
Who we are :
Stanza Living is India's largest and fastest growing tech-enabled, managed accommodation company that delivers a hospitality-led living experience to migrant students and young working professionals across India. We have a full-stack business model that focuses on design, development and delivery of daily living solutions tailored to the young consumers' lifestyle. From smartly-planned residences, host of amenities and services for hassle-free living to exclusive community engagement programmes - everything is seamlessly integrated through technology to ensure the highest consumer delight.
Today, we are :
- India's largest managed accommodation company with over 75,000+ beds under management across 25+ cities
- Most capitalized player in the managed accommodation space, backed by global marquee investors - Falcon Edge, Equity International, Sequoia Capital, Matrix Partners, Accel Partners
- Recognized as the Best Real Estate Tech company across the Globe in 2020 by leading analysis agency, Tracxn
- LinkedIn Top Startup to Work for - 2019
Objectives of this role :
- Work in tandem with our engineering team to identify and implement the most optimal cloud-based solutions for the company
- Define and document best practices and strategies regarding application deployment and infrastructure maintenance
- Provide guidance, thought leadership, and mentorship to developer teams to build their cloud competencies
- Ensure application performance, uptime, and scale, maintaining high standards for code quality and thoughtful design
- Manage cloud environments in accordance with company security guidelines
Job Description :
- Excellent understanding of Cloud Platform (AWS)
- Strong knowledge on AWS Services, design, configuration on enterprise systems
- Good knowledge on Kubernetes configuration, Dockers
- Understanding the needs of the business for defining AWS system specifications
- Understand Architecture Requirements and ensure effective support activities
- Evaluation and choosing suitable AWS Service or and suggesting methods for integration
- Overseeing assigned programs and guiding the team members
- Providing assistance when technical problems arise
- Making sure the agreed infrastructure and architecture are implemented
- Addressing the technical concerns, suggestions, and ideas
- Configure Monitoring systems to make sure they meet business goals as well as user requirements
- Excellent knowledge of AWS IaaS Layer
- Ability to lead & implement PS workloads or POCs
- Ensure continual knowledge management

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True to its name, is on a mission to unlock $100+ billion of trapped working capital in the economy by creating India’s largest marketplace for invoice discounting to solve the day-to-day. problems faced by businesses. Founded by ex-BCG and ISB / IIM alumni, and backed by SAIF Partners, CashFlo helps democratize access to credit in a fair and transparent manner. Awarded Supply Chain Finance solution of the year in 2019, CashFlo creates a win-win ecosystem for Buyers, suppliers
and financiers through its unique platform model. CashFlo shares its parentage with HCS Ltd., a 25 year old, highly reputed financial services company has raised over Rs. 15,000 Crores in the market till date,
for over 200 corporate clients.
Our leadership team consists of ex-BCG, ISB / IIM alumni with a team of industry veterans from financial services serving as the advisory board. We bring to the table deep insights in the SME lending
space, based on 100+ years of combined experience in Financial Services. We are a team of passionate problem solvers, and are looking for like-minded people to join our team.
The challenge
Solve a complex $300+ billion problem at the cutting edge of Fintech innovation, and make a tangible difference to the small business landscape in India.Find innovative solutions for problems in a yet to be discovered market.
Key Responsibilities
As an early team member, you will get a chance to set the foundations of our engineering culture. You will help articulate our engineering
principles and help set the long-term roadmap. Making decisions on the evolution of CashFlo's technical architectureBuilding new features end to end, from talking to customers to writing code.
Our Ideal Candidate Will Have
3+ years of full-time DevOps engineering experience
Hands-on experience working with AWS services
Deep understanding of virtualization and orchestration tools like Docker, ECS
Experience in writing Infrastructure as Code using tools like CDK, Cloud formation, Terragrunt or Terraform
Experience using centralized logging & monitoring tools such as ELK, CloudWatch, DataDog
Built monitoring dashboards using Prometheus, Grafana
Built and maintained code pipelines and CI/CD
Thorough knowledge of SDLC
Been part of teams that have maintained large deployments
About You
Product-minded. You have a sense for great user experience and feel for when something is off. You love understanding customer pain points
and solving for them.
Get a lot done. You enjoy all aspects of building a product and are comfortable moving across the stack when necessary. You problem solve
independently and enjoy figuring stuff out.
High conviction. When you commit to something, you're in all the way. You're opinionated, but you know when to disagree and commit.
