DevOps Engineer-SDE III

REVIEW CRITERIA:

MANDATORY:

• Strong Senior/Lead DevOps Engineer Profile
• Must have 8+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps engineering, with a strong focus on AWS cloud infrastructure and services (EC2, VPC, EKS, RDS, Lambda, CloudFront, etc.).
• Must have strong system administration expertise (installation, tuning, troubleshooting, security hardening)
• Must have solid experience in CI/CD pipeline setup and automation using tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or similar
• Must have hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible
• Must have strong database expertise across MongoDB and Snowflake (administration, performance optimization, integrations)
• Must have experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, CloudWatch, or Datadog
• Must have good exposure to containerization and orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes (EKS)
• Must be currently working in an AWS-based environment (AWS experience must be in the current organization)
• Its an IC role

PREFERRED:

• Must be proficient in scripting languages (Bash, Python) for automation and operational tasks.
• Must have strong understanding of security best practices, IAM, WAF, and GuardDuty configurations.
• Exposure to DevSecOps and end-to-end automation of deployments, provisioning, and monitoring.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.
• Candidates from NCR region only (No outstation candidates).

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior DevOps Engineer with 8+ years of hands-on experience in designing, automating, and optimizing cloud-native solutions on AWS. AWS and Linux expertise are mandatory. The ideal candidate will have strong experience across databases, automation, CI/CD, containers, and observability, with the ability to build and scale secure, reliable cloud environments.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Cloud & Infrastructure as Code (IaC)-

• Architect and manage AWS environments ensuring scalability, security, and high availability.
• Implement infrastructure automation using Terraform, CloudFormation, and Ansible.
• Configure VPC Peering, Transit Gateway, and PrivateLink/Connect for advanced networking.

CI/CD & Automation:

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub, SonarQube, automated testing).
• Automate deployments, provisioning, and monitoring across environments.

Containers & Orchestration:

• Deploy and operate workloads on Docker and Kubernetes (EKS).
• Implement IAM Roles for Service Accounts (IRSA) for secure pod-level access.
• Optimize performance of containerized and microservices applications.

Monitoring & Reliability:

• Implement observability with Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, CloudWatch, M/Monit, and Datadog.
• Establish logging, alerting, and proactive monitoring for high availability.

Security & Compliance:

• Apply AWS security best practices including IAM, IRSA, SSO, and role-based access control.
• Manage WAF, Guard Duty, Inspector, and other AWS-native security tools.
• Configure VPNs, firewalls, and secure access policies and AWS organizations.

Databases & Analytics:

• Must have expertise in MongoDB, Snowflake, Aerospike, RDS, PostgreSQL, MySQL/MariaDB, and other RDBMS.
• Manage data reliability, performance tuning, and cloud-native integrations.
• Experience with Apache Airflow and Spark.

IDEAL CANDIDATE:

• 8+ years in DevOps engineering, with strong AWS Cloud expertise (EC2, VPC, TG, RDS, S3, IAM, EKS, EMR, SCP, MWAA, Lambda, CloudFront, SNS, SES etc.).
• Linux expertise is mandatory (system administration, tuning, troubleshooting, CIS hardening etc).
• Strong knowledge of databases: MongoDB, Snowflake, Aerospike, RDS, PostgreSQL, MySQL/MariaDB, and other RDBMS.
• Hands-on with Docker, Kubernetes (EKS), Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible.
• Proven ability with CI/CD pipeline automation and DevSecOps practices.
• Practical experience with VPC Peering, Transit Gateway, WAF, Guard Duty, Inspector and advanced AWS networking and security tools.
• Expertise in observability tools: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, CloudWatch, M/Monit, and Datadog.
• Strong scripting skills (Shell/bash, Python, or similar) for automation.
• Bachelor / Master’s degree
• Effective communication skills

PERKS, BENEFITS AND WORK CULTURE:

• Competitive Salary Package
• Generous Leave Policy
• Flexible Working Hours
• Performance-Based Bonuses
• Health Care Benefits

Responsibilities:

- Design, implement, and maintain cloud infrastructure solutions on Microsoft Azure, with a focus on scalability, security, and cost optimization.

- Collaborate with development teams to streamline the deployment process, ensuring smooth and efficient delivery of software applications.

- Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines using tools like Azure DevOps, Jenkins, or GitLab CI to automate build, test, and deployment processes.

- Utilize infrastructure-as-code (IaC) principles to create and manage infrastructure deployments using Terraform, ARM templates, or similar tools.

- Manage and monitor containerized applications using Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) or other container orchestration platforms.

- Implement and maintain monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions for cloud-based infrastructure and applications.

- Troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure and deployment issues, working closely with development and operations teams.

- Ensure high availability, performance, and security of cloud infrastructure and applications.

- Stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends and best practices in cloud infrastructure, DevOps, and automation.

Requirements:

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent work experience).

- Minimum of four years of proven experience working as a DevOps Engineer or similar role, with a focus on cloud infrastructure and deployment automation.

- Strong expertise in Microsoft Azure services, including but not limited to Azure Virtual Machines, Azure App Service, Azure Storage, Azure Networking, Azure Security, and Azure Monitor.

- Proficiency in infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools such as Terraform or ARM templates.

- Hands-on experience with containerization and orchestration platforms, preferably Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) or Docker Swarm.

- Solid understanding of CI/CD principles and experience with relevant tools such as Azure DevOps, Jenkins, or GitLab CI.

- Experience with scripting languages like PowerShell, Bash, or Python for automation tasks.

- Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills with a proactive and analytical mindset.

- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a team environment.

- Azure certifications (e.g., Azure Administrator, Azure DevOps Engineer, Azure Solutions Architect) are a plus.

Type, Location

Full Time @ Anywhere in India

Desired Experience

2+ years

Job Description

What You’ll Do

● Deploy, automate and maintain web-scale infrastructure with leading public cloud vendors such as Amazon Web Services, Digital Ocean & Google Cloud Platform.

● Take charge of DevOps activities for CI/CD with the latest tech stacks.

● Acquire industry-recognized, professional cloud certifications (AWS/Google) in the capacity of developer or architect Devise multi-region technical solutions.

● Implementing the DevOps philosophy and strategy across different domains in organisation.

● Build automation at various levels, including code deployment to streamline release process

● Will be responsible for architecture of cloud services

● 24*7 monitoring of the infrastructure

● Use programming/scripting in your day-to-day work

● Have shell experience - for example Powershell on Windows, or BASH on *nix

● Use a Version Control System, preferably git

● Hands on at least one CLI/SDK/API of at least one public cloud ( GCP, AWS, DO)

● Scalability, HA and troubleshooting of web-scale applications.

● Infrastructure-As-Code tools like Terraform, CloudFormation

● CI/CD systems such as Jenkins, CircleCI

● Container technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift

● Monitoring and alerting systems: e.g. NewRelic, AWS CloudWatch, Google StackDriver, Graphite, Nagios/ICINGA

What you bring to the table

● Hands on experience in Cloud compute services, Cloud Function, Networking, Load balancing, Autoscaling.

● Hands on with GCP/AWS Compute & Networking services i.e. Compute Engine, App Engine, Kubernetes Engine, Cloud Function, Networking (VPC, Firewall, Load Balancer), Cloud SQL, Datastore.

● DBs: Postgresql, MySQL, Elastic Search, Redis, kafka, MongoDB or other NoSQL systems

● Configuration management tools such as Ansible/Chef/Puppet

Bonus if you have…

● Basic understanding of Networking(routing, switching, dns) and Storage

● Basic understanding of Protocol such as UDP/TCP

● Basic understanding of Cloud computing

● Basic understanding of Cloud computing models like SaaS, PaaS

● Basic understanding of git or any other source code repo

● Basic understanding of Databases(sql/no sql)

● Great problem solving skills

● Good in communication

● Adaptive to learning

DevOps Engineer (Automation) 

ABOUT US

Established in 2009, Ashnik is a leading open-source solutions and consulting company in South East Asia and India, headquartered in Singapore. We enable digital transformation for large enterprises through our design, architecting, and solution skills. Over 100 large enterprises in the region have acknowledged our expertise in delivering solutions using key open-source technologies. Our offerings form critical part of Digital transformation, Big Data platform, Cloud and Web acceleration and IT modernization. We represent EDB, Pentaho, Docker, Couchbase, MongoDB, Elastic, NGINX, Sysdig, Redis Labs, Confluent, and HashiCorp as their key partners in the region. Our team members bring decades of experience in delivering confidence to enterprises in adopting open source software and are known for their thought leadership.

LOCATION:  Mumbai

THE POSITION

Ashnik is looking for talented and passionate Technical consultant to be part of the training team and work with customers on DevOps Solution. You will be responsible for implementation and consultations related work for customers across SEA and India. We are looking for personnel with personal qualities like -

• Passion for working for different customers and different environments.
• Excellent communication and articulation skills
• Aptitude for learning new technology and willingness to understand technologies which he/she is not directly working on.
• Willingness to travel within and outside the country.
• Ability to independently work at the customer site and navigate through different teams.

