DevOps Engineer

Job Title: Senior DevOps Engineer

Location: Gurgaon – Sector 39

Work Mode: 5 Days Onsite

Experience: 5+ Years

About the Role

We are looking for an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to build, manage, and maintain highly reliable, scalable, and secure infrastructure. The role involves deploying product updates, handling production issues, implementing customer integrations, and leading DevOps best practices across teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage and maintain production-grade infrastructure ensuring high availability and performance.
• Deploy application updates, patches, and bug fixes across environments.
• Handle Level-2 support and resolve escalated production issues.
• Perform root cause analysis and implement preventive solutions.
• Build automation tools and scripts to improve system reliability and efficiency.
• Develop monitoring, logging, alerting, and reporting systems.
• Ensure secure deployments following data encryption and cybersecurity best practices.
• Collaborate with development, product, and QA teams for smooth releases.
• Lead and mentor a small DevOps team (3–4 engineers).

Core Focus Areas

Server Setup & Management (60%)

• Hands-on management of bare-metal servers.
• Server provisioning, configuration, and lifecycle management.
• Network configuration including redundancy, bonding, and performance tuning.

Queue Systems – Kafka / RabbitMQ (15%)

• Implementation and management of message queues for distributed systems.

Storage Systems – SAN / NAS (15%)

• Setup and management of enterprise storage systems.
• Ensure backup, recovery, and data availability.

Database Knowledge (5%)

• Working experience with Redis, MySQL/PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch.
• Basic database administration and performance tuning.

Telecom Exposure (Good to Have – 5%)

• Experience with SMS, voice systems, or real-time data processing environments.

Technical Skills Required

• Linux administration & Shell scripting
• CI/CD tools – Jenkins
• Git (GitHub / SVN) and branching strategies
• Docker & Kubernetes
• AWS cloud services
• Ansible for configuration management
• Databases: MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB
• Web servers: Apache, Tomcat
• Load balancing & HA: HAProxy, Keepalived
• Monitoring tools: Nagios and related observability stacks

About MyOperator

MyOperator is a Business AI Operator, a category leader that unifies WhatsApp, Calls, and AI-powered chat & voice bots into one intelligent business communication platform. Unlike fragmented communication tools, MyOperator combines automation, intelligence, and workflow integration to help businesses run WhatsApp campaigns, manage calls, deploy AI chatbots, and track performance — all from a single, no-code platform. Trusted by 12,000+ brands including Amazon, Domino's, Apollo, and Razorpay, MyOperator enables faster responses, higher resolution rates, and scalable customer engagement — without fragmented tools or increased headcount.

Job Summary

We are looking for a skilled and motivated DevOps Engineer with 3+ years of hands-on experience in AWS cloud infrastructure, CI/CD automation, and Kubernetes-based deployments. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in Infrastructure as Code, containerization, monitoring, and automation, and will play a key role in ensuring high availability, scalability, and security of production systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, manage, and maintain AWS cloud infrastructure, including EC2, RDS, OpenSearch, VPC, S3, ALB, API Gateway, Lambda, SNS, and SQS.
• Build, manage, and operate Kubernetes (EKS) clusters and containerized workloads.
• Containerize applications using Docker and manage deployments with Helm charts
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins for automated build and deployment processes
• Provision and manage infrastructure using Terraform (Infrastructure as Code)
• Implement and manage monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions using Prometheus and Grafana
• Write and maintain Python scripts for automation, monitoring, and operational tasks
• Ensure high availability, scalability, performance, and cost optimization of cloud resources
• Implement and follow security best practices across AWS and Kubernetes environments
• Troubleshoot production issues, perform root cause analysis, and support incident resolution
• Collaborate closely with development and QA teams to streamline deployment and release processes

Required Skills & Qualifications

• 3+ years of hands-on experience as a DevOps Engineer or Cloud Engineer.
• Strong experience with AWS services, including:
• EC2, RDS, OpenSearch, VPC, S3
• Application Load Balancer (ALB), API Gateway, Lambda
• SNS and SQS.
• Hands-on experience with AWS EKS (Kubernetes)
• Strong knowledge of Docker and Helm charts
• Experience with Terraform for infrastructure provisioning and management
• Solid experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins
• Practical experience with Prometheus and Grafana for monitoring and alerting
• Proficiency in Python scripting for automation and operational tasks
• Good understanding of Linux systems, networking concepts, and cloud security
• Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills

Good to Have (Preferred Skills)

• Exposure to GitOps practices
• Experience managing multi-environment setups (Dev, QA, UAT, Production)
• Knowledge of cloud cost optimization techniques
• Understanding of Kubernetes security best practices
• Experience with log aggregation tools (e.g., ELK/OpenSearch stack)

Language Preference

• Fluency in English is mandatory.
• Fluency in Hindi is preferred.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• AWS Cloud Management: Design, deploy, and manage AWS cloud infrastructure. Optimize and maintain cloud resources for performance and cost efficiency. Monitor and ensure the security of cloud-based systems.
• Automated Provisioning: Develop and implement automated provisioning processes for infrastructure deployment. Utilize tools like Terraform and Packer to automate and streamline the provisioning of resources.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Champion the use of Infrastructure as Code principles. Collaborate with development and operations teams to define and maintain IaC scripts for infrastructure deployment and configuration.
• Collaboration and Communication: Work closely with cross-functional teams to understand project requirements and provide DevOps expertise. Communicate effectively with team members and stakeholders regarding infrastructure changes, updates, and improvements.
• Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD): Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate software delivery processes. Ensure reliable and efficient deployment of applications through the development lifecycle.
• Performance Monitoring and Optimization: Implement monitoring solutions to track system performance, troubleshoot issues, and optimize resource utilization. Proactively identify opportunities for system and process improvements. 

Mandatory Skills:

• Proven experience as a DevOps Engineer or similar role, with a focus on AWS.
• Strong proficiency in automated provisioning and cloud management.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools, particularly Terraform and Packer.
• Solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines and version control systems.
• Strong scripting skills (e.g., Python, Bash) for automation tasks.
• Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
• Good interpersonal and communication skills for effective collaboration.

Secondary Skills:

• AWS certifications (e.g., AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, AWS Certified Solutions Architect).
• Experience with containerization and orchestration tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
• Knowledge of microservices architecture and serverless computing.
• Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools (e.g., CloudWatch, ELK stack).

• Seeking an Individual carrying around 5+ yrs of experience.
• Must have skills - Jenkins, Groovy, Ansible, Shell Scripting, Python, Linux Admin
• Terraform, AWS deep knowledge to automate and provision EC2, EBS, SQL Server, cost optimization, CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins, Server less automation is plus.
• Excellent writing and communication skills in English. Enjoy writing crisp and understandable documentation
• Comfortable programming in one or more scripting languages
• Enjoys tinkering with tooling. Find easier ways to handle systems by doing some research. Strong awareness around build vs buy.

Why LiftOff? 

We at LiftOff specialize in product creation, for our main forte lies in helping Entrepreneurs realize their dream. We have helped businesses and entrepreneurs launch more than 70 plus products.

Many on the team are serial entrepreneurs with a history of successful exits.

As a Devops Engineer, you will work directly with our founders and alongside our engineers on a variety of software projects covering various languages, frameworks, and application architectures.

Must Have 

*Work experience of at least 2 years with Kubernetes.

*Hands-on experience working with Kubernetes. Preferably on Azure Cloud.

*Well-versed with Kubectl

*Experience in using Azure Monitor, setting up analytics and reports for Azure containers and services.

*Monitoring and observability

*Setting Alerts and auto-scaling

Nice to have

*Scripting and automation

*Experience with Jenkins or any sort of CI/CD pipelines

*Past experience in setting up cloud infrastructure, configurations and database backups

*Experience with Azure App Service

*Experience of setting up web socket-based applications.

*Working knowledge of Azure APIM

We are a group of passionate people driven by core values. We strive to make every process transparent and have flexible work timings along with excellent startup culture and vibe.

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. 

• Expertise in Infrastructure & Application design & architecture
• Expertise in AWS, OS & networking
• Having good exposure on Infra & Application security
• Expertise in Python, Shell scripting
• Proficient with Devops tools Terraform, Jenkins, Ansible, Docker, GIT
• Solid background in systems engineering and operations
• Strong in Devops methodologies and processes
• Strong in CI/CD pipeline & SDLC.