DevOps Lead

Are you eager to kick-start your career in DevOps and learn the latest technologies to solve complex problems? Do you enjoy hands-on problem-solving, exploring cloud technologies, and supporting innovative solutions? At Aivar, we are looking for a DevOps Engineer to join our team.

In this role, you will assist in the implementation and support of DevOps practices, including containerization, orchestration, and CI/CD pipelines, while learning from industry experts.

This is an exciting opportunity to grow your skills and work on transformative projects in a collaborative environment.

Requirements

Preferred Technical Qualifications

• 2 – 5 years of experience in DevOps, system administration, or software development (internship experience is acceptable).
• Familiarity with container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Understanding of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Knowledge of CI/CD tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI, or GitHub Actions.
• Programming experience in Python, Java, or another language used in DevOps workflows.
• Understanding of cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
• Willingness to learn advanced Kubernetes concepts and troubleshooting techniques.Preferred Soft Skills

Collaboration Skills:

• Willingness to work in cross-functional teams and support the alignment of technical solutions with business goals.
• Eager to learn how to work effectively with customers, engineers, and architects to deliver DevOps solutions.

Effective Communication:

• Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to team members and stakeholders.
• Desire to improve documentation and presentation skills to share ideas effectively.

Problem-Solving Mindset:

• Curiosity to explore and learn solutions for infrastructure challenges in DevOps environments.
• Interest in learning how to diagnose and resolve issues in containerized and
•  distributed systems.

Adaptability and Continuous Learning:

• Strong desire to learn emerging DevOps tools and practices in a dynamic environment.
• Commitment to staying updated with trends in cloud computing, DevOps, and

Team-Oriented Approach:

• Enthusiastic about contributing to a collaborative team environment and supporting
• overall project goals.
• Open to feedback and actively sharing knowledge to help the team grow.

Certifications (Optional but Preferred)

• Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) or equivalent Linux Foundation
• certification
• Any beginner-level certifications in DevOps or cloud services are a plus. 
• Any AWS Certification

Why Join Aivar?

At Aivar, we are re-imagining analytics consulting by integrating AI and machine learning to create repeatable solutions that deliver measurable business outcomes. With a culture centered on innovation, collaboration, and growth, we provide opportunities to work on transformative projects across industries.

About Diversity and Inclusion

We believe diversity drives innovation and growth. Our inclusive environment encourages individuals of all backgrounds to contribute their unique perspectives to shape the future and analytics.

About Kiru:

Kiru is a forward-thinking payments startup on a mission to revolutionise the digital payments landscape in Africa and beyond. Our innovative solutions will reshape how people transact, making payments safer, faster, and more accessible. Join us on our journey to redefine the future of payments.

Position Overview:

We are searching for a highly skilled and motivated DevOps Engineer to join our dynamic team in Pune, India. As a DevOps Engineer at Kiru, you will play a critical role in ensuring our payment infrastructure's reliability, scalability, and security.

Key Responsibilities:

• Utilize your expertise in technology infrastructure configuration to manage and automate infrastructure effectively.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Software Developers and technology management, to design and implement robust and efficient DevOps solutions.
• Configure and maintain a secure backend environment focusing on network isolation and VPN access.
• Implement and manage monitoring solutions like ZipKin, Jaeger, New Relic, or DataDog and visualisation and alerting solutions like Prometheus and Grafana.
• Work closely with developers to instrument code for visualisation and alerts, ensuring system performance and stability.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of development and deployment pipelines.
• Collaborate on the selection and implementation of appropriate DevOps tools and technologies.
• Troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure and deployment issues promptly to minimize downtime.
• Stay up-to-date with emerging DevOps trends and best practices.
• Create and maintain comprehensive documentation related to DevOps processes and configurations.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent work experience).
• Proven experience as a DevOps Engineer or in a similar role.
• Experience configuring infrastructure on Microsoft Azure
• Experience with Kubernetes as a container orchestration technology
• Experience with Terraform and Azure ARM or Bicep templates for infrastructure provisioning and management.
• Experience configuring and maintaining secure backend environments, including network isolation and VPN access.
• Proficiency in setting up and managing monitoring and visualization tools such as ZipKin, Jaeger, New Relic, DataDog, Prometheus, and Grafana.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with developers to instrument code for visualization and alerts.
• Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills.
• A proactive and self-motivated approach to work.