Mediocrity is the worst of all possible outcomes.
Whats in it for me
Gain exposure to the Fintech space - one of the largest and fastest growing markets in India and globally
Shape India’s B2B Payments landscape through cutting edge technology innovation
Be directly responsible for driving company’s success
Join a high performance, dynamic and collaborative work environment that throws new challenges on a daily basis
Fast track your career with trainings, mentoring, growth opportunities on both IC and management track
Work-life balance and fun team events
Electrum is looking for an experienced and proficient DevOps Engineer. This role will provide you with an opportunity to explore what’s possible in a collaborative and innovative work environment. If your goal is to work with a team of talented professionals that is keenly focused on solving complex business problems and supporting product innovation with technology, you might be our new DevOps Engineer. With this position, you will be involved in building out systems for our rapidly expanding team, enabling the whole engineering group to operate more effectively and iterate at top speed in an open, collaborative environment. The ideal candidate will have a solid background in software engineering and a vivid experience in deploying product updates, identifying production issues, and implementing integrations. The ideal candidate has proven capabilities and experience in risk-taking, is willing to take up challenges, and is a strong believer in efficiency and innovation with exceptional communication and documentation skills.
YOU WILL:
- Plan for future infrastructure as well as maintain & optimize the existing infrastructure.
- Conceptualize, architect, and build:
- 1. Automated deployment pipelines in a CI/CD environment like Jenkins;
- 2. Infrastructure using Docker, Kubernetes, and other serverless platforms;
- 3. Secured network utilizing VPCs with inputs from the security team.
- Work with developers & QA team to institute a policy of Continuous Integration with Automated testing Architect, build and manage dashboards to provide visibility into delivery, production application functional, and performance status.
- Work with developers to institute systems, policies, and workflows which allow for a rollback of deployments.
- Triage release of applications/ Hotfixes to the production environment on a daily basis.
- Interface with developers and triage SQL queries that need to be executed in production environments.
- Maintain 24/7 on-call rotation to respond and support troubleshooting of issues in production.
- Assist the developers and on calls for other teams with a postmortem, follow up and review of issues affecting production availability.
- Scale Electum platform to handle millions of requests concurrently.
- Reduce Mean Time To Recovery (MTTR), enable High Availability and Disaster Recovery
PREREQUISITES:
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, or related field, or equivalent work experience.
- Minimum of six years of hands-on experience in software development and DevOps, specifically managing AWS Infrastructures such as EC2s, RDS, Elastic cache, S3, IAM, cloud trail, and other services provided by AWS.
- At least 2 years of experience in building and owning serverless infrastructure.
- At least 2 years of scripting experience in Python (Preferable) and Shell Web Application Deployment Systems Continuous Integration tools (Ansible).
- Experience building a multi-region highly available auto-scaling infrastructure that optimizes performance and cost.
- Experience in automating the provisioning of AWS infrastructure as well as automation of routine maintenance tasks.
- Must have prior experience automating deployments to production and lower environments.
- Worked on providing solutions for major automation with scripts or infrastructure.
- Experience with APM tools such as DataDog and log management tools.
- Experience in designing and implementing Essential Functions System Architecture Process; establishing and enforcing Network Security Policy (AWS VPC, Security Group) & ACLs.
- Experience establishing and enforcing:
- 1. System monitoring tools and standards
- 2. Risk Assessment policies and standards
- 3. Escalation policies and standards
- Excellent DevOps engineering, team management, and collaboration skills.
- Advanced knowledge of programming languages such as Python and writing code and scripts.
- Experience or knowledge in - Application Performance Monitoring (APM), and prior experience as an open-source contributor will be preferred.
