Devops Lead

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.

We are looking for a highly skilled DevOps/Cloud Engineer with over 6 years of experience in infrastructure automation, cloud platforms, networking, and security. If you are passionate about designing scalable systems and love solving complex cloud and DevOps challenges—this opportunity is for you.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and manage cloud-native infrastructure using Kubernetes (K8s), Helm, Terraform, and Ansible
• Automate provisioning and orchestration workflows for cloud and hybrid environments
• Manage and optimize deployments on AWS, Azure, and GCP for high availability and cost efficiency
• Troubleshoot and implement advanced network architectures including VPNs, firewalls, load balancers, and routing protocols
• Implement and enforce security best practices: IAM, encryption, compliance, and vulnerability management
• Collaborate with development and operations teams to improve CI/CD workflows and system observability

Required Skills & Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in DevOps, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and cloud-native systems
• Expertise in Helm, Terraform, and Kubernetes
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS and Azure
• Solid understanding of networking, firewall configurations, and security protocols
• Experience with CI/CD tools like Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or similar
• Strong problem-solving skills and a performance-first mindset

Why Join Us?

• Work on cutting-edge cloud infrastructure across diverse industries
• Be part of a collaborative, forward-thinking team
• Flexible hybrid work model – work from anywhere while staying connected
• Opportunity to take ownership and lead critical DevOps initiatives

Who We Are

Grip is building a new category of investment options for the new-age of Indian Investors. Millennials

don’t communicate, shop, pay, entertain and work like the previous generation - then why should they

invest the same way?

Started in June’20, Grip has seen 20% month-on-month growth to become one of India’s fastest-

growing destinations for alternative investments. Today, Grip offers multiple investment options providing

8-16% annual returns and 1-60 month tenures as the country’s only multi- asset (lease financing,

inventory financing, corporate bonds start-up equity, commercial real estate ) investment platform. With a

minimum investment size of INR 20,000, Grip is democratizing investment options that have previously

only been available to the largest funds and family offices.

Finance and technology (FinTech) is what we do, but people are at the core of our mission. From client-

facing roles to technology, and everywhere in between, you’ll work alongside a diverse team who loves

to solve problems, think creatively, and fly the plane as we continue to build it.

In the News

- Money Control : Click Here

- Hindu Business : Click Here

What We Can Offer You

● Young and fast-growing company with a healthy work-life balance

● Great culture based on the following core values

○ Courage

○ Transparency

○ Ownership

○ Customer Obsession

○ Celebration

● Lean structure and no micromanaging. You get to own your work

● The Company has turned two so you get a seat on rocketship that’s just taking off!

● High focus on Learning & Development and monetary support for relevant upskilling

● Competitive compensation along with equity ownership for wealth creation

What You’ll Do

● Design cloud infrastructure that is secure, scalable, and highly available onAWS

● Work collaboratively with software engineering to define infrastructure and

deploying requirements

● Provision, configure and maintain AWS cloud infrastructure defined as code

● Ensure configuration and compliance with configuration management tools

● Administer and troubleshoot Linux based systems

● Troubleshoot problems across a wide array of services and functional areas

● Build and maintain operational tools for deployment, monitoring, and analysis of AWS

infrastructure and systems

● Perform infrastructure cost analysis and optimization

Your Superpowers

● At least 3-5 years of experience building and maintaining AWS infrastructure

(VPC,EC2, Security Groups, IAM, ECS, CodeDeploy, CloudFront,

S3,RDS,Elasticbeanstalk)

● Strong understanding of how to secure AWS environments and meet

compliance requirements

● Expertise using Chef/Cloudformation/Ansible for configuration management

● Hands-on experience deploying and managing infrastructure with Terraform

● Solid foundation of networking and Linux administration

● Experience with Docker, GitHub, Kubernetes,, ELK and deploying applications onAWS

● Ability to learn/use a wide variety of open source technologies and tools

● Strong bias for action and ownership

Job Description

• Minimum 3+ yrs of Experience in DevOps with AWS Platform

• Strong AWS knowledge and experience

• Experience in using CI/CD automation tools (Git, Jenkins, Configuration deployment tools ( Puppet/Chef/Ansible)

• Experience with IAC tools Terraform

• Excellent experience in operating a container orchestration cluster (Kubernetes, Docker)

• Significant experience with Linux operating system environments

• Experience with infrastructure scripting solutions such as Python/Shell scripting

• Must have experience in designing Infrastructure automation framework.

