provide timely resolutions.

DevOps, Infrastructure & AI Operations

• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines.

• Automate infrastructure provisioning using Infrastructure as Code tools.

• Deploy and manage applications across cloud and on-premises environments.

• Configure and maintain containerised applications using Docker and Kubernetes.

• Deploy and support AI/ML, LLM, RAG, and agentic AI applications.

• Configure and manage GPU-enabled infrastructure for AI workloads.

• Support model serving, vector databases, and AI application APIs.

• Monitor application, infrastructure, and AI-service performance, including availability, latency, resource utilization, and failures.

• Maintain Linux servers and automate routine operational tasks.

• Implement secure management of credentials, secrets, model endpoints, and data access.

• Collaborate with development and AI teams to streamline deployment and release processes.

Mandatory Skills

• 2+ years of hands-on experience in Database Administration and DevOps.

• Strong knowledge of MySQL, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, and MongoDB.

• Experience with database backup, restoration, replication, indexing, query optimization, and performance monitoring.

• Hands-on experience with Git and CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, or Azure DevOps.

• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.

• Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP.

• Knowledge of Terraform and Ansible.

• Strong Linux administration and shell-scripting skills.

• Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, or Nagios.

• Working knowledge of networking, security, SSL/TLS, and load balancing.

• Understanding of LLMs, RAG, embeddings, vector databases, and agentic AI architecture.

• Experience deploying Python-based AI/ML services and APIs.

• Familiarity with model-serving tools such as llama.cpp, vLLM, Ollama, Hugging Face, or equivalent.

• Knowledge of GPU-enabled environments, NVIDIA drivers, CUDA, and containerized AI deployment.

• Understanding of AI/LLM observability, model versioning, security, scaling, and rollback.

• Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and problem-solving skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline.

• Cloud, DevOps, Linux, database, or Kubernetes certifications are an advantage.

Technical Stack

• Databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, MongoDB and vector databases

• Cloud: AWS, Azure, GCP.

• CI/CD: Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, Azure DevOps

• Containers and IaC: Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible

• Monitoring: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, Nagios

• AI Infrastructure: Python APIs, LLM serving, RAG, embeddings, vector search, GPU/CUDA

• Operating Systems: Linux—Ubuntu, CentOS, Red Hat

Soft Skills

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

• Strong ownership and accountability.

• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced Agile environment.

• Proactive approach to troubleshooting and continuous improvement.

• Ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver on time.

Key Skills Required:

·         You will be part of the DevOps engineering team, configuring project environments, troubleshooting integration issues in different systems also be involved in building new features for next generation of cloud recovery services and managed services. 

·         You will directly guide the technical strategy for our clients and build out a new capability within the company for DevOps to improve our business relevance for customers. 

·         You will be coordinating with Cloud and Data team for their requirements and verify the configurations required for each production server and come with Scalable solutions.

·         You will be responsible to review infrastructure and configuration of micro services and packaging and deployment of application

To be the right fit, you'll need:

·         Expert in Cloud Services like AWS.

·         Experience in Terraform Scripting.

·         Experience in container technology like Docker and orchestration like Kubernetes.

·         Good knowledge of frameworks such as Jenkins, CI/CD pipeline, Bamboo Etc.

·         Experience with various version control system like GIT, build tools (Mavan, ANT, Gradle ) and cloud automation tools (Chef, Puppet, Ansible)

• 2+ years work experience in a DevOps or similar role
• Knowledge of OO programming and concepts (Java, C++, C#, Python)
• A drive towards automating repetitive tasks (e.g., scripting via Bash, Python, etc)
• Fluency in one or more scripting languages such as Python or Ruby.
• Familiarity with Microservice-based architectures
• Practical experience with Docker containerization and clustering (Kubernetes/ECS)
• In-depth, hands-on experience with Linux, networking, server, and cloud architectures.
• Experience with CI/CD tools Azure DevOps, AWS cloud formation, Lamda functions, Jenkins, and Ansible
• Experience with AWS, Azure, or another cloud PaaS provider.
• Solid understanding of configuration, deployment, management, and maintenance of large cloud-hosted systems; including auto-scaling, monitoring, performance tuning, troubleshooting, and disaster recovery
• Proficiency with source control, continuous integration, and testing pipelines
  