Looking for an experienced candidate with strong development and programming experience, knowledge preferred-
- Cloud computing (i.e. Kubernetes, AWS, Google Cloud, Azure)
- Coming from a strong development background and has programming experience with Java and/or NodeJS (other programming languages such as Groovy/python are a big bonus)
- Proficient with Unix systems and bash
- Proficient with git/GitHub/GitLab/bitbucket
Desired skills-
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Jenkins
- Experience in any scripting language (Phyton, Shell Scripting, Java Script)
- NGINX / Load Balancer
- Splunk / ETL tools
Required qualifications and must have skills
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5+ years of experience managing a team of 5+ infrastructure software engineers
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5+ years of experience in building and scaling technical infrastructure
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5+ years of experience in delivering software
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Experience leading by influence in multi-team, cross-functional projects
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Demonstrated experience recruiting and managing technical teams, including performance management and managing engineers
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Experience with cloud service providers such as AWS, GCP, or Azure
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Experience with containerization technologies such as Kubernetes and Docker
Nice to have Skills
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Experience with Hadoop, Hive and Presto
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Application/infrastructure benchmarking and optimization
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Familiarity with modern CI/CD practices
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Familiarity with reliability best practices
- Collaborate with Dev, QA and Data Science teams on environment maintenance, monitoring (ELK, Prometheus or equivalent), deployments and diagnostics
- Administer a hybrid datacenter, including AWS and EC2 cloud assets
- Administer, automate and troubleshoot container based solutions deployed on AWS ECS
- Be able to troubleshoot problems and provide feedback to engineering on issues
- Automate deployment (Ansible, Python), build (Git, Maven. Make, or equivalent) and integration (Jenkins, Nexus) processes
- Learn and administer technologies such as ELK, Hadoop etc.
- A self-starter and enthusiasm to learn and pick up new technologies in a fast-paced environment.
Need to have
- Hands-on Experience in Cloud based DevOps
- Experience working in AWS (EC2, S3, CloudFront, ECR, ECS etc)
- Experience with any programming language.
- Experience using Ansible, Docker, Jenkins, Kubernetes
- Experience in Python.
- Should be very comfortable working in Linux/Unix environment.
- Exposure to Shell Scripting.
- Solid troubleshooting skills
Roles and Responsibilities
- Primary stakeholder collaborating with Dir Engineering on software/infrastructure architecture, monitoring/alerting framework and all other architectural level technical issues
- Design and manage implementation of Silvermine’s high performance, scalable, extensible and resilient microservices application stack based of existing, partially migrated monolithic application and for new product development. Includes:
- Utilizing either ECS Fargate (no EC2 clusters) or EKS as the orchestration framework – to be tested up to a minimum of 100k concurrent users
- Exploring, designing and implementing use of on demand compute (Lambda) where appropriate
- Scalable and redundant data architecture supporting microservices design principles
- A scalable reverse proxy layer to isolate microservices from managing network connections
- Utilizing CDN capabilities to offload origin load via an intelligent caching strategy
- Leveraging best in breed AWS service offerings to enable team to focus on application stack instead of application scaffolding while minimizing operational complexity and cost
- Monitoring and optimizing of stack for
- Security and monitoring
- Leverage AWS and 3rd party services to monitor the application stack and data; secure them from DDOS attacks and security breaches; and alert the team in the vent of an incident
- Using APM and logging tools:
- Monitor application stack and infrastructure component performance
- Proactively detect, triage and mitigate stack performance issues
- Alert upon exception events
- Provide triaging tools for debugging and Root Cause Analysis.
- Enhance the CI/CD pipeline to support automated testing, a resilient deployment model (e.g., blue-green, canary) and 100% rollback support (including the data layer)
- Development a comprehensive, supportable, repeatable IAC implementation using CloudFormation or Terraform
- Take a leadership role and exhibit expertise in the development of standards, architectural governance, design patterns, best practices and optimization of existing architecture.
- Partner with teams and leaders to provide strategic consultation for business process design/optimization, creating strategic technology road maps, performing rapid prototyping and implementing technical solutions to accelerate the fulfillment of the business strategic vision.
- Staying up to date on emerging technologies (AI, Automation, Cloud etc.) and trends with a clear focus on productivity, ease of use and fit-for-purpose, by researching, testing, and evaluating.
- Providing POCs and product implementation guidelines.
- Applying imagination and innovation by creating, inventing, and implementing new or better approaches, alternatives and breakthrough ideas that are valued by customers within the function.
- Assessing current state of solutions, defining future state needs, identifying gaps and recommending new technology solutions and strategic business execution improvements.
- Overseeing and facilitating the evaluation and selection technology, product standards and the design of standard configurations/implementation patterns.
- Partnering with other architects and solution owners to create standards and set strategies for the enterprise.
- Communicating directly with business colleagues on applying digital workplace technologies to solve identified business challenges.
Skills Required:
- Good mentorship skills to coach and guide the team on AWS DevOps.
- Jenkins, Python, Pipeline as Code, Cloud Formation Templates and Terraform.
- Experience with Dockers, Containers, Lambda and Fargate is a must
- Experience with CI/CD and Release management
- Strong proficiency in PowerShell scripting
- Demonstrable expertise in Java
- Familiarity with REST APIs
Qualifications:
- Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience in Devops.
- Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science or equivalent degree.
- AWS Certifications is added advantage
Job description
The role requires you to design development pipelines from the ground up, Creation of Docker Files, design and operate highly available systems in AWS Cloud environments. Also involves Configuration Management, Web Services Architectures, DevOps Implementation, Database management, Backups, and Monitoring.
Key responsibility area
- Ensure reliable operation of CI/CD pipelines
- Orchestrate the provisioning, load balancing, configuration, monitoring and billing of resources in the cloud environment in a highly automated manner
- Logging, metrics and alerting management.
- Creation of Bash/Python scripts for automation
- Performing root cause analysis for production errors.Requirement
- Proficient in Linux Commands line and troubleshooting.
- Proficient in AWS Services. Deployment, Monitoring and troubleshooting applications in AWS.
- Hands-on experience with CI tooling preferably with Jenkins.
- Proficient in deployment using Ansible.
- Knowledge of infrastructure management tools (Infrastructure as cloud) such as terraform, AWS cloudformation etc.
- Proficient in deployment of applications behind load balancers and proxy servers such as nginx, apache.
- Scripting languages: Bash, Python, Groovy.
- Experience with Logging, Monitoring, and Alerting tools like ELK(Elastic-search, Logstash, Kibana), Nagios. Graylog, splunk Prometheus, Grafana is a plus.
Must Have:
Linux, CI/CD(Jenkin), AWS, Scripting(Bash,shell Python, Go), Ngnix, Docker.
Good to have
Configuration Management(Ansible or similar tool), Logging tool( ELK or similar), Monitoring tool(Ngios or similar), IaC(Terraform, cloudformation).
Location: Bengaluru
Department: DevOps
We are looking for extraordinary infrastructure engineers to build a world class
cloud platform that scales to millions of users. You must have experience
building key portions of a highly scalable infrastructure using Amazon AWS and
should know EC2, S3, EMR like the back of your hand. You must enjoy working
in a fast-paced startup and enjoy wearing multiple hats to get the job done.
Responsibilities
● Manage AWS server farm Own AWS infrastructure automation and
support.
● Own production deployments in multiple AWS environments
● End-end backend engineering infra charter includes Dev ops,Global
deployment, Security and compliances according to latest practices.
Ability to guide the team in debugging production issues and write
best-of-the breed code.
● Drive “engineering excellence” (defects, productivity through automation,
performance of products etc) through clearly defined metrics.
● Stay current with the latest tools, technology ideas and methodologies;
share knowledge by clearly articulating results and ideas to key decision
makers.
● Hiring, mentoring and retaining a very talented team.
Requirements
● B.S. or M.S in Computer Science or a related field (math, physics,
engineering)
● 5-8 years of experience in maintaining infrastructure system/devops
● Enjoy playing with tech like nginx, haproxy, postgres, AWS, ansible,
docker, nagios, or graphite Deployment automation experience with
Puppet/Chef/Ansible/Salt Stack Work with small, tightly knit product
teams that function cohesively to move as quickly as possible.
● Determination to provide reliable and fault tolerant systems to the
application developers that consume them
● Experience in developing Java/C++ backend systems is a huge plus Be a
strong team player.
Preferred
Deep working knowledge of Linux servers and networked environments
Thorough understanding of distributed systems and the protocols they use,
including TCP/IP, RESTful APIs, SQL, NoSQL. Experience in managing a NoSQL
database (Cassandra) is a huge plus.
- You have experience of 2-4 years in building high-performance consumer-facing mobile applications at Product companies of a decent scale.
- You can write code preferably in Golang and Python.
- You have experience with debugging production issues and writing RCAs.
- You have demonstrable stories of being on-call and how outages have been handled.
- You have experience developing products on Kubernetes and cloud providers like GCP and AWS.
- You have worked with Cloud Native (CNCF) technologies.
- You have experience automating CI/CD pipelines.
- You are an excellent collaborator & communicator. You know that start-ups are a team sport.
- You listen to others, aren’t afraid to speak your mind and always try to ask the right questions.
- You are excited by the prospect of working in a distributed team and company
- GCP Cloud experience mandatory
- CICD - Azure DevOps
- IaC tools – Terraform
- Experience with IAM / Access Management within cloud
- Networking / Firewalls
- Kubernetes / Helm / Istio