• Good experience in any of the Setting up Monitoring tools and Dashboards ( Grafana/kafka)

• Excellent problem-solving, Log Analysis and troubleshooting skills

• Experience in setting up centralized logging for system (EKS, EC2) and application

• Process-oriented with great documentation skills

• Ability to work effectively within a team and with minimal supervision

Profile: DevOps Engineer
Experience: 5-8 Yrs
Notice Period: Immediate to 30 Days

Job Descrtiption:

Technical Experience (Must Have):
Cloud: Azure
DevOps Tool: Terraform, Ansible, Github, CI-CD pipeline, Docker, Kubernetes
Network: Cloud Networking
Scripting Language: Any/All - Shell Script, PowerShell, Python
OS: Linux (Ubuntu, RHEL etc)
Database: MongoDB

Professional Attributes: Excellent communication, written, presentation,
and problem-solving skills.

Experience: Minimum of 5-8 years of experience in Cloud Automation and
Application

Additional Information (Good to have):
Microsoft Azure Fundamentals AZ-900
Terraform Associate
Docker
Certified Kubernetes Administrator

Role:
Building and maintaining tools to automate application and
infrastructure deployment, and to monitor operations.
Design and implement cloud solutions which are secure, scalable,
resilient, monitored, auditable and cost optimized.
Implementing transformation from an as is state, to the future.
Coordinating with other members of the DevOps team, Development, Test,
and other teams to enhance and optimize existing processes.
Provide systems support,  implement monitoring and logging alerting
solutions that enable the production systems to be monitored.
Writing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Industry standard tools and
services.
Writing application deployment automation using industry standard
deployment and configuration tools.
Design and implement continuous delivery pipelines that serve the
purpose of provisioning and operating client test as well as production
environments.
Implement and stay abreast of Cloud and DevOps industry best practices
and tooling.

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
- 2 years experience as Team Lead.
- Good Command on kubernetes.
- 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).

About the client :

Asia’s largest global sports media property in history with a global broadcast to 150+ countries. As the world’s largest martial arts organization, they are a celebration of Asia’s greatest cultural treasure, and its deep-rooted Asian values of integrity, humility, honor, respect, courage, discipline, and compassion. Has achieved some of the highest TV ratings and social media engagement metrics across Asia with its unique brand of Asian values, world-class athletes, and world-class production. Broadcast partners include Turner Sports, Star India, TV Tokyo, Fox Sports, ABS-CBN, Astro, ClaroSports, Bandsports, Startimes, Premier Sports, Thairath TV, Skynet, Mediacorp, OSN, and more. Institutional investors include Sequoia Capital, Temasek Holdings, GIC, Iconiq Capital, Greenoaks Capital, and Mission Holdings. Currently has offices in Singapore, Tokyo, Los Angeles, Shanghai, Milan, Beijing, Bangkok, Manila, Jakarta, and Bangalore.

Position : Devops Engineer – SDE3

As part of the engineering team, you would be expected to have deep technology expertise with a passion for building highly scalable products. This is a unique opportunity where you can impact the lives of people across 150+ countries!

Responsibilities

• Develop Collaborate in large-scale systems design discussions.

• Deploying and maintaining in-house/customer systems ensuring high availability, performance and optimal cost.

• Automate build pipelines. Ensuring right architecture for CI/CD

• Work with engineering leaders to ensure cloud security

• Develop standard operating procedures for various facets of Infrastructure services (CI/CD, Git Branching, SAST, Quality gates, Auto Scaling)

• Perform & automate regular backups of servers & databases. Ensure rollback and restore capabilities are Realtime and with zero-downtime.

• Lead the entire DevOps charter for ONE Championship. Mentor other DevOps engineers. Ensure industry standards are followed.

Requirements

• Overall 5+ years of experience in as DevOps Engineer/Site Reliability Engineer

• B.E/B.Tech in CS or equivalent streams from institute of repute

• Experience in Azure is a must. AWS experience is a plus

• Experience in Kubernetes, Docker, and containers

• Proficiency in developing and deploying fully automated environments using Puppet/Ansible and Terraform

• Experience with monitoring tools like Nagios/Icinga, Prometheus, AlertManager, Newrelic

• Good knowledge of source code control (git)

• Expertise in Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment setup using Azure Pipeline or Jenkins

• Strong experience in programming languages. Python is preferred

• Experience in scripting and unit testing

• Basic knowledge of SQL & NoSQL databases

• Strong Linux fundamentals

• Experience in SonarQube, Locust & Browserstack is a plus

• Have 3+ years of experience in Python development
• Be familiar with common database access patterns
• Have experience with designing systems and monitoring metrics, looking at graphs.
• Have knowledge of AWS, Kubernetes and Docker.
• Be able to work well in a remote development environment.
• Be able to communicate in English at a native speaking and writing level.
• Be responsible to your fellow remote team members.
• Be highly communicative and go out of your way to contribute to the team and help others