DevOps Tech Lead/ Architect/ Delivery Lead

About Eazeebox

Eazeebox is India’s first B2B Quick Commerce platform for home electrical goods. We empower electrical retailers with access to 100+ brands, flexible credit options, and 4-hour delivery—making supply chains faster, smarter, and more efficient. Our tech-driven approach enables sub-3 hour inventory-aware fulfilment across micro-markets, with a goal of scaling to 50+ orders/day per store.

About the Role

We’re looking for a DevOps Engineer to help scale and stabilize the cloud-native backbone that powers Eazeebox. You’ll play a critical role in ensuring our microservices architecture remains reliable, responsive, and performant—especially during peak retailer ordering windows. This is a high-ownership role for an "all-rounder" who is passionate about

designing scalable architectures, writing robust code, and ensuring seamless deployments and operations.

What You'll Be Doing

As a critical member of our small, dedicated team, you will take on a versatile role encompassing development, infrastructure, and operations.

Cloud & DevOps Ownership

• Architect and implement containerized services on AWS (S3, EC2, ECS, ECR, CodeBuild, Lambda, Fargate, RDS, CloudWatch) under secure IAM policies.
• Take ownership of CI/CD pipelines, optimizing and managing GitHub Actions workflows.
• Configure and manage microservice versioning and CI/CD deployments.
• Implement secrets rotation and IP-based request rate limiting for enhanced security.
• Configure auto-scaling instances and Kubernetes for high-workload microservices to ensure performance and cost efficiency.
• Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes/EKS fundamentals.

Backend & API Design

• Design, build, and maintain scalable REST/OpenAPI services in Django (DRF), WebSocket implementations, and asynchronous microservices in FastAPI.
• Model relational data in PostgreSQL 17 and optimize with Redis for caching and pub/sub.
• Orchestrate background tasks using Celery or RQ with Redis Streams or Amazon SQS.
• Collaborate closely with the frontend team (React/React Native) to define and build robust APIs.

Testing & Observability

• Ensure code quality via comprehensive testing using Pytest, React Testing Library, and Playwright.
• Instrument applications with CloudWatch metrics, contributing to our observability strategy.
• Maintain a Git-centric development workflow, including branching strategies and pull-request discipline.

Qualifications & Skills

Must-Have

• Experience: 2-4 years of hands-on experience delivering production-level full-stack applications with a strong emphasis on backend and DevOps.
• Backend Expertise: Proficiency in Python, with strong command of Django or FastAPI, including async Python patterns and REST best practices.
• Database Skills: Strong SQL skills with PostgreSQL; practical experience with Redis for caching and messaging.
• Cloud & DevOps Mastery: Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes/EKS fundamentals.
• AWS Proficiency: Experience deploying and managing services on AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, ECS Fargate, ECR, SQS).
• CI/CD: Deep experience with GitHub Actions or similar platforms, including semantic-release, Blue-Green Deployments, and artifact signing.
• Automation: Fluency in Python/Bash or Go for automation scripts; comfort with YAML.
• Ownership Mindset: Entrepreneurial spirit, strong sense of ownership, and ability to deliver at scale.
• Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication skills; comfortable in async and distributed team environments.

Nice-to-Have

• Frontend Familiarity: Exposure to React with Redux Toolkit and React Native.
• Event Streaming: Experience with Kafka or Amazon EventBridge.
• Serverless: Knowledge of AWS Lambda, Step Functions, CloudFront Functions, or Cloudflare Workers.
• Observability: Familiarity with Datadog, Posthog, Prometheus/Grafana/Loki.
• Emerging Tech: Interest in GraphQL (Apollo Federation) or generative AI frameworks (Amazon Bedrock, LangChain) and AI/ML.

Key Responsibilities

• Architectural Leadership: Design and lead the technical strategy for migrating our platform from a monolithic to a microservices architecture.
• System Design: Translate product requirements into scalable, secure, and reliable system designs.
• Backend Development: Build and maintain core backend services using Python (Django/FastAPI).
• CI/CD & Deployment: Own and manage CI/CD pipelines for multiple services using GitHub Actions, AWS CodeBuild, and automated deployments.
• Infrastructure & Operations: Deploy production-grade microservices using Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS EKS.
• FinOps & Performance: Drive cloud cost optimization and implement auto-scaling for performance and cost-efficiency.
• Security & Observability: Implement security, monitoring, and compliance using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Posthog, and Loki to ensure 99.99% uptime.
• Collaboration: Work with product and development teams to align technical strategy with business growth plans.

