DevOps Engineer

Job Title: AWS Devops Engineer – Manager Business solutions

Location: Gurgaon, India

Experience Required: 8-12 years

Industry: IT

We are looking for a seasoned AWS DevOps Engineer with robust experience in AWS middleware services and MongoDB Cloud Infrastructure Management. The role involves designing, deploying, and maintaining secure, scalable, and high-availability infrastructure, along with developing efficient CI/CD pipelines and automating operational processes.

Key Deliverables (Essential functions & Responsibilities of the Job):

·         Design, deploy, and manage AWS infrastructure, with a focus on middleware services such as API Gateway, Lambda, SQS, SNS, ECS, and EKS.

·         Administer and optimize MongoDB Atlas or equivalent cloud-based MongoDB solutions for high availability, security, and performance.

·         Develop, manage, and enhance CI/CD pipelines using tools like AWS CodePipeline, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, or Bitbucket Pipelines.

·         Automate infrastructure provisioning using Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or AWS CDK.

·         Implement monitoring and logging solutions using CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, or the ELK Stack.

·         Enforce cloud security best practices — IAM, VPC setups, encryption, certificate management, and compliance controls.

·         Work closely with development teams to improve application reliability, scalability, and performance.

·         Manage containerized environments using Docker, Kubernetes (EKS), or AWS ECS.

·         Perform MongoDB administration tasks such as backups, performance tuning, indexing, and sharding.

·         Participate in on-call rotations to ensure 24/7 infrastructure availability and quick incident resolution.

Knowledge Skills and Abilities:

·         7+ years of hands-on AWS DevOps experience, especially with middleware services.

·         Strong expertise in MongoDB Atlas or other cloud MongoDB services.

·         Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, or AWS CDK.

·         Solid experience with CI/CD tools: Jenkins, CodePipeline, GitHub Actions, GitLab, Bitbucket, etc.

·         Excellent scripting skills in Python, Bash, or PowerShell.

·         Experience in containerization and orchestration: Docker, EKS, ECS.

·         Familiarity with monitoring tools like CloudWatch, ELK, Prometheus, Grafana.

·         Strong understanding of AWS networking and security: IAM, VPC, KMS, Security Groups.

·         Ability to solve complex problems and thrive in a fast-paced environment.

Preferred Qualifications

·         AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional or AWS Solutions Architect – Associate/Professional.

·         MongoDB Certified DBA or Developer.

·         Experience with serverless services like AWS Lambda, Step Functions.

·         Exposure to multi-cloud or hybrid cloud environments.

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Email: etalenthire[at]gmail[dot]com

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About GradRight

Our vision is to be the world’s leading Ed-Fin Tech company dedicated to making higher education accessible and affordable to all. Our mission is to drive transparency and accountability in the global higher education sector and create significant impact using the power of technology, data science and collaboration.

GradRight is the world’s first SaaS ecosystem that brings together students, universities and financial institutions in an integrated manner. It enables students to find and fund high return college education, universities to engage and select the best-fit students and banks to lend in an effective and efficient manner.

In the last three years, we have enabled students to get the best deals on a $ 2.8+ Billion of loan requests and facilitated disbursements of more than $ 350+ Million in loans. GradRight won the HSBC Fintech Innovation Challenge supported by the Ministry of Electronics & IT, Government of India & was among the top 7 global finalists in The PIEoneer awards, UK.

GradRight’s team possesses extensive domestic and international experience in the launch and scale-up of premier higher education institutions. It is led by alumni of IIT Delhi, BITS Pilani, IIT Roorkee, ISB Hyderabad and University of Pennsylvania. GradRight is a Delaware, USA registered company with a wholly owned subsidiary in India. 

About the Role

We are looking for a passionate DevOps Engineer with hands-on experience in AWS cloud infrastructure, containerization, and orchestration. The ideal candidate will be responsible for building, automating, and maintaining scalable cloud solutions, ensuring smooth CI/CD pipelines, and supporting development and operations teams.

Core Responsibilities

Design, implement, and manage scalable, secure, and highly available infrastructure on AWS.

Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, or GitHub Actions.

Containerize applications using Docker and manage deployments with Kubernetes (EKS, self-managed, or other distributions).

Monitor system performance, availability, and security using tools like CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK stack.

Collaborate with development teams to optimize application performance and deployment processes.

Required Skills & Experience

3–4 years of professional experience as a DevOps Engineer or similar role.

Strong expertise in AWS services (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, EKS, etc.).

Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes (EKS or self-hosted clusters).

Proficiency in CI/CD pipeline design and automation.

Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform / AWS CloudFormation).

Solid understanding of Linux/Unix systems and shell scripting.

Knowledge of monitoring, logging, and alerting tools.

Familiarity with networking concepts (DNS, Load Balancing, Security Groups, Firewalls).

Basic programming/scripting experience in Python, Bash, or Go.

Nice to Have

Exposure to microservices architecture and service mesh (Istio/Linkerd).

Knowledge of serverless (AWS Lambda, API Gateway).

