Devops Engineer

• Location: Mohali, India
• Experience: 4-8 Years
• Positions: 1
• Salary: 4-8 lacs per annum

Telephonic Interview: Not Available

Location :  Mohali

Type : Work From Office

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage a team of IT administrators, providing guidance, support, and mentorship to ensure their professional growth and development.
• Oversee the maintenance and upkeep of our technology infrastructure, including servers, networks, and software applications.
• Good knowledge of Linux Ubuntu.
• Knowledge of Web server Apache, Nginx etc
• Understanding of docker and Kubernetes Containers.

NOTE : Immediate Joiner will be preferred

About the Company:

Gruve is an innovative Software Services startup dedicated to empowering Enterprise Customers in managing their Data Life Cycle. We specialize in Cyber Security, Customer Experience, Infrastructure, and advanced technologies such as Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. Our mission is to assist our customers in their business strategies utilizing their data to make more intelligent decisions. As an well-funded early-stage startup, Gruve offers a dynamic environment with strong customer and partner networks.

Why Gruve:

At Gruve, we foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive and contribute their best work. If you’re passionate about technology and eager to make an impact, we’d love to hear from you.

Gruve is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and thank all who apply; however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

Position summary:

We are seeking a Staff Engineer – DevOps with 8-12 years of experience in designing, implementing, and optimizing CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and automation frameworks. The ideal candidate will have expertise in Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, Security, Observability, and Cloud Platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP). You will play a key role in scaling and securing our infrastructure, improving developer productivity, and ensuring high availability and performance. 

Key Roles & Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, ArgoCD, and Tekton.
• Deploy and manage Kubernetes clusters (EKS, AKS, GKE) and containerized workloads.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning using Terraform, Ansible, Pulumi, or CloudFormation.
• Implement observability and monitoring solutions using Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, OpenTelemetry, or Datadog.
• Ensure security best practices in DevOps, including IAM, secrets management, container security, and vulnerability scanning.
• Optimize cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP) for performance, cost efficiency, and scalability.
• Develop and manage GitOps workflows and infrastructure-as-code (IaC) automation.
• Implement zero-downtime deployment strategies, including blue-green deployments, canary releases, and feature flags.
• Work closely with development teams to optimize build pipelines, reduce deployment time, and improve system reliability. 

Basic Qualifications:

• A bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, electronics engineering or a related field
• 8-12 years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or Infrastructure Automation.
• Strong expertise in CI/CD pipelines, version control (Git), and release automation.
•  Hands-on experience with Kubernetes (EKS, AKS, GKE) and container orchestration.
• Proficiency in Terraform, Ansible for infrastructure automation.
• Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP services (EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, Lambda, API Gateway, etc.).
• Expertise in monitoring/logging tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, OpenTelemetry, or Datadog.
• Strong scripting and automation skills in Python, Bash, or Go.

Preferred Qualifications  

• Experience in FinOps Cloud Cost Optimization) and Kubernetes cluster scaling.
• Exposure to serverless architectures and event-driven workflows.
• Contributions to open-source DevOps projects. 

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or a related field

• Experience in designing and maintaining high volume and scalable micro-services architecture on cloud infrastructure

• Knowledge in Linux/Unix Administration and Python/Shell Scripting

• Experience working with cloud platforms like AWS (EC2, ELB, S3, Auto-scaling, VPC, Lambda), GCP, Azure

• Knowledge in deployment automation, Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (Jenkins, Maven, Puppet, Chef, GitLab) and monitoring tools like Zabbix, Cloud Watch Monitoring, Nagios Knowledge of Java Virtual Machines, Apache Tomcat, Nginx, Apache Kafka, Microservices architecture, Caching mechanisms

• Experience in enterprise application development, maintenance and operations

• Knowledge of best practices and IT operations in an always-up, always-available service

• Excellent written and oral communication skills, judgment and decision-making skills

About Kiru:

Kiru is a forward-thinking payments startup on a mission to revolutionise the digital payments landscape in Africa and beyond. Our innovative solutions will reshape how people transact, making payments safer, faster, and more accessible. Join us on our journey to redefine the future of payments.

Position Overview:

We are searching for a highly skilled and motivated DevOps Engineer to join our dynamic team in Pune, India. As a DevOps Engineer at Kiru, you will play a critical role in ensuring our payment infrastructure's reliability, scalability, and security.

Key Responsibilities:

• Utilize your expertise in technology infrastructure configuration to manage and automate infrastructure effectively.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Software Developers and technology management, to design and implement robust and efficient DevOps solutions.
• Configure and maintain a secure backend environment focusing on network isolation and VPN access.
• Implement and manage monitoring solutions like ZipKin, Jaeger, New Relic, or DataDog and visualisation and alerting solutions like Prometheus and Grafana.
• Work closely with developers to instrument code for visualisation and alerts, ensuring system performance and stability.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of development and deployment pipelines.
• Collaborate on the selection and implementation of appropriate DevOps tools and technologies.
• Troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure and deployment issues promptly to minimize downtime.
• Stay up-to-date with emerging DevOps trends and best practices.
• Create and maintain comprehensive documentation related to DevOps processes and configurations.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent work experience).
• Proven experience as a DevOps Engineer or in a similar role.
• Experience configuring infrastructure on Microsoft Azure
• Experience with Kubernetes as a container orchestration technology
• Experience with Terraform and Azure ARM or Bicep templates for infrastructure provisioning and management.
• Experience configuring and maintaining secure backend environments, including network isolation and VPN access.
• Proficiency in setting up and managing monitoring and visualization tools such as ZipKin, Jaeger, New Relic, DataDog, Prometheus, and Grafana.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with developers to instrument code for visualization and alerts.
• Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills.
• A proactive and self-motivated approach to work.