• At least 5 year of experience in Cloud technologies-AWS and Azure and developing. 
• Experience in implementing DevOps practices and DevOps-tools in areas like CI/CD using Jenkins environment automation, and release automation, virtualization, infra as a code or metrics tracking.
• Hands on experience in DevOps tools configuration in different environments.
• Strong knowledge of working with DevOps design patterns, processes and best practices
• Hand-on experience in Setting up Build pipelines.
• Prior working experience in system administration or architecture in Windows or Linux.
• Must have experience in GIT (BitBucket, GitHub, GitLab)
• Hands-on experience on Jenkins pipeline scripting.
• Hands-on knowledge in one scripting language (Nant, Perl, Python, Shell or PowerShell)
• Configuration level skills in tools like SonarQube (or similar tools) and Artifactory.
• Expertise on Virtual Infrastructure (VMWare or VirtualBox or QEMU or KVM or Vagrant) and environment automation/provisioning using SaltStack/Ansible/Puppet/Chef
• Deploying, automating, maintaining and managing Azure cloud based production systems including monitoring capacity.
• Good to have experience in migrating code repositories from one source control to another.
• Hands-on experience in Docker container and orchestration based deployments like Kubernetes, Service Fabric, Docker swarm.
• Must have good communication skills and problem solving skills

**THIS IS A 100% WORK FROM OFFICE ROLE**

We are looking for an experienced DevOps engineer that will help our team establish DevOps practice. You will work closely with the technical lead to identify and establish DevOps practices in the company.
You will help us build scalable, efficient cloud infrastructure. You’ll implement monitoring for automated system health checks. Lastly, you’ll build our CI pipeline, and train and guide the team in DevOps practices.

ROLE and RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Understanding customer requirements and project KPIs
• Implementing various development, testing, automation tools, and IT infrastructure
• Planning the team structure, activities, and involvement in project management
activities.
• Managing stakeholders and external interfaces
• Setting up tools and required infrastructure
• Defining and setting development, test, release, update, and support processes for
DevOps operation
• Have the technical skill to review, verify, and validate the software code developed in
the project.
• Troubleshooting techniques and fixing the code bugs
• Monitoring the processes during the entire lifecycle for its adherence and updating or
creating new processes for improvement and minimizing the wastage
• Encouraging and building automated processes wherever possible
• Identifying and deploying cybersecurity measures by continuously performing
vulnerability assessment and risk management
• Incidence management and root cause analysis
• Coordination and communication within the team and with customers
• Selecting and deploying appropriate CI/CD tools
• Strive for continuous improvement and build continuous integration, continuous
development, and constant deployment pipeline (CI/CD Pipeline)
• Mentoring and guiding the team members
• Monitoring and measuring customer experience and KPIs
• Managing periodic reporting on the progress to the management and the customer

Essential Skills and Experience Technical Skills

• Proven 3+years of experience as DevOps
• A bachelor’s degree or higher qualification in computer science
• The ability to code and script in multiple languages and automation frameworks
like Python, C#, Java, Perl, Ruby, SQL Server, NoSQL, and MySQL
• An understanding of the best security practices and automating security testing and
updating in the CI/CD (continuous integration, continuous deployment) pipelines
• An ability to conveniently deploy monitoring and logging infrastructure using tools.
• Proficiency in container frameworks
• Mastery in the use of infrastructure automation toolsets like Terraform, Ansible, and command line interfaces for Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, and other cloud platforms
• Certification in Cloud Security
• An understanding of various operating systems
• A strong focus on automation and agile development
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• An ability to work in a fast-paced environment and handle multiple projects
simultaneously

OTHER INFORMATION

The DevOps Engineer will also be expected to demonstrate their commitment:
• to gedu values and regulations, including equal opportunities policy.
• the gedu’s Social, Economic and Environmental responsibilities and minimise environmental impact in the performance of the role and actively contribute to the delivery of gedu’s Environmental Policy.
• to their Health and Safety responsibilities to ensure their contribution to a safe and secure working environment for staff, students, and other visitors to the campus.

Job Description:

• Hands on experience with Ansible & Terraform.
• Scripting language, such as Python or Bash or PowerShell is required and willingness to learn and master others. 
• Troubleshooting and resolving automation, build, and CI/CD related issues (in cloud environment like AWS or Azure).
• Experience with Kubernetes is mandate.
• To develop and maintain tooling and environments for test and production environments.
• Assist team members in the development and maintenance of tooling for integration testing, performance testing, security testing, as well as source control systems (that includes working in CI systems like Azure DevOps, Team City, and orchestration tools like Octopus).
• Good with Linux environment.

• Experience working on Linux based infrastructure
• Strong hands-on knowledge of setting up production, staging, and dev environments on AWS/GCP/Azure
• Strong hands-on knowledge of technologies like Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes
• Strong understanding of continuous testing environments such as Travis-CI, CircleCI, Jenkins, etc.
• Configuration and managing databases such as MySQL, Mongo
• Excellent troubleshooting
• Working knowledge of various tools, open-source technologies, and cloud services
• Awareness of critical concepts in DevOps and Agile principles

THE OPPORTUNITY

A platform to learn and grow in a great working environment with cutting edge technologies. There is vast opportunity to showcase creative thinking which can be translated into a highly optimized tools/utilities.

KEY ACTIVITIES

• Code Integrations ( Compile, Build, Notify )
• Package creation ( Service Packs, Patches, Hotfixes )
•  Environment Preparation ( With GOLD SCM technical stack )
•  Environment & Infra management
•  Package delivery ( Customer specific & Standard )
• Build & Deployment automation
• Tickets management

KEY CRITERIA

Primary Technical Skills  

• Shell Scripting
• ORACLE DB Fundamentals
• Infra Monitoring & Diagnostics
• ClearCase / GIT
• DevOps concepts
• Basic Java

Other Required Skills

• Problem Solving
• Logical Reasoning
• Aptitude & Attitude
• Communication (Verbal & Written)