Devops Engineer/Manager/Lead

About the Job

This is a full-time role for a Lead DevOps Engineer at Spark Eighteen. We are seeking an experienced DevOps professional to lead our infrastructure strategy, design resilient systems, and drive continuous improvement in our deployment processes. In this role, you will architect scalable solutions, mentor junior engineers, and ensure the highest standards of reliability and security across our cloud infrastructure. The job location is flexible with preference for the Delhi NCR region.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor the DevOps/SRE team
• Define and drive DevOps strategy and roadmaps
• Oversee infrastructure automation and CI/CD at scale
• Collaborate with architects, developers, and QA teams to integrate DevOps practices
• Ensure security, compliance, and high availability of platforms
• Own incident response, postmortems, and root cause analysis
• Budgeting, team hiring, and performance evaluation

Requirements

Technical Skills

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 7+ years of professional DevOps experience with demonstrated progression.
• Strong architecture and leadership background
• Deep hands-on knowledge of infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and cloud
• Proven experience with monitoring, security, and governance
• Effective stakeholder and project management
• Experience with tools like Jenkins, ArgoCD, Terraform, Vault, ELK, etc.
• Strong understanding of business continuity and disaster recovery

Soft Skills

• Cross-functional communication excellence with ability to lead technical discussions.
• Strong mentorship capabilities for junior and mid-level team members.
• Advanced strategic thinking and ability to propose innovative solutions.
• Excellent knowledge transfer skills through documentation and training.
• Ability to understand and align technical solutions with broader business strategy.
• Proactive problem-solving approach with focus on continuous improvement.
• Strong leadership skills in guiding team performance and technical direction.
• Effective collaboration across development, QA, and business teams.
• Ability to make complex technical decisions with minimal supervision.
• Strategic approach to risk management and mitigation.

What We Offer

• Professional Growth: Continuous learning opportunities through diverse projects and mentorship from experienced leaders
• Global Exposure: Work with clients from 20+ countries, gaining insights into different markets and business cultures
• Impactful Work: Contribute to projects that make a real difference, with solutions generating over $1B in revenue
• Work-Life Balance: Flexible arrangements that respect personal wellbeing while fostering productivity
• Career Advancement: Clear progression pathways as you develop skills within our growing organization
• Competitive Compensation: Attractive salary packages that recognize your contributions and expertise

Our Culture

At Spark Eighteen, our culture centers on innovation, excellence, and growth. We believe in:

• Quality-First: Delivering excellence rather than just quick solutions
• True Partnership: Building relationships based on trust and mutual respect
• Communication: Prioritizing clear, effective communication across teams
• Innovation: Encouraging curiosity and creative approaches to problem-solving
• Continuous Learning: Supporting professional development at all levels
• Collaboration: Combining diverse perspectives to achieve shared goals
• Impact: Measuring success by the value we create for clients and users

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Key Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and maintain scalable, secure, and cost-effective infrastructure on AWS and Azure
• Set up and manage CI/CD pipelines for smooth code integration and delivery using tools like GitHub Actions, Bitbucket Runners, AWS Code build/deploy, Azure DevOps, etc.
• Containerize applications using Docker and manage orchestration with Kubernetes, ECS, Fargate, AWS EKS, Azure AKS.
• Manage and monitor production deployments to ensure high availability and performance
• Implement and manage CDN solutions using AWS CloudFront and Azure Front Door for optimal content delivery and latency reduction
• Define and apply caching strategies at application, CDN, and reverse proxy layers for performance and scalability
• Set up and manage reverse proxies and Cloudflare WAF to ensure application security and performance
• Implement infrastructure as code (IaC) using Terraform, CloudFormation, or ARM templates
• Administer and optimize databases (RDS, PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc.) including backups, scaling, and monitoring
• Configure and maintain VPCs, subnets, routing, VPNs, and security groups for secure and isolated network setups
• Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting using tools like CloudWatch, Grafana, ELK, or Azure Monitor
• Collaborate with development and QA teams to align infrastructure with application needs
• Troubleshoot infrastructure and deployment issues efficiently and proactively
• Ensure cloud cost optimization and usage tracking

Required Skills & Experience:

