Devops Engineer (Contractual)

Job Summary :

We are looking for a proactive and skilled Senior DevOps Engineer to join our team and play a key role in building, managing, and scaling infrastructure for high-performance systems. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Docker, Python scripting, cloud platforms, and DevOps practices around CI/CD, monitoring, and incident response.

Key Responsibilities :

- Design, build, and maintain scalable, reliable, and secure infrastructure on cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure).

- Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools like Terraform, Cloud Formation, or similar.

- Manage Kubernetes clusters, configure namespaces, services, deployments, and auto scaling.

CI/CD & Release Management :

- Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines for automated testing, building, and deployment of services.

- Collaborate with developers to ensure smooth and frequent deployments to production.

- Manage versioning and rollback strategies for critical deployments.

Containerization & Orchestration using Kubernetes :

- Containerize applications using Docker, and manage them using Kubernetes.

- Write automation scripts using Python or Shell for infrastructure tasks, monitoring, and deployment flows.

- Develop utilities and tools to enhance operational efficiency and reliability.

Monitoring & Incident Management :

- Analyze system performance and implement infrastructure scaling strategies based on load and usage trends.

- Optimize application and system performance through proactive monitoring and configuration tuning.

Desired Skills and Experience :

- Experience Required - 8+ yrs.

- Hands-on experience on cloud services like AWS, EKS etc.

- Ability to design a good cloud solution.

- Strong Linux troubleshooting, Shell Scripting, Kubernetes, Docker, Ansible, Jenkins Skills.

- Design and implement the CI/CD pipeline following the best industry practices using open-source tools.

- Use knowledge and research to constantly modernize our applications and infrastructure stacks.

- Be a team player and strong problem-solver to work with a diverse team.

- Having good communication skills.

Role Overview

We are looking for a hands-on DevOps Engineer who will own infrastructure, deployment, reliability, and cloud cost optimisation. You will work closely with backend, AI, and product teams to ensure the platform is secure, scalable, and always available.

This is a high-ownership role with real impact on uptime, performance, and developer velocity.

Key Responsibilities

Infrastructure & Cloud Management

• Design, deploy, and manage cloud infrastructure (GCP preferred; AWS acceptable)
• Manage Compute Engine, Cloud Run, Kubernetes (GKE), Cloud SQL, storage, and networking
• Ensure high availability, fault tolerance, and scalability

CI/CD & Deployment

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for backend and AI services
• Automate deployments, rollbacks, and environment management (dev, staging, prod)
• Improve release reliability and deployment speed

Monitoring, Reliability & Security

• Set up monitoring, alerting, and logging (uptime, CPU, memory, errors, latency)
• Proactively identify and resolve performance bottlenecks and incidents
• Implement security best practices: IAM, secrets management, backups, and access controls

Cost Optimisation & Performance

• Monitor and optimise cloud costs (compute, databases, storage)
• Implement autoscaling, right-sizing, and resource optimisation
• Work with engineering teams to balance performance with cost efficiency

Required Qualifications & Skills

• 3–6 years of hands-on DevOps / Cloud Engineering experience
• Strong experience with GCP (or AWS with willingness to transition)
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and containerised workloads
• Experience with CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or similar)
• Ability to troubleshoot production issues under pressure
• Experience with AI/ML workloads and GPU-based deployments

Job Title: Senior DevOps Engineer

Location: Gurgaon – Sector 39

Work Mode: 5 Days Onsite

Experience: 5+ Years

About the Role

We are looking for an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to build, manage, and maintain highly reliable, scalable, and secure infrastructure. The role involves deploying product updates, handling production issues, implementing customer integrations, and leading DevOps best practices across teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage and maintain production-grade infrastructure ensuring high availability and performance.
• Deploy application updates, patches, and bug fixes across environments.
• Handle Level-2 support and resolve escalated production issues.
• Perform root cause analysis and implement preventive solutions.
• Build automation tools and scripts to improve system reliability and efficiency.
• Develop monitoring, logging, alerting, and reporting systems.
• Ensure secure deployments following data encryption and cybersecurity best practices.
• Collaborate with development, product, and QA teams for smooth releases.
• Lead and mentor a small DevOps team (3–4 engineers).

Core Focus Areas

Server Setup & Management (60%)

• Hands-on management of bare-metal servers.
• Server provisioning, configuration, and lifecycle management.
• Network configuration including redundancy, bonding, and performance tuning.

Queue Systems – Kafka / RabbitMQ (15%)

• Implementation and management of message queues for distributed systems.

