DevOps

Job Title : Senior DevOps Engineer

Location : Remote

Experience Level : 5+ Years

Role Overview :

We are a funded AI startup seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to design, implement, and maintain a secure, scalable, and efficient infrastructure. In this role, you will focus on automating operations, optimizing deployment processes, and enabling engineering teams to deliver high-quality products seamlessly.

Key Responsibilities:

Infrastructure Scalability & Reliability :

• Architect and manage cloud infrastructure on AWS, GCP, or Azure for high availability, reliability, and cost-efficiency.
• Implement container orchestration using Kubernetes or Docker Compose.
• Utilize Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Pulumi or Terraform to manage and configure infrastructure.

Deployment Automation :

• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar tools.
• Implement deployment strategies such as canary or blue-green deployments, and create rollback mechanisms to ensure seamless updates.

Monitoring & Observability :

• Leverage tools like OpenTelemetry, Grafana, and Datadog to monitor system health and performance.
• Establish centralized logging systems and create real-time dashboards for actionable insights.

Security & Compliance :

• Securely manage secrets using tools like HashiCorp Vault or Doppler.
• Conduct static code analysis with tools such as SonarQube or Snyk to ensure compliance with security standards.

Collaboration & Team Enablement :

• Mentor and guide team members on DevOps best practices and workflows.
• Document infrastructure setups, incident runbooks, and troubleshooting workflows to enhance team efficiency.

Required Skills :

• Expertise in managing cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• In-depth knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker, and IaC tools like Terraform or Pulumi.
• Advanced scripting capabilities in Python or Bash.
• Proficiency in CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar.
• Experience with observability tools like Grafana, OpenTelemetry, and Datadog.
• Strong troubleshooting skills for debugging production systems and optimizing performance.

Preferred Qualifications :

• Experience in scaling AI or ML-based applications.
• Familiarity with distributed systems and microservices architecture.
• Understanding of agile methodologies and DevSecOps practices.
• Certifications in AWS, Azure, or Kubernetes.

What We Offer :

• Opportunity to work in a fast-paced AI startup environment.
• Flexible remote work culture.
• Competitive salary and equity options.
• Professional growth through challenging projects and learning opportunities.

Job Summary:

We are seeking a highly skilled and proactive DevOps Engineer with 4+ years of experience to join our dynamic team. This role requires strong technical expertise across cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, container orchestration, and infrastructure as code (IaC). The ideal candidate should also have direct client-facing experience and a proactive approach to managing both internal and external stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and external clients to understand infrastructure requirements and implement DevOps best practices.
• Design, build, and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure on AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, ECS, etc.).
• Develop and manage infrastructure using Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Manage and orchestrate containers using Docker and Kubernetes (EKS).
• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins or GitHub Actions.
• Write robust automation scripts using Python and Shell scripting.
• Monitor system performance and availability, and ensure high uptime and reliability.
• Execute and optimize SQLqueries for MSSQL and PostgresQL databases.
• Maintain clear documentation and provide technical support to stakeholders and clients.

Required Skills:

• Minimum 4+ years of experience in a DevOps or related role.
• Proven experience in client-facing engagements and communication.
• Strong knowledge of AWS services – EC2, S3, RDS, ECS, etc.
• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes (EKS).
• Strong experience in setting up and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins or GitHub.
• Solid understanding of SQL and working experience with MSSQL and PostgreSQL.
• Proficient in Python and Shell scripting.

Preferred Qualifications:

• AWS Certifications (e.g., AWS Certified DevOps Engineer) are a plus.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.

Key Skills Required:

·         You will be part of the DevOps engineering team, configuring project environments, troubleshooting integration issues in different systems also be involved in building new features for next generation of cloud recovery services and managed services. 

·         You will directly guide the technical strategy for our clients and build out a new capability within the company for DevOps to improve our business relevance for customers. 

·         You will be coordinating with Cloud and Data team for their requirements and verify the configurations required for each production server and come with Scalable solutions.

·         You will be responsible to review infrastructure and configuration of micro services and packaging and deployment of application

To be the right fit, you'll need:

·         Expert in Cloud Services like AWS.

·         Experience in Terraform Scripting.

·         Experience in container technology like Docker and orchestration like Kubernetes.

·         Good knowledge of frameworks such as Jenkins, CI/CD pipeline, Bamboo Etc.

·         Experience with various version control system like GIT, build tools (Mavan, ANT, Gradle ) and cloud automation tools (Chef, Puppet, Ansible)

The candidates should have:

·  Strong knowledge on Windows and Linux OS

·   Experience working in Version Control Systems like git

·  Hands-on experience in tools Docker, SonarQube, Ansible, Kubernetes, ELK.