Desired Skills:

• Experience with Azure Kubernetes Services and managing identities across Azure services.
• Previous experience in a financial or payment systems environment.

About Kiru:

At Kiru, we believe that success is achieved through collaboration. We recognise that every team member has a vital role to play, and it's the partnerships we build within our organisation that drive our customers' success and our growth as a business.

We are more than just a team; we are a close-knit partnership. By bringing together diverse talents and fostering powerful collaborations, we innovate, share knowledge, and continually learn from one another. We take pride in our daily achievements but never stop challenging ourselves and supporting each other. Together, we reach new heights and envision a brighter future.

Regardless of your career journey, we provide the guidance and resources you need to thrive. You will have everything required to excel through training programs, mentorship, and ongoing support. At Kiru, your success is our success, and that success matters because we are the essential partners for the world's most critical businesses. These companies manufacture, transport, and supply the world's essential goods.

Equal Opportunities and Accommodations Statement:

Kiru is committed to fostering a workplace and global community where inclusion is celebrated and where you can bring your authentic selfbecause that's who we're interested in. If you are interested in this role but don't meet every qualification in the job description, don't hesitate to apply. We are an equal opportunity employer.

The candidate must have 2-3 years of experience in the domain. The responsibilities include:

● Deploying system on Linux-based environment using Docker

● Manage & maintain the production environment

● Deploy updates and fixes

● Provide Level 1 technical support

● Build tools to reduce occurrences of errors and improve customer experience

● Develop software to integrate with internal back-end systems

● Perform root cause analysis for production errors

● Investigate and resolve technical issues

● Develop scripts to automate visualization

● Design procedures for system troubleshooting and maintenance

● Experience working on Linux-based infrastructure

● Excellent understanding of MERN Stack, Docker & Nginx (Good to have Node Js)

● Configuration and managing databases such as Mongo

● Excellent troubleshooting

● Experience of working with AWS/Azure/GCP

● Working knowledge of various tools, open-source technologies, and cloud services

● Awareness of critical concepts in DevOps and Agile principles

● Experience of CI/CD Pipeline

Responsibilities:

• Writing and maintaining the automation for deployments across various cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP)
• Bring a passion to stay on top of DevOps trends, experiment, and learn new CI/CD technologies.
• Creating the Architecture Diagrams and documentation for various pieces
• Build tools and automation to improve the system's observability, availability, reliability, performance/latency, monitoring, emergency response

Requirements:

• 3 - 5 years of professional experience as a DevOps / System Engineer.
• Strong knowledge in Systems Administration & troubleshooting skills with Linux.
• Experience with CI/CD best practices and tooling, preferably Jenkins, Circle CI.
• Hands-on experience with Cloud platforms such as AWS/Azure/GCP or private cloud environments.
• Experience and understanding of modern container orchestration, Well-versed with the containerised applications (Docker, Docker-compose, Docker-swarm, Kubernetes).
• Experience in Infrastructure as code development using Terraform.
• Basic Networking knowledge VLAN, Subnet, VPC, Webserver like Nginx, Apache.
• Experience in handling different SQL and NoSQL databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Mongo).
• Experience with GIT Version Control Software.
• Proficiency in any programming or scripting language such as Shell Script, Python, Golang.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills; ability to work in a team environment.

• AWS / Kubernetes Certifications: AWS Certified Solutions Architect / CKA.
• Setup and management of a Kubernetes cluster, including writing Docker files.
• Experience working in and advocating for agile environments.
• Knowledge in Microservice architecture.

• 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

Are you the one? Quick self-discovery test:

1. Love for the cloud: When was the last time your dinner entailed an act on “How would ‘Jerry Seinfeld’ pitch Cloud platform & products to this prospect” and your friend did the ‘Sheldon’ version of the same thing.
2. Passion: When was the last time you went to a remote gas station while on vacation and ended up helping the gas station owner saasify his 7 gas stations across other geographies.
3. Compassion for customers: You listen more than you speak.  When you do speak, people feel the need to listen.
4. Humor for life: When was the last time you told a concerned CEO, ‘If Elon Musk can attempt to take humanity to Mars, why can’t we take your business to run on the cloud?

Your bucket of undertakings:

This position will be responsible to consult with clients and propose architectural solutions to help move & improve infra from on-premise to cloud or help optimize cloud spend from one public cloud to the other.