Storage Systems – SAN / NAS (15%)

• Setup and management of enterprise storage systems.
• Ensure backup, recovery, and data availability.

Database Knowledge (5%)

• Working experience with Redis, MySQL/PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch.
• Basic database administration and performance tuning.

Telecom Exposure (Good to Have – 5%)

• Experience with SMS, voice systems, or real-time data processing environments.

Technical Skills Required

• Linux administration & Shell scripting
• CI/CD tools – Jenkins
• Git (GitHub / SVN) and branching strategies
• Docker & Kubernetes
• AWS cloud services
• Ansible for configuration management
• Databases: MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB
• Web servers: Apache, Tomcat
• Load balancing & HA: HAProxy, Keepalived
• Monitoring tools: Nagios and related observability stacks

What you’ll be doing at Novo:

● Systems thinking
● Creating best practices, templates, and automation for build, test, integration and
deployment pipelines on multiple projects
● Designing and developing tools for easily creating and managing dev/test infrastructure
and services in AWS cloud
● Providing expertise and guidance on CI/CD, Github, and other development tools via
containerization
● Monitoring and support systems in Dev, UAT and production environments
● Building mock services and production-like data sources for use in development and
testing
● Managing Github integrations, feature flag systems, code coverage tools, and other
development & monitoring tools tools
● Participating in support rotations to help troubleshoot to infrastructure issues

● Creating and working with containers, as well as using container orchestration tools
(Kubernetes / Docker)
● AWS: S3, EKS, EC2, RDS, Route53, VPC etc.
● Fair understanding of Linux
● Good knowledge of CI/CD : Jenkins / CircleCI / Github Actions
● Basic level of monitoring
● Support for Deployment along with various Web Servers and Linux environments , both
backend and frontend.

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

• Good knowledge of at least one language (C#, Java, Python, Go, PHP, Node.js)
• Have enough experience on application and infrastructure architectures
• Design and plan cloud solution architecture
• Design for security, network, and compliances
• Analyze and optimize technical and business processes
• Ensure solution and operational reliability
• Manage and provision cloud infrastructure
• Manage IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS solutions
• Design strategies around cloud governance, migration, Cloud operations and DevOps
• Design highly scalable, available, and reliable cloud applications
• Build and test applications
• Deploy applications on cloud
• Integration with cloud services

Certification:

• Architect level certificate of any cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure)

• Designing and building infrastructure to support AWS, Azure, and GCP-based Cloud services and infrastructure.
• Creating and utilizing tools to monitor our applications and services in the cloud including system health indicators, trend identification, and anomaly detection.
• Working with development teams to help engineer scalable, reliable, and resilient software running in the cloud.
• Participating in on-call escalation to troubleshoot customer-facing issues
• Analyzing and monitoring performance bottlenecks and key metrics to optimize software and system performance.
• Providing analytics and forecasts for cloud capacity, troubleshooting analysis, and uptime.

• Should have strong experience of a couple of years, in leading DevOps team and planning, defining DevOps roadmap and executing as per the same along with the team 
• Familiarity with AWS cloud and JSON templates, Python, AWS Cloud formation templates
• Designing solutions using one or more AWS features, tools, and technologies such as EC2, EBS, Glacier, S3, ELB, CloudFormation, Lambada, CloudWatch, VPC, RDS, Direct Connect, AWS CLI, REST API
• Design and implement system architecture with AWS cloud - Develop automation scripts, ARM templates, Ansible, Chef, Python, Powershell Knowledge of AWS services and cloud design patterns- Knowledge on Cloud fundamentals like autoscaling, serverless
• Have experience with DevOps and Infrastructure as Code: AWS environment and application automation utilizing CloudFormation and third-party tools. CI/CD pipeline setup utilizing
• CI experience with the following is a must: Jenkins, Bitbucket/GIT, Nexus or Artifactory, SonarQube, WireMock or other mocking solution 
• Expert knowledge on Windows/Linux OS/Mac with at least 5-6 years of system administration experience
• Should have strong skills in using JIRA build tool
• Should have knowledge in managing the CI/CD pipeline on public cloud deployments using AWS
• Should have strong skills in using tools like Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes (AWS EKS, Azure AKS), and Cloudformation.
• Experience in monitoring tools like Pingdom, Nagios, etc.
• Experience in reverse proxy services like Nginx and Apache
• Desirable experience in Bitbucket with version control tools like GIT/SVN
• Experience of manual/automated testing desired application deployments
• Experience in database technologies such as PostgreSQL, MySQL
• Knowledge of helm and terraform