DevOps - Kubernetes Engineer for Desktop and Cloud

REVIEW CRITERIA:

MANDATORY:

• Strong Hands-On AWS Cloud Engineering / DevOps Profile
• Mandatory (Experience 1): Must have 12+ years of experience in AWS Cloud Engineering / Cloud Operations / Application Support
• Mandatory (Experience 2): Must have strong hands-on experience supporting AWS production environments (EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, ALB, CloudWatch)
• Mandatory (Infrastructure as a code): Must have hands-on Infrastructure as Code experience using Terraform in production environments
• Mandatory (AWS Networking): Strong understanding of AWS networking and connectivity (VPC design, routing, NAT, load balancers, hybrid connectivity basics)
• Mandatory (Cost Optimization): Exposure to cost optimization and usage tracking in AWS environments
• Mandatory (Core Skills): Experience handling monitoring, alerts, incident management, and root cause analysis
• Mandatory (Soft Skills): Strong communication skills and stakeholder coordination skills

ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES:

We are looking for a hands-on AWS Cloud Engineer to support day-to-day cloud operations, automation, and reliability of AWS environments. This role works closely with the Cloud Operations Lead, DevOps, Security, and Application teams to ensure stable, secure, and cost-effective cloud platforms.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Operate and support AWS production environments across multiple accounts
• Manage infrastructure using Terraform and support CI/CD pipelines
• Support Amazon EKS clusters, upgrades, scaling, and troubleshooting
• Build and manage Docker images and push to Amazon ECR
• Monitor systems using CloudWatch and third-party tools; respond to incidents
• Support AWS networking (VPCs, NAT, Transit Gateway, VPN/DX)
• Assist with cost optimization, tagging, and governance standards
• Automate operational tasks using Python, Lambda, and Systems Manager

IDEAL CANDIDATE:

• Strong hands-on AWS experience (EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, ALB, CloudWatch)
• Experience with Terraform and Git-based workflows
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes / EKS
• Experience with CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, etc.)
• Scripting experience in Python or Bash
• Understanding of monitoring, incident management, and cloud security basics

NICE TO HAVE:

• AWS Associate-level certifications
• Experience with Karpenter, Prometheus, New Relic
• Exposure to FinOps and cost optimization practices

Job Description

Position Title: Senior System Engineer

Position Type: Full Time

Department: RSG

Reports to: First Level Manager, Indian Development Centre

Company Background:

Cglia is a software development company building highly available, highly secure, cloud-based enterprise software products that helps speed the research process resulting in new drugs, new devices, and new treatments to improve the health and wellbeing of world population.

At Cglia, our work shows our dedication and passion for innovative quality software products that are intuitive and easy to use and exceeds every aspect of customer expectations.

Cglia, is the place that develops world-class professionals who would like to be innovative, creative, learn continuously, and build a solid foundation to build products that are special and delight the customer.

Job Description:

The Senior System Engineer will have expertise in managing both Linux and Windows environments, along with hands-on experience in containerization technologies such as Kubernetes and Docker. Proficiency in Ansible for automation and configuration management is essential. This role is critical in ensuring the seamless operation, deployment, and maintenance of our IT infrastructure.

The ideal candidate has to oversee and participate with the installation, monitoring, maintenance, support, optimization and documentation of all network hardware and software. This includes managing multiple projects, planning network technology roadmaps and configuring/optimizing network services both internally and those integrated with Internet-based services

Job Responsibilities:

· Manage, maintain, and monitor Linux and Windows servers to ensure high availability and performance.

· Perform system upgrades, patches, and performance tuning for both operating systems and DBA servers.

· Deploy, manage, and troubleshoot containerized applications using Kubernetes and Docker.

· Design and implement Kubernetes clusters to ensure scalability, security, and reliability.

· Develop and maintain Ansible playbooks for automation of repetitive tasks, configuration management,

and system provisioning.

· Implement security best practices for both Linux and Windows environments.

· Set up and manage backup and disaster recovery solutions for critical systems and data.

· Work closely with development teams to support CI/CD pipelines and troubleshoot application issues.

· Manage VM Ware in a high availability environment with Disaster Recovery

· Good experience in RAID & Firewall

· Maintaining and managing SQL database server support

· Experience with scripting languages Unix/Shell, Bash or PowerShell

· Assist Quality Assurance with testing program changes, new releases or user documentation and support

new product release activities that include testing customer flows

· Must have the ability to work a flexible schedule and is required to participate in on-call rotation, which

includes different shift timings, weekends, and holidays

· Work across multiple time zones with remote team members

· Perform other duties as deemed necessary to provide quality service to the clients

Experience and Skills Required:

· Minimum 4+ years of experience in Linux and Windows administration

· 3 years of experience in VM Ware in a high availability environment with Disaster Recovery

· Good experience in RAID & Firewall

· 2+ years of experience in SQL database server support

· Ability to quickly acquire an in-depth knowledge of multiple custom applications

· Experience in setting up IT policies based on best practices and monitoring them

· Experience in shell scripting and automating tasks

· Experience in hardware and software monitoring tools

· Experience in administration and best practices for Apache and Tomcat

· Experience in handling Cisco router and firewall configurations and management

· Working knowledge on SQL Server, Oracle and other RDBMS databases

· Must be proactive and possess strong interpersonal, communication and organization skills

· Must possess excellent written and verbal presentation skills

· Must be self-motivated

· Certification in Linux/Windows administration is preferable.