1. Be the first one to experiment on new-age cloud offerings, help define the best practice as a thought leader for cloud, automation & Dev-Ops, be a solution visionary and technology expert across multiple channels.
2. Continually augment skills and learn new tech as the technology and client needs evolve
3. Use your experience in the Google cloud platform, AWS, or Microsoft Azure to build hybrid-cloud solutions for customers.
4. Provide leadership to project teams, and facilitate the definition of project deliverables around core Cloud-based technology and methods.
5. Define tracking mechanisms and ensure IT standards and methodology are met; deliver quality results.
6. Participate in technical reviews of requirements, designs, code, and other artifacts
7. Identify and keep abreast of new technical concepts in the google cloud platform
8. Security, Risk, and Compliance - Advise customers on best practices around access management, network setup, regulatory compliance, and related areas.

Accomplishment Set 

• Passionate, persuasive, articulate Cloud professional capable of quickly establishing interest and credibility 
• Good business judgment, a comfortable, open communication style, and a willingness and ability to work with customers and teams.
• Strong service attitude and a commitment to quality.
• Highly organised and efficient.
• Confident working with others to inspire a high-quality standard.

Experience :

• 4-8 years experience in Cloud Infrastructure and Operations domains
• Experience with Linux systems and/OR Windows servers
• Specialize in one or two cloud deployment platforms: AWS, GCP
• Hands on experience with AWS services (EKS, ECS, EC2, VPC, RDS, Lambda, GKE, Compute Engine, API Gateway, AppSync and ServiceMesh)
• Experience in one or more scripting language-Python, Bash
• Good understanding of Apache Web Server, Nginx, MySQL, MongoDB, Nagios
• Logging and Monitoring tools (ELK, Stackdriver, CloudWatch)
• DevOps Technologies (AWS DevOps, Jenkins, Git, Maven)
• Knowledge on Configuration Management tools such as Ansible, Terraform, Puppet, Chef, Packer
• Experience working with deployment and orchestration technologies (such as Docker, Kubernetes, Mesos)

Education :

1. Is Education overrated? Yes. We believe so. However there is no way to locate you otherwise. So unfortunately we might have to look for a Bachelor's or Master's degree in engineering from a reputed institute or you should be programming from 12. And the latter is better. We will find you faster if you specify the latter in some manner. Not just degree, but we are not too thrilled by tech certifications too ... :)
2. To reiterate: Passion to tech-awesome, insatiable desire to learn the latest of the new-age cloud tech, highly analytical aptitude and a strong ‘desire to deliver’ outlives those fancy degrees!
3. 3-8 years of experience with hands-on experience in Cloud Computing (AWS/GCP) and IT operational experience in a global enterprise environment.
4. Good analytical, communication, problem solving, and learning skills.
5. Knowledge on programming against cloud platforms such as Google Cloud Platform and lean development methodologies.

Must Have Skills

• AWS Solutions Architect and/or DevOps certification, Professional preferred
• BS level technical degree or equivalent experience; Computer Science or Engineering background preferred
• Hands-on technical expertise on Amazon Web Services (AWS) to include but not limited to EC2, VPC, IAM, Security groups, ELB/NLB/ALB, Internet gateway, S3, EBS and EFS.
• Experience in migration-deployment of applications to Cloud, re-engineering of application for cloud, setting up OS and app environments in virtualized cloud
• DevOps automation, CI/CD, infrastructure/services provisioning, application deployment and configuration
• DevOps toolsets to include Ansible, Jenkins and XLdeploy, XLrelease
• Deploy and configuration of Java/Wildfly, Springboot, JavaScript/Node.js and Ruby applications and middleware
• Scripting in Shell (bash) and Extensive Python
• Agile software development
• Excellent written, verbal communication skills, presentation, and collaboration skills - Team leadership skills
• Linux (RHEL) administration/engineering

Experience:

• Deploying, configuring, and supporting large scale monolithic and microservices based SaaS applications
• Working as both an infrastructure and application migration specialist
• Identifying and documenting application requirements for network, F5, IAM, and security groups
• Implementing DevOps practices such as infrastructure as code, continuous integration, and automated deployment 
• Work with Technology leadership to understand business goals and requirements
• Experience with continuous integration tools
• Experience with configuration management platforms
• Writing and diagnosing issues with complex shell scripts
• Strong practical application development experience on Linux and Windows-based systems