• Effective communication skills

• Deploy and maintain critical applications on cloud-native microservices architecture.
• Implement automation, effective monitoring, and infrastructure-as-code.
• Deploy and maintain CI/CD pipelines across multiple environments.
• Streamline the software development lifecycle by identifying pain points and productivity barriers and determining ways to resolve them.
• Analyze how customers are using the platform and help drive continuous improvement.
• Support and work alongside a cross-functional engineering team on the latest technologies.
• Iterate on best practices to increase the quality & velocity of deployments.
• Sustain and improve the process of knowledge sharing throughout the engineering team
• Identification and prioritization of technical debt that risks instability or creates wasteful operational toil.
• Own daily operational goals with the team.

About the company:

Tathastu, the next-generation innovation labs is Future Group’s initiative to provide a new-age retail experience - combining the physical with digital and enhancing it with data. We are creating next-generation consumer interactions by combining AI/ML, Data Science, and emerging technologies with consumer platforms.

The E-Commerce vertical under Tathastu has developed online consumer platforms for Future Group’s portfolio of retail brands -Easy day, Big Bazaar, Central, Brand factory, aLL, Clarks, Coverstory. Backed by our network of offline stores we have built a new retail platform that merges our Online & Offline retail streams. We use data to power all our decisions across our products and build internal tools to help us scale our impact with a small closely-knit team.

Our widespread store network, robust logistics, and technology capabilities have made it possible to launch a ‘2-Hour Delivery Promise’ on every product across fashion, food, FMCG, and home products for orders placed online through the Big Bazaar mobile app and portal. This makes Big Bazaar the first retailer in the country to offer instant home delivery on almost every consumer product ordered online.

Job Responsibilities:

• You’ll streamline and automate the software development and infrastructure management processes and play a crucial role in executing high-impact initiatives and continuously improving processes to increase the effectiveness of our platforms.
• You’ll translate complex use cases into discrete technical solutions in platform architecture, design and coding, functionality, usability, and optimization.
• You will drive automation in repetitive tasks, configuration management, and deliver comprehensive automated tests to debug/troubleshoot Cloud AWS-based systems and BigData applications.
• You’ll continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize the development and operational efficiency of the platforms.
• You’ll determine the metrics that will define technical and operational success and constantly track such metrics to fine-tune the technology stack of the organization.

Experience: 4 to 8 Yrs

Qualification: B.Tech / MCA

Required Skills:

• Experience with Linux/UNIX systems administration and Amazon Web Services (AWS).
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), Kubernetes and container orchestration, Web servers (Nginx, Apache), Application Servers(Tomcat,Node.js,..), document stores and relational databases (AWS RDS-MySQL).
• Site Reliability Engineering patterns and visibility /performance/availability monitoring (Cloudwatch, Prometheus)
• Background in and happy to work hands-on with technical troubleshooting and performance tuning.
• Supportive and collaborative personality - ability to influence and drive progress with your peers

Our Technology Stack:

• Docker/Kubernetes
• Cloud (AWS)
• Python/GoLang Programming
• Microservices
• Automation Tools

• Have 3+ years of experience in Python development
• Be familiar with common database access patterns
• Have experience with designing systems and monitoring metrics, looking at graphs.
• Have knowledge of AWS, Kubernetes and Docker.
• Be able to work well in a remote development environment.
• Be able to communicate in English at a native speaking and writing level.
• Be responsible to your fellow remote team members.
• Be highly communicative and go out of your way to contribute to the team and help others

• Provide consultation and review all outgoing critical customer communications.
• Apply DevOps thinking in bringing the development and IT Ops process, people, and tools together within the company in order to increase the speed, efficiency, and quality.
• Perform architecture and security reviews for different projects, work with leads to develop strategy and roadmap for the client requirements. Involve in designing of the overall architecture of the system with another leads/architect.
• Develop and grow engineers in DevOps technology to meet the incoming requirements from the business team.
• Work with senior technical team to bring in new technologies/tools being used within the company. Develop and promote best practices and emerging concepts for DevSecOps and secure CI/CD. Participate in Solution Strategy, innovation areas, and technology roadmap.

