Devops Engineer

• Strong hands-on experience in Microsoft Azure Cloud.
• Good understanding of Azure services such as Compute, Storage, Event Hub, Event Subscription, Storage Queue, and PaaS services.
• Basic understanding of Azure AI Foundry and AI-related Azure service setup.
• Good Azure networking basics: VNet, subnet, routing, and basic troubleshooting.
• Strong knowledge of Terraform, especially:
• Terraform state
• plan / apply
• troubleshooting failures
• migration risks
• Terraform Enterprise concepts
• Strong Python coding capability, not just basic scripting.
• Experience using Python for API integration, automation, JSON/YAML handling, and internal tooling.
• Good understanding of CI/CD pipelines.
• Ability to troubleshoot pipeline failures.
• Comfortable with YAML and JSON.
• Ability to troubleshoot Azure infrastructure/platform issues.
• Ability to collect logs/evidence and coordinate with network/app/Microsoft support teams.
• Basic awareness of agentic AI / LLM concepts.
• Awareness of security and cost best practices.

Good to Have Skills

• Hands-on experience with Harness.
• Hands-on experience with Terraform Enterprise.
• Exposure to LangGraph / LangChain.
• Exposure to agentic AI workflows or skill creation.
• Exposure to Claude or enterprise LLM integrations.
• Knowledge of Azure ML Workspace, model registry, and managed endpoints.
• MLOps / LLMOps knowledge.
• FinOps / Azure cost optimization experience.
• Azure certifications: AZ-104, AZ-305, AZ-400, AZ-500.

Job Title: Senior DevOps Engineer

Location: Sector 39, Gurgaon (Onsite)

Employment Type: Full-Time

Working Days: 6 Days (Alternate Saturdays Working)

Experience Required: 5+ Years

Team Role: Lead & Mentor a team of 3–4 engineers

About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior DevOps Engineer to lead our infrastructure and automation initiatives while mentoring a small team. This role involves setting up and managing physical and cloud-based servers, configuring storage systems, and implementing automation to ensure high system availability and reliability. The ideal candidate will have strong Linux administration skills, hands-on experience with DevOps tools, and the leadership capabilities to guide and grow the team.

Key Responsibilities

Infrastructure & Server Management (60%)

• Set up, configure, and manage bare-metal (physical) servers as well as cloud-based environments.
• Configure network bonding, firewalls, and system security for optimal performance and reliability.
• Implement and maintain high-availability solutions for mission-critical systems.

Queue Systems (Kafka / RabbitMQ) (15%)

• Deploy and manage message queue systems to support high-throughput, real-time data exchange.
• Ensure reliable event-driven communication between distributed services.

Storage Systems (SAN/NAS) (15%)

• Configure and manage Storage Area Networks (SAN) and Network Attached Storage (NAS).
• Optimize storage performance, redundancy, and availability.

Database Administration (5%)

• Administer and optimize MariaDB, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, and Elasticsearch.
• Handle backup, recovery, replication, and performance tuning.

General DevOps & Automation

• Deploy product updates, patches, and fixes while ensuring minimal downtime.
• Design and manage CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins or similar tools.
• Administer and automate workflows with Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, AWS, and Git.
• Manage web and application servers (Apache httpd, Tomcat).
• Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting systems (Nagios, HAProxy, Keepalived).
• Conduct root cause analysis and implement automation to reduce manual interventions.
• Mentor a team of 3–4 engineers, fostering best practices and continuous improvement.

Required Skills & Qualifications

✅ 5+ years of proven DevOps engineering experience

✅ Strong expertise in Linux administration & shell scripting

✅ Hands-on experience with bare-metal server management & storage systems

✅ Proficiency in Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Jenkins, Git, and Ansible

✅ Experience with Kafka or RabbitMQ in production environments

✅ Knowledge of CI/CD, automation, monitoring, and high-availability tools (Nagios, HAProxy, Keepalived)

✅ Excellent problem-solving, troubleshooting, and leadership abilities

✅ Strong communication skills with the ability to mentor and lead teams

Good to Have

• Experience in Telecom projects involving SMS, voice, or real-time data handling.

About Company:

• Role Overview

• Senior Engineer with a strong background and experience in cloud related technologies and architectures. Can design target cloud architectures to transform existing architectures together with the in-house team. Can actively hands-on configure and build cloud architectures and guide others.