·  Basic understanding of SQL commands

·  Experience working on Azure Cloud DevOps

• Hands-on knowledge on various CI-CD tools (Jenkins/TeamCity, Artifactory, UCD, Bitbucket/Github, SonarQube) including setting up of build-deployment automated pipelines.
• Very good knowledge in scripting tools and languages such as Shell, Perl or Python , YAML/Groovy, build tools such as Maven/Gradle.
• Hands-on knowledge in containerization and orchestration tools such as Docker, OpenShift and Kubernetes.
• Good knowledge in configuration management tools such as Ansible, Puppet/Chef and have worked on setting up of monitoring tools (Splunk/Geneos/New Relic/Elk).
•             Expertise in job schedulers/workload automation tools such as Control-M or AutoSys is good to have.
• Hands-on knowledge on Cloud technology (preferably GCP) including various computing services and infrastructure setup using Terraform.

• Should have basic understanding on networking, certificate management, Identity and Access Management and Information security/encryption concepts.
• •             Should support day-to-day tasks related to platform and environments upkeep such as upgrades, patching, migration and system/interfaces integration.
• •             Should have experience in working in Agile based SDLC delivery model, multi-task and support multiple systems/apps.
• •             Big-data and Hadoop ecosystem knowledge is good to have but not mandatory.

• Should have worked on standard release, change and incident management tools such as ServiceNow/Remedy or similar

Introduction

http://www.synapsica.com/">Synapsica is a https://yourstory.com/2021/06/funding-alert-synapsica-healthcare-ivycap-ventures-endiya-partners/">series-A funded HealthTech startup founded by alumni from IIT Kharagpur, AIIMS New Delhi, and IIM Ahmedabad. We believe healthcare needs to be transparent and objective while being affordable. Every patient has the right to know exactly what is happening in their bodies and they don't have to rely on cryptic 2 liners given to them as a diagnosis. 

Towards this aim, we are building an artificial intelligence enabled cloud based platform to analyse medical images and create v2.0 of advanced radiology reporting.  We are backed by IvyCap, Endia Partners, YCombinator and other investors from India, US, and Japan. We are proud to have GE and The Spinal Kinetics as our partners. Here’s a small sample of what we’re building: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FR6a94Tqqls">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FR6a94Tqqls

Your Roles and Responsibilities

The Lead DevOps Engineer will be responsible for the management, monitoring and operation of our applications and services in production. The DevOps Engineer will be a hands-on person who can work independently or with minimal guidance and has the ability to drive the team’s deliverables by mentoring and guiding junior team members. You will work with the existing teams very closely and build on top of tools like Kubernetes, Docker and Terraform and support our numerous polyglot services.

Introducing a strong DevOps ethic into the rest of the team is crucial, and we expect you to lead the team on best practices in deployment, monitoring, and tooling. You'll work collaboratively with software engineering to deploy and operate our systems, help automate and streamline our operations and processes, build and maintain tools for deployment, monitoring, and operations and troubleshoot and resolve issues in our development, test and production environments. The position is based in our Bangalore office.

Primary Responsibilities

• Providing strategies and creating pathways in support of product initiatives in DevOps and automation, with a focus on the design of systems and services that run on cloud platforms.
• Optimizations and execution of the CI/CD pipelines of multiple products and timely promotion of the releases to production environments
• Ensuring that mission critical applications are deployed and optimised for high availability, security & privacy compliance and disaster recovery.
• Strategize, implement and verify secure coding techniques, integrate code security tools for Continuous Integration
• Ensure analysis, efficiency, responsiveness, scalability and cross-platform compatibility of applications through captured  metrics, testing frameworks, and debugging methodologies.
• Technical documentation through all stages of development
• Establish strong relationships, and proactively communicate, with team members as well as individuals across the organisation

Requirements

• Minimum of 6 years of experience on Devops tools.
• Working experience with Linux, container orchestration and management technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, EKS, ECS …).
• Hands-on experience with "infrastructure as code" solutions (Cloudformation, Terraform, Ansible etc).
• Background of building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (Gitlab-CI, Jenkins, CircleCI, Github actions etc).
• Experience with the Hashicorp stack (Vault, Packer, Nomad etc).
• Hands-on experience in building and maintaining monitoring/logging/alerting stacks (ELK stack, Prometheus stack, Grafana etc).
• Devops mindset and experience with Agile / SCRUM Methodology
• Basic knowledge of Storage , Databases (SQL and noSQL)
• Good understanding of networking technologies, HAProxy, firewalling and security.
• Experience in Security vulnerability scans and remediation
• Experience in API security and credentials management
• Worked on Microservice configurations across dev/test/prod environments
• Ability to quickly adapt new languages and technologies
• A strong team player attitude with excellent communication skills.
• Very high sense of ownership.
• Deep interest and passion for technology
• Ability to plan projects, execute them and meet the deadline
• Excellent verbal and written English communication.