• 3-4 years of hands-on experience in a DevOps
• Strong expertise with both AWS and Azure cloud platforms
• Proficient in Git, branching strategies, and pull request workflows
• Deep understanding of CI/CD concepts and experience with pipeline tools
• Proficiency in Docker, container orchestration (Kubernetes, ECS/EKS/AKS)
• Good knowledge of relational databases and experience in managing DB backups, performance, and migrations
• Experience with networking concepts including VPC, subnets, firewalls, VPNs, etc.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform preferred)
• Strong working knowledge of CDN technologies: AWS CloudFront and Azure Front Door
• Understanding of caching strategies: edge caching, browser caching, API caching, and reverse proxy-level caching
• Experience with Cloudflare WAF, reverse proxy setups, SSL termination, and rate-limiting
• Familiarity with Linux system administration, scripting (Bash, Python), and automation tools
• Working knowledge of monitoring and logging tools
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills

Good to Have (Bonus Points):

• Experience with serverless architecture (e.g., AWS Lambda, Azure Functions)
• Exposure to cost monitoring tools like CloudHealth, Azure Cost Management
• Experience with compliance/security best practices (SOC2, ISO, etc.)
• Familiarity with Service Mesh (Istio, Linkerd) and API gateways
• Knowledge of Secrets Management tools (e.g., HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager)

Intuitive is the fastest growing top-tier Cloud Solutions and Services company supporting Global Enterprise Customer across Americas, Europe and Middle East.

Intuitive is looking for highly talented hands-on Cloud Infrastructure Architects to help accelerate our growing Professional Services consulting Cloud & DevOps practice. This is an excellent opportunity to join Intuitive’ s global world class technology teams, working with some of the best and brightest engineers while also developing your skills and furthering your career working with some of the largest customers.

• Integrate gates into CI/CD pipeline and push all flaws/issues to developers IDE (as far left as possible) - ideally in code repo but required by the time code is in the artifact repository.

• Demonstrable experience in Containerization-Docker and orchestration (Kubernetes)     
• Experience withsetting up self-managed Kubernetes clusters without using any managed cloud offerings like EKS 
• Experience working withAWS - Managing AWS services - EC2, S3, Cloudfront, VPC, SNS, Lambda, AWS Autoscaling, AWS IAM, RDS, EBS, Kinesis, SQS, DynamoDB, Elastic Cache, Redshift, Cloudwatch, Amazon Inspector. 

• Familiarity withLinux and UNIX systems (e.g. CentOS, RedHat) and command line system administration such as Bash, VIM, SSH.
• Hands on experience in configuration management of server farms (using tools such asPuppet, Chef, Ansible, etc.,).

• Demonstrated understanding of ITIL methodologies, ITIL v3 or v4 certification
• Kubernetes CKA or CKAD certification nice to have

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 also 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.

This would be a hybrid role and the person would be expected to also do some application level programming in their downtime.

Responsibilities

• Deployment, automation, management, and maintenance of production systems.
• Ensuring availability, performance, security, and scalability of production systems.
• Evaluation of new technology alternatives and vendor products.
• System troubleshooting and problem resolution across various application domains and platforms.
• Providing recommendations for architecture and process improvements.
• Definition and deployment of systems for metrics, logging, and monitoring on AWS platform.
• Manage the establishment and configuration of SaaS infrastructure in an agile way by storing infrastructure as code and employing automated configuration management tools with a goal to be able to re-provision environments at any point in time.
• Be accountable for proper backup and disaster recovery procedures.
• Drive operational cost reductions through service optimizations and demand based auto scaling.
• Have on call responsibilities.
• Perform root cause analysis for production errors
• Uses open source technologies and tools to accomplish specific use cases encountered within the project.
• Uses coding languages or scripting methodologies to solve a problem with a custom workflow.

Requirements

• Systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with strong communication skills and a sense of ownership and drive.

• Prior experience as a software developer in a couple of high level programming languages.

• Extensive experience in any Javascript based framework since we will be deploying services to NodeJS on AWS Lambda (Serverless)

• Extensive experience with web servers such as Nginx/Apache

• Strong Linux system administration background.
• Ability to present and communicate the architecture in a visual form.
• Strong knowledge of AWS (e.g. IAM, EC2, VPC, ELB, ALB, Autoscaling, Lambda, NAT gateway, DynamoDB)
• Experience maintaining and deploying highly-available, fault-tolerant systems at scale (~ 1 Lakh users a day)
• A drive towards automating repetitive tasks (e.g. scripting via Bash, Python, Ruby, etc)
• Expertise with Git
• Experience implementing CI/CD (e.g. Jenkins, TravisCI)
• Strong experience with databases such as MySQL, NoSQL, Elasticsearch, Redis and/or Mongo.
• Stellar troubleshooting skills with the ability to spot issues before they become problems.
• Current with industry trends, IT ops and industry best practices, and able to identify the ones we should implement.
• Time and project management skills, with the capability to prioritize and multitask as needed.