• Key Knowledge

• 3-5+ years of experience in AWS/GCP or Azure technologies
• Is likely certified on one or more of the major cloud platforms
• Strong experience from hands-on work with technologies such as Terraform, K8S, Docker and orchestration of containers.
• Ability to guide and lead internal agile teams on cloud technology
• Background from the financial services industry or similar critical operational experience

5 to 10 years of software development & coding experience

Experience with Infrastructure as Code development (Automation, CICD) AWS CloudFormation, AWS CodeBuild, CodeDeploy are a must have. 

Experience troubleshooting AWS policy or permissions related errors during resource deployments \

Programming experience; preferred Python, PowerShell, bash development experience \

Have Experience with application build automation tools like Apache Maven, Jenkins, Concourse, and Git supporting continuous integration / continuous deployment capabilities (CI/CD) à GitHub and GitHub actions for deployments are must-have skills (Maven, Jenkins, etc. are nice to have)

Have configuration management experience (Chef, Puppet, or Ansible)

Worked in a Development Shop or have SDLC hands on Experience

Familiar with how to write software, test plans, automate and release using modern development methods

AWS certified at an appropriate level

Job description

Problem Statement-Solution

Only 10% of India speaks English and 90% speak over 25 languages and 1000s of dialects. The internet has largely been in English. A good part of India is now getting internet connectivity thanks to cheap smartphones and Jio. The non-English speaking internet users will balloon to about 600 million users out of the total 750 million internet users in India by 2020. This will make the vernacular segment one of the largest segments in the world - almost 2x the size of the US population. The vernacular segment has very few products that they can use on the internet.

One large human need is that of sharing thoughts and connecting with people of the same community on the basis of language and common interests. Twitter serves this need globally but the experience is mostly in English. There’s a large unaddressed need for these vernacular users to express themselves in their mother tongue and connect with others from their community. Koo is a solution to this problem.

About Koo

Koo was founded in March 2020, as a micro-blogging platform in both Indian languages and English, which gives a voice to the millions of Indians who communicate in Indian languages.

Currently available in Assamese, Bengali, English, Hindi, Kannada, Marathi, Tamil and Telugu, Koo enables people from across India to express themselves online in their mother tongues. In a country where under 10% of the population speaks English as a native language, Koo meets the need for a social media platform that can deliver an immersive language experience to an Indian user, thereby enabling them to connect and interact with each other. The recently introduced ‘Talk to Type’ enables users to leverage the voice assistant to share their thoughts without having to type. In August 2021, Koo crossed 10 million downloads, in just 16 months of launch.

Since June 2021, Koo is available in Nigeria.

1. 
   Founding Team

Koo is founded by veteran internet entrepreneurs - Aprameya Radhakrishna (CEO, Taxiforsure) and Mayank Bidawatka (Co-founder, Goodbox & Coreteam, redBus).

Technology Team & Culture

The technology team comprises sharp coders, technology geeks and guys who have been entrepreneurs or are entrepreneurial and extremely passionate towards technology. Talent is coming from the likes of Google, Walmart, Redbus, Dailyhunt. Anyone being part of a technology team will have a lot to learn from their peers and mentors. Download our android app and take a look at what we’ve built. Technology stack compromises of a wide variety of cutting-edge technologies like Kotlin, Java 15, Reactive Programming, MongoDB, Cassandra, Kubernetes, AWS, NodeJS, Python, ReactJS, Redis, Aerospike, ML, Deep learning etc. We believe in giving a lot of independence and autonomy to ownership-driven individuals.

Technology skill sets required for a matching profile 

• Experience between 3 to 7 years in a devops role with mandatory one or more stints at a fast paced startup.
• Mandatory experience with containers, kubernetes (EKS) (setting up from scratch), istio and microservices.
• Sound knowledge of technologies like Terraform, Automation Scripts, Cron jobs etc. Must have worked with goals of putting infra as code like setting up new environments with code.
• Knowledge of industry standards around monitoring, alerting, self healing, high availability, auto scaling etc.
• Exhaustive experience with various cloud technologies (especially on AWS) like SQS, SNS, Elastic Search, Elastic Cache, Elastic Transcoder, VPC, Subnets, Security groups etc.
• Must have set up stable CI-CD pipelines with capabilities to do zero downtime deployments on any one of rolling updates, blue green or canary modes.
• Experience with VPN and LDAP solutions for securely login to infrastructure and proving SSO. 8. Master of deploying and troubleshooting all layers of application from network, frontend, backend and databases (MongoDB, Redis, Postgres, Cassandra, ElasticSearch, Aerospike etc).