Requirements

• 3+ years work experience writing clean production code
• Well versed with maintaining infrastructure as code (Terraform, Cloudformation etc). High proficiency with Terraform / Terragrunt is absolutely critical
• Experience of setting CI/CD pipelines from scratch
• Experience with AWS(EC2, ECS, RDS, Elastic Cache etc), AWS lambda, Kubernetes, Docker, ServiceMesh
• Experience with ETL pipelines, Bigdata infra
• Understanding of common security issues

Roles / Responsibilities:

• Write terraform modules for deploying different component of infrastructure in AWS like Kubernetes, RDS, Prometheus, Grafana, Static Website
• Configure networking, autoscaling. continuous deployment, security and multiple environments
• Make sure the infrastructure is SOC2, ISO 27001 and HIPAA compliant
• Automate all the steps to provide a seamless experience to developers.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or a related field

• Experience in designing and maintaining high volume and scalable micro-services architecture on cloud infrastructure

• Knowledge in Linux/Unix Administration and Python/Shell Scripting

• Experience working with cloud platforms like AWS (EC2, ELB, S3, Auto-scaling, VPC, Lambda), GCP, Azure

• Knowledge in deployment automation, Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (Jenkins, Maven, Puppet, Chef, GitLab) and monitoring tools like Zabbix, Cloud Watch Monitoring, Nagios Knowledge of Java Virtual Machines, Apache Tomcat, Nginx, Apache Kafka, Microservices architecture, Caching mechanisms

• Experience in enterprise application development, maintenance and operations

• Knowledge of best practices and IT operations in an always-up, always-available service

• Excellent written and oral communication skills, judgment and decision-making skills

This person MUST have:

• B.E Computer Science or equivalent
• 2+ Years of hands-on experience troubleshooting/setting up of the Linux environment, who can write shell scripts for any given requirement.
• 1+ Years of hands-on experience setting up/configuring AWS or GCP services from SCRATCH and maintaining them.
• 1+ Years of hands-on experience setting up/configuring Kubernetes & EKS and ensuring high availability of container orchestration.
• 1+ Years of hands-on experience setting up CICD from SCRATCH in Jenkins & Gitlab.
• Experience configuring/maintaining one monitoring tool.
• Excellent verbal & written communication skills.
• Candidates with certifications - AWS, GCP, CKA, etc will be preferred
• Hands-on experience with databases (Cassandra, MongoDB, MySQL, RDS).

Experience:

• Min 3 years of experience as SRE automation engineer building, running, and maintaining production sites. Not looking for candidates who have experience only as L1/L2.

Location:

• Remotely, anywhere in India

Timings:

• The person is expected to deliver with both high speed and high quality as well as work for 40 Hours per week (~6.5 hours per day, 6 days per week) in shifts which will rotate every month.

Position:

• Full time/Direct
• We have great benefits such as PF, medical insurance, 12 annual company holidays, 12 PTO leaves per year, annual increments, Diwali bonus, spot bonuses and other incentives etc.
• We dont believe in locking in people with large notice periods.  You will stay here because you love the company.  We have only a 15 days notice period.

• Engineering in computer science
• 3-5 years of experience in setup and management of Kubernetes infrastructure
• Expert level skills in analytical & problem solving
• Ability to communicate clearly in English

• Microsoft Azure
• Kubernetes, AKS services as well as custom clusters on bare metal infrastructure
• Linux internals & services
• Docker, Docker Registry
• NGINX, Load Balancing, Firewall, Security, PKI
• Shell & Awk Script, Azure Templates & scripting, Python Scripting
• Knowledge of NoSQL Databases

About the Company

• 💰 Early-stage, ed-tech, funded, growing, growing fast
• 🎯 Mission Driven: Make Indonesia competitive on a global scale
• 🥅 Build the best educational content and technology to advance STEM education
• 🥇 Students-First approach
• 🇮🇩 🇮🇳 Teams in India and Indonesia

Skillset 🧗🏼‍♀️

• You primarily identify as a DevOps/Infrastructure engineer and are comfortable working with systems and cloud-native services on AWS
• You can design, implement, and maintain secure and scalable infrastructure delivering cloud-based services
• You have experience operating and maintaining production systems in a Linux based public cloud environment
• You are familiar with cloud-native concepts - Containers, Lambdas, Orchestration (ECS, Kubernetes)
• You’re in love with system metrics and strive to help deliver improvements to systems all the time
• You can think in terms of Infrastructure as Code to build tools for automating deployment, monitoring, and operations of the platform
• You can be on-call once every few weeks to provide application support, incident management, and troubleshooting
• You’re fairly comfortable with GIT, AWS CLI, python, docker CLI, in general, all things CLI. Oh! Bash scripting too!
• You have high integrity, and you are reliable

What you can expect from us 👌🏼

☮️ Mentorship, growth, great work culture

• Mentorship and continuous improvement are a part of the team’s DNA. We have a battle-tested robust growth framework. You will have people to look up to and people looking up to you
• We are a people-first, high-trust, high-autonomy team
• We live in the TDD, Pair Programming, First Principles world

🌏 Remote done right

• Distributed does not mean working in isolation, feeling alone, being buried in Zoom calls
• Our leadership team has been WFH for 10+ years now and we know how remote teams work. This will be a place to belong
• A good balance between deep focussed work and collaborative work ⚖️

🖥️ Friendly, humane interview process

• 30-minute alignment check and screening call
• A short take-home coding assignment, no more than 2-3 hours. Time is precious
• Pair programming interview. Collaborate, work together. No sitting behind a desk and judging
• In-depth engineering discussion around your skills and career so far
• System design and architecture interview for seniors

What we ask from you👇🏼

• Bring your software engineering — both individual brilliance and collaborative skills
• Bring your good nature — we're building a team that supports each other
• Be vested or interested in the company vision

We are looking for an experienced DevOps engineer that will help our team establish DevOps practice. You will work closely with the technical lead ( and/or CTO ) to identify and establish DevOps practices in the company.

You will help us build scalable, efficient cloud infrastructure. You’ll implement monitoring for automated system health checks. Lastly, you’ll build our CI pipeline, and train and guide the team in DevOps practices.

Responsibilities

• Implement and own the CI.
• Manage CD tooling.
• Implement and maintain monitoring and alerting.
• Build and maintain highly available production systems.

Qualification- B.tech in IT