DevOps Engineer

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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.

About the opportunity:

This role is with Sporty Group. CareersInCloud shares this opportunity to help professionals discover relevant technology careers.

Hiring Company: Sporty Group

Sporty Group is looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer to join its remote engineering team.

This role involves managing AWS cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes environments, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, automation, and improving system reliability.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage AWS infrastructure and cloud operations

• Maintain Kubernetes clusters and Docker environments

• Build and improve CI/CD pipelines

• Monitor production systems using Grafana, Prometheus, and CloudWatch

• Troubleshoot Linux, networking, and infrastructure issues

Requirements:

• 3+ years of DevOps experience

• Strong AWS and Kubernetes experience

• Experience with Docker, Linux, CI/CD tools

• Good understanding of cloud infrastructure and automation

Apply here:

https://careersincloud.com/jobs/sporty-group-hiring-devops-engineer-remote-experienced

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

• Job Title - DevOps Engineer

• Reports Into - Lead DevOps Engineer

• Location - India

A Little Bit about Kwalee….

Kwalee is one of the world’s leading multiplatform game developers and publishers, with well over 900 million downloads worldwide for mobile hits such as Draw It, Teacher Simulator, Let’s Be Cops 3D, Airport Security and Makeover Studio 3D. We also have a growing PC and Console team of incredible pedigree that is on the hunt for great new titles to join TENS!, Eternal Hope, Die by the Blade and Scathe.

What’s In It For You?

• Hybrid working - 3 days in the office, 2 days remote/ WFH is the norm

• Flexible working hours - we trust you to choose how and when you work best

• Profit sharing scheme - we win, you win 

• Private medical cover - delivered through BUPA

• Life Assurance - for long term peace of mind

• On site gym - take care of yourself

• Relocation support - available

• Quarterly Team Building days - we’ve done Paintballing, Go Karting & even Robot Wars

• Pitch and make your own games on https://www.kwalee.com/blog/inside-kwalee/what-are-creative-wednesdays/">Creative Wednesdays! 

Are You Up To The Challenge?

As a DevOps Engineer you have a passion for automation, security and building reliable expandable systems. You develop scripts and tools to automate deployment tasks and monitor critical aspects of the operation, resolve engineering problems and incidents. Collaborate with architects and developers to help create platforms for the future.

Your Team Mates

The DevOps team works closely with game developers, front-end and back-end server developers making, updating and monitoring application stacks in the cloud.Each team member has specific responsibilities with their own projects to manage and bring their own ideas to how the projects should work.  Everyone strives for the most efficient, secure and automated delivery of application code and supporting infrastructure.

What Does The Job Actually Involve?

• Find ways to automate tasks and monitoring systems to continuously  improve our systems.

• Develop scripts and tools to make our infrastructure resilient and efficient.

• Understand our applications and services and keep them running smoothly.

Your Hard Skills

• Minimum 1 years of experience on a dev ops engineering role

• Deep experience with Linux and Unix systems

• Networking basics knowledge (named, nginx, etc)

• Some coding experience  (Python, Ruby, Perl, etc.)

• Experience with common automation tools (Ex. Chef, Terraform, etc)

• AWS experience is a plus

• A creative mindset motivated by challenges and constantly striving for the best 

Your Soft Skills

Kwalee has grown fast in recent years but we’re very much a family of colleagues. We welcome people of all ages, races, colours, beliefs, sexual orientations, genders and circumstances, and all we ask is that you collaborate, work hard, ask questions and have fun with your team and colleagues. 

We don’t like egos or arrogance and we love playing games and celebrating success together. If that sounds like you, then please apply.

A Little More About Kwalee

Founded in 2011 by David Darling CBE, a key architect of the UK games industry who previously co-founded and led Codemasters, our team also includes legends such as Andrew Graham (creator of Micro Machines series) and Jason Falcus (programmer of classics including NBA Jam) alongside a growing and diverse team of global gaming experts.

Everyone contributes creatively to Kwalee’s success, with all employees eligible to pitch their own game ideas on Creative Wednesdays, and we’re proud to have built our success on this inclusive principle.

We have an amazing team of experts collaborating daily between our studios in Leamington Spa, Lisbon, Bangalore and Beijing, or on a remote basis from Turkey, Brazil, Cyprus, the Philippines and many more places around the world. We’ve recently acquired our first external studio, TicTales, which is based in France. 

We have a truly global team making games for a global audience, and it’s paying off: - Kwalee has been voted the Best Large Studio and Best Leadership Team at the TIGA Awards (Independent Game Developers’ Association) and our games have been downloaded in every country on earth - including Antarctica!

Striim (pronounced “stream” with two i’s for integration and intelligence) was founded in 2012 with a simple goal of helping companies make data useful the instant it’s born.

Striim’s enterprise-grade, streaming integration with intelligence platform makes it easy to build continuous, streaming data pipelines – including change data capture (CDC) – to power real-time cloud integration, log correlation, edge processing, and streaming analytics

2 - 5 Years of Experience in any Programming any language (Polyglot Preferred ) & System Operations • Awareness of Devops & Agile Methodologies • Proficient in leveraging CI and CD tools to automate testing and deployment . • Experience in working in an agile and fast paced environment . • Hands on knowledge of at least one cloud platform (AWS / GCP / Azure). • Cloud networking knowledge: should understand VPC, NATs, and routers. • Contributions to open source is a plus. • Good written communication skills are a must. Contributions to technical blogs / whitepapers will be an added advantage.

Responsibilities

- Building and maintenance of resilient and scalable production infrastructure 

Improvement of monitoring systems

- Improvement of monitoring systems

- Creation and support of development automation processes (CI / CD)

- Participation in infrastructure development 

- Detection of problems in architecture and proposing of solutions for solving them 

- Creation of tasks for system improvements for system scalability, performance and monitoring

- Analysis of product requirements in the aspect of devops

- Incident analysis and fixing

Skills and Experience

- Understanding of the distributed systems principles 

- Understanding of principles for building a resistant network infrastructure 

- Experience of Ubuntu Linux administration (Debian-like will be a plus)

- Strong knowledge of Bash

- Experience of working with LXC-containers 

- Understanding and experience with infrastructure as a code approach 

- Experience of development idempotent Ansible roles

- Experience of working with git

Preferred experience

 Experience with relational databases (PostgeSQL), ability to create simple SQL queries 

- Experience with monitoring and metric collect systems (Prometheus, Grafana, Zabbix)

- Understanding of dynamic routing (OSPF) 

- Knowledge and experience of working with network equipment Cisco

- Experience of working with Cisco NX-OS

- Experience of working with IPsec, VXLAN, Open vSwitch

- Knowledge of principles of multicast protocols IGMP, PIM

- Experience of setting multicast on Cisco equipment

- Experience administering Atlassian products

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