Key Skills:

• Deals positively with high levels of uncertainty, ambiguity, and shifting priorities.
• Ability to influence stakeholders as a trusted advisor across all levels, including teams outside of shared services.
• Ability to think outside of the box and be innovative by keeping abreast of new trends, identifying opportunities to bring in change for business benefit.
• Implementing CI (Continuous Integration) and CD (Continuous Deployment). Have Good exposure to CI & Build Management tools like Jenkins Azure DevOps GitHub Actions Maven Gradle and etc
• Deployment and provisioning tools (Chef/Ansible/Terraform/AWS CDK etc)
• Docker Orchestration tools like Kubernetes/Swarm etc
• Good hands-on knowledge of automation scripting Python Shell Ruby etc
• Version Control for Source Code Management (SCM) tool: GIT/Bitbucket and etc
• Expertise in Linux based systems like Unix Linux Ubuntu and also manage security systems Linux file system permission etc
• Container Orchestration tool: Kubernetes Swarm Meso Marathon Docker Writing Docker file Docker compose
• Expertise in managing Cloud resources and good exposure to Docker
• Public/Private/Hybrid cloud: AWS /Microsoft Azure/ Google Cloud Platform etc
• Extensive experience with cloud services elastic capacity administration and cloud deployment and migration.
• Good to have knowledge of tools like Splunk, New Relic, PagerDuty, VictorOps
• Familiarity with Network protocols and elements - TCP/IP HTTP(S) SSL DNS Firewall router load balancers proxy.
• Excellent in creating new and improve existing workflows within the agile software development lifecycle.
• Familiar with incident and change management processes.
• Ability to effectively priorities work with fast-changing requirements.
• Troubleshoot and debug infrastructure Network and operating system issues.
• Resolve complex issues in scenarios like resource consumptions server performance backup strategy Scaling.
• Investigate and perform Root Cause Analysis on users' reported issues and provide a workaround before implementing a final fix.
• Monitor servers and applications to ensure the smooth running of IT Architecture (Applications Services Schedulers Server Performance etc)

Design Skills:

• Interpret and implement the designs of others adhering to standards and guidelines
• Design solutions within their area of expertise using technologies that already exist within Tesco
• Understand the roadmaps for their area of Technology Design secure solutions
• Design solutions that can be consumed in a self-service manner by the engineering teams
• Understand the impact of technologies at an enterprise-scale innovation
• Demonstrate knowledge of the latest technology trends related to Infrastructure
• Understand how Industry trends impact their own area
• identify opportunities to automate work and deliver against them

What you do :

• Developing automation for the various deployments core to our business
• Documenting run books for various processes / improving knowledge bases
• Identifying technical issues, communicating and recommending solutions
• Miscellaneous support (user account, VPN, network, etc)
• Develop continuous integration / deployment strategies
• Production systems deployment/monitoring/optimization

• Management of staging/development environments

What you know :

• Ability to work with a wide variety of open source technologies and tools
• Ability to code/script (Python, Ruby, Bash)
• Experience with systems and IT operations
• Comfortable with frequent incremental code testing and deployment
• Strong grasp of automation tools (Chef, Packer, Ansible, or others)
• Experience with cloud infrastructure and bare-metal systems
• Experience optimizing infrastructure for high availability and low latencies
• Experience with instrumenting systems for monitoring and reporting purposes
• Well versed in software configuration management systems (git, others)
• Experience with cloud providers (AWS or other) and tailoring apps for cloud deployment

• Data management skills

Education :

• Degree in Computer Engineering or Computer Science
• 1-3 years of equivalent experience in DevOps roles.
• Work conducted is focused on business outcomes
• Can work in an environment with a high level of autonomy (at the individual and team level)

• Comfortable working in an open, collaborative environment, reaching across functional.

Our Offering :

• True start-up experience - no bureaucracy and a ton of tough decisions that have a real impact on the business from day one.

• The camaraderie of an amazingly talented team that is working tirelessly to build a great OS for India and surrounding markets.

Perks :

• Awesome benefits, social gatherings, etc.
• Work with intelligent, fun and interesting people in a dynamic start-up environment.