Academics:

· Bachelor's / Master's degree (or equivalent) in computer science or related field or equivalent experience.

Job Responsibilities:

Section 1 -

- Responsible for managing and providing L1 support to Build, design, deploy and maintain the implementation of Cloud solutions on AWS.
- Implement, deploy and maintain development, staging & production environments on AWS.
- Familiar with serverless architecture and services on AWS like Lambda, Fargate, EBS, Glue, etc.
- Understanding of Infra as a code and familiar with related tools like Terraform, Ansible Cloudformation etc.

Section 2 -

- Managing the Windows and Linux machines, Kubernetes, Git, etc.
- Responsible for L1 management of Servers, Networks, Containers, Storage, and Databases services on AWS.

Section 3 -

- Timely monitoring of production workload alerts and quick addressing the issues
- Responsible for monitoring and maintaining the Backup and DR process.

Section 4 -

- Responsible for documenting the process.
- Responsible for leading cloud implementation projects with end-to-end execution.

Qualifications: Bachelors of Engineering / MCA Preferably with AWS, Cloud certification

Skills & Competencies

- Linux and Windows servers management and troubleshooting.

- AWS services experience on CloudFormation, EC2, RDS, VPC, EKS, ECS, Redshift, Glue, etc. - AWS EKS

- Kubernetes and containers knowledge

- Understanding of setting up AWS Messaging, streaming and queuing Services(MSK, Kinesis, SQS, SNS, MQ)

- Understanding of serverless architecture. - High understanding of Networking concepts

- High understanding of Serverless architecture concept - Managing to monitor and alerting systems

- Sound knowledge of Database concepts like Dataware house, Data Lake, and ETL jobs

- Good Project management skills

- Documentation skills

- Backup, and DR understanding

Soft Skills - Project management, Process Documentation

Ideal Candidate:

- AWS certification with between 2-4 years of experience with certification and project execution experience.

- Someone who is interested in building sustainable cloud architecture with automation on AWS.

- Someone who is interested in learning and being challenged on a day-to-day basis.

- Someone who can take ownership of the tasks and is willing to take the necessary action to get it done.

- Someone who is curious to analyze and solve complex problems.

- Someone who is honest with their quality of work and is comfortable with taking ownership of their success and failure, both.

Behavioral Traits

- We are looking for someone who is interested to be part of creativity and the innovation-based environment with other team members.

- We are looking for someone who understands the idea/importance of teamwork and individual ownership at the same time.

- We are looking for someone who can debate logically, respectfully disagree, and can admit if proven wrong and who can learn from their mistakes and grow quickly

DevOps Engineer

The DevOps team is one of the core technology teams of Lumiq.ai and is responsible for managing network activities, automating Cloud setups and application deployments. The team also interacts with our customers to work out solutions. If you are someone who is always pondering how to make things better, how technologies can interact, how various tools, technologies, and concepts can help a customer or how you can use various technologies to improve user experience, then Lumiq is the place of opportunities.

Job Description

• Explore about the newest innovations in scalable and distributed systems.
• Helps in designing the architecture of the project, solutions to the existing problems and future improvements to be done.
• Make the cloud infrastructure and services smart by implementing automation and trigger based solutions.
• Interact with Data Engineers and Application Engineers to create continuous integration and deployment frameworks and pipelines.
• Playing around with large clusters on different clouds to tune your jobs or to learn.
• Researching about new technologies, proving the concepts and planning how to integrate or update.
• Be part of discussions of other projects to learn or to help.

Responsibilities

• 2+years of experience as DevOps Engineer.
• You understand actual networking to Software defined networking.
• You like containers and open source orchestration system like Kubernetes, Mesos.
• Should have experience to secure system by creating robust access policy and network restrictions enforcement.
• Should have  knowledge about how applications work are very important to design distributed systems.
• Should have experience to open source projects and have discussed the shortcomings or problems with the community on several occasions.
• You understand that provisioning a Virtual Machine is not DevOps.
• You know you are not a SysAdmin but DevOps Engineer who is the person behind developing operations for the system to run efficiently and scalably.
• Exposure on Private Cloud, Subnets, VPNs, Peering, Load Balancers and have worked with them.
• You check logs before screaming about error.
• Multiple Screens makes you more efficient.
• You are a doer who don’t say the word impossible.
• You understand the value of documentation of your work.
• You understand the Big Data ecosystem and how can you leverage cloud for it.
• You know these buddies - #airflow, #aws, #azure, #gcloud, #docker, #kubernetes, #mesos, #acs

• 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