Desired Skills:

• Experience with Azure Kubernetes Services and managing identities across Azure services.
• Previous experience in a financial or payment systems environment.

About Kiru:

At Kiru, we believe that success is achieved through collaboration. We recognise that every team member has a vital role to play, and it's the partnerships we build within our organisation that drive our customers' success and our growth as a business.

We are more than just a team; we are a close-knit partnership. By bringing together diverse talents and fostering powerful collaborations, we innovate, share knowledge, and continually learn from one another. We take pride in our daily achievements but never stop challenging ourselves and supporting each other. Together, we reach new heights and envision a brighter future.

Regardless of your career journey, we provide the guidance and resources you need to thrive. You will have everything required to excel through training programs, mentorship, and ongoing support. At Kiru, your success is our success, and that success matters because we are the essential partners for the world's most critical businesses. These companies manufacture, transport, and supply the world's essential goods.

Equal Opportunities and Accommodations Statement:

Kiru is committed to fostering a workplace and global community where inclusion is celebrated and where you can bring your authentic selfbecause that's who we're interested in. If you are interested in this role but don't meet every qualification in the job description, don't hesitate to apply. We are an equal opportunity employer.

Kutumb is the first and largest communities platform for Bharat. We are growing at an exponential trajectory. More than 1 Crore users use Kutumb to connect with their community. We are backed by world-class VCs and angel investors. We are growing and looking for exceptional Infrastructure Engineers to join our Engineering team.

More on this here - https://kutumbapp.com/why-join-us.html">https://kutumbapp.com/why-join-us.html

We’re excited if you have:

• Recent experience designing and building unified observability platforms that enable companies to use the sometimes-overwhelming amount of available data (metrics, logs, and traces) to determine quickly if their application or service is operating as desired
• Expertise in deploying and using open-source observability tools in large-scale environments, including Prometheus, Grafana, ELK (ElasticSearch + Logstash + Kibana), Jaeger, Kiali, and/or Loki
• Familiarity with open standards like OpenTelemetry, OpenTracing, and OpenMetrics
• Familiarity with Kubernetes and Istio as the architecture on which the observability platform runs, and how they integrate and scale. Additionally, the ability to contribute improvements back to the joint platform for the benefit of all teams
• Demonstrated customer engagement and collaboration skills to curate custom dashboards and views, and identify and deploy new tools, to meet their requirements
• The drive and self-motivation to understand the intricate details of a complex infrastructure environment 
• Using CICD tools to automatically perform canary analysis and roll out changes after passing automated gates (think Argo & keptn)
• Hands-on experience working with AWS 
• Bonus points for knowledge of ETL pipelines and Big data architecture
• Great problem-solving skills & takes pride in your work
• Enjoys building scalable and resilient systems, with a focus on systems that are robust by design and suitably monitored
• Abstracting all of the above into as simple of an interface as possible (like Knative) so developers don't need to know about it unless they choose to open the escape hatch

What you’ll be doing:

• Design and build automation around the chosen tools to make onboarding new services easy for developers (dashboards, alerts, traces, etc)
• Demonstrate great communication skills in working with technical and non-technical audiences
• Contribute new open-source tools and/or improvements to existing open-source tools back to the CNCF ecosystem

Tools we use:

Kops, Argo, Prometheus/ Loki/ Grafana, Kubernetes, AWS, MySQL/ PostgreSQL, Apache Druid, Cassandra, Fluentd, Redis, OpenVPN, MongoDB, ELK

What we offer:

• High pace of learning
• Opportunity to build the product from scratch
• High autonomy and ownership
• A great and ambitious team to work with
• Opportunity to work on something that really matters
• Top of the class market salary and meaningful ESOP ownership

As an Infrastructure Engineer at Navi, you will be building a resilient infrastructure platform, using modern Infrastructure engineering practices.

You will be responsible for the availability, scaling, security, performance and monitoring of the navi Cloud platform. You’ll be joining a team that follows best practices in infrastructure as code

• Build out the Infrastructure components like API Gateway, Service Mesh, Service Discovery, container orchestration platform like kubernetes.
• Developing reusable Infrastructure code and testing frameworks
• Build meaningful abstractions to hide the complexities of provisioning modern infrastructure components
• Design a scalable Centralized Logging and Metrics platform
• Drive solutions to reduce Mean Time To Recovery(MTTR), enable High Availability.

• Good to have experience in managing large scale cloud infrastructure, preferable AWS and Kubernetes
• Experience in developing applications using programming languages like Java, Python and Go
• Experience in handling logs and metrics at a high scale.
• Systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with strong communication skills and a sense of ownership and drive.