This person MUST have:

• Min of 3-5 prior experience as a DevOps Engineer.
• Expertise in CI/CD pipeline maintenance and enhancement specifically Jenkins based pipelines.
• Working experience with engineering tools like git, git work flow, bitbucket, JIRA etc
• Hands-on experience deploying and managing infrastructure with CloudFormation/Terraform
• Experience managing AWS infrastructure
• Hands on experience of Linux administration.
• Basic understanding of Kubernetes/Docker orchestration
• Works closely with engineering team for day to day activities
• Manges existing infrastructure/Pipelines/Engineering tools (On Prem or  AWS) for engineering team (Build servers/Jenkin nodes etc.)
• Works with engineering team for new config required for infra like replicating the setups, adding new resources etc.
• Works closely with engineering team for improving existing pipelines for build .
• Troubleshoots problems across infrastructure/services

Experience:

• Min 5-7  year experience

Location

• Remotely, anywhere in India

Timings:

• 40 hours a week (11 AM to 7 PM).

Position:

• Full time/Direct
• We have great benefits such as PF, medical insurance, 12 annual company holidays, 12 PTO leaves per year, annual increments, Diwali bonus, spot bonuses and other incentives etc.
• We dont believe in locking in people with large notice periods.  You will stay here because you love the company.  We have only a 15 days notice period.

Creates, modifies, and maintains software applications individually or as part of a team.  Provides technical leadership on a team, including training and mentoring of other team members.  Provides technology and architecture direction for the team, department, and organization.

• Develops software applications and supporting infrastructure using established coding standards and methodologies
• Sets example for software quality through multiple levels of automated tests, including but not limited to unit, API, End to End, and load.
• Self-starter and self-organized - able to work without supervision
• Develops tooling, test harnesses and innovative solutions to understand and monitor the quality of the product 
• Develops infrastructure as code to reliably deploy applications on demand or through automation
• Understands cloud managed services and builds scalable and secure applications using them
• Creates proof of concepts for new ideas that answer key questions of feasibility, desirability, and viability
• Work with other technical leaders to establish coding standards, development best practices and technology direction
• Performs thorough code reviews that promote better understanding throughout the team
• Work with architects, designers, business analysts and others to design and implement high quality software solutions
• Builds intuitive user interfaces with the end user persona in mind using front end frameworks and styling
• Assist product owners in backlog grooming, story breakdown and story estimation
• Collaborate and communicate effectively with team members and other stakeholders throughout the organization
• Document software changes for use by other engineers, quality assurance and documentation specialists
• Master the technologies, languages, and practices used by the team and project assigned
• Train others in the technologies, languages, and practices used by the team
• Trouble shoot, instrument and debug existing software resolving root causes of defective behavior
• Guide the team in setting up the infrastructure in the cloud.
• Setup the security protocols for the cloud infrastructure
• Works with the team in setting up the data hub in the cloud
• Create dashboards for the visibility of the various interactions between the cloud services
• Other duties as assigned

• BA/BS in Computer Science, a related field or equivalent work experience

• Mastered advanced programming concepts, including object oriented programming
• Mastered technologies and tools utilized by team and project assigned
• Able to train others on general programming concepts and specific technologies
• Minimum 8 years’ experience developing software applications

• Must be expert in advanced programming skills and database technology
• Must be expert in at least one technology and/or language and proficient in multiple technologies and languages:
• (Specific languages needed will vary based on development department or project)
• .Net Core, C#, Java, SQL, JavaScript, Typescript, Python
• Additional desired skills:
  • Single-Page Applications, Angular (v9), Ivy, RXJS, NGRX, HTML5, CSS/SASS, Web Components, Atomic Design
  • Test First approach, Test Driven Development (TDD), Automated testing (Protractor, Jasmine), Newman Postman, artillery.io
  • Microservices, Terraform, Jenkins, Jupyter Notebook, Docker, NPM, Yarn, Nuget, NodeJS, Git/Gerrit, LaunchDarkly
  • Amazon Web Services (AWS), Lambda, S3, Cognito, Step Functions, SQS, IAM, Cloudwatch, Elasticache
  • Database Design, Optimization, Replication, Partitioning/Sharding, NoSQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Elastic Search, PySpark, Kafka
  • Agile, Scrum, Kanban, DevSecOps
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Outstanding communications and interpersonal skills
• Strong organizational skills and ability to multi-task
• Ability to track software issues to successful resolution
• Ability to work in a collaborative fast paced environment
• Setting up complex AWS data storage hub
• Well versed in setting up infrastructure security in the interactions between the planned components
• Experienced in setting up dashboards for analyzing the various operations in the AWS infra setup.
• Ability to learn new development language quickly and apply that knowledge effectively