RESPONSIBILITIES

                     First 2 months:

• Get an in-depth understanding of Containers, Kubernetes, CI/CD, IaC.
• Get hands-on experience with various technologies of Mirantis Kubernetes Engine, Terraform, Vault, Sysdig

After 2 months: The ideal candidate can will ensure the following outcomes from every client deployment:

• Utilize various open source technologies and tools to orchestrate solutions.
• Write scripts and automation using Perl/Python/Groovy/Java/Bash
• Build independent tools and solutions to effectively scale the infrastructure.
• Will be involved in automation using CI/CD/DevOps concepts.
• Be able to document procedures for building and deploying.
• Build independent tools and solutions to effectively scale the infrastructure.
• Work on a cloud-based infrastructure spanning Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure
• Work with pre-sales and sales team to help customers during their evaluation of Terraform, Vault and other open source technologies.
• Conduct workshops for customers as needed for technical hand-holding and technical handover.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Graduate/Post Graduate in any technology.
• Hands on experience in Terraform, AWS Cloud Formation, Ansible, Jenkins, Docker, Git, Jira etc
• Hands on experience at least in one scripting language like Perl/Python/Groovy/Bash
• Knowledge of Java/JVM based languages.
• Experience in Jenkins maintenance and scalability, designing and implementing advanced automation pipelines with Jenkins.
• Experience with a repository manager like JFrog Artifactory
• Strong background in git, Github/Bitbucket, and code branching/merging strategies
• Ability to understand and make trade-offs among different DevOps tools.

ADDITIONAL SKILLS

• Experience with Kubernetes, AWS, Google Cloud and/or Azure is a strong plus
• Some experience with secrets/key management preferably with HashiCorp Vault
• Experience using monitoring solutions, i.e. Datadog, Prometheus, ELK Stack, NewRelic, Nagios etc

• 7-10 years experience with secure SDLC/DevSecOps practices such as automating security processes within CI/CD pipeline.
• At least 4 yrs. experience designing, and securing Data Lake & Web applications deployed to AWS, Azure, Scripting/Automation skills on Python, Shell, YAML, JSON
• At least 4 years of hands-on experience with software development lifecycle, Agile project management (e.g. Jira, Confluence), source code management (e.g. Git), build automation (e.g. Jenkins), code linting and code quality (e.g. SonarQube), test automation (e.g. Selenium)
• Hand-on & Solid understanding of Amazon Web Services & Azure-based Infra & applications
• Experience writing cloud formation templates, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Docker, and microservice application architecture and deployment.
• Strong know-how on VA/PT integration in CI/CD pipeline.
• Experience in handling financial solutions & customer-facing applications

Roles

• Accelerate enterprise cloud adoption while enabling rapid and stable delivery of capabilities using continuous integration and continuous deployment principles, methodologies, and technologies
• Manage & deliver diverse cloud [AWS, Azure, GCP] DevSecOps journeys
• Identify, prototype, engineer, and deploy emerging software engineering methodologies and tools
• Maximize automation and enhance DevSecOps pipelines and other tasks
• Define and promote enterprise software engineering and DevSecOps standards, practices, and behaviors
• Operate and support a suite of enterprise DevSecOps services
• Implement security automation to decrease the loop between the development and deployment processes.
• Support project teams to adopt & integrate the DevSecOps environment
• Managing application vulnerabilities, Data security, encryption, tokenization, access management, Secure SDLC, SAST/DAST
• Coordinate with development and operations teams for practical automation solutions and custom flows.
• Own DevSecOps initiatives by providing objective, practical and relevant ideas, insights, and advice.
• Act as Release gatekeeper with an understanding of OWASP top 10 lists of vulnerabilities, NIST SP-800-xx, NVD, CVSS scoring, etc concepts
• Build workflows to ensure a successful DevSecOps journey for various enterprise applications. 
• Understand the strategic direction to reach business goals across multiple projects & teams
• Collaborate with development teams to understand project deliverables and promote DevSecOps culture
• Formulate & deploy cloud automation strategies and tools

Skills

• Knowledge of the DevSecOps culture and principles.
• An understanding of cloud technologies & components
• A flair for programming languages such as Shell, Python, Java Scripts,
• Strong teamwork and communication skills.
• Knowledge of threat modeling and risk assessment techniques.
• Up-to-date knowledge of cybersecurity threats, current best practices, and the latest software.
• An understanding of programs such as Puppet, Chef, ThreatModeler, Checkmarx, Immunio, and Aqua.
• Strong know-how of Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, Azure-based deployments
• On the job learning for new programming languages, automation tools, deployment architectures

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